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Ceremony<\/a> have released their first song in four years with the track \u201cOther Hells.\u201d<\/p>\n The new song follows the stand-alone single \u201cVanity Spawned by Fear,\u201d <\/em>released in 2022, while the California punk band\u2019s most recent studio album is 2019\u2019s In the Spirit World<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cOther Hells\u201d sees the band return to the hardcore that defined their earliest years. The previous interiority and moodiness of their gothic material is replaced with a classic up-tempo punk rock that wouldn\u2019t have been out of place in 1980. The synths of their gothy era aren\u2019t abandoned, though, joining alongside the grenade shrapnel guitars and slimy punk vocals.<\/p>\n Singer Ross Farrar stated, \u201c\u2018Other Hells\u2019 started as a meditation on the dualistic arts and the interplay of opposing forces in our lives: awake\/asleep, physical\/spiritual, inhale\/exhale.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Video<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cThis 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\u2019s great liberatory force: the slam.\u201d<\/p>\n The surprise release follows Ceremony\u2019s performances the past two weekends at Coachella, which saw the band lean heavily on material from its early hardcore days.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Ceremony released their first-ever concert album, Live at the Hollywood Palladium<\/em><\/a>, capturing a 2024 performance at the famed venue.<\/p>\n Stream the new single \u201cOther Hells,\u201d as well as watch their performance of \u201cOpen Head\u201d at this year\u2019s Coachella below.<\/p>\n