Listen to Ghost’s new version of Spillways featuring Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott

Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott provides guest vocals on Spillways, his favourite track from Ghost’s brilliant 2022 album Impera.

January 27, 2023

Words:: Emily Carter

Ghost have shared a brand-new version of their 2022 song Spillways, featuring an appearance from Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott.

Providing guest vocals on the Impera banger, Joe says that the record was his “favourite rock album of 2022… I found out along the way that Tobias is a bit of a fan of DL, so I guess it was inevitable we’d both find out about each other! Once we’d been introduced to the idea of working together it just snowballed organically and I’m thrilled that I got to sing on what is my favourite song from that album!”

Listen below:

And see how it all came to be (sort of) in new webisode Chapter 15: Meanwhile In Dublin:

Read this: Ghost: The making of one of the greatest rock shows on Earth

Check out more:

Ghost Def Leppard

Now read these

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 years

Ghost 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 Meliora

Tobias 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 Infestissumam

Already 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 show

Next 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 Eponymous

What 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 Prequelle

In 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…

News

Watch Ghost’s Papa V Perpetua perform Bohemian Rhapsody in front of Queen

At yesterday’s Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, Ghost’s Papa V Perpetua was joined by Opeth’s Fredrik Åkesson and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir for a special performance of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Check out more:

Now read these

The story of Ghost’s Impera: “I want to show my kids that all this time playing rock shows had a real purpose”

See Ghost play their first hometown show in 10 years

GRAMMYs, glory and “the absence of God”: The story of Ghost’s Meliora

“I wanted people to throw themselves into the vision”: The story of Ghost’s Infestissumam

Ozzy and Sabbath confirm global livestream of their farewell show

Ghoul The World: How Ghost catapulted out of the underground with Opus Eponymous

Plagues, lawsuits and Dave Grohl: The story of Ghost’s Prequelle

Watch Ghost’s Papa V Perpetua perform Bohemian Rhapsody in front of Queen

The best of Kerrang! delivered straight to your inbox three times a week. What are you waiting for?