Ceremony

The story

Ceremony is an American punk rock band from Rohnert Park, California. The band's current line-up features Ross Farrar (vocals), Anthony Anzaldo (guitar), Justin Davis (bass), Andy Nelson (guitar), and Jake Casarotti (drums). Ryan Mattos (guitar) left before the group's Matador Records signing in 2011, being replaced by Nelson. The band have released six studio albums to date, and have changed their sound considerably across their discography – ranging from elements of powerviolence, grindcore, hardcore punk, punk rock, garage rock, post-punk, indie rock and new wave. Pitchfork once wrote that "Ceremony are hell-bent on not making the same record twice", while Stereogum described the band as "a very good punk band executing old punk tricks to massive effectiveness".

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

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Records

• Live At The Hollywood Palladium · 2026 · live
• Remixes · 2023 · Single · compilation
• In the Spirit World Now (Synthetic Remixes) · 2020 · remix
• The L-Shaped Man: The Demo Recordings · 2018 · compilation
• Demo · 2005 · demo

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• 2005 on
  Anthony Family
• Ryan Mattos
• Andy Nelson
• Anthony Anzaldo
• Ross Farrar
• Justin Davis
• Jake Casarotti

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Ceremony in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Ceremony in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Ceremony

• Angel Du$t3 sources agree
• Gouge Away3 sources agree
• Trash Talk2 sources agree
• Blacklisted2 sources agree
• Turnstile2 sources agree
• Have Heart2 sources agree
• Trapped Under Ice2 sources agree
• Drug Church2 sources agree
• Modern Life Is War2 sources agree
• End It2 sources agree
• Rotting Out2 sources agree
• Weekend Nachos2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Ceremony’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.

Also called Ceremony

• Group · US
  Ceremony US shoegaze project by John Fedowitz, aka Ceremony East Coast
• Group · NL
  Ceremony Dutch Death Metal
• Group · US
  Ceremony Pop group fronted by Chaz Bono (1988-1994)
• Group · AU
  Ceremony Australian raw black metal