Professional opera singer and vocal coach Elizabeth Zharoff, who also hosts the YouTube channel, The Charismatic Voice, continues to explore the world of rock and metal. Join her as she listens to and gives a vocal analysis of the new Ghost single, “Satanized”.
Elizabeth: “It’s been since the 2024 Grammy Awards that I listened to Ghost, so to see new music coming out had me quite excited. And help me, but keep reading it as ‘Sanatized’ and wanting to clean the house. Perhaps that’s the nesting mama in me. Let’s dig into some ‘Satanized’, though!”
Elizabeth has previously shared vocal analyses of Metallica, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Rush, Heart, Tenacious D, Sabaton, Motörhead, Ayreon, Faith No More, Black Sabbath, Arch Enemy, Epica, Deep Purple, Myles Kennedy, Scorpions, Heart, Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend, AC/DC, Triumph, Whitesnake, Queen, KISS, Guns N’ Roses, Opeth, The Cult, Powerwolf, Toto, Van Halen and Journey.
Ghost has confirmed the release of its feverishly awaited new album: Skeletá, the Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons’ first full length offering of new material since 2022’s international #1 charting Impera, will manifest April 25 via Loma Vista Recordings.
Founded in 2006, Ghost is based on a unique concept and total work of art. The band is led by Tobias Forge, who appears as the frontman under various pseudonyms. Over the years, he has embodied various characters, including several versions of Papa Emeritus, a demonic, pope-like figure, as well as the sinister Cardinal Copia, who later became Papa Emeritus IV. The remaining band members are anonymous and perform as Nameless Ghouls. This concept of constantly changing identities, coupled with occult and sacred aesthetics, gives Ghost a unique recognisability and a special fascination for fans worldwide.
Speaking with Detroit’s 101 WRIF, Forge discussed the new Ghost single, “Satanized,” revealing the band that inspired him while writing it.
Forge: “I am a huge fan of ’70s music. That’s a very simplified way of saying that, but I’m a big fan of Scorpions from the ’80s. Also the Scorpions from the ’70s, which sometimes, I guess, a certain age group might not be aware Scorpions was a band in the ’70s, and they released several records. Those records are a little bit different from the ’80s records, when they sort of became a ’80s hit rock band. ‘Satanized’ definitely had more of a Scorpions ’77 stomp that I really liked about the track. And somehow, therefore, I wasn’t putting that as a hit-single fan favourite or a favourite that way. I thought I was gonna work my magic to make that a big song, the same way that we did with ‘Mary On A Cross’ once upon a time, when that was regarded as this ‘B’ track that was just for fun. And I was, like, ‘I think that that song is actually quite good. We’re gonna play it every show we’re playing.’ And it took years before it became what that became.”
Skeletá’s impending arrival is heralded by anthemic first single “Satanized”, and its unsettling new video featuring a first glimpse of Ghost’s newly anointed ringleader Papa V Perpetua — whose ascension was foreshadowed by the recent V is Coming! campaign, which culminated in the recent Sin City conclave that saw him crowned. “A demonic possession unlike any before” has never sounded so sweet as it does here — an avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, as the narrator succumbs to dark forces within and without, helplessly acknowledging their own blasphemy and heresy as it inexorably consumes them. By the time the song’s opening lines “There is something inside me and they don’t know if there is a cure” have moved from the inner monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it will already be too late: You will have been “Satanized”.
The genesis of Skeletá is rooted in the wake of a world-spanning years-long touring campaign in support of Impera — a period that saw Impera top album charts the world over and winning an American Music Award and an iHeart Radio Music Award, as well as the band earning its first RIAA-certified platinum single (“Mary On A Cross”) and presiding over the highest grossing hard rock cinema event in North American history (its feature film debut Rite Here Rite Now). As this sustained maelstrom ultimately wound down, Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge’s next uncharted creative direction would prove to be an inward journey. This deeply introspective turn in Forge’s creative process would ultimately result in Skeletá: a collection of 10 new songs originating from and cutting as close to the bone as (in)humanly possible.
Ghost’s sixth psalm, Skeletá, is its most unflinchingly introspective work to date. Where previous Ghost albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward facing subject matter — such as Impera’s meditations on the rise and fall of empires and its predecessor Prequelle’s evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues — Skeletá’s lyrics render the distinct individual emotional vistas of each of its 10 songs in one-on-one fashion, at times as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The end result is a singular collection of timeless, universal sentiments, all filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view.
