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Ghost rocker Tobias Forge offers view of the 'rock is dead' debate

Tobias Forge has added his voice to the age-old "rock is dead" debate.

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”

Papa V Perpetua sang Ozzy solo classic Bark At The Moon – but it could have been very different.

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"What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom

Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost

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"We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS

They were as infamous as they were influential, inspiring everyone from Venom to Ghost. This is how Death SS became a cult metal legend

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Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on

The performance came as Queen were awarded the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf

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"We build dreams." How Tobias Forge and Beyonce's lighting designer Tobias Rylander joined forces to make Ghost's spectacular Skeletour the greatest show on earth

Award-winning Light, Scenic and Conceptual designer Tobias Rylander reveals how Ghost's spectacular Skeletour came to life

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We've ranked every Ghost album from worst to best

From Papa's very first sermons on Opus Eponymous to the bombastic Skeletá, we rate every Ghost album so far

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“You have everyone from senior citizens to little kids who like heavy metal music. It's a very friendly community”: Scary? Moi? Ghost’s Tobias Forge reckons you've got metal all wrong

Heavy metal isn’t often perceived as being the most friendly musical genre, but the Ghost frontman disagrees

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Ghost may have banned phones from their 2025 tour, but you can see footage of their latest shows in the new music video for Peacefield

The song is taken from the Swedish devil church’s new album Skeletá

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"I hit a wall. I am not built to do that." Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life

After the weight of 15 years of carrying Ghost got too much, Tobias Forge needed something special to get his mojo back. He tells us how it happened

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge may have just revealed how Papa V Perpetua’s tenure will end: “There is nothing that is eternal, except maybe for the memory of someone”

Ghost’s mastermind drops some serious hints in a new interview

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Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money

Why not spend £50 on some Frater Imperator banknotes that have no cash value? We can think of a few reasons why not…

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Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield

Ghost have shared the latest single from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá

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After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever

Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá

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"Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection

Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones

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"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career

Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta

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“I’m drawn to melody and drama - AOR and yacht rock”: Tobias Forge says the new Ghost album combines smooth ’80s sounds with Black Sabbath-inspired lyrics

“That kind of music comes very naturally for me,” he says

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“Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá

Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”

The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years

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Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more

Celebrate the release of Ghost’s Skeletá with this stacked Metal Hammer package – available only through our webstore!

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!

Get your hands on a new Grucifix patch, a purple logo patch, and a special art print

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge says he’s “technically a solo artist”: “My job is a group effort”

To be fair, where’s the lie?

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"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality

And the moral of Tobias Forge's story is: Don't give up on your dreams

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"My reason for being there is the connection between myself and everybody that I brought with me." Tobias Forge on why Ghost's upcoming shows will be a phone-free zone

Tobias Forge explains why your mobile phone will be locked away during the upcoming Ghost tour

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“All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘We want to announce now, what do we say?’”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains why Papa V Perpetua was unveiled on the Black Sabbath farewell show poster

The world got its first look at Ghost’s ‘new’ frontman last week, but Papa V Perpetua was first named on February posters for Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning event

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