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Swedish heavy rock band GHOST returns to the US for "13 Dates of Doom"
GHOST is pleased to announce their return to the States for their "13 Dates of Doom" tour featuring direct support from Toronto, Ontario witch rockers Blood Ceremony with Austin TX death rockers Ancient VVisdom opening the tour. The "13 Dates of Doom" tour marks the Ghouls' first return to the States since their now infamous stops at Maryland Death Fest and The Studio at Webster Hall in NYC after some last minute complications with the Ghouls' visas prevented the band from performing on the recent Enslaved tour.
The Ghoul with No Name comments "It is with an evil haunting chuckle that we are announcing that we are finally coming to North America. In the name of Satan, we will conduct thirteen rituals in thirteen different cities throughout the United States and Canada and now we are summoning all of our devotees to partake in these blasphemous eves of black magic."
GHOST cult leader "The Ghoul with No Name" and his anonymous ghouls will be touring in support of the band's debut album Opus Eponymous, which has been called "must have stuff" by Blistering adding that "Ritual is one of the best classic metal songs in recent memory," while Alarm Press calls out the album as "wildly catchy and full of melodic twists." Read below to see what else press has had to say about GHOST's debut full-length Opus Eponymous.
Go HERE to check out the band performing the song "Satan Prayer" as part of its May 29 headlining set at the 2011 Maryland Deathfest shot by Rev Aaron of ReturnToThePit.com.
GHOST "13 Dates of Doom" Tour featuring Blood Ceremony & Ancient VVisdom
Wed/Jan-18 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Thu/Jan-19 Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
Fri/Jan-20 Boston, MA Middle East Downstairs
Sat/Jan-21 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
Sun/Jan-22 Toronto, ON The Mod Club
Tue/Jan-24 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
Wed/Jan-25 Minneapolis, MN Station Four
Fri/Jan-27 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre
Sat/Jan-28 Salt Lake City, UT The Vertigo
Mon/Jan-30 Seattle, WA El Corazon
Tue/Jan-31 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
Wed/Feb-01 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
Thu/Feb-02 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
In addition to "The Ghoul with No Name," GHOST is: Guitar - ???, Bass - ???, Drums - ???, Keyboards - ???, Chants - ???.
"the semi-anonymous Swedes compel on pretty much every sensory level…it's only when half the room sings along to set-closer 'Ritual' that you realize just how shockingly universal their appeal is." Decibel Magazine
"I'm in their fan club. [Laughs] I had no idea what they looked like until I saw the video. I heard the music first and I thought it was very great — very unique, very melodic and a breath of fresh air for metal. It reminded me a bit of '70s kind of rock that I liked as well. So yeah, I love the band." James Hetfield, Metallica
"the best new live act in the underground scene. Not only was the band super tight and the tunes rock-solid, the Nameless Ghoul proved to be a natural frontman; he has more charisma and swagger than anyone out there!" GuitarWorld.com
"All fans of true cult heavy metal should go apeshit over this. Sometimes you just have to admit that the devil has the best tunes." Verbicide
"A roaring debut that gives psychedelic rock a kick in the pants with a heavy sound and lyrics that will piss off the ultra-religious." About.com
"GHOST is Swedish, heavy, and tasked with slicing your soul to bits--or at least your ears." Village Voice
"Pros
• Catchy melodies supported by harmonious guitars and a vocalist with fantastic range.
• Band's love of psychedelic rock comes through in each note played.
• Crisp production highlights the skills of each musician.
