Ghost (or Ghost B.C. or w/e) -- Swedish Pop Metal in Satan's Service

wait which two are the covers?

bonus tracks - Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and Pet Shop Boys' "It's A Sin"

thx!

I don't think the Cohen one really works but it's an admirable stab. The PSB one sounds exactly as you'd expect and that's a good thing.

This album is so seamless. Its eclectic nature reminds me of Blue Öyster Cult's Spectres, as well as those late-70s Alice Cooper records he did with Dick Wagner.

What is this album’s “he is?”

― calstars, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 5:26 PM (two days ago)

i mean, i can look and listen and pick something, but to me, HE IS is an all-time stop-you-in-your-tracks kind of song.

i don't doubt Forge has another one (or more) of those in him, but i don't think it's on prequelle. (and i love prequelle.)

ok, the new album is bloody fantastic.
I was not totally convinced to start with, but having lived with it for a few weeks its really hitting the spot now.
guess I should get some BOC albums then.

JUST WANNA BE-
I WANNA BEWITCH YOU
IN THE MOONLIGHT!

THIS IS THE MOMENT OF JUST LETTING GOOOOOOOOOO

WHILE YOU SLEEP IN EARTHLY DELIGHT
SOMEONE'S FLESH IS ROTTING TONIGHT!

who has more hooks than this band? any genre.

(sax solo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FHSNIc3wI

synthwave vs GHOST.
I approve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvEe4949Sk

live excess vs GHOST.
I approve.

I love this thread because most in here really enjoy the band. In the outside internet, haters constantly take the fun out of loving the band, but not here! This is my Ghost safe space.

these folks are selling out large rooms everywhere they go, man. they're getting *big*

supporting Metallica next year too

Latest album still hasn’t connected with me the way meliora did

agreed, not quite as good, but imo Meliora was a #1 album of the year kind of thing. this one is more like 5-15 range.

This album seems more pop - a handful of polished singles and some filler. They also seem to have backed off the explicit Satanism a bit. It’s a fun listen but not their best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr63DiEUxw

its very 'American horror story'

Tobias won the lawsuit.

Still my favourite album of 2018. I haven't tired of it one bit.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/ghost-tobias-forge-cardinal-copia-interview-2018/

"I always thought that we could probably be a big production band, but without necessarily having a hit single or huge record sales — maybe like Diamanda Galás or maybe like Dead Can Dance, a band that would come and play a theater for five nights."

I would suggest he has totally smashed this self imposed glass ceiling.

agreed.

this is basically what i wanted to talk to him about recently, but the publication bailed when the local show sold out. oh well.

sorry the meet up never happened AS, especially now that it seems that Tobias is in a very talkative mood given that the whole 'mystery' aspect is open and the band are more popular than ever.
the fact is, it was never about the mystery, but the massive tunes.

I am loving the success of this band.

Wow, they’re playing Barclays Center in Brooklyn ... that’s only slightly smaller in capacity than Madison square garden

this is interesting, I think: Tobias Forge is doing a live interview as himself:

https://t.co/TrmsTnEYwm

(If that link doesn't work, it's IHeartRadio's FB)

I know he gave up the anonymity thing and he's done print interviews as Tobias before but is this the first video interview / public appearance in no makeup?

also interesting: that graphic they have behind him w/ two popes, the cardinal and tobias' face

maybe i'm making too much of it but this seems like a corner turned ... or at least the most prominent part so far of a corner turned

goddamn i can't listen to this interviewer, tho

Hi I still don't like Ghost but I'm impressed that you can hear them - relentlessly - on the hard rock station in Reno, NV.

I held off on checking these guys out for a long long time, I think because of the BOC comparisons (I adore BOC beyond all reason and maybe I was afraid of disappointment or just mulishly resisted) but I listened to Prequelle today and fuck this is just breathtakingly good. And the BOC comparisons are... OTM?!?! This is one of very few records which carry the gnostic hard rock whiff of peak Cult. (The Eric-, Albert- and Allen-sung Cult anyway; Ghost don't really have the slinky Byrdsy side of the Buck-sung numbers).

UMS OTM about the Scorpions flavor as well.

I also think Tobias' voice (strictly in timbre mind you, not in deployment) is a little like him out of Voivod?

Mostly I just fucking love this.

welcome

would have been cool if they would have beat Greta Van Fleet

Grammys always been bizarro world

THIS IS THE MOMENT OF JUST LETTING GO!

just re-ripped my GHOST cds tonight.
the amazon rip feature quality aint all that.
thankfully you get the cd as well to do the job properly.
(i.e. f*ck streaming).

idk about this new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxrzUe_TDM

lol I hate that kiss sound.

Lmao this is good

"I will tickle you internally" noooooooooooo

These songs are gross but I like them.

this is amazing... also makes me wanna check out Spooky Tooth

So Papa Nihil is Sid James?

i am still on board.
this is a great track.

Just back from their Copenhagen show, they've really pulled off this step-up to much bigger venues well vs the last time I saw them in a packed-to-the-rafters 500-odd capacity club. Ghost has also been beefed up to an eight-piece band now with three guitarists and two keyboard players.

I've now seen King Diamond, Rammstein and Ghost all within six months, and I definitely see a lineage here. Loads of kids too, this is really introducing Satan to a fresh audience.

Hellacopters + popeman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeL4kVFD4I

These guys have a dope insta
https://i.imgur.com/Dwpq2y4.png