![]() Prior to a 2017 lawsuit filed by former members of the band, lead singer Tobias Forge obscured his identity behind the character “Papa Emeritus”. Seven of the group’s eight members, its ‘Nameless Ghouls’, wear virtually identical, face-concealing costumes. Ghost is easily recognizable owing greatly to its eccentric on-stage presence. ![]() They are well known for their occult-themed lyrics in their songs, as well as the way they portray themselves in a distantly tongue-in-cheek manner as a dark, sinister religious sect, commanded by the Emeritus bloodline. They won the Grammy in 2016 for Best Metal Performance. Ghost, formerly known as “Ghost B.C.” in the US until the release of Meliora, is a Swedish metal band with psychedelic elements that harkens back to a more eerie period of metal, evoking the sound of bands like Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult. In March 2020, during their final show supporting their 2018 album Prequelle in Mexico City, Ghost introduced a new character Papa Emeritus IV. He is expected to play role in their fifth album and its accompanied tour. presidential election to release the album, concerning the event would draw public’s attention the most. However, Forge stated that they would wait to until after the U.S. The band then entered the studio in January 2020 to begin working on their fifth album, and planned to release it by late summer that year. in September and October in support of their fourth album Prequelle before returning to Europe. In June 2019, Forge stated that the band will be doing a tour in U.S. In an interview with radio station KLAQ, frontman Tobias Forge stated that he came up with the concept of Impera in 2013 after reading the book The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons. The album’s greater message is that society needs to crumble in order to rebuild itself. We live in a time right now, where we believe that history is a thing of the past, and everything that we live through here and going forward is eternal. I think a lot of the Victorian times are similar to what we’re experiencing now, in the sense that industrialism is phasing out mankind. The album revolves around the great dangers and changes that loomed around at the time, where dangerous jobs are being taken care of by machines but people are being laid off. To cast Papa Emeritus’ cynical eye over corruption and madness and observe how, for both good and ill, everything, everywhere eventually ends. As stated by Tobias Forge to Kerrang! magazine: the falling of empires, periods of great change, seeing things become too powerful and collapse under their own soporific weight and ushering in the start of a new era in the fallout.
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