Ghost kicked off their “Skeletour World Tour 2025” on Tuesday (April fifteenth) in Manchester, England, taking part in a 21-song set that included the stay debut of six tunes. The live performance additionally marked the band’s first present fronted by Papa V Perpetua.
The Manchester gig launched a UK/European leg that runs via Could twenty fourth in Oslo, Norway. A US leg will start on July ninth in Baltimore, and wrap up August sixteenth in Houston (decide up tickets right here).
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The Swedish band is touring in help of its new album, SKELETÁ, which is ready to reach April twenty fifth. Along with performing the LP’s beforehand launched singles “Satanized” and “Lachryma” for the primary time in live performance, Ghost premiered the album’s as-yet-unreleased songs “Peacefield” and “Umbra.”
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One other stay debut, “The Future Is a International Land,” appeared on the soundtrack to the band’s 2024 big-screen film RITE HERE RITE NOW, whereas the tune “Darkness on the Coronary heart of My Love” from 2022’s IMPERA was additionally carried out for the primary time.
The setlist leaned closely on Ghost’s 2015 album, MELIORA, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this yr. The band performed seven songs from the LP, together with favorites like “Cirice” and “From the Pinnacle to the Pit.”
An encore consisted of three of Ghost’s largest tunes: “Mary on a Cross,” “Dance Macabre,” and the set-closing “Sq. Hammer,” the latter of which Heavy Consequence named the highest metallic tune of the 2010s.
As talked about, the present additionally marked the stay debut of “new” frontman Papa V Perpetua, as band mastermind Tobias Forge takes on a brand new id with each album cycle.
Ghost have instituted a strict no-filming coverage for attendees on this tour, and because of this there isn’t any footage of the present on YouTube. See the complete setlist under.
Setlist:
Peacefield (world premiere)
Lachryma (stay debut)
Spirit
From the Pinnacle to the Pit
Majesty
The Future Is a International Land (stay debut)
Satan Church
Cirice
Darkness on the Coronary heart of My Love (stay debut)
Satanized (stay debut)
Ritual
Umbra (world premiere)
Yr Zero
Spöksonat
He Is
Rats
Kiss the Go-Goat
Mummy Mud
Monstrance Clock
Encore:
Mary on a Cross
Dance Macabre
Sq. Hammer