After playing Coachella the last couple weekends, Cali-based punk outfit Ceremony released their new single “Other Hells” and its accompanying music video. It’s their first new single in more than five years, so they make the best of what they can with a little more than two minutes.
Bursting with energy and fervor, “Other Hells” is sure to get people moving, albeit in a “let’s open up this pit at a hardcore show” kinda way. Vocalist Ross Farrar explains what went into the new track.
“‘Other Hells’ started as a meditation on the dualistic arts and the interplay of opposing forces in our lives: awake/asleep, physical/spiritual, inhale/exhale. This is a constant theme in the work of Ceremony; beauty juxtaposed with the intensity of aggressive music, seeking to create a single, cohesive work through audible, visual, and structural elements. Amid the ongoing rise in politics that lean on tribalism and polarizing rhetoric in an attempt to divide, the song responds by aiming to unify, using punk’s great liberatory force: the slam.”
You can check out the full music video below. Their most recent release, Live at the Hollywood Palladium, was released earlier this year via Relapse Records. You can find that wherever you get your music today.