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GHOST
2010 - Opvs Eponymovs.
2015 - Meliora.
2018 - Prequelle.
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October 18, 2010 - 2025: 15 years of: Opvs Eponymovs.

An upcoming dark-cloud.

It's been way too long since heavymetal was scary. To quote one famous British guitarist: "How much more black could this be ? and the answer is: none, none more black." Mask and makeup, matched with darkened metal / rock, between alive and dead ...rite here rite now: here's the incarnation of GHOST.

Powerful rocknroll bursts as "Con Clavi Con Dio" rides along Lucifer. A foggy vibe supported by lively Eurometal signatures. Another midnight summoning "Satan Prayer" drinks the Holy wine from the glass, as the fast-metal "Elizabeth" provides more RPMs, to this fully awake nightmare.

This Eyes Wide Shut "Ritual" is a one twisted voyage into the macabre, while the dark powermetal attitude of "Stand By Him" made sure the horned one was kept placed center-stage.

Released by England's counterculture Rise Above Records, home of doom and mid-paced heaviness, Sweden's GHOST is an out-of-the-box venture. Church-like choruses and demoniac lyric-set, this band blesses the scene with it's wicked benediction.

The seed is planted and darkness shall shine, more repugnant mutations shall be exhumed with 2013's Infestissumam CD.

RIP Papa Emeritus I (2010-2012)

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Opvs Eponymovs = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fCgy20fGM&list=OLAK5uy_ljJ09m6fZyNShor5QoFIctwA6EFvY1Gl4
Live in London in 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIM-aV4kWQ

August 21, 2015 - 2025: 10 years of: Meliora.

Beauty in darkness.

Still struggling with 2013's Infestissumam CD, yet the underground was now fully awake. This imminent dream-like apparition would now bloom into a stormy-cloud takeover ...nothing shall scare GHOST.

The Beast ...with many names.

The Clergy is gathered for sacred rite, where the almighty "Spirit" makes its presence known. A great disturbance in The Force, as the scene remains in-awe "From The Pinnacle To The Pit", in front of this Cloud Nine dark "Majesty". More lively morbid-metal oozes from "He Is" and the full soul "Absolution". The menacing melancholies of "Cirice" are build-upon an unorthodox mid-paced powerballad-frame, while the electrified thrashmetal overtones, possesses the ashes of "Mummy Dust".

Now teasing the arenarock market on 2016's Popestar MCD, with the danceable "Square Hammer" hit ...the path to a new era was now cleared:

- Papa Emeritus III is dead.
- Cardinal Copia arises.

...a new era, from gimmick to glorious to game-changer, as mainstream-metal would finally feel the majestic GHOST, behold: 2018's Prequelle CD.

RIP Papa Emeritus III (2015-2017)

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Cirice = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ao4t_fe0I
From The Pinnacle To The Pit = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-IoOEPbUs
He Is = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMaHDTw-pI
Meliora = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gSsp7vasSA&list=OLAK5uy_mrez335Yse108P9uwGc-q_ZSs0oROL_Dw
Interview in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lihJncVT8Ac
Live in Stockholm in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri3kDiWaZFc
Popestar = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoyKzgkqR4&list=PL1s_QTC46Ifme0nMQjDYUe9ewFYKsx4cU
Grammy Awards in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmnk8plZ6w
Ceremony And Devotion = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtP9BngPqUU&list=OLAK5uy_kG8PzHPsTw1pta3ZB64LtEGIYvLKBLrQs
some duo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0r76obxX4o

June 1, 2018: 0 years of: Prequelle.

The greatest "New Band Of The Millennium" with the "2018 Album Of The Year" tag contender.

It is common knowledge that image and attitude is everything in rocknroll, and we all went thru the COOPERs, the KISSs, the GWARs, the SLIPKNOTs yet we though we've seen it all ...and now the world meets GHOST !

Still imbedded in eerie religious imagery; from doommetal to hints of 70s instrumental progrock, to hints of folkmusic to sing-along arenarock anthems: Prequelle is the full package !

With this 4th opus, GHOST raises the bar high, way high for any competition. Not often in heavymetal we get a young solid act, with a unique tailor-made image, quality musicianship with a strong versatile charismatic frontman with plenty of hooks to match: GHOST is the full package !

Onstage, this is what an epic heavymetal band should look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrgFYA4njY

One could only hope "Prequelle" is the prequel of more great things to come from these lovely Swedes.

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Rats = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc
Prequelle = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyGT0B2cHU&list=PLBkHOnPbMitt9OXCVIMtBMazjRxsCe6lp