Cons
• None" About.com
"There isn't a weak song to be found. Every muscular riff, delicate yet charismatic vocal line, and guitar solo is absolutely pristine. Most importantly, GHOST captures the spirit and quality of classic metal" Apeshit.org
"wow, is this one a monster…This is one of those rare albums that reminds you why you listen to rock and metal in the first place…undeniable, infectious charm" TheMetalRegister.com
"If spiritual leanings aren't an issue for you, you'll find Opus Eponymous a primer on the creation of melodic hard rock." BigTakeover.com
"Opus Anonymous is a potent cocktail of early metal like Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, '60s psychedelic atmosphere reminiscent of Pink Floyd, with riffs and melodies clearly inspired by devil-rockers like Mercyful Fate." Fearnet.com
"Opus Eponymous has spread through the music world like a zombie plague, its catchy songwriting infecting the hearts of hard rock and pop fans almost as often as legitimate metalheads." The Washington Times
"Now I've usually got a pretty low threshold for shtick, but dammit, GHOST's debut Opus Anonymous totally gets it right. Combining NWOBM sensibilities with psychedelia and stoner riffs, GHOST has the musical chops to back up the theatrics." Metal-Rules.com
"Opus Eponymous is an extraordinary debut that slowly peels back surprise after surprise as you delve into its 35 minutes of music. Sure, the style is old-school, but it's musically very rich, often more subtle than riff-oriented, and as closing instrumental Genesis proves, capable of moments of disarming beauty." PopMatters.com
"Probably the top true metal effort of 2010. Invoking the musty atmosphere of Angel Witch, Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar, Witchfynde and early Mercyful Fate, this is an arcane occult feast". Metal Hammer (9/10 points)
http://ghost-official.com/
http://www.facebook.com/thebandghost
GHOST forced to miss US tour with Enslaved
Due to some last minute complications with the Ghouls’ visas, Swedish heavy rock band GHOST will not be able perform on the upcoming tour with Enslaved and Alcest.
GHOST will do their best to make it back to the states to perform a full US tour as soon as they can.
A statement from the band can be found at http://ghost-official.com/ & http://www.facebook.com/thebandghost
SWEDISH METAL BAND GHOST ANNOUNCES AUTUMN NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
RED HOT QUINTET WOWS AUDIENCES WITH DEBUT U.S. LIVE PERFORMANCES
Mysterious Swedish buzz band GHOST has announced that it will embark on its first ever North American tour this fall following the group's crowd-pleasing U.S. live promotional performances last week in Baltimore at the Maryland Deathfest and NYC. GHOST cult leader "The Ghoul with No Name" (who takes the stage in the form of "a satanic pope") and his anonymous ghouls will team up with Enslaved and Alcest for a three week trek that will launch on September 23 in Springfield, VA. GHOST will be touring in support of its debut album Opus Eponymous, which has been called "amazing" by Stereogum and "a primer on the creation of melodic hard rock" by The Big Takeover.
GHOST floored music fans with its first U.S. shows and served notice that it is not only a "band to watch" but will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come. In its live review of GHOST's NYC headlining show, the Village Voice called the group's performance "lurching and menacing", saying "Ghost's sound is like heavy metal trapped in a state of suspended animation since 1973". A sneak peek at GHOST performing live can be viewed now as the band was captured on film by recent attendees of the band's black mass. Check out the band performing the song "Satan Prayer" as part of its May 29 headlining set at the 2011 Maryland Deathfest at this location.
GHOST's Opus Eponymous is a daringly fascinating combination of satanic rock music merged with an almost unthinkable pop sensibility. Enveloped in a shroud of mystery and standing anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes which their sect demand, the GHOST deliver litanies of pulsating heavy rock and stimulating lyrics which "glorify and glamorize the disgusting and sacrilegious". The music and philosophies of GHOST specifically target "individuals who have a void in their life perhaps caused by some form of emotional trauma or upset" (research suggests these are most likely adolescents); this dearth can then be alluringly filled by GHOST's music and philosophies.
