Ghost - Popestar

[Guix]

http://blog.siriusxm.com/2016/09/12/gho ... on-octane/

[olivier64]

Bon morceau, très BLUE OYSTER CULT (comme pas mal de leurs autres morceaux d'ailleurs).

[Mordor]

Le Ep va s'appeler "Popestar"

[Mordor]

Sortie ce vendredi, en édition cd digipack, vinyl et édition double cd avec Méloria

[Mordor]

voici les titres. Il n'a pas l'air d'avoir de reprises.

1.Square Hammer
2.Nocturnal Me
3.I Believe
4.Missionary Man
5.Bible

[Mc Brain]

Missionary man, peut être une reprise d'Eurythmics?

[Mordor]

Oui, tu as raison


1. Square Hammer
2. Nocturnal Me (Echo & the Bunnymen cover)
3. I Believe (Simian Mobile Disco cover)
4. Missionary Man (Eurythmics cover)
5. Bible (Imperiet cover)

[Mr. Sandman]

Très bon ce nouveau titre, doté d'un chouette clip :

[Everflow]

Le groupe a une nouvelle bassiste :

Swedish occult rockers GHOST are believed to have enlisted Megan Thomas from the New York-based all-female LED ZEPPELIN tribute band LEZ ZEPPELIN to play bass on their "Popestar" North American tour, which kicked off September 16 at Main Street Armory in Rochester, New York. As with all the members of the band, the new member's identity has not been divulged and she is just one of the five Nameless Ghouls behind singer Papa Emeritus.

A fan-posted photo from a recent GHOST signing reveals the new member has a distinctive "X" tattoo on her right middle finger. It appears to be a match for Megan's tattoo, as seen in the picture below. Megan has also been photographed sporting what appears to be the same ruby ring on her left index finger that is worn by GHOST's new bassist.

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[Everflow]

Nouveau clip, qui est plus de la promo que de la musique :





et une interview sur le prochain album :

One of the Nameless Ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST was interviewed on the October 31 edition of "Whiplash", the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie. You can now listen to the chat using the widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On the lyrical and musical themes that will be covered on GHOST's upcoming follow-up to 2015's "Meliora" album, tentatively due in the fall of 2017:

"Let's just say that it's a continuation of 'Meliora', but it's sort of a response, where… I've used the word 'pre-acopalyptic' on 'Meliora'. It's sort of the height of civilization; it's symbolism for… Just look at the cover. It's, like, skyrisers and everything; you don't even see the ground. It's all covered and built material. And, obviously, there has to an end to that. So there will be a call and response. And the next album will be the response to that. So if there was an absence of a God, there might be a return of a deity, which usually comes in horrible form. So it will be a darker album."

On whether he has had a vision of where he wanted each album to go from the beginning or if he is doing it as he goes along:

"Both. A little of both. I mean, in the beginning, it was a little shooting from the hip. I mean, just making the songs for the first album was… I had no idea where it was going, but then, as it materialized from nothing to something in the sense that all of a sudden we were a touring band and, 'Wow, this is a job, apparently,' then obviously you quickly need to reassess. And I think that there were… Even though I'm still proud of the first album, I guess there were a few things on there that had I known beforehand, lyrically, some of the things that were said in there, was gonna be resulting in material that you were gonna play potentially for the rest of your life, it might have looked different. But that's why I'm glad that we never knew. The album came out of a purity and naïveté that, obviously, you cannot fake. But then 'Infestissumam' was starting to shape up your writing a little. And with 'Meliora', it was definitely more of a… There was a point. There was way more… This is basically what I wanna describe, or the mindset I wanna have people put in."

