‘If You Want To Be Super Pragmatic, I’m Technically A Solo Artist’

Tobias Forge, the vocalist and primary songwriter for GHOST, recently spoke with Rolling Stone UK, where he discussed and defined his leadership position within the Swedish occult rock band.

 “If you want to be super pragmatic, I’m technically a solo artist,” he said. “I don’t have to think in terms of a group, but everybody needs to understand that my job is a group effort.

“We’re a group working together, but practically, if the label is asking GHOST to make a record, they don’t call a group of people — they will call me because it’s my responsibility,” he continued. “So, as a creator and a writer, I don’t think that there is such a thing as an end until the actual end.”

On April 25th, GHOST is set to drop their new album, Skeletá, through Loma Vista Recordings. Fans can already listen to the first single, “Satanized”, which was released earlier in April.

“Satanized” is described in a press release as “an avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, as the narrator succumbs to dark forces within and without, helplessly acknowledging their own blasphemy and heresy as it inexorably consumes them.” By the time the song’s opening lines “There is something inside me and they don’t know if there is a cure” have moved from the inner monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it will already be too late: You will have been “Satanized”.

Skeletá track listing:

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