It's always going to be hilarious to me that they have the most trve and cvlt black metal type song titles and also lyrics I guess. And then they sound so tame. On another note and a very...
It's always going to be hilarious to me that they have the most trve and cvlt black metal type song titles and also lyrics I guess. And then they sound so tame.
On another note and a very different genre, but also religious themed, I can highly recommend Batushka if one likes extreme metal. Those riffs around 1:35 hit so hard. So good. Chills!
KISS is hilarious to me. Growing up religious in the 90s, the whole "Knights In Satan's Service" myth was still alive and well. Plus vomiting blood and the makeup? All just evil efforts to corrupt...
KISS is hilarious to me. Growing up religious in the 90s, the whole "Knights In Satan's Service" myth was still alive and well. Plus vomiting blood and the makeup? All just evil efforts to corrupt the souls of good Christians or some other such nonsense.
So imagine my surprise when I was catching up on their music in my early 20s and it turned out to just be very mid-tier classic rock.
Yeah and before KISS it was Alice Cooper with his bloody theatrical stage presence. I also remember how "tame" Iron Maiden was to compared to their artwork. It's almost like they pretend to be...
Yeah and before KISS it was Alice Cooper with his bloody theatrical stage presence. I also remember how "tame" Iron Maiden was to compared to their artwork. It's almost like they pretend to be something they're not..
"Ghost, putting the ABBA into Sabbath" For the record I think they're good fun and I enjoy their music very much (I like both ABBA and Sabbath as well). Ghost have done some really great covers as...
"Ghost, putting the ABBA into Sabbath"
For the record I think they're good fun and I enjoy their music very much (I like both ABBA and Sabbath as well). Ghost have done some really great covers as well, Tobias definitely knows his music.
Here he is singing a cover of Enter Sandman in front of Metallica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_5dUh3HIic - oh and also the King of Sweden, minor detail. It's a great cover and his voice is...
Ghost have done some really great covers as well, Tobias definitely knows his music.
I'm a big fan of their version of Stay, which isn't something I ever thought I hear covered. Also It's a Sin is very on-brand for them and also a great version.
I'm a big fan of their version of Stay, which isn't something I ever thought I hear covered. Also It's a Sin is very on-brand for them and also a great version.
This comment brings to mind my favorite Jared Dines video, If bands sounded how they looked, featuring Ghost among many others. Always get a big kick out of it, especially if you’re familiar with...
This comment brings to mind my favorite Jared Dines video, If bands sounded how they looked, featuring Ghost among many others. Always get a big kick out of it, especially if you’re familiar with how many of these bands actually sound vs. their look. It’s almost like an inverse relationship of nerdy look to extreme sound.
Thanks for the reminder! Time to revisit some hooded chanting. Edit: By the way if someone likes the darkish, chantish, melodic maybe a little less extreme metal maybe give Rotting Christ a try....
Thanks for the reminder! Time to revisit some hooded chanting.
Edit: By the way if someone likes the darkish, chantish, melodic maybe a little less extreme metal maybe give Rotting Christ a try. They also fall into the category of not entirely living up to the extreme expectations of their band name.
I'm vaguely aware of the band, and I enjoyed this song/video a lot. But all I can hear is Weird Al doing metal, and that's not at all a bad thing. I kind of love it, in fact.
I'm vaguely aware of the band, and I enjoyed this song/video a lot. But all I can hear is Weird Al doing metal, and that's not at all a bad thing. I kind of love it, in fact.
I have found this band to be very polarizing. It seems people only fall into "This is the most boring catchy riff with bland vocals I've ever heard" or "I LOVE THIS GIVE ME MORE." I don't really...
I have found this band to be very polarizing. It seems people only fall into "This is the most boring catchy riff with bland vocals I've ever heard" or "I LOVE THIS GIVE ME MORE." I don't really know anyone that is on the fence.
For full disclosure, I fall into that first category. And for some reason I always give the new stuff a listen and always come away with the same opinion. And honestly, I think this new vocalist a step back.
I can say I don't feel strongly about them one way or another. I enjoy Ghost, specifically I appreciate their awesome live performances (also how I came across them in the first place, and have...
I can say I don't feel strongly about them one way or another. I enjoy Ghost, specifically I appreciate their awesome live performances (also how I came across them in the first place, and have been to 3 in total since). I also like them because of the whole "against the grain" act, as they are essentially a satanistic pop heavy metal. They don't really have any heavy songs other than maybe Mummy Dust? and that's okay with me because I don't listen to heavy metal much.
It's the same vocalist. If you saw some press release saying something like "Now headed by Papa Emeritus V!" or something, it's just a new live persona for the frontman, he changes personas with...
