“Our favourite bands didn’t chicken out on their third record. That’s not how Master Of Puppets or Number Of The Beast got made”: How Ghost teamed up with Katy Perry’s producer to kick things to the next level with Meliora

Ghost posing for a photograph in 2015.

Ghost are one of the biggest breakout rock bands of the last 10 years, rising from unknown Swedish occult metallers into arena-headlining sensations. Their third album, 2015’s Meliora, was a huge stepping stone for them, something Metal Hammer found out when we caught up with enigmatic representative Nameless Ghoul, aka Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge, at the time.