On the evolution of GHOST's sound:

"Being the main songwriter, I tend to wanna write songs that will complete our live show. So it's almost like a double perspective, where on one hand you have to write a record, an album, or a collection of songs, downloadable and in a certain order, that will be compelling and tell sort of a story. But 'Square Hammer' [from the latest EP, 'Popestar'] is definitely an example of, I guess, myself and us as a band, you pick up on the vibes needing a straighter song, basically. Ever since we started touring six years ago, we've always opened up with the opening track of the album. And every album has started with this weird, [sped-up] waltz prog number, which is great. It's fun, it's cool, but you wanna run to the hills in there as well. And that's why I guess when the embryo of 'Square Hammer' came up, which was just that [opening] riff. And that's how it started; I basically hummed that into my phone. I think I still have the file somewhere."

On GHOST members staying anonymous:

"I don't think it's funny at all; it's just a nuisance. From a practical point of view, of course it would be more convenient to just be a normal band and you can just put a fly on the wall, as they say, and just let it happen and just be yourself. Everything nowadays is about content. Content means online chatter about clips, news, a picture — anything that creates 'likes' and comments. If we were a so-called 'normal' band, we can just create twenty posts a day, just filming what we just ate and how it looked when it came out and 'We're here now,' and 'We're doing this,' and all of this sort of unnerving hysteric things that most people do. From a personal point of view, I'm very happy that we're not — or at least I am not personally — doing that. I have no Facebook, I don't have Twitter, I don't have Instagram. I have an old Hotmail address. I managed to sort of dodge the whole social-media thing, which I'm happy that I'm not… Obviously I live in a world where that surrounds me, so I know what's going on, but I don't follow it."

On social media:

"I think that there's definitely a backside to the world of social media. I think some people that didn't have a social life before probably might have had magical things happening to their lives, which I fully bless and condone. Absolutely, if you were a sad person before and now you have a social scene, absolutely fantastic. Information to the people — right, great, fantastic. But I know so many people that are so unhappy because of it. It ruins a lot of things. So for the majority of the people that used to have a somewhat working life situation in the past, I don't think we know yet the downside of this. We think of conveniences as something that helps us, but the more conveniences that we allow for in our lives, the less purpose we have as persons. You know, Uber is great, but Uber will suck if Google is gonna make self-running cars with Uber in it. And that's just one example of how we dive headfirst into conveniences that end up biting us in the ass."

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[Balin]

DRAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Simon Soderberg, also known as Alpha, the former guitarist of Ghost, has revealed the identities of all the Nameless Ghouls that are suing frontman Tobias Forge, while also opening up on the whole situation with the following Facebook statement (via Reddit):

"As of yesterday we, four signatories from the band Ghost, have filed a lawsuit with the Linkoping District Court. We are suing Tobias Forge ('Papa Emeritus') - the band's lead singer who has also been responsible for the finances of the band since its founding.

"As of the filing of this lawsuit we are requesting that the court, under penalty, oblige Tobias Forge to declare the incomes as well as expenses of the band concerning the years between 2011 and 2016.

The Ghost Case: This Is How Many Ghost Songs Were Written By Tobias Forge, aka Papa Emeritus

"Throughout all the years we have been on tour with Ghost (between 2011-2016 some of us have performed something like 500 shows with the band) and throughout the band's album recordings, we have neither been allowed to share in the profits of the band, nor have we seen any of the incomes accounted for.

"The only thing we have received have been minimal advance payments to allow the band to keep going. This despite the fact that we had an agreement that any profits should be shared fairly between the members of the band.

"When we have attempted to raise the issue of the band's finances with Tobias Forge, his sole response has been that there are so far no profits to be shared, but that everyone will be generously compensated once the band turns a profit.

"The reason that this lawsuit is now being filed is a contract dispute that has escalated during the previous year (2016). Over the last year we have received multiple proposed contracts from Tobias Forge in which he seeks to redefine his rôle in the band.

"Since the conception of Ghost, our common understanding and agreement has been that we are a band on equal terms, but that Tobias will act as band leader and manage the band's finances through his own companies.

"Through contracts received from Tobias and his lawyers during 2016, Tobias has attempted to make us sign an agreement that implies we are merely consultants working for his company, an agreement also stating that we would receive less that a minimal wage for our contributions to the band.

