TOBIAS FORGE On GHOST’s Plans For 2023: ‘There’s Going To Be A Change. Good Change’

In a new interview with Metal Hammer magazine, GHOST leader Tobias Forge spoke about the band’s plans for the coming months. He said: “We’re doing a lot of touring again. On previous album cycles we’ve done four legs in America and two or three in Europe and repeated.

“We’re going to go into every territory next year, but there’s going to be one European tour, one American tour,” he continued. “We are going to do a little bit of everywhere. There’ll be a little bit of something up in upper Asia, on the far end there – a very well-established country with a lot of pop cultural fascination, and the home of videogames. And there’s going to be something in the Oceania world, and there might be something south of Panama, and there might be something slightly north of Panama. It feels pretty solid.”

Forge‘s latest comments come less than two months after he told Rolling Stone‘s Twitch channel that “there are a lot of things in my head that I feel like I wanna explore writing” on GHOST‘s upcoming follow-up to 2022’s “Impera” album.

Last November, GHOST won its first-ever American Music Award in the newly debuted “Favorite Rock Album” category. The critically acclaimed, chart-topping “Impera” edged out formidable competition from COLDPLAY, IMAGINE DRAGONS, Machine Gun Kelly and the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS to win the vote.

Featuring the Rock Radio No. 1s “Call Me Little Sunshine” — recently nominated for a “Best Metal Performance” Grammy — and “Hunter’s Moon” (the end credits song from 2021’s No. 1 R-rated film “Halloween Kills”) as well as the currently climbing “Spillways”, “Impera” was released March 11, 2022 via Loma Vista Recordings. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “an escapist rock and roll album,” “Impera” “conquered rock, metal and the charts” (as reported by the Los Angeles Times),debuting at No. 1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, and entering the Billboard 200 at No. 2. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace, “Impera” sets the most current and topical GHOST subject matter to date against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop, resulting in a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially GHOST. “Impera”‘s release was supported by the “euphoric spectacle” (Rolling Stone) of the 70-plus-date “Imperatour” arena tour, during which the Wall Street Journal christened GHOST “the next generation of arena stars.”

“Impera” landed at position No. 1 in Germany and Sweden, No. 2 in the U.K., Netherlands, Belgium and Norway, No. 3 in Australia, No. 5 in France and Ireland, and No. 20 in Italy.

Six of GHOST‘s albums have charted on the Billboard 200: “Infestissumam” (No. 28, 2013); “If You Have Ghost” EP (No. 87, 2013); “Meliora” (No. 8, 2015); “Popestar” EP (No. 16, 2016); “Prequelle” (No. 3, 2018); and “Impera” (No. 2, 2022). Nine GHOST songs have charted on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, with five reaching No. 1: “Square Hammer” in 2017; “Rats” in 2018; “Dance Macabre” in 2019; and “Hunter’s Moon” and “Call Me Little Sunshine” in 2022.

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