![]() He was - and is - the rarest of rock stars: Rather than craving the spotlight, he actively avoided it. Obfuscation, denial and misdirection were the orders of the day. For the first seven years of the band's public existence, Forge did everything in his power to preserve his anonymity. And now, on Ghost's fourth and latest album, Prequelle, a "new" frontman has emerged: Cardinal Copia.Ĭonfused yet? Well, that's because it's supposed to be confusing - or at least misleading. ![]() For press purposes, Forge would pose as a Nameless Ghoul instead. The characters appeared onstage in skull makeup and three-cornered papal mitre, singing odes to Lucifer and songs about zombie queens, about imaginary schoolgirls with psychic powers, and about very real Hungarian countesses who bathed in the blood of virgins. You'd never know the truth.Īs Ghost's vocalist, songwriter and all-around mastermind, Forge dreamed up a successive string of satanic popes - Papa Emeritus I, II and III - one for each of the band's first three albums. You'd never know that he's secretly into Satan. He speaks with a Swedish accent and could easily pass for a grad student at UCLA, albeit a particularly pale one. All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making IMPERA a listen like no other - yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.Video of Ghost - Rats (Official Music Video)įorge doesn't even look like a dude who might be in a band, much less a band like Ghost. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace - and featuring "Spillways"-hailed as a "sweetly constructed rock tune" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the #7 YouTube trending "Call Me Little Sunshine," and Active Rock #1 radio single "Hunter's Moon" - IMPERA finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle-or as ROLLING STONE put it, "Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires." The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of IMPERA's 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made. album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band's native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more. ![]() In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had "conquered metal and the charts" when its fifth album IMPERA debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. ![]() Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the "euphoric spectacle" (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London's O2 Arena and Stockholm's Avicii Arena. GHOST continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world's most esteemed and celebrated creative forces.
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