Tobias Forge reveals more on why Ghost is going to hiatus

Ghost singer Tobias Forge talked about his choice to take a break from touring after the “Skeletour,” which supported Ghost’s most recent album, 2025’s “Skeletá,” was completed in a new cover article for Kerrang! magazine in the United Kingdom, as per Blabbermouth.

There’s a lot of people depending on you, let alone all these people buying tickets. For most of my career, I’ve been very triggered by that, in a positive way. But now, with a lack of a clear direction of where to go, I don’t want to have that responsibility on my shoulder. I can carry that when I’m there, but when I’m not there, it’s too tiresome.

After finishing “Skeletour” in February 2026, which included 70 performances throughout Europe and North America, including Mexico, Forge continued, “exhausted.” Shortly after “Skeletá” was released, the “Skeletour” began with a European leg in April and May 2025. The band performed a second North American tour leg in January/February 2026 after a run of gigs in North America from July to September 2025.

“Skeletour” was pretty much as close as you can get. When you’re done with the big wedding, you’re not gonna get married again immediately after. I don’t want to call it a bookend, but it serves as a great finale. I feel like, ‘If this is it, I’m pretty pleased. This is a fucking great repertoire, great band, they sound phenomenal.’ We managed to do this awesome show most of the nights, and I couldn’t be happier.

According to Forge, he is enjoying working on non-Ghost-related projects at home rather than being “dictated” by the cycle of recording, touring, and then returning to the studio the following day.

Everything was great up until the moment when I was sort of eyeing the end of a tour and not knowing for the first time in our career what to do next, and that was kind of the get-the-fuck-out-of-Dodge card, which is: I’m not gonna just go back to make an album or force myself to make an album for no reason. I need to want to make a record. I need to have something to say.

Every other record has been very inspired and there’s been a clear thought, there’s been a purpose, and that was completely generated by my passion to do so — it was never contractual fulfilment or whatever. It was nothing like that. And this time around it was just like, ‘I don’t have an idea.’ I just want to do other things and it doesn’t really mean anything other than that, but it also means that, no, we don’t have anything in the books, and yeah, it’s just a normal hiatus.