Enslaved, GHOST, Alcest
09/23 Springfield, VA Jaxx
09/24 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's Theatre
09/25 New York, NY Gramercy Theatre
09/26 Boston, MA Middle East (downstairs)
09/28 Quebec City, QC Imperial de Quebec
09/29 Montreal, QC Café Campus
09/30 Toronto, ON Opera House
10/01 Columbus, OH Outland Live
10/02 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge
10/03 St. Paul, MN Station 4
10/05 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Centre
10/06 Regina, SK The Exchange
10/07 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room
10/08 Calgary, AB Dickens Pub
10/ 10 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
10/ 11 Seattle, WA El Corazon
10/ 12 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
10/ 13 San Francisco, CA Slim's
10/ 14 Hollywood, CA The Troubadour
As part of its June 2011 cover story on the band ("Haunting the Chapel"), Decibel, explained to readers just why "it's so easy to identify why the Underground's gaga" for the anonymous retro-metallers. To read more, pick up the issue which is available for purchase at this location.
In addition to "The Ghoul with No Name", GHOST is: Guitar - ???, Bass - ???, Drums - ???, Keyboards - ???, Chants - ???.
Updated GHOST news and information will be made available via the band's online domain: www.ghost-official.com
"Sweden's GHOST have built up an impressive underground buzz during the last six months…an arcane occult feast" – DECIBEL
"'Opus Eponymous' is an extraordinary debut…Some bands might like to act "scary" by wearing filthy outfits, sporting corpsepaint, performing alongside impaled sheep's' heads, and splashing buckets of real blood on their fans, but just like how 'Rosemary's Baby' is so much more frightening than 'Saw', GHOST's comparatively understated method proves to be far more effective, not to mention creepy as hell." – POPMATTERS
"On its 2010 full-length, 'Opus Eponymous' (newly reissued by Metal Blade), Ghost threw the metal community a righteous curveball, combining the creepy theatricality of black metal—evil-clergy outfits, band members known collectively as a Group of Nameless Ghouls—with crisp, hook-crammed rock & roll. The Swedish band's output serves as a timely reminder that metal needn't be raw and chaotic in order to evoke a dark mood." – TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Stockholm's GHOST is a secretive group currently making waves across the heavy metal community. In one fell swoop, they've disinterred the genre's original form and given it a ghoulish update without sacrificing the reek of retro status. Their 2010 (and only) full-length "Opus Eponymous" has spread through the music world like a zombie plague, its catchy songwriting infecting the hearts of hard rock and pop fans almost as often as legitimate metalheads. "Opus Eponymous" resurrects the spirit of heavy metal's earliest incarnation, breathing into it devilish new life." – THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"All fans of true cult heavy metal should go apeshit over this. Sometimes you just have to admit that the devil has the best tunes." - VERBICIDE
Swedish metal act Ghost adorns the cover of Decibel Magazine
"METAL's MOST MYSTERIOUS NEW BAND" WILDLY SUCCEEDS IN "COMMUNICATING PURE EVIL VIA ENTERTAINMENT"
Bizarre Swedish metal band GHOST, who recently released its debut album Opus Eponymous in North America via Rise Above Records / Metal Blade, are the cover stars of the June, 2011 issue of Decibel, which is on newsstands now. The cover feature - "Haunting the Chapel" - explains just why "it's so easy to identify why the Underground's gaga" for the anonymous retro-metallers whose modus operandi is directly stated as "tricking mankind into believing the end is ultimately a good thing via the ever so popular rock music medium." To read more about the glorious ghouls, pick up the new issue of Decibel today; available for purchase at this location.
GHOST's Opus Eponymous is a daringly fascinating combination of satanic rock music merged with an almost unthinkable pop sensibility; this is metal at its most original and deceiving apex. Musically rich and teeming with an undeniably authentic classic metal aura (described "as if the last three decades of heavy metal history never existed"), Opus Eponymous baits andensnares with its undeniable accessibility while "majestically weaving a melodic spell of evil through the senses until listeners become utterly possessed and open to any diabolical suggestion".
Enveloped in a shroud of mystery and standing anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes which their sect demand, the six nameless ghouls of GHOST deliver litanies of pulsating heavy rock and stimulating lyrics which "glorify and glamorize the disgusting and sacrilegious". The music and philosophies of GHOST specifically target "individuals who have a void in their life perhaps caused by some form of emotional trauma or upset" (research suggests these are most likely adolescents); this dearth can then be alluringly filled by GHOST's music and philosophies, "so that in time the easily manipulated will come to share the views and goals of the Coven's ministry and can prepare their own plans for the downfall of humanity."
