According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, GHOST's sold-out concert in Milwaukee Thursday night (May 31) was canceled after a fan collapsed. He died later in the night. The incident occurred just as the band had announced an intermission at the 2,500-capacity Riverside Theater around 9:15 p.m. After a man in the pit fell ...
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DEEP PURPLE's Ian Paice and Roger Glover will read the citation for METALLICA (pictured) when the San Francisco heavy metal giants are honored with the prestigious Polar Music Prize next month. The ceremony traditionally features Swedish artists performing the Laureates' music, and this year, members of GHOST and CANDLEMASS will play a METALLICA song at ...
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105.7 The Point's Donny Fandango recently conducted an interview with GHOST leader Tobias Forge. You can listen to the chat below. Speaking about how GHOST's current theater tour will compare to the band's upcoming performances at arenas, Forge said: "It's two different things. When you go into a theater, you're basically presenting everything through a ...
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Tobias Forge says he wanted his pre-GHOST death metal outfit REPUGNANT "to become a big band" similar to AMON AMARTH but laments their stalled progress because they were "unfashionable" and "unprofessional." Forge formed REPUGNANT in 1998 and performed under the name "Mary Goore", eventually releasing a few demos and an EP before recording their lone ...
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Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman has written the Japan heritage official theme song. The track, which can be heard below, was performed by Friedman and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, with strings arranged by Akira Sasaki, bass played by Kiyoshi, piano by Yukiko Takada, tsuzumi by Shonosuke Okura, and drums by Mitsuru Kurauchi. The track won't ...
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Alexiel Divine of The Offering Webzine conducted an interview with frontman Heri Joensen of Faroese folk metal band TÝR during a recent stop on their North American tour with ORPHANED LAND, GHOST SHIP OCTAVIUS and AETERNAM in support. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On ...
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Lizzy Borden was recently interviewed by Jack Antonio of "Do You Know Jack". The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On his new album, "My Midnight Things": Lizzy: "After I put out 'Deal With The Devil' and 'Appointment With Death', it was right around the collapse of ...
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GHOST leader and frontman Tobias Forge says that he hasn't "felt very anonymous for many years," this in spite of the great efforts he went through to conceal his true identity through various incarnations of his stage alter-ego Papa Emeritus. Forge has since "retired" Papa Emeritus and now performs as Cardinal Copia. Since GHOST arrived ...
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GHOST leader Tobias Forge says that his legal battle with several of the band's former members "needed to happen" in order for the group to move forward. Back in April 2017, Forge was sued by four ex-members of the Swedish act who accused Forge of cheating them out of their rightful share of the profits ...
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MOTIONLESS IN WHITE has released the official music video for the song "Voices", which is featured on the band's 2017 album "Graveyard Shift". Directed by Travis Shinn and Jeremy Danger (A PERFECT CIRCLE, MARILYN MANSON), the clip can be seen below. Having recently wrapped the North American leg of its headline "Graveyard Shift" tour, MOTIONLESS ...
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METALLICA's James Hetfield can be seen playing the GHOST song "Cirice" in a new video. The footage, which can be seen below, was filmed at METALLICA's headquarters in San Rafael, California and shows the guitarist/vocalist playing the opening riff from the track, which originally appeared on GHOST's 2015 album "Meliora". "Cirice" earned the Swedish-based band ...
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Due to unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances involving complications with the U.S. visa process, Swedish/British death metal supergroup BLOODBATH, which features in its ranks KATATONIA's Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström, along with OPETH's Martin Axenrot and PARADISE LOST's Nick Holmes, has been forced to postpone their previously announced North American tour dates. The band's excursion was ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of GHOST's May 20 concert at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. can be seen below. GHOST played the first official show of the "Rats! On The Road" U.S. tour on May 5 at Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California. In addition to the previously released new single "Rats", which opened the concert, ...
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Sean Stewart of Chattanooga, Tennessee FM radio station Rock 105 recently conducted an interview with GHOST founder and main songwriter Tobias Forge. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On "Rats", the lead single from the band's forthcoming "Prequelle" studio album: Tobias: "I ...
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Grammy Award-winning rock band GHOST today treated fans to an early listen of track "Dance Macabre" off its forthcoming fourth sacred psalm, "Prequelle". The song is available to stream in its entirety for a limited time exclusively via @thebandghost Instagram Stories. Watch Sister Imperator, Chris Jericho, Kirk Hammett, Charlie Benante, Mike Mckenna, Aleister Black, Jessica ...
