Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t concerning the Satan

Tobias Forge claims that, regardless of appearances, loads of Ghost’s music isn’t truly concerning the Satan.

Since debuting with 2010’s Opus Eponymous, the Swedish laborious rock/heavy metallic outfit have introduced themselves as a subversive church with a skeletal “pope” singer, portrayed by Forge, and an ensemble of druid-like backing musicians referred to as “anonymous ghouls”. Their back-catalogue additionally contains such songs as Satan Church, Depth Of Devil’s Eyes and the brand new single Satanized.

Nevertheless, Forge says in a brand new interview with Metallic Hammer that that seeming fascination with The Nice Horned One is just skin-deep. “With a lot of the issues I’ve written, together with components of the primary file, there’s this false impression that they’re concerning the Satan, and so they aren’t actually,” he insists.

So what do Ghost’s songs truly talk about? “They’ve at all times been about mankind’s relationship with the idea of life and loss of life,” Forge continues, “and God and divine presence or absence. Some songs are expressed with extra specificity at a sure particular person or a sure facet of society. I simply felt that I wished this new file to be… about being human. Being alive.”