"Our mission is not as much about conversion as it is about underlining which path you all have chosen to go, and where it will ultimately lead you," declared GHOST cult leader "THE GHOUL WITH NO NAME" in a rare communiqué. "We are the file playing back in your digital earpiece while you are carelessly approaching the end."
GHOST's Opus Eponymous
Last month, GHOST delighted an unsuspecting crowd of new devotees with a phantasmal performance at the 2011 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. The incorporeal beings were captured by a lucky attendee who - by posting the footage online - spreads the sect's sacrilegious scripture to new and nescient minds across the globe. Stop what you're doing and witness GHOST as they administer the ghastly grooves of "Prime Mover", "Genesis" and "Ritual" at this location. An audio sampling of the sextet's suggestive strain is also available for ingestion immediately as "Ritual" streams online courtesy of Stereogum. Check out the unsettling, "chirpiest song about human sacrifice" ever put to tape today at this location.
GHOST is: Vocals - THE GHOUL WITH NO NAME, Guitar - ???, Bass - ???, Drums - ???, Keyboards - ???, Chants - ???.
Updated GHOST news and information will be made available via the band's online domain: www.myspace.com/thebandghost and on Facebook.
GHOST
05/29 Baltimore, MD Sonar Maryland Death Fest
06/01 New York, NY The Studio At Webster Hall w/ Sabbath Assembly, Natur
"Sweden's GHOST have built up an impressive underground buzz during the last six months…like Roger Corman, Dennis Wheatley, 'Rosemary's Baby' and King Diamond, the underlying silliness is all part of the fun." - DECIBEL
"'Opus Eponymous' is an extraordinary debut…not to mention creepy as hell." - POPMATTERS
"Though the line between self-awareness, irony, and authenticity makes for an interesting discussion, Ghost's music stands on its own…gloriously catchy" – ALARM
"Stockholm's Ghost is a secretive group currently making waves across the heavy metal community. In one fell swoop, they've disinterred the genre's original form and given it a ghoulish update without sacrificing the reek of retro status." - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Ghost see potential converts in people tapping their toes to catchy ditties about human sacrifice…positively quaint" - INVISIBLE ORANGES
"When they lay into a vocal harmony or chorus they sound like an evil Cheap Trick merged with early Merciful Fate. Sometimes you just have to admit that the devil has the best tunes." - VERBICIDE
IN SOLITUDE and GHOST confirm Maryland Death Fest as their first ever North American appearances!
HAIL OF BULLETS, REPUGNANT, ORANGE GOBLIN also confirmed
Swedish metal acts In Solitude and Ghost will finally be making their debut appearances on North American soil at Maryland Death Fest IX. The fest dates this year are May 26-29 at Club Sonar in Baltimore, MD. Both bands have exploded onto the underground metal scene and are among many peers in the category of "must-see" bands at this year's fest. To buy tickets, check out the full lineup and for more info, head to http://www.marylanddeathfest.com/.
In Solitude's Metal Blade Records debut album, The World.The Flesh.The Devil, will be released on May 24th, 2011, just in time for the festival. The first single from the album, Serpents Are Rising, can be heard now on metalblade.com/insolitude and downloaded for FREE exclusively on amazon.com. The second single, To Her Darkness, is now streaming on metalunderground.com. In Solitude has spent the last few years touring throughout Europe and playing various festivals (Keep It True, Up the Hammers, Pounding Metal, Metal Magic and Hell’s Pleasures) and since their inception in 2002, they've gained hordes of devoted followers across the continent. The band and Metal Blade are eager to bring their show to North America audiences. Read their full bio HERE.
In Solitude just launched a new track entitled To Her Darkness on MetalUnderground.com HERE.
