Ghost performing during the Re-Imperatour USA 2023 Tour at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater in Austin, Texas on September 3, 2023, with Tobias Forge (as Papa Emeritus IV) and Group of Nameless Ghouls. (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)
Ghost continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the “euphoric spectacle” (Rolling Stone) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London’s O2 Arena and Stockholm’s Avicii Arena.
In March 2022, The Los Angeles Times reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had “conquered metal and the charts” when its fifth album Impera debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, entering the Billboard 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more.
Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace, and featuring “Spillways”, hailed as a “sweetly constructed rock tune” by The New York Times, the Grammy-nominated “Call Me Little Sunshine,” and Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon”, Impera finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album Grammy nominee Prequelle, or as Rolling Stone put it, “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.
”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.
Fan reviews:Setlist for the show at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater
This was one of the best experiences of my life. Everything about the show was phenomenal. 10/10 5 stars, perfection. Papa and The Ghouls are incomparable and Amon Amarth was a delight.
Finally got to witness first hand what everyone else was posting. Enjoyed it tremendously with my granddaughter who hooked me up with them in the first place. May he fill stadiums some day. Cheers
Fantastic concert! I definitely recommend seeing this band! Ghost is amazing!
They were just magnificent! Can’t wait to see them again. Pitch perfect.
Absolutely awesome show! The whole show was fantastic. The sound quality was perfect, tons of costume changes and the set kept changing.
Amazing! I know Ghost puts on great shows from their videos but being there made me realize just how amazing they are as performers
Ghost is the best live performance. Ghost always seems to bring the A game to each show. Visuals, production, sound, experience are all 10's.
- Imperium
- Kaisarion
- Rats
- Faith
- Spillways
- Cirice
- Absolution
- Ritual
- Call Me Little Sunshine
- Con Clavi Con Dio
- Watcher in the Sky
- Year Zero
- Spöksonat
- He Is
- Miasma
- Mary on a Cross
- Mummy Dust
- Respite on the Spitalfields
- Kiss the Go-Goat
- Dance Macabre
- Square Hammer
Ghost was the main act at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater with guests Amon Amarth. They continue across the United States with the last stop at the Kio Forum in Los Angeles, California on September 12, 2023.
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