CEREMONY - Tyranny From Above CD

EP: Inclemency
Recording: July 1992 Studio Het Pand

CD: Tyranny From Above, full length 1993
Recording: June-July 1993 Studio Het Pand

Promo 94
Recording: August 1994 Studio Het Pand

Each track follows a similar but unique direction, jumping between styles and techniques without warning, with unexpected projectiles of guitar leads or rhythmic shuffles thrown in to keep us off our balance. But all is folded together under the dictates of brutal and fundamentally simple death metal structures that keep all these other elements at bay for the sake of the integrity of the whole. It’s as if Ceremony want to be the simplest, bluntest version of death metal available in 1993, but are constantly obeying more experimental whims which find a voice – however brief – to couch themselves in these tracks. The music fights itself, constantly being tugged from the demands of rigorous traditionalism and unbridled musical freedom.

Ceremony take the raw chaos and impetus to primitivism and use it to smuggle in their own will to experiment. By compressing these more adventurous elements into a such a rigid and strictly primal format however, they not only allow the experimental elements to shine, but also end up with a work of cohesion and relentless focus.