Tobias Forge reveals the concept for the upcoming Ghost album: ” I came up with that concept years ago”

Swedish rock band Ghost are preparing to release their highly anticipated new album and follow-up to 2018’s “Prequelle” in the near future.

Now, the band’s frontman Tobias Forge has revealed more about the upcoming album in a recent interview with radio station KLAQ. Forge says he came up with the concept for the album years ago.

“The album that I have been working on, I came up with that concept years ago. We played in Seattle in 2013, 2014 — something like that — we played at Showbox At The Market. I remember that day I came up with the idea for this record, this upcoming record. Because I got a book called ‘The Rule Of Empires‘. So, basically, I wanted to make a record about the rise and ultimately the unescapable fails and falls of empires. And an idea like that can take — at least me — quite far”, he says and continues:

“So once you get that idea of, like, ‘Oh, now I know what the pile is gonna look like. I know now what not to put in there.’ And it was the same thing with ‘Prequelle‘; it was gonna be about the great death, a medieval, primordial threat of annihilation which was, I guess I wouldn’t say carnal but maybe a tiny tad more spiritual and philosophical death, with the ever presence of actual termination. Whereas this record about the empires was gonna be a little bit more practical, I guess; a little bit more, I don’t wanna say political. So it wasn’t really hard to be inspired by the last couple of years.”

Ghost recently released their brand new single “Hunter’s Moon”.