Leaning into the heavy and the dark, with Joy Division as the inspiration, Ceremony81 creates both a familiar and utterly new aesthetic experience.

Dalty  - Bass: founding member/mascot of San Francisco's Angry Amputees (winner SF Weekly's  best punk band 2002, Warped tour 2001/02, SXSW 2003), Oakland's 2008 punk rock band New Hope for the Dead, & 2012 indie rock band Roshon. One of the 1st survivors of bacterial meningitis in 1989 , Dalty performs with no fingers or legs instead of relying on stump attacks.

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Billy - Drums: NorCal drummer for Burke and front man for the Wussies 2003-2006.

Karen Mitchell - Vocals: (nee Karen Schub) Lead Singer for Los Angeles Goth band, Widow’s Weave, San Francisco alternative band Sirena & triphop stars Diggsville (Songs from Nowhere 2004), featured vocalist for SoCal darlings Drowning Pool, Dark Arts' Carnival of Lost Souls 1991, film soundtrack In the Wake, and Ox Bow’s 1996 Serenade in Red alongside Marianne Faithful. Recently, emerging from a deep delirium, she is ready to transform the stage with Ceremony81.

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Stephen Traiger - Guitar: Member of Western Massachusetts band Kaspar Hauser and Boston's Nova Mob before moving to CA to live the dream.

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