RISE ABOVE
Blood Ceremony had always been a unique presence in the already niche doom-adjacent occult rock sphere. On their fifth album, the Canadian quartet expanded their palette even further, with vibrant shades surfacing through pop, folk, psychedelia and even jazz-tinted songs. Appropriately though, the old ways remained, and the core sound continued to be riff-driven witch-rock infused with vocalist Alia O’Brien’s glorious, otherworldly flute and a penchant for folklore and fuzzy 70s horror.
Eldritch vibes had never been so smart, swaggering and sexy.