In a world constantly under attack by the relentless cavalcade of upbeat, media-groomed, auto-tuned, gutless, corporate pop drones comes a man whose sublime gift for crafting truly sorrowful and depressing songs seems destined to turn the world on edge or be ignored completely! As he descends down the mountain of infinite solitude (located in London, ON) to answer the siren song of sadness/rock, Patrick Canning summons his mischievous band of titans “The Suffering Mothers” to aid him in his quest to make the world slightly more tolerable for the miserable bastards out there who like their music dark, sad, evil and melodramatic. Brandishing his trusty guitar “Mjolnir: The Hammer of Thunder” Patrick took to the recording studio and for a solid year he honed and sharpened a set of 15 tracks, each more devastating then the last, to make his most powerful album to date: “Let’s Celebrate With Blood”.
Let’s Celebrate With Blood is a complex and sprawling work filled with songs about ghosts, illness, murder, car crashes, BDSM, disfigurement, funerals, and familial love. It is the eleventh self produced album by Patrick (who is a recent St. John’s Newfoundland expat) and it is a full and robust recording spanning many genre styles.

Jeff McAllister from Greyowl Point writes
“After an eternity in the music industry, you’re bound to discover what works and what doesn’t. but, rather than limit himself to a couple tricks, Canning mashes everything up into a musical gumbo. His intoxicating gloom may be his best-seller, but Canning’s tethered a whole lot more bootstraps. And (bloodied and bruised and embedded with gravel) they’ve been distorted to fit perfectly within his robust and intolerable parade. Let’s Celebrate with Blood is an opus that requires a couple listens, a bit of wincing, and most importantly, a lot of thought. It’s a loveletter to eclecticism, signed in indelible ink, and hard to shrug off. And, if that wasn’t promising enough,
it’s a brilliant piece of composition to boot.”

Matthew from i(heart)music writes:
“It should come as no surprise that his most recent album, Let's Celebrate With Blood, is dark and gloomy. The lyrics are bleak, the music is appropriately subdued, and a general air of hopelessness pervades the album. I say that in the best way possible, of course. It's no easy task to make depressing music sound anything other than...well, depressing, but the
songs on offer here show Canning to be more than up to the challenge. Songs like "The Howl", "Wooden Box" and "Blanket of Stones" wallow in human misery and sadness, but they do so in a way that's surprisingly listenable, even engaging."