It's grown on me a lot. I must not have been in the right mood when it came out, or just bored of Ghost. It's a huge step up from the last album.
― jmm, Friday, 30 October 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
It's a huge step up from the last album.
agreed.
the mix of tunes, expansive production, and choirs really hits hard on the new album.
― mark e, Friday, 30 October 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
They're on Colbert tonight. I'm guessing they'll go with Pinnacle to the Pit, but I could totally see He Is being the song that breaks them to a much bigger audience.
― jmm, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
They went with "Cirice". Clip is on Youtube.
― o. nate, Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
That was cool. Satanic pop metal on national TV! I figured Cirice would be too long, but they got it down to 4 minutes.
― jmm, Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWeIRX-ZHE
Really well done!
― calstars, Monday, 2 November 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
that was pretty great, the filter was a corny but nice touch
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 2 November 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
For all my whining on EOY about a lack of 'proper' metal, I'm so glad I gave Ghost another chance. Meliora is a masterpiece.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 1 February 2016 10:17 (eight years ago) link
I was listening to 'He Is' and thinking 'where have I heard that melody line before? And I realised it was kind of similar to this old Scandi-pop song I used to like off a free CD from Jockey Slut in the early 2000s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRXbpA1-_Q
Doubt it's any more than a passing coincidence, but strange they come from the same part of the world.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
I can barely hear the connection
― calstars, Thursday, 4 February 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's tenuous at best. I also think it sounds like Umbrella but it must just be how my brain is wired cos no one else would agree.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 08:04 (eight years ago) link
grammy winners
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 15 February 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
"The nightmare has become a dweam!" [within a dweam!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9cy3Me0hk
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
hah!
I don't think they should have said a word but it was interesting to see the singer
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
wish he would've worn the full get-up
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Ghost performing "He Is" at the Grammis, the Swedish Grammy awards, where they won the best metal performance category.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQm8Ssh4ynQ
So beautiful, artful, a love song to Satan, with dancers and a giant creepy marionette seemingly in control of all. Yeah, yeah, Blue Oyster Cult meets Mercyful Fate - it's been done before, but if you don't think there is originality in this band watch this. I listened to a ton of great metal albums last year, and all of them sound like someone but none of them looked like this.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 25 February 2016 10:58 (eight years ago) link
Thoughts on Popestar?
― calstars, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
I'm okay with EPs of ghoulish covers between LPs, but they're a one-listen kind of thing. Square Hammer is great.
― jmm, Monday, 19 September 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link
one-listen is a little harsh as the musicality is on a par with the album material.
i happen to think their cover of 'i believe' is fantastic.
― mark e, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
and the eurythmics one is as insane as you'd expect from a band who already have a lot of love from the industrial scene ..
― mark e, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
They really are the new Rammstein.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
"I believe" is their wonderwaLl
― calstars, Sunday, 25 September 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
this is...great fun
― imago, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
this popped up on my local community radio station and i thought it was late-period They Might Be Giants
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Fix Idé is out, the new album by TiD (Time Is Divine) - (a band that may or may not contain current and/or former members of Ghost - don't know how to describe the sound, a mix of Rammstein + Tool maybe?)
https://play.spotify.com/album/7DqvtGI5Gviq3PcZIgpvU6http://thesignrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tid-fix-id
Their two previous EPs can be downloaded for free here:Bortom Inom, 2007 http://timeisdivine.com/soz/soz-001.phpGiv Akt, 2010 http://timeisdivine.com/soz/soz-006.php
― StanM, Friday, 7 October 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
they were great last night as usual. the showmanship and theatrics have really skyrocketed since the last tour (they even have satanic nuns on stage at one point). all good things of course - the bigger the better with Ghost. I did, however, start to roll my eyes at the almost 5 minute sexual monologue Papa went into before the closing tune, mostly cos he was veering into 'bad standup'.
weird that they omitted "Spirit" - my fav off of Meliora. i may go again tomorrow on a day where I can enjoy myself more.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 November 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
Sexual monologue?
― calstars, Friday, 4 November 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
before they did Monstrance Clock, he found someone in the front row and talked about how basically the next song was going t obe a joint orgasm between the audience and Ghost and it was weird and a little more like somtehing a hair metal band would do.
I preferred the theatrical moments where they brought nuns out in SAtan's service and goofy stuff like that
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 November 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
it did literally take 5 minutes though. they could have squeezed another song in during that time
So... the four ghouls who were fired at the end of last year's tour are now suing the singer - http://imgur.com/a/8m1gU (warning: previously anonymous names are named in the screenshot)
― StanM, Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
lol Metal-Archives people have already updated their artist pages
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Tobias being the vocalist probably the worst kept secret here
Henrik Palm of In Solitude. So there was some truth to that rumour.
― jmm, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
My understanding is that a lot of people have circulated through the Nameless Ghouls over the years.
― jmm, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
i never expected anything less to be honest.
― mark e, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
And now you too can enjoy a Wall Street Journal version of 'A Nameless Ghoul.'
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hell-on-earth-satanic-band-files-suit-citing-dreary-work-conditions-1497282380
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
ghost is the darkness of metal
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
Live album, just in time for satan claus
― StanM, Friday, 8 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
the artwork everyone will see: http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/12/08/surprise-ghost-release-live-album-ceremony-and-devotion/
the 8-track tape with papal dong: https://bodega.lomavistarecordings.com/collections/ghost/products/ghost-ceremony-and-devotion-8-track
― StanM, Saturday, 9 December 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
When I saw them live they were hugely entertaining but sounded exactly like the studio versions, is this the case here?
― Siegbran, Saturday, 9 December 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah, pretty much. I'm not sure what the point is unless there's a DVD/bluray as well, which I would prefer
― StanM, Saturday, 9 December 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
There’s something about meliora that reminds me of the darkness’ “permission to land” - the compression of the production? The twin guitar leads? Something ...
― calstars, Saturday, 9 December 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
I guess they think slapping an erect cock on the cover counteracts the limpness of the music?
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 9 December 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Satanism used to be classy, now look at what these guys are doing with it.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 9 December 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
There's a "new" singer and a new single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc
― StanM, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
That track picks up in the second half, gets some pop “ohs” and the coda is nice and chunky
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
Finally figured out who Ghost remind me of - pre-fame Europe! Must be the Swedish thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7byabCFC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lElLEmdYuDM
― Does anybody remember laughter? *audience screams* (Matt #2), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Ghost is headlining Barclays Arena and The Forum?!?!
― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
What do we think of the new single “dance macabre”
― calstars, Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:11 (six years ago) link
it's very 80's but it works
― StanM, Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link