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"Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection

Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones

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"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career

Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta

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“I’m drawn to melody and drama - AOR and yacht rock”: Tobias Forge says the new Ghost album combines smooth ’80s sounds with Black Sabbath-inspired lyrics

“That kind of music comes very naturally for me,” he says

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“Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá

Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”

The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years

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Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more

Celebrate the release of Ghost’s Skeletá with this stacked Metal Hammer package – available only through our webstore!

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!

Get your hands on a new Grucifix patch, a purple logo patch, and a special art print

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge says he’s “technically a solo artist”: “My job is a group effort”

To be fair, where’s the lie?

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"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality

And the moral of Tobias Forge's story is: Don't give up on your dreams

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"My reason for being there is the connection between myself and everybody that I brought with me." Tobias Forge on why Ghost's upcoming shows will be a phone-free zone

Tobias Forge explains why your mobile phone will be locked away during the upcoming Ghost tour

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“All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘We want to announce now, what do we say?’”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains why Papa V Perpetua was unveiled on the Black Sabbath farewell show poster

The world got its first look at Ghost’s ‘new’ frontman last week, but Papa V Perpetua was first named on February posters for Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning event

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Watch Tobias Forge break down the story behind each of Ghost's iconic frontmen –including every Papa Emeritus, Cardinal Copia and every character leading up to Papa V Perpetua

Ghost mainman Tobias Forge gives inside scoop on aesthetic of the Papas, Cardinals and Nameless Ghouls of the Ghost clergy

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“Had fans had mobile phones, they would have been climbing over old-age pensioners to take selfies”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is a big fan of Ghost banning phones from gigs

Talking to Metal Hammer last year, Iron Maiden’s frontman discussed attending Ghost’s 2023 Los Angeles shows and his joy over the absence of mobile phones

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“It made people feel uncomfortable. It made for a lot of misunderstandings and just made life hard”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains the struggles of being a masked, anonymous metal musician

Before a 2017 lawsuit revealed that Tobias Forge was Ghost’s Papa Emeritus, the frontman went to great pains to keep his identity secret

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I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album

Hooked on Tobias Forge’s satanic hymns? These anthems will keep you (and me) going until Skeletá drops next month.

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“V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream

The occult rockers continue the build-up to “new” vocalist Papa V Perpetua’s debut

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An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube

Forge recorded a solo album called Passiflora in 2008, but it was never given an official release

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“It’s the perfect encapsulation of youthful anger… It still sounds feral and savage to this very day”: The cult 1980s classic Ghost frontman Tobias Forge calls the perfect extreme metal album

And no, it’s not by Metallica, Slayer or Mercyful Fate

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"I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it": A story of Ghost's concert movie, logistical complexity and Hollywood finance

Ghost’s concert-film-and-much-more Rite Here Rite Now fully immerses fans in what has helped turn them into today's greatest theatrical rockers

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“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’s third album Meliora found them going darker and poppier than ever before – and the result pointed towards what was to follow

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Ghost announce six-month 2025 world tour with UK, Europe, US, Mexico dates

Something wicked this way comes, as Papa Emeritus and his ghouls announce their return to the road

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Ghost announce physical and digital release dates for their feature film Rite Here, Rite Now

The hard rock pontiffs’ concert/comedy movie will soon be available on DVD, Blu-ray and VHS, and via Amazon and iTunes

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"The best way to be anonymous in a band is by not forming a band. Don’t do it!" How Ghost fought Hollywood to make their own blockbuster movie, Rite Here Rite Now

An international box office hit, Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now movie succeeds where the likes of Metallica have previously failed

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“In a world of dunces, everything bad is blamed on the devil. Yet it’s the Church who promote a lot of things that are genuinely bad for mankind”: how Ghost kicked things to the next level with Infestissumam

In this classic 2013 interview, Ghost mainman Tobias Forge talks ambition, success and Satan

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Didn’t catch Ghost’s Rite Here Rite Now in cinemas? Watch the film on a global livestream next week

Tobias Forge’s pop-metal pontiffs will stream their new concert/narrative film worldwide on July 20

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