When we first learned about new Ghost material after Prequelle, we were excitedly expecting a new Ghost album in 2020. However, in the summer of 2019, the existing tour saw an extension and the new album was pushed back to be released in 2021 with recording starting January of 2021. The band coincidentally already planned on not touring of all 2020 and resuming for the album release of 2021, so there were hopes of the band fine-tuning and writing more music! With all these different updates, there was bound to be some misunderstanding in high anticipation for anything new!
Last week, we thought we got a juicy update from Ghost’s director, Tobias Forge, via Sweden’s VK interview with him! It was misunderstood that he said a new album will still be out this winter despite the tour being postponed until at least the Fall 2021. Now, in a fresh Sweden Rock interview, everything has been shown to actually be according to the original 2021 schedule. When asked about the 5th album, Forge replies, “The plan now is that I will be here and write for another two months, until Christmas. The idea is that the album will then be recorded in January. It takes about six weeks to record and then it is two to three weeks of mixing and mastering. So sometime in March, the record is ready, it is thought. But then it does not come out until after the summer. As it looks now, take in wood, we will then go on tour after that.”
It states he is only just going to finish the writing stage around Christmas, not that there will be any sort of release around then. Sweden Rock magazine is also going to have special issues of Papa Emeritus I featured on Opus Eponymous for their subscribers, seen below.
The interview mentioned last week does state that Forge emphasizes the theme of this album was not influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic saying, “I have already made a record about God's wrath and doomsday, even if Prequelle was not about just infection from a medical perspective. But I have a feeling that there will be plenty of doomsday and quarantine-confirming records in the future, and I think I might not participate in it.” This statement seems to ring true considering the whole theme of Prequelle was only the beginning of an apocalypse. I’m truly looking forward to new music being released by Ghost, and seeing how Cardinal Copia takes on the Papa Emeritus IV role!
We wanted to congratulate Ghost in further exciting news. Ghost won the Swedish Music Export Prize just last week as well. They posted this photo along with this caption:
"[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]
We wish to inform you Ghost has been declared the 23rd winner of the Music Export Prize in Sweden. Thank you for the continued support and kind words.
From the jury...“Ghost has challenged audiences and created headlines ever since the band was formed in Linköping in 2006. Today it has fans all over the world. With its mythical and occult lyrics, cloaked in melodic metal, Ghost has gone from primarily being for the initiated audience – starting with debut album Opus Eponymous from 2011 – to today being one of the rock and metal bands with the broadest audience, regardless of category. In 2019, Ghost highlighted its position as world leader when it continued its world tour, ‘A Pale Tour Named Death’. When the tour concluded in Mexico City in March this year, it had reached a total of 137 stages all over the world."
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