Ghost To Record New "Darker" Album This Summer And Papa Firing All Members

We Did Not See That Coming

GHOST New Lineup

After their successful single Square Hammer (a mastepiece in my opinion) and a Grammy in their collection Ghost are heading all the way to a new album . This new album will have a darker sound as Papa Emeritus IV stated . He also said that the band will work on new album this summer! In a new interview with Metal Wani, frontman Tobias Forge said :

"The ideas for the new record will be quote-unquote darker, because it's thematically set in a different… in a darker setting. Meliora was supposed to reflect some sort of utopia/dystopia in the modern society, whereas this new one is gonna be a little bit more apocalyptic, a little bit more back to the medieval times, which, obviously, is associated with darkness. "

He continued: "Obviously, in metal, in extreme metal, you have a myriad of records that are thematically in the Middle Ages, but the idea for this new album is to combine… So where [other] records [covering similar lyrical themes are] drowned and surrounded and drenched in death, it's gonna be a record about survival. So that constantly working with those polar, sort of, elements is also a difference, I guess, between… If you find a black metal record that is about the Plague and the death, you will have only death — everything is just black and everything just ends black. Whereas one of my driving forces writing a record like that is to write a record about the survival of that and the prosperity."

"It's gonna be a darker record. Is it gonna be all through and through heavier? I don't know, obviously. But we do have melody and we do have songs that are not so heavy. From my point of view, from where I'm sitting, knowing a little bit of the material coming in, it's gonna be both. It's gonna have everything from heavy, crushing metal to big, ballady anthems."

Papa Emeritus III

Another thing that he said that confused me and got me little angry is that we will fire all member and he will bring a new lineup in the Ghost ! Why??? Being in a band like ghost is a dream even wearing a mask! I don't really can say why but he says that by the time the were mask it not going to be so different .

He said (via Metal Sucks): "From a practical point of view, you're interested in, on the one hand, preserving the sound, or the elements that make up the sound, and you still wanna progress. I think one of the secrets behind our preserving ability is the fact that we don't necessarily have to have the same six people in the room to make that sound, which helps.

"It's always a blessing and a curse when you have some of these classic bands over the course of rock and roll history, where in order for them to sound like that exact band, you need those four individuals, and if one is missing, it does not sound like that.

"And, fortunately, we don't have that problem.
"Because performing Ghost and recording Ghost has never really been the same thing. So that we can preserve our sound; we don't have to rely on... if some people come and go, which is good.

"Queens of the Stone Age is the same thing. Everything goes through Josh's hands, and therefore it sounds like Queens of the Stone Age, regardless of who he brings in and out of the band, which is, I guess, a similar situation."

The only thing positive thing that I can think about that is the new member will bring new ideas and sounds with them but we don't really know if these ideas at going to be any good for the band!

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