Swedish Occult Rockers Ghost will release their fifth album “Impera“, on March 11, 2022 via Loma Vista Records. Watch the official lyric video for the LP’s latest single “Twenties” through the YouTube player below:
With its messianic promises of reigns of pennies and piles of moolah set to an appropriately manic musical backdrop, the unrelenting and propulsive “Twenties” stands in stark contrast to its predecessor, the eerily hypnotic “Call Me Little Sunshine.” In fact, the apocalyptically prophetic vibe of “Twenties” — particularly its lyrical relevance to historical events unfolding on the world stage (however incidental) — render the song utterly unique in the Ghost canon.
According to a press release “Impera” “finds Ghost transported literally hundreds of years forward from the 14th century Europe Black Plague era” of its previous album, 2018’s “Prequelle.” “The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of ‘Impera”s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made… All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making ‘Impera’ a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.“
Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace, “Impera.”
Pre-orders here: https://intlbodega.lomavistarecordings.com/collections/ghost
Tracklist:
- Imperium
- Kaisarion
- Spillways
- Call Me Little Sunshine
- Hunter’s Moon
- Watcher In The Sky
- Dominion
- Twenties
- Darkness At The Heart Of My Love
- Griftwood
- Bite Of Passage
- Respite On The Spital Fields