"According to this proposal, furthermore we would renounce any and all rights to music royalties. All above despite the fact that some of us have been members of the band since its foundation, investing all of our time in the band during the past five years, with as much right to the recordings and trademark of the band Ghost as that of Tobias Forge.

"Our vocalist and former friend is now attempting to, in a underhand and shameless way, transform Ghost from a band into a solo project with hired musicians. Naturally this is not something we can accept. When we, in connection with the 2016 United States tour, approached a lawyer in order to sort out the situation of the contracts, we were informed that Tobias Forge no longer wanted us to participate in upcoming tours.

"Thus, Tobias Forge is now going ahead with the tour, which started March 24, 2017 and is set to end in the UK on August 12, on his own together with rented musicians who have replaced all other band members.

"Tobias Forge has chosen this path of action without any permission from us to carry out the tour on his own. This under the name Ghost, which we regard as our commonly owned trademark.

The musician concluded: "The actions of Tobias Forge amount to nothing less than unabashed dishonesty, greed, and darkness. Not the darkness of which Ghost sings, but a darkness that pushes a person to betray his best friends when fame and fortune appear within reach. We are terribly sorry that this afflicts the fans of the band as well, and that they too should suffer because of this betrayal and greed. <3

"We who are suing Tobias Forge are:

"Simon Söderberg (Alpha) - member of Ghost since 2010.
Mauro Rubino (Air) - member of Ghost since 2011.
Henrik Palm (Eather) - member of Ghost since 2015
Martin Hjertstedt (Earth) - member of Ghost since 2014
The Nameless Ghouls"

[the fab]

C'est décevant . Bon on ne pouvait pas s'attacher visuellement aux musiciens mais j'aime pas l'idée de musicos qui changent tous les 4 matins.

[over'phil]

GHOST ,j'ai jamais accrocher a ce groupe

[Stéphane]

J'ai la flemme de rechercher l'interview de Papa Emeritus que j'ai lu tout à l'heure
Il date juste d'avant les news ci-dessus, mais il explique clairement que Ghost c'est lui les autres n'ont toujours été que de passage et que c'est lui qui compose tout et qu'il dit aux autres comment jouer.
Bon après, vrai ou pas ... on verra ce que donne le prochaine album (2018)

[over'phil]

ghost, c'est la même chose que running wild, annihilator, iced earth le projet d'un mec au line up qui sera jamais stabilisé

[mike-polar]

C'est décevant . Bon on ne pouvait pas s'attacher visuellement aux musiciens mais j'aime pas l'idée de musicos qui changent tous les 4 matins.

En même temps, c'etait presque previsible. Papa etant le seul membre du groupe vraiment "indispensable", il peut se permettre de traiter ses musiciens comme des employes. S'ils commencent a raler pour des questions de pognons, royalties etc... il leur montre la porte, il y aura toujours des musiciens qui seront content de prendre leur place.

[NicoGan]

Si d'un point de vue contractuel ils se sentent lésés c'est normal qu'ils réagissent

Bref ... ça va finir avec un groupe qui va s'appeler Ghost2K18 et un autre qui s'appellera Fantôm et tout le monde sera content

[Dark Schneider]

Le coup classique du groupe qui commence à générer pas mal d'argent du coup on râle sur les contrats et tout... Faut pas se leurer, ce qui fait l'identité du groupe c'est Tobias Forge, les gratteux n'ont pas une patte extraordinaire : ils sont parfaitement remplaçables et on y verra que du feu.

[Polochon]

Sur "TébéSud", il y a présentement un live de Ghost.
Chaine totalement inconnue au bataillon, canal 928 chez Free, vu totalement par hasard sur l'écran "en ce moment sur vos chaines" de Free... pour l'instant ça confirme que je n'ai aucun atome crochu avec ce groupe, mais ça fait toujours plaisir de voir ce genre de live sur une chaine, même locale!

(Entre le fait qu'il parle français et les plans larges sur la foule, ça ressemble à un passage au Hellfest!)

[Graptemiss]

Quoi il y a déjà un nouvel album?

