Ghost release Ghoulbangers Ball video from the final night of their Skeletour

After bringing their triumphant Skeletour to an end in Inglewood, California at the Intuit Dome on February 23, Ghost have now shared the last episode of their current Ghoulbangers Ball series.

As well as host Vanessa Warwick meeting and hanging out with dedicated fans, the six-and-a-half-minute video features a Ghoul’s Disco and one final random act of kindness from Papa V Perpetua as two gig-goers receive a ticket upgrade to premium seating. On top of that, there’s also a very moving and appropriate snippet of The Future Is A Foreign Land – and according to setlist.fm, on the night the lyrics were changed from ‘2024 / We could grow old together / 2024 / We could love one another’ to ‘2034 / We could grow old together / 2034 / We could love one another’.

A couple of days before the gig, mastermind Tobias Forge explained his reasoning for wanting to take a break from Ghost on Full Metal Jackie. As well as spending more time at home with his family, he said (via Blabbermouth): “Imagine you being a house builder, and you draw up houses, great ideas, but you’re also doing the permits and you’re also doing the tiles and you’re building everything and you’re sewing up all that [shit] and putting it all together.

“I don’t simply have an idea. And I’m out of tiles. I’m out of wood. I just don’t have it. So the only way for me to come up with a new idea and get some new inspiration is to just step away. It is as simple as that.

“But it doesn’t mean that I’m not doing anything,” he added. “I have two film projects that I’m working on. Just before I left for tour, I was recording another album with another thing. So I have tons of stuff lined up for me [for] the coming years. And also hobbies that I have put aside a little, just because for the last 15 years Ghost has obviously been force majeure. Luckily, my family has been very supportive of that. They know that in order to sort of make this happen, I need to do this. And over the years I’ve been very worried about momentum and just keeping it going because I have so many ideas and I don’t wanna lose speed. And I just came to a point where I’m like, ‘I’m actually fine if the momentum is not there.’ It’s cool. I’m good. I feel good about that. If I lose it, okay.”

Watch the final episode of Ghoulbangers Ball below:

And here’s the setlist from the show:

1. Peacefield
2. Lachryma
3. Spirit
4. From The Pinnacle To The Pit
5. Majesty
6. The Future Is A Foreign Land
7. Devil Church
8. Cirice
9. Darkness At The Heart Of My Love
10. Satanized
11. Satan Prayer
12. Umbra
13. Year Zero
14. He Is
15. Rats
16. Kiss The Go-Goat
17. Mummy Dust
18. Monstrance Clock

Encore:

19. Mary On A Cross
20. Dance Macabre
21. Square Hammer

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