BLOOD CEREMONY

GRANT MOON

The Old Ways Remain RISE ABOVE More of the old magick from Alia O’Brien’s Toronto collective. One song on Blood Ceremony’s fantastic new album is called Ipsissimus, a Latin word that roughly translates as ‘the most self’ or ‘self-est’. And while the Toronto weird-rockers have proudly drawn deep from the well of Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath et al over their 17 years together, they’ve never sounded more themselves than on The Old Ways Remain. “Grace Slick fronting The Doors doing Arthur Brown covers.” In the age of Uber Eats, ChatGPT and TikTok, it’s comforting to hear a band harking back to ancient goddesses, eerie places and 1970s sexploitation horror. This latter is Eugenie, inspired by cult 1970 Christopher Lee movie Eugenie: The Story Of A Journey Into Perversion. Here and…

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