“How’s that for a Tuesday evening, huh?” Papa Emeritus IV asks the audience of Los Angeles’ The Forum, after Ghost have stomped and snarled their way through Faith. “I like Fridays way better, don’t you? Can we just pretend that it’s Friday tonight instead?”
It’s not a particularly demanding ask for the 17,500 in attendance, nor the millions worldwide who can now hear this show as a live album. The soundtrack to these melodic pontiffs’ recent feature film, Rite Here Rite Now, is the closest metal has ever come to capturing “that Friday feeling”: joyous, energetic, and with the sensation of exciting things soon to come.