Clair que c'est la valse des musiciens...Quant au "all female band" et leur sexisme à la con, pfff. On s'en FICHE du sexe ou de la couleur de peau, un zikos c'est un zikos

Ca vaut quelque chose du coup?

[Everflow]

Forge s'explique et assume que c'est avant tout son projet et non un groupe :

GHOST frontman and founder Tobias Forge, who performs as Papa Emeritus, says that the group was "never formed as a band" and was always essentially a one-man project, with many session musicians coming and going over its seven-year existence.

Earlier in the month, 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 from the band's album releases and world tours. That may have led to Forge's wholesale firing of the group at the end of 2016.

The lawsuit was filed just a month after guitarist Martin Persner — who was not one of the four former Nameless Ghouls behind the court action — announced that was a member of GHOST for seven years prior to exiting the band in July 2016.

In an interview conducted by Nicolas Gricourt of France's Radio Metal on March 28 — less than a week before the existence of the lawsuit was first reported by the Swedish media — Forge was asked how he felt about Persner's decision to go public with his identity a little over six months after he left GHOST. Tobias responded: "It was pretty much what I had expected, so it wasn't like a big shock. There's not much to say more than that. It was perfectly in line with what I expected."

Confirming that he didn't speak with Persner prior to the guitarist's decison to "unmask" himself, Forge concurred that the move "does, obviously, take away the mystery from [Persner]." But, he added, "That's fine. That's perfectly okay."

Asked if the Nameless Ghouls are, or were, under a contractual obligation to not reveal their identities while they are in GHOST and after they leave the band, Forge said: "Well, I think that one of the mistakes was not putting a lot of pressure on them in doing that. So let's just say that, obviously, there was no such clause because I thought that was sort of part of the settlement agreement. But it wasn't. So there was no effective ban on hiding or… there was no ban from revealing your identity."

Regarding his reasons for replacing the entire GHOST band at the end of 2016, Forge said: "I can't tell you the whole story, but without going into detail, the one thing that has always been a fact is that GHOST was never formed as a band, and its first lineup was formed after the first record was recorded, and it was just a live lineup. And from that lineup, it changed many times.

"If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years. And none of the people in the lineup that was in November last year had ever played on [GHOST's 2010 debut album] 'Opus Eponymous', for example.

"We never formed the band together; it was always sort of… I guess a BATHORY sort of band, where there was people playing live, and the people playing live [were] not necessarily the same that played on the records. On 'Opus' and [2015's] 'Meliora', there's a drummer that has never played with us live, for example. So, from my end, it's never really been… What some fans seem to think is not true. So, for me, it's just a matter of… People will… further down the line, they will find out that what they're saying or what they're thinking is not correct, is not based upon truth, but that's fine. It's okay. No worries."

Asked if one of the benefits of having an anonymous band was that GHOST could undergo lineup changes without the usual public drama that accompanies such personnel shuffles, Forge said: "Over the years, that has been convenient, obviously. But there's always chatter. There's been chatter about new members for years. If you look into the… you know, more of the [online] fan groups, they've always noted when there was a new Ghoul. But, yeah, of course, there's the benefit of… it doesn't necessarily turn into a media pie-throwing contest, which is nice. Yeah, it helps. But the costumes and everything has also been the band's curse for all these years, because that is the one thing that gets people confused when it comes to their importance.

"It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse."

He continued: "I love doing GHOST — it's fucking great, it's a great job, the best job in the world — but it definitely comes with a lot of baggage that was… It's easy to see that now, of course… Getting this or that person into a mask and taking that person out on a world tour, with everything that comes with that, will be a problem, because most people that are sucked into the idea of playing rock music do so because they want to get known and they want to get recognition. I'm no better — I want recognition as well — but I don't necessarily want it in the form of 'likes.' I'm battling human nature here, so it's… I've sort of given up that struggle, that fight you cannot win."

