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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.

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Ceremony Lyrics

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Been sleeping in hotel rooms
Been finding vacancies
Tearing through the front door
Looking for a new place again
Hotel is home for no one to stay
The sheets pressed and folded
The room calm and black
Window is a blind shade

I've gone away again

Overall Meaning

The lyrics in Ceremony's song "Hotel" depict a restless, transient lifestyle. The singer of the song is constantly on the move, seeking out new places to stay while never feeling truly at home in any of them. The lines "Been sleeping in hotel rooms / Been finding vacancies" suggest a life of constant movement and impermanence. The sense of urgency is further conveyed through the line "Tearing through the front door / Looking for a new place again," as if the singer is desperate to find somewhere - anywhere - to rest their head.

Despite the transience of the lifestyle, there is a sense of familiarity to it. The titular hotel may not be home, but it is a constant presence in the singer's life. The line "Hotel is home for no one to stay" suggests that the hotel exists solely as a temporary refuge for passing travelers, and that the singer is just one of many who have passed through its doors. The description of the hotel room itself - "The sheets pressed and folded / The room calm and black / Window is a blind shade" - is bleak and sterile, a reflection of the singer's emotional state.

Line by Line Meaning

Been sleeping in hotel rooms
I've been spending my nights in temporary lodgings

Been finding vacancies
I've been searching for available rooms

Tearing through the front door
I'm in a hurry to enter

Looking for a new place again
I'm in search of somewhere new

Hotel is home for no one to stay
A hotel is not a permanent residence for anyone

The sheets pressed and folded
The bed is tidy and unused

The room calm and black
The atmosphere is peaceful and dark

Window is a blind shade
The window covering is closed

I've gone away again
I've left yet another place behind

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