News Ghost tease more live shows: “Stay tuned for upcoming dates”Having wrapped up the U.S. leg of their Skeletour World Tour 2025 last night, Ghost are hinting that there’s still more to come…
Features Ghost: How Tobias Forge created a genre-redefining monsterTobias Forge didn’t transform into Papa Emeritus overnight. Materialising from the frontman’s imagination after more than a decade making myriad noises in the Swedish underground, Ghost is the culmination of a journey that’s taken in everything from nightmarish black metal to sleazy glam rock. Here, we chart every musical step…
News Watch Ghost perform Lachryma on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSee Ghost’s brilliant debut on Jimmy Fallon, performing Lachryma from this year’s sixth album Skeletá.
News Ghost just dedicated their Madison Square Garden show to Ozzy Osbourne“For being The Prince Of Darkness, he sure gave us a lot of light…” Watch Papa V Perpetua pay tribute to Ozzy onstage at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Features 13 essential Ghost songs you need to knowAcross six albums, numerous frontman and many different styles, Ghost have taken over metal in spooky, spectacular style. This is how they’ve done it, through 13 dead-good tracks…
News Ghost to make their debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonGhost have announced that they’ll be performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week, the night after they headline Madison Square Garden.
Features Breaking The Lore: The ultimate guide to Ghost’s majestic worldPantomime pageantry and Satanic provocation is all well and good, but there’s deeper, more subversive purpose in Ghost’s never-ending lore. Kneeling at their unholy altar, we slip beneath those bedazzled vestments to chart all the dark humour, razorblade social commentary and righteous purpose on the path of the Papas...
News Here’s the setlist from Ghost’s U.S. SkeletourGhost kicked off the U.S. leg of their Skeletour last night in Baltimore – and they made a couple of changes from the UK and European shows…
Features “This band gives me life”: Meet Ghost’s fanatical followersEvery clergy needs a flock, and Ghost have a congregation like no other. Who better to share what makes them so special than their acolytes? From across the globe, here are just some of their devotees who bathe in the light of Papa and his Ghouls…
News Here’s how to watch Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning showThis Saturday, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne will bring together everyone from Metallica to Mastodon, Guns N’ Roses to Gojira for their final-ever performance. And you can watch the whole thing as it unfolds…
Features The story of Ghost’s Impera: “I want to show my kids that all this time playing rock shows had a real purpose”Not even COVID could stand in the way of Ghost as they passed their 10th birthday. Catching up on tour just before the plague hit, we found a rock band now comfortably sitting as one of the most important of their time. As Impera took on the weird world into which it was released, the idea of them being “the next KISS or Maiden” wasn’t a hope: it was happening right in front of us…
News See Ghost play their first hometown show in 10 yearsGhost have released their latest Ghoulbangers Ball episode from Tobias Forge’s hometown of Linköping in Sweden – where the band last played in 2015…
Features GRAMMYs, glory and “the absence of God”: The story of Ghost’s MelioraTobias Forge had long wanted to do an album set in the future. With Meliora, he had the tools and freedom to follow in the footsteps of his heroes in Iron Maiden and make a full-on heavy metal concept record. Within it, he questioned the nature of contentment in a modern world. But its runaway success would also prove to be the making of Ghost…
Features “I wanted people to throw themselves into the vision”: The story of Ghost’s InfestissumamAlready spreading far beyond the underground, by the time of 2013’s second album Infestissumam, Ghost had signed to a massive label and were working with Foo Fighters’ producer. This wasn’t without its problems for the clergy, but even a cautious name tweak and issues getting the album’s racy sleeve pressed couldn’t stop a Swedish Grammi coming their way…
News Ozzy and Sabbath confirm global livestream of their farewell showNext month’s sold-out Back To The Beginning farewell spectacular is getting the livestream treatment, so fans all around the world can watch Ozzy’s final onstage appearance with the heavy metal legends.
Features Ghoul The World: How Ghost catapulted out of the underground with Opus EponymousWhat is this that stands before us? In 2010, Ghost released their Opus Eponymous debut album. As Kerrang! got on the trail of these mysterious Swedish Ghouls, everyone else soon fell under their spell as well. Who were they? Where did they come from? And how were they already building such a strong congregation? We trace the roots of the band, right back to the source…
Features Plagues, lawsuits and Dave Grohl: The story of Ghost’s PrequelleIn which the beautiful “Star Trek” future of Meliora was replaced with the plague of the Dark Ages, Prequelle found Ghost ascending to greater heights while simultaneously defeating attempts to clip their wings. With this new sense of wrath came a different leader, the suave, young Cardinal Copia, and under his stewardship, they turned Wembley into their very own cathedral…
