It's been a long time since I have so instantly fell in love with a band as I have with Blood Ceremony. Their self-titled debut ranks right up there with Master of Puppets, Powerslave, Reign in Blood, and Sons of Northern Darkness as an album that sounded great to me from the first listen. Usually I have to listen to something a few times to "get into it." It took more than a year of listening to Opeth before I realized how great they are. But I have loved Blood Ceremony from the very first organ and cymbal rolling intro. It's Black Sabbath meets Jethro Tull meets The Satanic Bible, and it's awesome.
Blood Ceremony isn't doing anything new here, but they are doing what they are doing better than anyone or anything that I've heard lately. And that's saying something since there are so many bands now in this doom metal/70's Sabbath genre. Granted, there's the aforementioned Jethro Tull-like flute playing, but I don't know if combining something else from the 70's in this style of music can be considered innovative.
But to hell with innovation and saying anything negative about this record. When it comes to music the two most important things are the riffs and the attitude behind them. By attitude I mean the degree to which the band believes in what it's doing. Blood Ceremony has both in spades. Very highly recommended.
***** out of 5.
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