Swedish occult metallers GHOST have shared the official music video for “Peacefield”, the third monitor to be launched from their sixth album, “Skeletá”. Test it out beneath.
“Peacefield” follows the beforehand launched singles “Lachryma” and “Satanized”, the latter of which was dubbed a “catchy goth-rock epic” by Vice and hailed by Brooklyn Vegan as “the band’s trademark occult rock sounding as equally eerie and triumphant as ever”.
“Skeletá” arrived on April 25 by way of Loma Vista Recordings.
GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge advised Metallic Hammer about “Peacefield”: “As a result of the file goes to slalom into darker topics, I wished to set a tone of hope to start with. I wished so as to add a hand to the listener: ‘It would all be advantageous, however we’re gonna go sideways now and go on a bit journey.'”
In a current interview with Brent Porche of Philadelphia’s 93.3 WMMR radio station, Forge acknowledged about “Skeletá”: “It’s a file that’s introspective to an additional diploma, I suppose, than particularly the earlier file [2022’s ‘Impera’]. Simply to be clear, I do imagine that the majority artists normally create a brand new file primarily based on the place they have been on the earlier one — not as a counter-reaction, however normally there’s one thing that you simply want to obtain that you simply perhaps did not on the earlier[ one] otherwise you wanna change one thing or simply fill your… On the finish of the day, what you are doing is mainly you are filling your repertoire with hopefully songs that you did not have earlier than. However thematically, I normally have some form of thematic guideline after I write, at the beginning for myself so as to make sense of what the brand new file is so it isn’t too whimsically nearly all the pieces on the similar time. However the place ‘Impera’ was very a lot not solely extroverted, however exteriorly reflecting on greater society, social points, and in addition, because the title implies, imperial construction and its final demise, it did not really feel very productive to proceed down that and make an ‘Impera 2’, speaking in regards to the continuous demise of… I used to be extra interested in the concept of this this file that was extra shining a lightweight in inside and making a file about therapeutic elements of being primarily a human being in no matter structural design, as a result of on the finish of the day, most people are surprisingly alike and show the identical talents to sentiments. And these sentiments are normally fairly primary. And that concept was engaging to me — making a file that had a track about hope, had a track about hate, had a track about love, acceptance and all these items.”
Final month, Forge advised Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station about “Satanized”, which got here out in early March: “Yeah, it is a enjoyable video and it is an upbeat, enjoyable monitor. It is a track about being in love and the way that may probably be mistaken as demonic possession, however in actuality this track has nothing to do with demonic possession.”
Requested why he picked “Satanized” to be the primary single from “Skeletá”, Tobias mentioned: “It is humorous as a result of as I used to be making the file, I did not actually put very like regard into attempting to jot down… In fact, as a songwriter, you at all times attempt to write nearly as good songs as doable, however there wasn’t a complete lot of, like, ‘Oh, I am gonna write successful track.’ So I used to be extra serious about form of making a bunch of songs that I used to be gonna put cohesively into an comprehensible and entertaining album. And smart with expertise through the years the place I’ve delivered information to the people who work with me, and I am, like, ‘That is the track. That is the one. That is the hit.’ And greater than usually, it finally ends up being, like, ‘Oh, no. We imagine in that track as a substitute.’ Okay. So lastly I’ve form of given up a bit bit on that. So I simply form of gave the file and I am, like, ‘You guys select what you wanna do.’ After which I am form of holding my thumb a bit, crossing my fingers, hoping that that perhaps they they’re going to hear what I hear. And to my massive shock, they got here again with ‘Satanized’. And I used to be, like, ‘I could not be happier. I’ve a extremely humorous video thought for that one. I by no means thought that you’d go for that one,’ just because it is like…”
He continued: “To me, I’m an enormous fan of ’70s music. That is a really simplified manner of claiming that, however I am an enormous fan of SCORPIONS from the ’80s, but additionally the SCORPIONS from the ’70s, which typically, I suppose, a sure age group may not remember that that SCORPIONS was a band within the ’70s, and so they launched a number of information. These information are a bit bit completely different from the ’80s information, after they form of turned a ’80s hit rock band. And ‘Satanized’ undoubtedly had extra of a SCORPIONS ’77 stomp that I actually preferred in regards to the monitor. And by some means, subsequently, I suppose, I wasn’t like placing that as a hit-single fan favourite, or a favourite that manner. I assumed I used to be gonna work my magic to make that track an enormous track, the identical manner that we did with ‘Mary On A Cross’ as soon as upon a time, when that was thought to be this ‘B’ monitor that was only for enjoyable. And I used to be, like, ‘I feel that that track is definitely fairly good. We’re gonna play it each present we’re enjoying.’ And it took years earlier than it turned what that turned.”
