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GHOST
SKELETÁ
New Album Out April 25 via Loma Vista Recordings

First Single and Video “Satanized” Out Now

SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 Begins April 15

Special Bonus Episode of MORBID Featuring Exclusive Interview Out NOW!

“Satanized” Video credits:

Director: Amir Chamdin
Producer: Matilda Almeida
Satanized Monk: David Dencik
Director of Photography: Niklas Johansson
Costume Designer – Ghost: B Åkerlund
Costume Designer – Nuns, Monks & Priest: Selam Fessahaye
Hair & Make-up Designer – Nuns, Monks & Priest: Daniela Mengarelli
SFX: Göran Lundström
Set Designer: Fatima Ornette Lutti
Editor: Emil Klinta
Choreographer: Mona Namér
Production Coordinator: Mauro Ubeira
Production Coordinator, RSE: Taylor Bingley
Production Manager: Steven Page
Focus Puller: Jonas Björne
Clapper Loader: Siri Zetterqvist
Key Grip: Emil Hall,
Best boy Grips: Carl-August Savgård & Elvin Hall
DIT: Emil Klinta
Monitor Engineer: Matthew Kogle
Gaffer: Tobias Henriksson
Electrics: Sanna Karacsony, Stefan Wallman, Leo Nordlund
Prop Masters: Andrea Müller, Tristan Jeanneau
Set Decor: Jacob Mohlin & Independent Dekor AB
Wardrobe Supervisor: Ahsley McBride
Assistant Costume Design & Steamstress: Stacia Muse
Costume Assistant: Henrietta Frihammar
Perruquier: Anna Carin Lock
Hair & Make-up Assistants: Ingela Larsson, Rebecca Nilsson, Yenifer Rojas Sanchez
Production Assistant: Joel Enqvist
Smoke Supervisor: Calle Andersson
Grade: Oskar Larsson, Tint
Visual Effects Artist: Peter Törnestam
Backline Technician: Graeme May
Keyboard and Playback Technician: Cristian Zayas
Film Equipment: Ljud & Bildmedia
Studio: Independent Studios
Production Company: Amir Chamdin AB
Emblem Design: Zbigniew Bielak
Management: Kristen Mulderig, Rick Sales, Jen Jacobs Anderson for the RSE Group
Record Label: Loma Vista Recordings

 

GHOST has confirmed the release of its feverishly awaited new album: SKELETÁ, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons’ first full length offering of new material since 2022’s international #1 charting IMPERA, will manifest April 25 via Loma Vista Recordings.

SKELETÁ’s impending arrival is heralded by anthemic first single “Satanized,” and its unsettling new video featuring a first glimpse of GHOST’s newly anointed ringleader Papa V Perpetua—whose ascension was foreshadowed by the recent V is Coming! campaign, which culminated in the recent Sin City conclave that saw him crowned. “A demonic possession unlike any before” has never sounded so sweet as it does here — An avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, as the narrator succumbs to dark forces within and without, helplessly acknowledging their own blasphemy and heresy as it inexorably consumes them. By the time the song’s opening lines “There is something inside me and they don’t know if there is a cure” have moved from the inner monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it will already be too late: You will have been “Satanized.”

Today also marks the debut of The Satanizer, a first of its kind music video experience for fans who wish to be “Satanized.” Developed in partnership with Jason Zada (Elf Yourself), The Satanizer will morph its users into characters featured in the song’s melodramatic video. With a quick upload of their photo, The Satanizer will send out a personalized music video clip featuring the participant, who can in turn share via social media that they too have been “Satanized.”

Additionally, chart-topping podcast MORBID will dedicate a special bonus episode to GHOST this Friday, March 7, featuring an exclusive interview with Tobias Forge. Join Tobias and hosts Ash and Alaina for this one of a kind first deep dive into all things SKELETÁ, special guests and so much more.

The genesis of SKELETÁ is rooted in the wake of a world-spanning years-long touring campaign in support of IMPERA—a period that saw IMPERA top album charts  the world over and winning an American Music Award and an iHeart Radio Music Award, as well as the band earning its first RIAA-certified platinum single (“Mary on a Cross”) and presiding over the highest grossing hard rock cinema event in North American history (its feature film debut RITE HERE RITE NOW). As this sustained maelstrom ultimately wound down, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge’s next uncharted creative direction would prove to be an inward journey. This deeply introspective turn in Forge’s creative process would ultimately result in SKELETÁ:  a collection of 10 new songs originating from and cutting as close to the bone as (in)humanly possible.

