Taking its title from a fascinating slice of religious history, Blood Ceremony's fourth album evokes pagan rites and the bizarre mystical underbelly of rural Britain, embracing the psychedelic and progressive in the members' indelible songcraft. 'Lord Of Misrule' conjures a lush atmosphere in which the pastoral horror of 'The Wicker Man' and the Scottish ballad of 'Tam Lin-as' -as viewed through the lens flare of Ava Gardner's witchy turn in 1970's 'The Devils Widow'- are alchemized into songs of seduction and mortality.