Ghost - Impera

[tobi is an animal]

Wonderful ballad from the new album.

 

 

[Glen]

glad we now have an official thread for this album. Im a huge fan of Ghost, have been since Meliora and their new album is their most melodic and mainstream yet. 

Acquired taste I know but I love the album and also seeing them in April at the O2 in London. V excited. 

[Jez]

14 minutes ago, Glen said:

glad we now have an official thread for this album. Im a huge fan of Ghost, have been since Meliora and their new album is their most melodic and mainstream yet. 

Acquired taste I know but I love the album and also seeing them in April at the O2 in London. V excited. 

I'm was a bit surprised you liked this, as the last album you only liked a couple of tracks if I remember...this is excellent though, although I still think the last one was better over all. 

[Glen]

1 hour ago, Jez said:

I'm was a bit surprised you liked this, as the last album you only liked a couple of tracks if I remember...this is excellent though, although I still think the last one was better over all. 

Prequelle grew on me massively and hence why I checked out the back catalogue at the time. Really like Meliora as well, heavy & riff laden , but the first 2 are a still bit of a stretch lol outside of a few tracks. 

[J.S.M]

I love this whole album. There could be one or two more full songs but that was also worse on the last album. There is not a single song that I don't like on this album. 

[PeterS]

Just started listening to Ghost and there seems a lot to like. Not what I'd expected at all. 

I've also started watching Justin Hawkin's channel, which isn't unrelated as it was his video on them that made me even bother. I'd completely misread him as well. Comes across as a decent guy. I might even try The Darkness again. 

 

[tobi is an animal]

 

[Glen]

still my fav song of 2022. Brilliance 

[nyoilers]

8 months into 2022 and this is still my top release of the year

[Glen]

up there for certain 

[whiplash1972]

Ghost - Spillways featuring Def Leppard’’s Joe Elliott 

[PeterS]

I really can't tell any difference between the two versions. 

Great song , mind you. 

[nyoilers]

Great song from the #1 release of 2022

[Captain Howdy]

Well I had certainly not heard anything by Ghost but had heard of them, and as soon as I saw them I thought "Oh, they are probably some growly band or doom sounding, so prob not my cup of tea".

Then when they released the Joe Elliot version of Spillways I just had to give it a listen just because of Joe, and I was blown away by how melodic it was. With it's ABBA "Money Money Money" influenced piano (from what I have found out since Forge is a big ABBA fan), and it's catchy as hell tune you don't initially even notice the lyrics are far from the upbeat style of the actual tune, which is by the looks of it the biggest gimmick with Ghost, not the image. They take dark lyrics which are not as satanic as some people will make out, and put them to generally upbeat catchy music.

On the back of hearing the Elliot version, I checked out the original and initially I would agree there is very little difference, and the vocals are hard to tell apart but once I started to listen to the original version over and over, I went back to the Joe version months later and you really can hear the difference and you can hear Joe's delivery of some of the lines is different to when Tobias sings them.

Anyway, I also checked out a few other songs on YouTube including Twenties from this album, and some older songs like Rats, Dance Macabre, Mary on a cross and Square hammer and loved them all.

Due to financial difficulties I searched around until I found a slightly cheaper brand new copy of Impera (£8 against the £13 the likes of Amazon sell it for) and I have not stopped playing it since. Actually now have to review my top albums list from 2022 as I think this may actually now be my stand out favourite, even over Megadeth and Chez Kane.

Once money is better I will start going into their back catalogue and will probably work my way backwards as from what I have heard and read, Prequelle and Meliora are more likely to be my cup of tea but earlier than that sounds like it might be more a case of acquired taste.

[nyoilers]

6 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Actually now have to review my top albums list from 2022 as I think this may actually now be my stand out favourite, even over Megadeth and Chez Kane.

It is my pick for top release of 2022

[tobi is an animal]

22 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Well I had certainly not heard anything by Ghost but had heard of them, and as soon as I saw them I thought "Oh, they are probably some growly band or doom sounding, so prob not my cup of tea".

Then when they released the Joe Elliot version of Spillways I just had to give it a listen just because of Joe, and I was blown away by how melodic it was. With it's ABBA "Money Money Money" influenced piano (from what I have found out since Forge is a big ABBA fan), and it's catchy as hell tune you don't initially even notice the lyrics are far from the upbeat style of the actual tune, which is by the looks of it the biggest gimmick with Ghost, not the image. They take dark lyrics which are not as satanic as some people will make out, and put them to generally upbeat catchy music.

On the back of hearing the Elliot version, I checked out the original and initially I would agree there is very little difference, and the vocals are hard to tell apart but once I started to listen to the original version over and over, I went back to the Joe version months later and you really can hear the difference and you can hear Joe's delivery of some of the lines is different to when Tobias sings them.

Anyway, I also checked out a few other songs on YouTube including Twenties from this album, and some older songs like Rats, Dance Macabre, Mary on a cross and Square hammer and loved them all.

Due to financial difficulties I searched around until I found a slightly cheaper brand new copy of Impera (£8 against the £13 the likes of Amazon sell it for) and I have not stopped playing it since. Actually now have to review my top albums list from 2022 as I think this may actually now be my stand out favourite, even over Megadeth and Chez Kane.

Once money is better I will start going into their back catalogue and will probably work my way backwards as from what I have heard and read, Prequelle and Meliora are more likely to be my cup of tea but earlier than that sounds like it might be more a case of acquired taste.

The first two ghost albums are unlistenable, imo. Things started to improve when Tobias started working with outside writers on album # three. Each album after the first two have improved on the one before it culminating in their best album Impera.  I have zero interest in hearing Spillways feat joe elliot, but the sans joe version is probably my second favorite track after Darkness At The Heart Of My Love. 

[Captain Howdy]

Just ordered Prequelle and Meliora from the Finnish website Record Shop X as got some good prices on there and postage is actually really cheap.

Prequelle is the Scandinavian deluxe edition with two extra tracks, and Meliora is a 2CD version that includes the Popestar EP.

Two CDs to the UK and only 5 Euros postage. Cost about the equivalent of $29 for both CDs and postage from Finland to UK.

The standard version of Prequelle plus the deluxe of Meliora would cost about $21 from Amazon UK. On Discogs for either the Scandi or US versions of the deluxe Prequelle, including postage it would cost me more than double what I am paying for both albums.

[Captain Howdy]

Loving the shirt designs these guys come out with. Kinda remind me of classic Iron Maiden shirts (I still wish I had bought the Miami Vice parody/homage one back in the day, even though I was not into Maiden at the time).

Their If you have Ghost EP is obviously a homage to Nosferatu, but on their shirts I have seen The Shining, Salems Lot, Clockwork orange, Godfather and ... well, I just had to buy it