Pressed about how he manages to keep GHOST's signature sound intact when he is changing the entire band or just a part of it, Forge said: "I have to teach them to play how I play it; that's how I do it. That's how it always works… Oftentimes the key is to teach them to think more simple. I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player. And the trick is just to get them to underperform [laughs] together. And that helps if you have instrumented everything. Because my way of bass playing is all over the bass playing, my way of drumming is all over the drumming, and my form of keyboard playing is all over the keyboards, so the only thing I have to teach is, like, 'This is how you play this riff.' 'But it's so easy.' 'Yes, that's the point.' I mean, it's time consuming, of course — it's time consuming when you have to teach everyone to, sort of, adopt a style, but that's how it started."

He added: "As I was saying, 'Opus Eponymous' was recorded with a session drummer and nothing else. So that sort of set a tone — this is how it sounds, and this is how it's supposed to sound, and that's what it has been developing from. And that in itself becomes a little bit of a… It's both a blessing and a curse again."

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[Everflow]

Les anciens membres se rebiffent et rejettent les dires de Forge :

Former members of GHOST have fired back at frontman and founder Tobias Forge over his claim that the group was never formed as a band and was always essentially a one-man project.

Back in April, 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 from the band's album releases and world tours.

The lawsuit, which was filed in the district court of Linköping, Sweden, where GHOST was originally based, claimed that Forge solely controlled the band's business affairs without input from anyone else in the group. The four musicians furthermore stated that a partnership agreement existed between them and Forge which put Tobias in charge of carrying out the company's management duties.

In a statement explaining the lawsuit, the musicians officially revealed their identities as Simon Söderberg (Alpha; member of GHOST from 2010 until 2016), Mauro Rubino (Air; member of GHOST from 2011 until 2016), Henrik Palm (Eather; member of GHOST from 2015 until 2016) and Martin Hjertstedt (Earth; member of GHOST from 2014 until 2016).

In June, Forge filed an official response to the lawsuit, claiming that "no legal partnership" ever existed between him and the four musicians regarding the activities of GHOST and explaining that "none of the plaintiffs were present at the time of the" group's formation and that their sole task was to "perform" and "execute" the musical works and the image that Forge had created, produced and decided, all according to his instructions. For their efforts, he said, the musicians were paid a fixed salary.

At the end of August, the four ex-GHOST members presented an answer of their own, dismissing Forge's claim that GHOST is a solo project as "not [being] in accordance with the truth." "Forge has certainly been the band's main songwriter, he has had the rôle of the band's cinematic front figure 'Papa Emeritus,' has been a driving force in the band's business, as well as in the handling of the band's business affairs," the musicians wrote. "However, the activities carried out with respect to GHOST were extensively handled jointly by the members — for example, by making decisions jointly regarding the band's image, by participating in interviews, and by the fact that every member has, at certain times, contributed when recording the band's albums and singles and by touring together almost continuously since 2011."

The four ex-members, known previously only as Nameless Ghouls, claim that between the years of 2010 and 2016, Forge never told them that he viewed GHOST as a one-man business and solo project. "To the contrary, Tobias Forge has always emphasized that it was a collaboration that everyone was involved in and would share in the profit of once the business became profitable," they wrote. "The first time Tobias Forge, through the band's management, mentioned that he saw them as hired musicians rather than full-fledged members of GHOST was in the context of a contract proposal presented in April 2016." This proposal was later rejected.

According to GHOST's ex-members, "It is not true that Tobias Forge was solely responsible for the creation of GHOST, its image based on anonymity and its special stage presentation. Tobias Forge might have taken the initiative of founding the band GHOST, but all members of the band were involved in the creation and development of the band's image and live show," they wrote. "For example, [former guitarist] Martin Persner [who is not involved with the lawsuit] designed most of the costumes and clothing that the band had on the stage (some of them together with Tobias Forge). Martin Persner has also, together with Tobias Forge, designed some of the masks that members have worn at stage performances. Martin Persner is also behind many of the symbols used in GHOST's activities, such as the 'Water', 'Fire', 'Air' and 'Quintessence' symbols, as well as the various album covers, t-shirt designs, etc. For others members of the group they, like Martin Persner, have been involved in the development of the band's stage show, setlists, choreography, lighting, stage decor and the like."

