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Go Old School With Blood Ceremony’s “Flower Phantoms”! [Exclusive]
I think we can all agree that the 60’s and 70’s were a rather magical age for horror films. There was this atmosphere and style that is hard to find in today’s films. The shots, the angles, the tone… Everything combined into something really interesting and exciting, usually with an abundance of bright red blood splattering the screen!
The reason I bring that up is because those are the movies that come to mind when listening to Blood Ceremony, the self proclaimed “flute-tinged witch rock” group that hails from Toronto. And to give you a taste of this bewitching music, we’re excited to bring you an exclusive first listen to “Flower Phantoms”, which comes from the upcoming album Lord of Misrule!
Vocalist Alia O’Brien tells BD, “Inspired by Ronald Fraser’s 1926 novel of the same title, Flower Phantoms is a stark tale of weird, florophilic romance set to the sounds of psych-tinged northern soul. Perfect for all of your hothouse dance party needs!”
Guitarist Sean Kennedy adds,
This song is a bit of an anomaly for us. Alia wrote a dark, ’60s-inspired pop song, and I contributed the lyrics—which are quite dark. The book is about a young woman who escapes her dull life and develops an erotic attachment to various hothouse flowers in Kew Gardens. The lyrics emphasize the idea that his type of escape often leads toward death, with each path shrouded—figuratively—in hemlock leaves.
Head on down to get your evil groove on!
If you dig the track, make sure to pre-order your copy of Lord of Misrule either via iTunes or Amazon.
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“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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