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DEVILDRIVER's long-awaited full-length album of outlaw country-gone-metal anthems, "Outlaws 'Til The End", will be released on July 6 via Napalm Records. The disc is described in a press release as "both a startling curveball and a ferocious statement of individuality from a band who have been a constant and effective force in the heavy metal ...
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During a brand new interview with Meltdown of Detroit, Michigan's WRIF 101.1 FM radio station, GHOST leader Tobias Forge spoke about the keys to being a successful artist in the current musical climate. He said (hear audio below): "I think that there are numerous things. Of course, there's some of basic DNA in the idea ...
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Matt Bingham of the Z93 radio station in Saginaw, Michigan recently conducted an interview with GHOST founder and main songwriter Tobias Forge. You can now listen to the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether he feels GHOST can one day exist without any original members, like KISS leaders Paul ...
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MORBID ANGEL frontman Steve Tucker says that David Vincent's I AM MORBID project is "not creating anything new." Launched in December 2016, I AM MORBID plays material from MORBID ANGEL's "Altars Of Madness" (1989), "Blessed Are The Sick" (1991), "Covenant" (1993) and "Domination" (1995) albums — all records that Vincent originally sang on. Tucker, who ...
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THE PRETTY RECKLESS frontwoman Taylor Momsen has paid tribute to Chris Cornell, nearly one year after the SOUNDGARDEN singer's shocking death. Cornell was found hanged in a Detroit hotel room last May 18 after a SOUNDGARDEN concert earlier that night. Momsen, whose band THE PRETTY RECKLESS was the opening act for SOUNDGARDEN's spring 2017 run ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of GHOST's May 8 concert at Revention Music Center in Houston, Texas can be seen below. GHOST played the first official show of the "Rats! On The Road" U.S. tour on Saturday night (Saturday, May 5) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California. In addition to the previously released new single "Rats", ...
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GHOST's Tobias Forge is the featured guest on the on the exclusive 10-inch vinyl version of "House Of Doom", a brand new song from CANDLEMASS. The tune is the soundtrack of the game with the same name, which was co-designed by the legendary Swedish doom metal band. Forge can be heard on the nine-and-a-half-minute-long version ...
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During his first public "unmasked" interview, which took place at Los Angeles's Grammy Museum on May 1, GHOST frontman Tobias Forge discussed a wide range of topics. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On his writing process: Tobias: "In my head, it's always, like, big piles of stuff that you try to distribute ...
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During his first public "unmasked" interview, which took place at Los Angeles's Grammy Museum on May 1, GHOST frontman Tobias Forge discussed the series of events that inspired him to form the band and how the group's lyrics have become less "fictitious" over time. "The first record, when I wrote it, I felt very, very ...
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GHOST played the first official show of the "Rats! On The Road" U.S. tour last night (Saturday, May 5) at Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California. In addition to the previously released new single "Rats", which opened the concert, GHOST played four more songs from the upcoming "Prequelle" album during the set: "Faith", "Dance ...
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GHOST debuted two new songs from its upcoming album, "Prequelle", during the band's concert last night (Friday, May 4) at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California. In addition to the previously released single "Rats", which opened the show, GHOST played "Faith" and "Dance Macabre" during the 45-minute set, which served as the unofficial kick-off to ...
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MOTIONLESS IN WHITE has parted ways with longtime bassist Devin "Ghost" Sola. Filling in for him at the band's upcoming shows will be the group's former guitarist, TJ Bell. MOTIONLESS IN WHITE said in a statement: "It has been a pleasure to have spent the past seven years on the road around the world with ...
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During his first public "unmasked" interview, which took place at Los Angeles' Grammy Museum on May 1, GHOST frontman Tobias Forge discussed his original vision for the group and how it evolved over time. "Originally, the idea was to have, technically, a band, but playing a show that would be closer to a musical or ...
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German gothic death pioneers ATROCITY will release their new album, "Okkult II", on July 6 via Massacre Records. The production was once again handled by ATROCITY mainman Alex Krull (Mastersound Studio), who made sure that the songs are as heavy as possible, while the atmosphere and energy of the songs let the listener immediately dive ...
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During his first public "unmasked" interview, which took place at Los Angeles's Grammy Museum on May 1, GHOST frontman Tobias Forge described how he assembles material for the group's albums. "I've always tried to write songs that we don't have," Forge explained. "This is the thing that at points inspires me to write, but it's ...
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