Like I just mentioned, Rohnert Park is Ceremony's newest record, released in June 2010. What can I say about Rohnert Park? Besides that I completely fucking love it. Usually when a band takes a different approach to their music everyone bitches and moans about it. But you just can't complain about Rohnert Park. Even if it is nothing like their previous album, Violence, Violence, Violence, it still has you packing your fist full of hate. The album starts off with "Into the Wayside/Sick", ironically Ross Farrar claims to be "sick of Black Flag" and "sick of Cro-Mags" but this is exactly what this album reminds me of. It's reminiscent of old hardcore. Simple and to the point. After this introduction, the rest of the album is like a roller coaster, getting faster and heavier and suddenly subsiding to a calmer instrumental and then picking back up again. I'd like to throw out there that "Open Head" is my favorite track. That song will get stuck in your damn head for fucking days, not that it's bad or anything... until you find yourself suddenly exclaiming "OPEN MY HEAD, OPEN HEAAAAD." If you're already a fan of Ceremony and are trying to catch them, they're doing a West Coast tour, you can find me trying to dogpile and headwalk at the Fresno date:
1.29.11
Fusion Cafe - Seattle, WA
Ceremony
Devotion
Give
2.18.11
The Boulevard - Boyle Heights, CA
Ceremony
Lack Of Interest
sliaN
TBA
2.19.11
Che Cafe - San Diego, CA
Ceremony
Nails
TBA
2.20.11
CYC - Fresno, CA
Ceremony
Nails
Cerebral Ballzy
At Our Heels
Rise!
2.26.11
New Oakland Metro
630 3rd Street, Oakland, CA
Ceremony
Wolves & Thieves
Free Spirit
Disengage
TBA
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