Swedish occult rockers GHOST will launch their new album, “Skeletá”, on April 25 through Loma Vista Recordings. The official music video for the LP’s first single, “Satanized”, may be seen under.
“Satanized” is described in a press launch as “an avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, because the narrator succumbs to darkish forces inside and with out, helplessly acknowledging their very own blasphemy and heresy because it inexorably consumes them.” By the point the music’s opening strains “There’s something inside me and they do not know if there’s a remedy” have moved from the inside monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it’ll already be too late: You’ll have been “Satanized”.
The “Satanized” music video introduces the brand new character who can be fronting GHOST for its 2025 touring cycle: Papa V Perpetua.
GHOST‘s sixth psalm, “Skeletá”, is its most unflinchingly introspective work so far. The place earlier GHOST albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward dealing with subject material — resembling “Impera”‘s meditations on the rise and fall of empires and its predecessor “Prequelle”‘s evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues — “Skeletᔑs lyrics render the distinct particular person emotional vistas of every of its 10 songs in one-on-one vogue, at instances as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The top result’s a singular assortment of timeless, common sentiments, all filtered by means of a prism of a uniquely private perspective.
GHOST has additionally launched an interactive aspect dubbed The Satanizer, a first-of-its-kind music video expertise for followers who want to be “Satanized.” Developed in partnership with Jason Zada (Elf Your self),The Satanizer will morph its customers into characters featured within the music’s melodramatic video. With a fast add of your photograph, The Satanizer will ship out a personalised music video clip that includes the participant, who can in flip share through social media that they too have been “Satanized.”
“Skeletá” observe itemizing:
01. Peacefield
02. Lachryma
03. Satanized
04. Guiding Lights
05. De Profundis Borealis
06. Cenotaph
07. Missilia Amori
08. Marks Of The Evil One
09. Umbra
10. Excelsis
Papa V Perpetua‘s title was initially listed as one of many performers for BLACK SABBATH‘s remaining live performance, set to happen on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
GHOST additionally confirmed the singer’s participation on the Villa Park occasion in a social media replace, writing: “We want to inform you V is coming… To Birmingham on July fifth.”
GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge carried out as a “new” Papa Emeritus on every of the band’s first three LPs, with every model of Papa changing the one which got here earlier than it. Papa Emeritus III was retired in favor of Cardinal Copia earlier than the discharge of 2018’s “Prequelle”. In March 2020, at remaining present of GHOST‘s “Prequelle” tour in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, the band formally launched Papa Emeritus IV, the character who fronted the act for its “Impera” (2022) album section.
Requested in a 2019 interview with Full Metallic Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio present how these totally different identities empower him as a performer, Forge mentioned: “Talking only for myself, I do know that popping out onstage as one other character, wanting totally different, performing totally different, undoubtedly permits so that you can act and behave in a means that you just would not usually do. This may be each traumatic and likewise therapeutical in away.
“Despite the fact that it has been a very long time since I practiced any kind of martial arts, I nearly really feel just like myself again then, like after karate class. I did all types of issues. I did judo, jiu-jitsu, tae kwon do and karate. After you’re kind of cleansed from any kind of violent urges that you just had. And in a means, I really feel that means. Particularly now after we play on our common nights. Once we play that lengthy, any inkling that you’ve of wanting to bop and rock out is kind of over once you come off stage, which could be very good.
“One of many luxuries of having the ability to costume up for it and change into a unique character is that as quickly as I’m not that character anymore, nobody expects me to behave the best way that the character does onstage,” he added. “Nobody expects me to be that means offstage. There’s been a terrific handful of rock artists which have had a giant downside differentiating themselves from their character onstage. And that results in numerous potential issues.”
As beforehand reported, GHOST will embark on a world tour in 2025. The European leg of the trek will kick off on April 15 in Manchester, United Kingdom and conclude on Could 24 in Oslo, Norway. The North American leg of GHOST‘s 2025 tour will launch on July 9 in Baltimore, Maryland and wrap up on August 16 in Houston, Texas.
The bodily residence video of GHOST‘s worldwide Prime 10 field workplace smash characteristic movie debut “Ceremony Right here Ceremony Now” was made accessible on December 6, 2024.