Tracklisting:
“Peacefield”
“Lachryma”
“Satanized”
“Guiding Lights”
“De Profundis Borealis”
“Cenotaph”
“Missilia Amori”
“Marks Of The Evil One”
“Umbra”
“Excelsis”
“Satanized”
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Elizabeth: “It’s been since the 2024 Grammy Awards that I listened to Ghost, so to see new music coming out had me quite excited. And help me, but keep reading it as ‘Sanatized’ and wanting to clean the house. Perhaps that’s the nesting mama in me. Let’s dig into some ‘Satanized’, though!”
Elizabeth has previously shared vocal analyses of Metallica, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Rush, Heart, Tenacious D, Sabaton, Motörhead, Ayreon, Faith No More, Black Sabbath, Arch Enemy, Epica, Deep Purple, Myles Kennedy, Scorpions, Heart, Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend, AC/DC, Triumph, Whitesnake, Queen, KISS, Guns N’ Roses, Opeth, The Cult, Powerwolf, Toto, Van Halen and Journey.
Ghost has confirmed the release of its feverishly awaited new album: Skeletá, the Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons’ first full length offering of new material since 2022’s international #1 charting Impera, will manifest April 25 via Loma Vista Recordings.
Founded in 2006, Ghost is based on a unique concept and total work of art. The band is led by Tobias Forge, who appears as the frontman under various pseudonyms. Over the years, he has embodied various characters, including several versions of Papa Emeritus, a demonic, pope-like figure, as well as the sinister Cardinal Copia, who later became Papa Emeritus IV. The remaining band members are anonymous and perform as Nameless Ghouls. This concept of constantly changing identities, coupled with occult and sacred aesthetics, gives Ghost a unique recognisability and a special fascination for fans worldwide.
Speaking with Detroit’s 101 WRIF, Forge discussed the new Ghost single, “Satanized,” revealing the band that inspired him while writing it.
Forge: “I am a huge fan of ’70s music. That’s a very simplified way of saying that, but I’m a big fan of Scorpions from the ’80s. Also the Scorpions from the ’70s, which sometimes, I guess, a certain age group might not be aware Scorpions was a band in the ’70s, and they released several records. Those records are a little bit different from the ’80s records, when they sort of became a ’80s hit rock band. ‘Satanized’ definitely had more of a Scorpions ’77 stomp that I really liked about the track. And somehow, therefore, I wasn’t putting that as a hit-single fan favourite or a favourite that way. I thought I was gonna work my magic to make that a big song, the same way that we did with ‘Mary On A Cross’ once upon a time, when that was regarded as this ‘B’ track that was just for fun. And I was, like, ‘I think that that song is actually quite good. We’re gonna play it every show we’re playing.’ And it took years before it became what that became.”
Skeletá’s impending arrival is heralded by anthemic first single “Satanized”, and its unsettling new video featuring a first glimpse of Ghost’s newly anointed ringleader Papa V Perpetua — whose ascension was foreshadowed by the recent V is Coming! campaign, which culminated in the recent Sin City conclave that saw him crowned. “A demonic possession unlike any before” has never sounded so sweet as it does here — an avalanche of infectious hooks and harmonies is buoyed by a hypnotic shuffle, as the narrator succumbs to dark forces within and without, helplessly acknowledging their own blasphemy and heresy as it inexorably consumes them. By the time the song’s opening lines “There is something inside me and they don’t know if there is a cure” have moved from the inner monologue of the possessed to the ears of the hapless listener, it will already be too late: You will have been “Satanized”.
The genesis of Skeletá is rooted in the wake of a world-spanning years-long touring campaign in support of Impera — a period that saw Impera top album charts the world over and winning an American Music Award and an iHeart Radio Music Award, as well as the band earning its first RIAA-certified platinum single (“Mary On A Cross”) and presiding over the highest grossing hard rock cinema event in North American history (its feature film debut Rite Here Rite Now). As this sustained maelstrom ultimately wound down, Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge’s next uncharted creative direction would prove to be an inward journey. This deeply introspective turn in Forge’s creative process would ultimately result in Skeletá: a collection of 10 new songs originating from and cutting as close to the bone as (in)humanly possible.
Ghost’s sixth psalm, Skeletá, is its most unflinchingly introspective work to date. Where previous Ghost albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward facing subject matter — such as Impera’s meditations on the rise and fall of empires and its predecessor Prequelle’s evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues — Skeletá’s lyrics render the distinct individual emotional vistas of each of its 10 songs in one-on-one fashion, at times as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The end result is a singular collection of timeless, universal sentiments, all filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view.
Tracklisting:
“Peacefield”
“Lachryma”
“Satanized”
“Guiding Lights”
“De Profundis Borealis”
“Cenotaph”
“Missilia Amori”
“Marks Of The Evil One”
“Umbra”
“Excelsis”
“Satanized”
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