GHOST’s sixth psalm, SKELETÁ, is its most unflinchingly introspective work to date. Where previous GHOST albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward facing subject matter—such as IMPERA’s meditations on the rise and fall of empires and its predecessor Prequelle’s evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues—SKELETA’s lyrics render the distinct individual emotional vistas of each of its 10 songs in one-on-one fashion, at times as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The end result is a singular collection of timeless, universal sentiments, all filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view.

SKELETÁ will be brought to life over the course of GHOST’s impending SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025. The most ambitious incarnation of the GHOST live ritual to date, SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 recently revealed a first wave of more than 55 dates—including a historic first-ever headlining show at New York’s hallowed Madison Square Garden—with more to be announced. With tickets already selling at a brisk pace, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 ritual experience promises to expand the GHOST community to attract its largest and most diverse audiences to date. From lifelong disciples to the curious uninitiated first-timers to the outcasts and others who find solace in the ritual, all are welcome to escape the travails of daily life and to become one with the phantasmagoric spectacle that moved THE LOS ANGELES TIMES to rave “As far as live acts go, they’re one of the best in the business” and THE WALL STREET JOURNAL to anoint the band as “the next generation of arena stars.”

As GHOST continues to strengthen its bond with the world-spanning legion of kindred souls that commune with the band and each other at its vaunted live rituals, it’s no exaggeration to describe GHOST — and the uniquely intense connection formed with the faithful who find refuge in the personae, lore and world Forge has created — as a singular global phenomenon

SKELETÁ is released April 25, 2025 via Loma Vista Recordings.

SKELETÁ Track List

1. Peacefield
2. Lachryma
3. Satanized
4. Guiding Lights
5. De Profundis Borealis
6. Cenotaph
7. Missilia Amori
8. Marks Of The Evil One
9. Umbra

GHOST SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 04/15/25 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena 04/16/25 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro 04/19/25 – London, UK – The O2 04/20/25 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena 04/22/25 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis 04/23/25 – Frankfurt, DE – Festhalle Frankfurt 04/24/25 – Munich, DE – Olympiahalle 04/26/25 – Lyon, FR – LDLC Arena 04/27/25 – Toulouse, FR – Zénith Toulouse Métropole 04/29/25 – Lisbon, PT – MEO Arena 04/30/25 – Madrid, ES – Palacio Vistalegre 05/03/25 – Zürich, CH – Hallenstadion Zürich 05/04/25 – Milan, IT – Unipol Forum 05/07/25 – Berlin, DE – Uber Arena 05/08/25 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome 05/10/25 – Lodz, PL – Atlas Arena 05/11/25 – Prague, CZ – O2 Arena 05/13/25 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena 05/14/25 – Oberhausen, DE – Rudolf Weber-ARENA 05/15/25 – Hannover, DE – ZAG Arena 05/17/25 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena 05/20/25 – Tampere, FI – Nokia Arena 05/22/25 – Linköping, SE – Saab Arena 05/23/25 – Sandviken, SE – Göransson Arena 05/24/25 – Oslo, NO – Oslo Spektrum 07/05/25 – Birmingham, UK – Back to the Beginning 07/09/25 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena 07/11/25 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena 07/12/25 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena 07/13/25 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center 07/15/25 – Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center 07/17/25 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena 07/18/25 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena 07/19/25 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center 07/21/25 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 07/22/25 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 07/24/25 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena 07/25/25 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center 07/26/25 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 07/28/25 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena 07/29/25 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum 07/30/25 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center 08/01/25 – Rosemont, IL – Allstate Arena 08/02/25 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center 08/03/25 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center 08/05/25 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center 08/07/25 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena 08/09/25 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena 08/10/25 – San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena 08/11/25 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center 08/14/25 – Austin, TX – Moody Center 08/15/25 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena 08/16/25 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center 09/24/25 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes 09/25/25 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes Online:  Website Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube TikTok

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