The ex-GHOST musicians allege that the Papa Emeritus character was actually created by Peter Hällje, a former bandmate of Persner, prior to GHOST's formation. Hällje never performed as Papa Emeritus, but agreed to let Persner use the character for his then-new band. "It is noteworthy that the permission given by Peter Hällje was not given to Tobias Forge, but to Martin Persner for use in the band GHOST," they wrote.

The musicians furthermore claim that in 2011, they discussed the possibility of converting the business from the single company to an economic association, a limited company or a trading company. But "because Tobias Forge succeeded in convincing the other members that there was no time to register a joint association or joint venture, they chose to move forward with another GHOST model on the advice of Forge and the accounting consultants the band hired," they wrote. "The model was based on the fact that Tobias Forge, through his companies and as the band leader, would collect and invoice third parties for the band's live fees, merchandise revenues and record royalties. The other members of the band would acquire 'F-tax slips'" — which allow business and self-employed individuals to document responsibility for payment of taxes to the state — "and bill Tobias Forge for their share of the profits of the business."

The four ex-GHOST musicians also dispute Forge's claim that the band was formed in 2006, four years prior to the release of GHOST's debut album, "Opus Eponymous". They wrote: "GHOST operations began in 2010 when Simon Söderberg and Tobias Forge recorded the songs 'Ritual', 'Death Knell', 'Elisabeth' and 'Prime Mover' and made them available on the MySpace web site, followed by GHOST's first live show, which took place on October 23, 2010. The launch of GHOST was thus 2010, not 2006."

The musicians also deny Forge's claim that they were paid a salary by him. Instead, they claim, an agreement was reached between the parties in 2013 that Simon Söderberg and Mauro Rubino would receive regular advance payments pending the final settlement. The advance payments received by the plaintiffs have varied from SEK 10,000 to SEK 30,000 (approximately $1250 - $3750) per month, depending on the member. This corresponds to a monthly net income (after tax) of between SEK 5,000 and SEK 15,000 ($625 - $1850). In addition, the members "received allowances on tours to cover rising living expenses."

An English-language translation of the the musicians' answer to Forge's claims can be found in four parts on on Reddit. It is also embedded below.

Forge was asked in a recent interview with CBS Philadelphia if he considers GHOST a solo project or a band. He replied: "I actually refer to it as the earlier of the two options. Even though I've never wanted it that way, but at the end of the day, that is what it is. So I think it speaks clear for itself. I mean, I started it in 2006, and no one that was ever in the band in 2016 was even on the first record. Call it solo, if you want to, but I call it a project."

Forge, who does all the band's interviews as a Nameless Ghoul, dismissed the entire lineup at the end of 2016 and brought in a fresh group of players. He explained: "I have been in the band since I started the band. I started writing songs for it in 2006. Nowadays there's a handful of very new members, yeah. But there has been about 10 to 15 people now going in and out of the band, so there's been a lot of rotation."

He added: "People have a tendency to want to feel that they're very important for something, and if it's not crucial that they're there, there will also be a little bit of a friction there."

GHOST has just entered the studio to begin recording the new LP. The follow-up to 2015's "Meliora" is expected out sometime early next year.


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[Mordor]

"Ceremony and Devotion", tel est le nom du live, qui est annoncé pour le 1er décembre 2017, en format double CD audio, et double Vinyle.

[Graptemiss]

Mince c'est compliqué ça.

"Our vocalist and former friend is now attempting to, in a underhand and shameless way, transform Ghost from a band into a solo project with hired musician

Etant donné leur anonymat et leurs noms "nameless" j'ai toujours eu l'impression que c'était le cas. Au final musicien c'est un métier comme un autre, il y a ici des employés qui souhaiteraient une prime d'intéressement vu que l'entreprise fait de gros bénéfices, mais si ça n'est pas mis dans le contrat ils vont galérer.

Et demain papa Emeritus aux Prudhommes!