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GHOST
2015 - Meliora.
2018 - Prequelle.
way more Helter Skelter.

August 21, 2015 - 2025: 10 years of: Meliora.

Beauty in darkness.

Still struggling with 2013's Infestissumam CD, yet the underground was now fully awake. This imminent dream-like apparition would now bloom into a stormy-cloud takeover ...nothing shall scare GHOST.

The Beast ...with many names.

The Clergy is gathered for sacred rite, where the almighty "Spirit" makes its presence known. A great disturbance in The Force, as the scene remains in-awe "From The Pinnacle To The Pit", in front of this Cloud Nine dark "Majesty". More lively morbid-metal oozes from "He Is" and the full soul "Absolution". The menacing melancholies of "Cirice" are build-upon an unorthodox mid-paced powerballad-frame, while the electrified thrashmetal overtones, possesses the ashes of "Mummy Dust".

Now teasing the arenarock market on 2016's Popestar MCD, with the danceable "Square Hammer" hit ...the path to a new era was now cleared:

...a new era, from gimmick to glorious to game-changer, as mainstream-metal would finally feel the majestic GHOST, behold: 2018's Prequelle CD.

RIP Papa Emeritus III (2015-2017)

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Cirice = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ao4t_fe0I
From The Pinnacle To The Pit = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-IoOEPbUs
He Is = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMaHDTw-pI
Meliora = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gSsp7vasSA&list=OLAK5uy_mrez335Yse108P9uwGc-q_ZSs0oROL_Dw
Interview in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lihJncVT8Ac
Live in Stockholm in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri3kDiWaZFc
Popestar = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoyKzgkqR4&list=PL1s_QTC46Ifme0nMQjDYUe9ewFYKsx4cU
Grammy Awards in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmnk8plZ6w
Ceremony And Devotion = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtP9BngPqUU&list=OLAK5uy_kG8PzHPsTw1pta3ZB64LtEGIYvLKBLrQs
some duo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0r76obxX4o

June 1, 2018: 0 years of: Prequelle.

The greatest "New Band Of The Millennium" with the "2018 Album Of The Year" tag contender.

It is common knowledge that image and attitude is everything in rocknroll, and we all went thru the COOPERs, the KISSs, the GWARs, the SLIPKNOTs yet we though we've seen it all ...and now the world meets GHOST !

Still imbedded in eerie religious imagery; from doommetal to hints of 70s instrumental progrock, to hints of folkmusic to sing-along arenarock anthems: Prequelle is the full package !

With this 4th opus, GHOST raises the bar high, way high for any competition. Not often in heavymetal we get a young solid act, with a unique tailor-made image, quality musicianship with a strong versatile charismatic frontman with plenty of hooks to match: GHOST is the full package !

Onstage, this is what an epic heavymetal band should look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrgFYA4njY

One could only hope "Prequelle" is the prequel of more great things to come from these lovely Swedes.

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Rats = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc
Prequelle = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyGT0B2cHU&list=PLBkHOnPbMitt9OXCVIMtBMazjRxsCe6lp