Circling again to the truth that his file firm seemingly had the identical imaginative and prescient for “Satanized” as he did when it comes to the track’s potential, Forge mentioned: “I used to be overwhelmed and overjoyed with the synchronicity, as a result of I’ve finished that mistake earlier than the place I’ve conceived a file, conceived a monitor, have an thought for a video for a monitor, after which the powers that be need one other kickoff. After which that results in a dialogue, after which greater than usually, the reasoning as to why you go together with one other monitor is perhaps completely comprehensible, however rapidly my thought is simply not definitely worth the piece of paper it is written on, as a result of it merely would not work if it isn’t in a… Generally the crux of being conceptual, typically your concepts are just too conceptual and too primarily based on presentation and stars aligning. However on this case, we ended up with fluency, which was cool.”
“Satanized” was described in a press launch as “an avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, because the narrator succumbs to darkish forces inside and with out, helplessly acknowledging their very own blasphemy and heresy because it inexorably consumes them.” By the point the track’s opening traces “There’s something inside me and they do not know if there’s a remedy” have moved from the inside monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it would already be too late: You should have been “Satanized”.
The “Satanized” music video introduces the brand new character who’s fronting GHOST for its 2025 touring cycle: Papa V Perpetua.
GHOST‘s sixth psalm, “Skeletá”, is its most unflinchingly introspective work thus far. The place earlier GHOST albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward going through subject material — reminiscent of “Impera”‘s meditations on the rise and fall of empires and its predecessor “Prequelle”‘s evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues — “Skeletᔑs lyrics render the distinct particular person emotional vistas of every of its 10 songs in one-on-one style, at instances as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The tip result’s a singular assortment of timeless, common sentiments, all filtered via a prism of a uniquely private viewpoint.
GHOST has additionally launched an interactive component dubbed The Satanizer, a first-of-its-kind music video expertise for followers who want to be “Satanized.” Developed in partnership with Jason Zada (Elf Your self),The Satanizer will morph its customers into characters featured within the track’s melodramatic video. With a fast add of your photograph, The Satanizer will ship out a customized music video clip that includes the participant, who can in flip share by way of social media that they too have been “Satanized.”
“Skeletá” monitor itemizing:
01. Peacefield
02. Lachryma
03. Satanized
04. Guiding Lights
05. De Profundis Borealis
06. Cenotaph
07. Missilia Amori
08. Marks Of The Evil One
09. Umbra
10. Excelsis
Forge carried out as a “new” Papa Emeritus on every of the band’s first three LPs, with every model of Papa changing the one which got here earlier than it. Papa Emeritus III was retired in favor of Cardinal Copia earlier than the discharge of 2018’s “Prequelle”. In March 2020, at ultimate present of GHOST‘s “Prequelle” tour in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, the band formally launched Papa Emeritus IV, the character who fronted the act for its “Impera” (2022) album section.
The European leg of GHOST‘s 2025 world tour kicked off on April 15 in Manchester, United Kingdom and can conclude on Could 24 in Oslo, Norway. The North American leg of GHOST‘s 2025 tour will launch on July 9 in Baltimore, Maryland and wrap up on August 16 in Houston, Texas.
The bodily dwelling video of GHOST‘s worldwide Prime 10 field workplace smash characteristic movie debut “Ceremony Right here Ceremony Now” was made accessible on December 6, 2024.