Ghost have introduced their extremely anticipated new album, SKELETÁ, arriving April twenty fifth by way of Loma Vista Recordings. The video for lead single “Satanized” could be streamed under.
Regardless of its sinister title, the brand new music is sort of swish and sees Ghost absolutely 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.
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 have been introduced as a part of Black Sabbath’s upcoming last live performance. Together with the clip, the band additionally launched an interactive ingredient dubbed “The Satanizer,” during which 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’ll 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 acknowledged 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 by way of this location, whereas the video for “Satanized” and the album paintings and tracklist could be seen under. Tobias Forge will seem on the favored Morbid podcast this Friday (March seventh) for an unique interview in regards to the new album.
SKELETÁ Art work:
SKELETÁ Tracklist:
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
