ok, new album obvs rules, but one nitpick: why did he choose to go with the "witchu" pronunciation in Danse Macabre instead of "with you"? it doesn't ruin the song for me - not even close - but i do find it kind of distracting and i think it was the wrong choice. Tobias doesn't make many wrong choices, musically at least.
― alpine static, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
It's not just a pronunciation choice - he's doing a pun.
― jmm, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"bewitch"
got it
carry on :)
― alpine static, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
thx jmm
well in that case it's genius!
― alpine static, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
“Deus In Absentia” b/w “Just Wanna B Witchu”
― calstars, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
If I had to drop a song, it might be "See the Light". It's not bad, but something about the chorus deflates it for me - the note he hits in "then you'll see the liiiight".
― jmm, Monday, 11 June 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
this album grew on me fast, which is really only notable in that Meliora was immediately appealing. new one just took a week, that's all.
probably not as good as Meliora - Meliora has He Is, this one doesn't, if nothing else - but not that far off.
― alpine static, Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
What is this album’s “he is?”
― calstars, Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Been meaning to go back to it, but yeah it hasn’t grabbed me like M did
― calstars, Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
after a period of caring not,this album is now working its magic.'dance macabre' is as good as anything that has been before.after which there is 'pro memoria' that has the massive chorus as mentioned upthread.outcome : a brilliant harmony heavy double bill in the middle of the album.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
I really like the two covers.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 28 June 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
wait which two are the covers?
― alpine static, Friday, 29 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
bonus tracks - Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and Pet Shop Boys' "It's A Sin"
― Simon H., Friday, 29 June 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
thx!
― alpine static, Friday, 29 June 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
I don't think the Cohen one really works but it's an admirable stab. The PSB one sounds exactly as you'd expect and that's a good thing.
― Simon H., Friday, 29 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
This album is so seamless. Its eclectic nature reminds me of Blue Öyster Cult's Spectres, as well as those late-70s Alice Cooper records he did with Dick Wagner.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
What is this album’s “he is?”― calstars, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 5:26 PM (two days ago)
― calstars, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 5:26 PM (two days ago)
i mean, i can look and listen and pick something, but to me, HE IS is an all-time stop-you-in-your-tracks kind of song.
i don't doubt Forge has another one (or more) of those in him, but i don't think it's on prequelle. (and i love prequelle.)
― alpine static, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
ok, the new album is bloody fantastic.I was not totally convinced to start with, but having lived with it for a few weeks its really hitting the spot now.guess I should get some BOC albums then.
― mark e, Sunday, 1 July 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
JUST WANNA BE-I WANNA BEWITCH YOUIN THE MOONLIGHT!
― alpine static, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
THIS IS THE MOMENT OF JUST LETTING GOOOOOOOOOO
― alpine static, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
WHILE YOU SLEEP IN EARTHLY DELIGHTSOMEONE'S FLESH IS ROTTING TONIGHT!
― alpine static, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
who has more hooks than this band? any genre.
(sax solo)
― calstars, Sunday, 5 August 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FHSNIc3wI
synthwave vs GHOST.I approve.
― mark e, Friday, 24 August 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvEe4949Sk
live excess vs GHOST.I approve.
― mark e, Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
I love this thread because most in here really enjoy the band. In the outside internet, haters constantly take the fun out of loving the band, but not here! This is my Ghost safe space.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 14 September 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
these folks are selling out large rooms everywhere they go, man. they're getting *big*
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
supporting Metallica next year too
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Latest album still hasn’t connected with me the way meliora did
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
agreed, not quite as good, but imo Meliora was a #1 album of the year kind of thing. this one is more like 5-15 range.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
This album seems more pop - a handful of polished singles and some filler. They also seem to have backed off the explicit Satanism a bit. It’s a fun listen but not their best.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr63DiEUxw
― StanM, Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
its very 'American horror story'
― mark e, Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Tobias won the lawsuit.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Still my favourite album of 2018. I haven't tired of it one bit.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/ghost-tobias-forge-cardinal-copia-interview-2018/
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
"I always thought that we could probably be a big production band, but without necessarily having a hit single or huge record sales — maybe like Diamanda Galás or maybe like Dead Can Dance, a band that would come and play a theater for five nights."
I would suggest he has totally smashed this self imposed glass ceiling.
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
agreed.
this is basically what i wanted to talk to him about recently, but the publication bailed when the local show sold out. oh well.
― alpine static, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
sorry the meet up never happened AS, especially now that it seems that Tobias is in a very talkative mood given that the whole 'mystery' aspect is open and the band are more popular than ever.the fact is, it was never about the mystery, but the massive tunes.
I am loving the success of this band.
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Wow, they’re playing Barclays Center in Brooklyn ... that’s only slightly smaller in capacity than Madison square garden
― calstars, Friday, 2 November 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
this is interesting, I think: Tobias Forge is doing a live interview as himself:
https://t.co/TrmsTnEYwm
(If that link doesn't work, it's IHeartRadio's FB)
I know he gave up the anonymity thing and he's done print interviews as Tobias before but is this the first video interview / public appearance in no makeup?
― alpine static, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
also interesting: that graphic they have behind him w/ two popes, the cardinal and tobias' face
― alpine static, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
maybe i'm making too much of it but this seems like a corner turned ... or at least the most prominent part so far of a corner turned
― alpine static, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
goddamn i can't listen to this interviewer, tho
― alpine static, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Hi I still don't like Ghost but I'm impressed that you can hear them - relentlessly - on the hard rock station in Reno, NV.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 7 February 2019 08:03 (five years ago) link
I held off on checking these guys out for a long long time, I think because of the BOC comparisons (I adore BOC beyond all reason and maybe I was afraid of disappointment or just mulishly resisted) but I listened to Prequelle today and fuck this is just breathtakingly good. And the BOC comparisons are... OTM?!?! This is one of very few records which carry the gnostic hard rock whiff of peak Cult. (The Eric-, Albert- and Allen-sung Cult anyway; Ghost don't really have the slinky Byrdsy side of the Buck-sung numbers).
UMS OTM about the Scorpions flavor as well.
I also think Tobias' voice (strictly in timbre mind you, not in deployment) is a little like him out of Voivod?
Mostly I just fucking love this.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 February 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
welcome
― alpine static, Monday, 11 February 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
would have been cool if they would have beat Greta Van Fleet
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
Grammys always been bizarro world
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link