Ghost drop unique, theatrical new single Twenties

Ahead of the release of new album Impera next week, Ghost have shared one of their most unusual offerings yet: Twenties.

Following previous singles Call Me Little Sunshine and Hunter's Moon, Twenties has a vibe of “Slayer meets some sort of Missy Elliott thing”, frontman Tobias Forge recently told Kerrang!, and is both a “pep-talk” and also “a paradox”.

“That song has super-aggressive lyrics, it’s very hostile,” he explained. “It’s still meant as a pep-talk, but it’s basically demeaning and openly hating anyone who's listening. It promises only air, but poisoned air. And yet it still wraps it up as a gift, as something you should say ‘thank you’ for. Which is like a lot of the bullshit that we've been seeing the past couple of years.”

Impera is due out on March 11 via Loma Vista Recordings.

Watch the lyric video for Twenties below:

Catch Ghost, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Twin Temple at the following upcoming dates:

April

9 Manchester Arena
11 London O2 Arena
13 Glasgow Hydro
15 Birmingham RWA Arena
17 Rotterdam RTM Stage Ahoy
18 Paris Accor Arena
19 Cologne Lanxess Arena
21 Leipzig Quarterback Immobillen Arena
22 Frankfurt Festhalle
24 Prague Arena
27 Tampere Nokia Arena
29 Stockhom Avicii Arena
30 Oslo Spektrum

May

1 Malmo Arena
3 Brussels Forest
5 Milan Mediolanum Forum
7 Barcelona Olympic Arena Badalona
8 Madrid Vistalegre Arena
11 Vienna Stadthalle
13 Zurich Hallenstadion
15 Hannover ZAG Arena
16 Munich Olympiahalle
18 Budapest Arena

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