Ghost have introduced their extremely anticipated new album, SKELETÁ, arriving April twenty fifth through Loma Vista Recordings. The video for lead single “Satanized” may be streamed beneath.
Regardless of its sinister title, the brand new music is kind of sleek and sees Ghost totally embracing their melodic-AOR facet. Shades of Styx and Def Leppard are current on the prog-tinged rocker, which is drenched in a blanket reverb impact that’s straight out of the Nineteen Eighties.
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In the meantime, the accompanying music video introduces Ghost’s “new” frontman and the most recent iteration of band mastermind Tobias Forge, Papa V Perpetua, whose arrival was beforehand teased when Ghost had been introduced as a part of Black Sabbath’s upcoming ultimate live performance. Together with the clip, the band additionally launched an interactive component dubbed “The Satanizer,” wherein followers can add a photograph that may morph them into characters featured within the video.
As for the brand new album, SKELETÁ is self-described as Ghost’s “sixth psalm,” opening a brand new chapter within the band’s expansive, fictional lore. It would mark a shift to extra private lyrical content material, away from the “outward going through subject material” of earlier albums Impera and Prequelle. As a substitute, the LP will “render the distinct particular person emotional vistas of every of its 10 songs in one-on-one style, at instances as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror,” as said within the band’s press launch.
SKELETÁ is ready to drop simply over per week after Ghost embark on their beforehand introduced world tour, which features a summer season run of US arenas. That leg kicks off July ninth in Baltimore, and you may get tickets right here.
Pre-orders/pre-saves for SKELETÁ can be found through this location, whereas the video for “Satanized” and the album art work and tracklist may be seen beneath. Tobias Forge will seem on the favored Morbid podcast this Friday (March seventh) for an unique interview concerning the new album.
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