It's the same vocalist. If you saw some press release saying something like "Now headed by Papa Emeritus V!" or something, it's just a new live persona for the frontman, he changes personas with each new album.
Edit: oops, apparently I replied to the wrong comment.
Late-era Ghost is no match for their early discography, but I still like it "for what it is". They're a theatrical and gimmicky and over-the-top rock group and venturing more into the pop side...
Late-era Ghost is no match for their early discography, but I still like it "for what it is". They're a theatrical and gimmicky and over-the-top rock group and venturing more into the pop side than the rock side as time goes on. It's like an extremely polished but cheesy Blue Oyster Cult.
Even as someone into metal (some metalheads kinda give side-eye to Ghost because they sometimes get touted as metal when they really aren't) and someone that typically doesn't like over-the-top cheesy stuff (like some parts of power metal), Ghost just hits it the right way for me. For some reason they execute so well on the cheese that it works.
I'm pre-disposed to like Satanic / sacrilegious stuff though, whether it is serious or on-the-nose and campy, and that helps a lot and I like that I can enjoy those themes both when very serious and in extreme metal, or when campy and poppy. Of course there's also extreme metal that is Satanic cheese too (looking at you Behemoth and Deicide)
Also TIL that Forge has done both death metal and black metal in his past. Def recommend Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness. Solid Swedish death metal, and even as someone that likes Ghost, I much prefer Repugnant. What a gem! His black metal stuff is harder to find, save a single track from a demo I found online, and it's pretty solid too tbh
Started listening to it and I'm not even halfway into the first song of the album. That's classic Swedish death metal alright,, that hm-2 sound is unmistakable. Incredible stuff, thank you for the...
Def recommend Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness. Solid Swedish death metal
Started listening to it and I'm not even halfway into the first song of the album. That's classic Swedish death metal alright,, that hm-2 sound is unmistakable. Incredible stuff, thank you for the recommendation!
Sure thing! Yeah did a full album listen yesterday and honestly it might be one of the best albums from that era that I never knew about! While I love other Swedish DM too I really like how dark...
Sure thing! Yeah did a full album listen yesterday and honestly it might be one of the best albums from that era that I never knew about! While I love other Swedish DM too I really like how dark and evil Repugnant sounds, and I also like its thrashiness.
It's almost like you can even hear a hint of a "gothic" sound (or some kind of atmosphere that would inspire something like Ghost) but done in a measured way and with a level of sincerity that actually makes it feel genuine- there are parts with some interesting vocal choices that really give that feeling to me, like they took a sinister, thrashy Swedeath vibe and layered a bit of experimentation on. One of the tracks also has a weird effected vocal that reminds me of one of my fave songs of all time, Morbid Angel's Where The Slime Live, and I love that too
It's definitely Ghost lol, it's not bad and I even preordered the LP. But Ghost is past their peak - tell me that this new song is at the same level as their old bangers, it doesn't compare:...
It's definitely Ghost lol, it's not bad and I even preordered the LP. But Ghost is past their peak - tell me that this new song is at the same level as their old bangers, it doesn't compare:
Spillways and Call Me Little Sunshine were on their most recent album which only came out in 2022! Hardly "old" bangers, although definitely bangers. I'll wait and hear the new album before...
Spillways and Call Me Little Sunshine were on their most recent album which only came out in 2022! Hardly "old" bangers, although definitely bangers. I'll wait and hear the new album before writing them off just yet.
It's always going to be hilarious to me that they have the most trve and cvlt black metal type song titles and also lyrics I guess. And then they sound so tame.
On another note and a very different genre, but also religious themed, I can highly recommend Batushka if one likes extreme metal. Those riffs around 1:35 hit so hard. So good. Chills!
Yeah, they're the KISS of the 2020s for me.
KISS is hilarious to me. Growing up religious in the 90s, the whole "Knights In Satan's Service" myth was still alive and well. Plus vomiting blood and the makeup? All just evil efforts to corrupt the souls of good Christians or some other such nonsense.
So imagine my surprise when I was catching up on their music in my early 20s and it turned out to just be very mid-tier classic rock.
Yeah and before KISS it was Alice Cooper with his bloody theatrical stage presence. I also remember how "tame" Iron Maiden was to compared to their artwork. It's almost like they pretend to be something they're not..
"Ghost, putting the ABBA into Sabbath"
For the record I think they're good fun and I enjoy their music very much (I like both ABBA and Sabbath as well). Ghost have done some really great covers as well, Tobias definitely knows his music.
Here he is singing a cover of Enter Sandman in front of Metallica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_5dUh3HIic - oh and also the King of Sweden, minor detail.
It's a great cover and his voice is impressive and eerily similar to Hetfield's.
