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1) Ceremony is a hardcore punk band from Rohnert Park, California, formed in 2005. The band features Ross Farrar (vocals), Anthony Anzaldo (guitar), Justin Davis (bass), Andy Nelson (guitar), and Jake Casarotti (drums). In 2005, the band released the EP, Ruined on Malfunction Records. This release was followed by their critically acclaimed first full-length album, Violence Violence, which included a re-recorded version of the Ruined EP. 2008 saw the release of Still Nothing Moves You, the band's first release on Bridge 9 Records, described by Keith Carman in Exclaim! magazine as "hardcore's equivalent of Hiroshima", which placed on Billboard's Top Internet and Top Heatseekers charts in August 2008. After touring all around the world[citation needed] with bands including Blacklisted, Converge, and AFI, they have released new music, including their third full-length album Rohnert Park in 2010. In 2011, the band confirmed they had signed with Matador Records, and their final Bridge 9 release would be a covers-only EP, featuring the band's take on songs by Urban Waste, Pixies, Crisis, Eddie and the Subtitles, Vile and Wire.
In March 2012, the band released the album Zoo on Matador Records which was a departure from the harder style even more so than the Rohnert Park album was, with the new record focusing on a more pre-hardcore punk sound in the style of Wire's Pink Flag (1977) album.[10][11]
On May 19, 2015, they released their second album on Matador, titled The L-Shaped Man.[12] This record saw them move even further into the post-punk realm with many comparing the album's sound to that of Joy Division.
Their sixth album, In the Spirit World Now, was released through Relapse Records on August 23, 2019
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2) Ceremony were a Post-Punk/Shoegaze band from Fredericksburg, Virginia, featuring John Fedowitz, (member of the shoegaze legend Skywave) and Sandra Fedowitz. The two-piece band was originally formed in 2005 incl. other band members, and has been touring Europe, Asia and the USA. They've changed their name to Ceremony East Coast. In 2021, both members joined fellow Skywave member Oliver Ackermann's A Place To Bury Strangers.
3) Ceremony is a rock band based in Australia with a worldwide release of their debut album available early 2008.
4) Ceremony was a short lived dutch death metal band that hybridized thunderous New York death metal with Scandinavian death metal.
5) Ceremony was a short-lived rock band, created by Chastity Bono, Cher's daughter, in 1993. Ceremony released one album, Hang Out Your Poetry, in 1993. The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Other members were Heidi Shink a/k/a Chance, Pete McRae, Steve Bauman, Louis Ruiz, and Bryn Mathieu. All the songs except one were written or co-written by Bono, Heidi Shink, and Mark Hudson. There are no synthesizers or digital effects anywhere on the album.
6) Ceremony was a Dutch new wave band in the mid-eighties. Young and moody they played some short but impressive gigs.
7) Ceremony was a Death/Thrash Metal band from the USA now split-up (previous band of Morbid Angel lead singer Steve Tucker). They only released one demo ("Ceremony"), which was recorded again on a MCD ("The Days Before The Death") in 2000.
Ghosts
Ceremony Lyrics
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Counting old friends left behind a jaded mind to go with it.
Hatred flowing through your veins but jealousy is all you feel.
Mistaken from the start, always wrong that never ends.
You can never be in love until you learn to be alone.
You will never miss those heavy eyes until you're left with none.
You can never achieve true happiness until you hang your head
The lyrics of the song Ghosts by Ceremony convey a sense of introspection, regret, and loneliness. The first line "You find things about yourself that you will soon forget" speaks to the idea of how people are constantly learning and growing, but that process can be ephemeral as memories and experiences fade with time. The second line "Counting old friends left behind a jaded mind to go with it" suggests a sense of disillusionment or bitterness about lost connections and experiences that have shaped the singer's world view. The third line "Hatred flowing through your veins but jealousy is all you feel" invokes a complex mix of emotions that often accompany the pain of losing connections, as well as the isolation of feeling like an outsider.
The fourth line "Mistaken from the start, always wrong that never ends" speaks to the idea of a life filled with mistakes, culminating in a sense of perpetual frustration and self-recrimination. The fifth line "You can never be in love until you learn to be alone" speaks to the importance of self-reliance in love and relationships, and the need for a strong sense of identity before fully committing to another person. The sixth line "You will never miss those heavy eyes until you're left with none" suggests a sense of regret about missed opportunities or unfulfilled possibilities. The final line "You can never achieve true happiness until you hang your head" invokes a sense of surrender, acceptance, and humility, perhaps suggesting that true happiness is found when we let go of our egos and accept our limitations.
Line by Line Meaning
You find things about yourself that you will soon forget.
As we grow and change over time, there are parts of ourselves that we will eventually outgrow or forget.
Counting old friends left behind a jaded mind to go with it.
As we move forward in life, we may lose touch with old friends and experiences, leaving us feeling disillusioned or skeptical about the world.
Hatred flowing through your veins but jealousy is all you feel.
Though it may seem like hatred is the root of our negative emotions, sometimes it's actually jealousy disguising itself as anger.
Mistaken from the start, always wrong that never ends.
Sometimes we make mistakes early on in life that follow us for years to come, leaving a feeling of constant wrongness that never seems to fade.
You can never be in love until you learn to be alone.
In order to truly love someone else, we must first be comfortable and content with ourselves and our own company.
You will never miss those heavy eyes until you're left with none.
We often take things for granted until they're gone, including certain emotions or aspects of ourselves that we may not realize we'll miss until they're gone.
You can never achieve true happiness until you hang your head
Sometimes we must humble ourselves and admit our failures or shortcomings in order to truly move forward and find happiness.
Contributed by Adeline J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.