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

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

this is really introducing Satan to a fresh audience

As a Christian to find myself enjoying them is…interesting

this is so damned hooky and triumphant Satanism.

love the new one.

hard to say how I feel about it over the last one, but on first listen, it's grabbing me more than Prequelle did

I’ve been jamming “call me little sunshine” the last few weeks. Looking forward to hearing the album

Yeah, quite enjoy Twenties

Probably cos Simon introduced me to both but it reminds me of gonzo rock freaks melted bodies quite a lot

x post from the metal thread but it's best suited here.

I like the Ghost album quite a bit, but then again I LOVED Prequelle. "Twenties" sticks in my craw - I like how Tobias combines the fall of German democracy with the current fall of American democracy, but the lyrics lack his usual cleverness. "Spillways" and "Watcher in the Sky" are phenomenal, and I get a kick out of how "Kaisarion" sounds like a Gamma Ray tune.

ordered.
i have loved every album/ep so far.
there is just something about GHOST.
this will probably be the only ROCK album i buy all year.

Feels like they've gone a lot more 80s AOR on this one. At first listen, it feels like a drop from the last two, but I might need some time to warm up to the production style.

"Kaisarion" is awesome. "Griftwood" sounds weirdly familiar, like it ought to exist already.

new one sounds like Andrew WK doing a Blue Oyster Cult lp. which is fine, and fun.

the beginning of "Kaisarion" sounds like John Mayer's "Say"

"Twenties" works in spite of the lyrics because the character is obviously a witless piece of shit. The backup vocals save it.

Something about the back half of the album

the beginning of "Kaisarion" sounds like John Mayer's "Say"

this sounds likke what The Darkness coulda been if they weren't so half-assed and were Satanic af

roto tom fill

I'm sold, this album is awesome.

it always take a few listens for the glory of GHOST to properly kick in, but f^ck it.
one listen and yeah, this is absolutely the album i needed from GHOST.
from comments here and there i was concerned that the guitars had been held back and they were going for daytime radio play a la 'he is', which got a lot of radio2 play in the uk.
note : this is not a complaint at all as i loved hearing ken bruce announcing GHOST in amongst the usual r2 stuff.
however, it turns out that the new album has not softened the bands core sound one iota.
massive tunes, production and guitars.

basically, as jmm said : "I'm sold, this album is awesome."

lol this is ridiculous

and awesome

call me little sunshine is great, love it so much

This is such a blast, way more fun and more consistent than I’d expected. “Twenties” is the obvious wrong move, but it’s not quite the train wreck I expected based on early reviews. Other than that this is a really good direction for them.

Honestly think the "hoo-ha" line is the only misstep in that song, and only because it's kind of obvious and overdone.

"Watcher in the Sky" needs an animated video in the spirit of Heavy Metal

gonna listen to this today while on a long drive.

a week on, and several listens in ...
yeah, this is exactly the album i needed from GHOST.
love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Uz9xkBoxs

new album by Magna Carta Cartel, featuring some (one?more?) of the previous ghouls: https://mcc-official.bandcamp.com/album/the-dying-option

This is nice. Better than the most recent Ghost album IMO.