Ghost is the name of an anonymous devil worshipping ministry, that in order to spread its unholy gospels and, furthermore, trick mankind into believing the end is ultimately a good thing, have decided to use the ever so popular rock music medium as a way to achieve their ends. Opus Eponymous, Ghost's debut album, has won over fans and critics worldwide with its mix of classic rock and metal and blaspheming lyrical content. Ghost is also featured on the cover of the June 2011 issue of Decibel Magazine, which features an in depth interview with The Nameless Ghoul, the vocalist of the anonymous group of musicians that make up Ghost. Read Ghost's full bio HERE and listen to music on metalblade.com/ghost.
http://www.marylanddeathfest.com
>http://www.metalblade.com/insolitude
>http://www.metalblade.com/ghost
Extraordinary Swedish Black Metal Band GHOST To Release Debut Album "Opus Eponymous" On January 18th, 2011
DISARMING "DEVIL WORSHIPPING MINISTRY" AIMS TO "COMMUNICATE A MESSAGE OF PURE EVIL VIA ENTERTAINMENT"
Bizarre Swedish black metal buzz band GHOST will dispense its debut directive Opus Eponymous in North America on January 18, 2011 via Metal Blade Records/Rise Above Records. The release of the album will assist the abhorrent agents in spreading their "unholy gospel" and "tricking mankind into believing the end is ultimately a good thing via the ever so popular rock music medium."
GHOST's Opus Eponymous is a daringly fascinating combination of satanic rock music merged with an almost unthinkable pop sensibility; this is Black Metal at its most original and deceiving apex. Musically rich and teeming with an undeniably authentic classic metal aura (described "as if the last three decades of heavy metal history never existed"), Opus Eponymous baits and ensnares with its undeniable accessibility while "majestically weaving a melodic spell of evil through the senses until listeners become utterly possessed and open to any diabolical suggestion".
Enveloped in a shroud of mystery and standing anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes which their sect demand, the six nameless ghouls of GHOST deliver litanies of pulsating heavy rock and stimulating lyrics which "glorify and glamorize the disgusting and sacrilegious". The music and philosophies of GHOST specifically target "individuals who have a void in their life perhaps caused by some form of emotional trauma or upset" (research suggests these are most likely adolescents); this dearth can then be alluringly filled by GHOST's music and philosophies, "so that in time the easily manipulated will come to share the views and goals of the Coven's ministry and can prepare their own plans for the downfall of humanity."
A sampling of the sextet's suggestive strain is available for ingestion immediately as Stereogum premieres the shadowy GHOST song "Ritual". Check out the unsettling, "chirpiest song about human sacrifice" ever put to tape today at this location.
"Our mission is not as much about conversion as it is about underlining which path you all have chosen to go, and where it will ultimately lead you," declared GHOST in a rare communiqué. "We are the file playing back in your digital earpiece while you are carelessly approaching the end."
The track listing for GHOST's Opus Eponymous is as follows:
1.) Deus Culpa
2.) Con Clavi Con Dio
3.) Ritual
4.) Elizabeth
5.) Stand by Him
6.) Satan Prayer
7.) Death Knell
8.) Prime Mover
9.) Genesis
GHOST is: Vocals - ???, Guitar - ???, Bass - ???, Drums - ???, Keyboards - ???, Chants - ???.
www.myspace.com/thebandghost
"Sweden's GHOST have built up an impressive underground buzz during the last six months…an arcane occult feast" – DECIBEL
"'Opus Eponymous' is an extraordinary debut…Some bands might like to act "scary" by wearing filthy outfits, sporting corpsepaint, performing alongside impaled sheep's' heads, and splashing buckets of real blood on their fans, but just like how 'Rosemary's Baby' is so much more frightening than 'Saw', GHOST's comparatively understated method proves to be far more effective, not to mention creepy as hell."" – POPMATTERS
"GHOST give us very well-done vintage NWOBHM / Satanic '70s metal with immediate, amazing hooks… awesome" - STEREOGUM
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