“You can find all the details in my record collection,” he says with a knowing smirk – and he’s not wrong. And if you look hard enough, the seeds for it all were being sown right at the very start. He may not be the tortured artiste or swaggering hellraiser that rock’n’roll loves to stick on a pedestal, but he’s a leader: a brand ambassador with a calculating mind and a shrewd business acumen who knows exactly what needs to be done to immortalise Ghost’s legacy. The difference is that Tobias is the man with the plan. The reason Ghost have been such a triumph isn’t because of great songs, a good live show and a savvy gimmick – metal history is littered with bands that never made it despite boasting all those things. If you wanna be comparative, look at all the big bands even though they made it in a different time, statistically it takes five records, about 10 years, to go from nothing to something to something great.”Īnd that, right there, sums up Tobias Forge. “At some point, we will have to wind down a bit, but we’re not there yet. “But, once you’ve got that whole machine rolling, you don’t wanna stop,” Tobias adds. “It takes a lot of effort, a lot of cogwheels spinning and turning, to make all this work.” He’s not kidding.Ī weary roadie will later inform us that it takes almost four hours to pack up Ghost’s monstrous set each night – a towering, multi-platformed, chapel-esque set-up that recalls the kind of backdrops Maiden have made home for decades. “Hey, if you wanna rock, you gotta rock,” shrugs Tobias of his relentless schedule. More of this on the album, please.Soon after our last conversation, Ghost dropped their latest album, Prequelle – an instant classic stacked with playful menace and 80s-tinged pop-rock bangers – and have pretty much been on the road ever since. As utterly perfect as it was hearing the song in the cinema playing out over the closing credits (after a healthy dose of splatter, no less), its appearance in the setlist (sandwiched between Cirice and Faith) cements the fact that Hunter's Moon is a straight-up banger. At the time, the song was released as a stand-alone with no album release info offered, tied to the release of last year's horror sequel Halloween Kills. Though we didn't know it back in September, Hunter's Moon turned out to be the first song from Impera proffered for our listening pleasure. Hunter's Moon is already sounding like a Ghost classic All in a row! We're honestly worried for our voices when the band come to the UK, particularly when the likes of Kiss The Go Goat and Square Hammer pop up. Rats, From The Pinnacle To The Pit, Mary On A Cross, Cirice. With four albums already out and a fifth on the way (as well as a smattering of EPs and 7" singles) it was inevitable that they would need to tighten the set up some, but by this point they've amassed such an arsenal of arena-worthy songs that it's almost ridiculous. Ghost's set is positively rammed with bangersĪfter kicking things off with a brand new tune, Ghost wasted absolutely no time in getting stuck into the kind of floor-filling, crowd-filling anthems that have made them into a headline sensation.
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