Ghost are reissuing their third album Meliora to have fun its tenth anniversary, and the bundle features a faux greenback invoice.
The Swedish arduous rock/heavy metallic band are marking 10 years of the album – launched precisely a decade in the past at present (August 21) – by reissuing it in vinyl bundles, every of which comes with a ‘$666’ notice that has ‘former’ frontman Papa Emeritus III’s face on it.
Pre-orders are actually stay, forward of an October 17 launch.
Ghost have been shaped in 2006 by singer/multi-instrumentalist Tobias Forge, who’s performed each iteration of the band’s ‘Papa’ frontman, who adjustments with every new album cycle. Preceded by the one Cirice (which gained the Grammy Award For Finest Steel Efficiency in 2016), Meliora marked the band’s largest business success at that time, reaching quantity eight within the US. It additionally introduced them again to primary in Sweden, replicating a feat first achieved by 2013 album Infestissumam.
Speaking to Steel Hammer in 2015, Forge – underneath the pseudonym of ‘a Anonymous Ghoul’ – mentioned that Meliora is conceptually in regards to the absence of God.
“The primary album [2010’s Opus Eponymous] was in regards to the impending doom of a extra old-school Biblical type, the place dying and destruction will come within the type of locusts and darkish fog: it was the approaching of the Antichrist,” he defined.
“The second album [Infestissumam] was in regards to the presence of the Satan, happening aesthetically in a 1700s milieu with a extra Baroque theme. Whereas this album is the absence of God. It’s a futuristic, pre-apocalyptic document. The cat is out of the home and the mice dance on the desk. However sooner or later, the cat comes house…”
Ghost launched their sixth album, Skeletá, to optimistic opinions earlier this yr and lately wrapped the US leg of their world Skeletour. The band will play three concert events at Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico Metropolis from September September 23 to 25.
Ghost’s Skeletour dates are phone-free occasions, with attendees needing to place their mobiles into magnetically sealed pouches that may solely be unsealed by safety as they go away the auditorium.
Final month, Forge mentioned that the cellphone ban has been a “life-changer” for Ghost.
“Simply strolling off stage first evening [of the tour] was simply, like, this has utterly modified the complete outlook of how this feels,” he mentioned at a stay Q&A in Birmingham, UK. “So, yeah, now we’re doing that. And I feel that there are numerous bands which can be taking a look at this and simply, like, ‘OK, so how will we do this too?’”
Bands which have adopted in Ghost’s footsteps of discouraging telephones at concert events embody Iron Maiden. Whereas not outright banning cell units, the UK metallic legends issued a press release earlier than the European leg of their Run For Your Lives tour this summer season, urging followers to maintain telephones of their pockets.
