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"People heard it and found it deeply offensive because they didn’t have the brain capacity to realise what it’s about." The story behind Ghost's most famous song - and what it really means

The story behind Ghost's viral mega-hit, and what its lyrics mean, in Tobias Forge's own words

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge wants to start scuba diving so that wearing a mask onstage feels less claustrophobic: “In my alternative life, I’m a wreck diver!”

The frontman recently opened up about how having his head enclosed for two hours a night once gave him a panic attack

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“People were partying like there was no tomorrow because they were gonna die. It captures that joyous nocturnal life”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge wanted a song to match Queen. Instead, he wrote the greatest plague-inspired metal banger of the last 20 years

The story of Ghost‘s classic 2018 single Dance Macabre

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“It was an additional, surprise, out-of-nowhere track and it went to No.1”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars

Square Hammer opened Ghost’s 2016’s Popestar EP and cracked US radio for the Swedish occultists

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"All of a sudden I was like, 'I need to know where the door is...stop! Get the mask off!'" Tobias Forge reveals the moment he had a terrifying panic attack live on stage that'd change the way he approaches Ghost shows (and the mask he wears)

One fateful night in Leeds means Tobias now has a very strict rule in place for Ghost shows

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How big a Ghost fan are you? Take our devilishly hard Ghost quiz to find out!

Think you know your Papa IIs from your Papa IVs? Take our special Ghost quiz to see how you measure up

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Watch unmasked Ghost frontman Tobias Forge perform with Swedish star Lars Winnerbäck

Ghost mainman Tobias Forge was a surprise guest for Swedish musician Lars Winnerbäck's at show in Linköping

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“Two nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming”: Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up

Ghost will be hitting the screen again

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“I’m so sorry about last night”: Watch Ghost frontman Tobias Forge apologise onstage for last-minute concert cancellation

The Swedish hard rock band cancelled the first night of a planned concert trilogy in Mexico City due to Forge contracting food poisoning

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Calling all Ghost fans! Get your hands on an exclusive array of bookazine bundles with a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt and puff print sweatshirt

Head to the Louder webstore and you can get Metal Hammer’s complete history of Ghost with a t-shirt and a sweatshirt you won’t find anywhere else

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Metal Hammer presents the ultimate Ghost fan pack: the story of every album and every era, including an exclusive patch and artcards

Ghost fans! Get your hands on this essential bundle about the complete history of the band

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Ghost cancel show last-minute due to Tobias Forge having food poisoning

The Swedish hard rockers still hope to play in Mexico City on September 24 and 25

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“I found a message from Ghost asking me if I would consider singing on their first album”: The doom metal legend who could have been Ghost’s original singer if it hadn’t been for a missed MySpace message

Ghost could have sounded very different if Tobias Forge had his way

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Ghost are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Meliora by letting you exchange real money for fake money

The new vinyl variants of Ghost’s third studio album include a $666 bill featuring former frontman Papa Emeritus III

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Watch Ghost bewitch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a performance of Lachryma

Tobias Forge’s devil church returned to late-night TV in particularly thunderous form on Wednesday

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge says Sleep Token are one of the bands proving rock isn’t dead: “You can form a band tomorrow and theoretically become a big band within a few years”

Forge takes issue with Kiss man Gene Simmons’ infamous “rock is dead” stance during a new interview

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Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week

Late-night TV will be Satanized on Wednesday, July 23

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“It’s been a life-changer for the existence of the band”: Tobias Forge says Ghost’s gig phone ban has been a success

Fans are more interactive, he says

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Ghost rocker Tobias Forge offers view of the 'rock is dead' debate

Tobias Forge has added his voice to the age-old "rock is dead" debate.

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”

Papa V Perpetua sang Ozzy solo classic Bark At The Moon – but it could have been very different.

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"What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom

Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost

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"We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS

They were as infamous as they were influential, inspiring everyone from Venom to Ghost. This is how Death SS became a cult metal legend

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Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on

The performance came as Queen were awarded the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf

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"We build dreams." How Tobias Forge and Beyonce's lighting designer Tobias Rylander joined forces to make Ghost's spectacular Skeletour the greatest show on earth

Award-winning Light, Scenic and Conceptual designer Tobias Rylander reveals how Ghost's spectacular Skeletour came to life

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We've ranked every Ghost album from worst to best

From Papa's very first sermons on Opus Eponymous to the bombastic Skeletá, we rate every Ghost album so far

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