It’s 6am in Edmonton, Alberta, and Blood Ceremony’s frontwoman Alia O’Brien is up and at ’em. Well, up and at Prog, via Zoom. “No, I’ve not had breakfast yet,” she laughs, when asked. But what would the first meal of the day be for Blood Ceremony, we wonder? “Probably pancakes,” she decides, “bloody pancakes with raspberry, some sort of sacrificial coulis…”
Our stomachs rumbling, it’s time to focus not on food, but on Blood Ceremony’s new album, The Old Ways Remain – the band’s fifth, with a seven-year gap since 2016’s acclaimed Lord Of Misrule.
In 2020 the record was written and ready to go, but in a similar scenario to many acts, the pandemic meant Blood Ceremony couldn’t move around to record The Old Ways Remain, travelling to their…