I'm a big fan of their version of Stay, which isn't something I ever thought I hear covered. Also It's a Sin is very on-brand for them and also a great version.
Now that shit is proper.
This comment brings to mind my favorite Jared Dines video, If bands sounded how they looked, featuring Ghost among many others. Always get a big kick out of it, especially if you’re familiar with how many of these bands actually sound vs. their look. It’s almost like an inverse relationship of nerdy look to extreme sound.
Mikael Åkerfeldt better be in there as some sort of hippie music.
Edit: sad :(
Haha that’s a great callout though! You’d never expect that voice out of that man.
Thanks for the reminder! Time to revisit some hooded chanting.
Edit: By the way if someone likes the darkish, chantish, melodic maybe a little less extreme metal maybe give Rotting Christ a try. They also fall into the category of not entirely living up to the extreme expectations of their band name.
I'm vaguely aware of the band, and I enjoyed this song/video a lot. But all I can hear is Weird Al doing metal, and that's not at all a bad thing. I kind of love it, in fact.
I have found this band to be very polarizing. It seems people only fall into "This is the most boring catchy riff with bland vocals I've ever heard" or "I LOVE THIS GIVE ME MORE." I don't really know anyone that is on the fence.
For full disclosure, I fall into that first category. And for some reason I always give the new stuff a listen and always come away with the same opinion. And honestly, I think this new vocalist a step back.
I can say I don't feel strongly about them one way or another. I enjoy Ghost, specifically I appreciate their awesome live performances (also how I came across them in the first place, and have been to 3 in total since). I also like them because of the whole "against the grain" act, as they are essentially a satanistic pop heavy metal. They don't really have any heavy songs other than maybe Mummy Dust? and that's okay with me because I don't listen to heavy metal much.
It's the same vocalist. If you saw some press release saying something like "Now headed by Papa Emeritus V!" or something, it's just a new live persona for the frontman, he changes personas with each new album.
Edit: oops, apparently I replied to the wrong comment.
There is no new vocalist, it's still Tobias Forge. After each album/tour cycle, he adopts a different stage persona as a new Satanic Pope.
I didn't know that! He sounds very different on this one.
I do appreciate the entire aesthetic they go for, the music just isn't for me.
Late-era Ghost is no match for their early discography, but I still like it "for what it is". They're a theatrical and gimmicky and over-the-top rock group and venturing more into the pop side than the rock side as time goes on. It's like an extremely polished but cheesy Blue Oyster Cult.
Even as someone into metal (some metalheads kinda give side-eye to Ghost because they sometimes get touted as metal when they really aren't) and someone that typically doesn't like over-the-top cheesy stuff (like some parts of power metal), Ghost just hits it the right way for me. For some reason they execute so well on the cheese that it works.
I'm pre-disposed to like Satanic / sacrilegious stuff though, whether it is serious or on-the-nose and campy, and that helps a lot and I like that I can enjoy those themes both when very serious and in extreme metal, or when campy and poppy. Of course there's also extreme metal that is Satanic cheese too (looking at you Behemoth and Deicide)
Also TIL that Forge has done both death metal and black metal in his past. Def recommend Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness. Solid Swedish death metal, and even as someone that likes Ghost, I much prefer Repugnant. What a gem! His black metal stuff is harder to find, save a single track from a demo I found online, and it's pretty solid too tbh
Started listening to it and I'm not even halfway into the first song of the album. That's classic Swedish death metal alright,, that hm-2 sound is unmistakable. Incredible stuff, thank you for the recommendation!
Sure thing! Yeah did a full album listen yesterday and honestly it might be one of the best albums from that era that I never knew about! While I love other Swedish DM too I really like how dark and evil Repugnant sounds, and I also like its thrashiness.
It's almost like you can even hear a hint of a "gothic" sound (or some kind of atmosphere that would inspire something like Ghost) but done in a measured way and with a level of sincerity that actually makes it feel genuine- there are parts with some interesting vocal choices that really give that feeling to me, like they took a sinister, thrashy Swedeath vibe and layered a bit of experimentation on. One of the tracks also has a weird effected vocal that reminds me of one of my fave songs of all time, Morbid Angel's Where The Slime Live, and I love that too
Epitome of Darkness is an essential listen
It's definitely Ghost lol, it's not bad and I even preordered the LP. But Ghost is past their peak - tell me that this new song is at the same level as their old bangers, it doesn't compare:
Spillways and Call Me Little Sunshine were on their most recent album which only came out in 2022! Hardly "old" bangers, although definitely bangers. I'll wait and hear the new album before writing them off just yet.
Haha, oops! My knowledge of their discography is all blurred together. But you're right of course, I shouldn't write off the whole album yet.