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Ghost B.C.’s new album just topped the Swedish charts

Posted by GageT on Friday, April 19, 2013 at 8:09 AM (PST)

In an oddly awesome turn of events, Ghost B.C.‘s new record, Infestissumam, has risen to the top of the Swedish music charts, according to the Swedish music-industry web site Musikindustrin.se, selling nearly five times as many copies as the number 2 spot, Miss Li’s Wolves. Apparently Sweden just can’t get enough of those lovable ghouls.

What makes this even better is the fact that four CD manufacturers initially just refused to print the CD because of some of the deluxe edition’s artwork. The manufacturers all objected to the Gustave Dore-inspired sacrilegious imagery, which apparently depicts something like a forest nymph orgy.

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Ghost B.C. stream entire forthcoming album “Infestissumam”

Posted by SeanB on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 6:04 PM (PST)

Mysterious Swedish satanic heavy metallers Ghost B.C. are streaming their entire upcoming release Infestissumam via Pitchfork.com. This will be the band’s sophomore release and is due out April 16th under the new label Loma Vista Recordings. This will be the follow up to 2010′s Opus Eponymous and is produced by Grammy Award-winner Nick Raskulinecz. Reportedly the release was pushed back a week after four CD manufacturers refused to print a piece of artwork depicting some kind of forest nymph orgy. Hmmm.

To listen to the album click right here.

With the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Ghost B.C. frontman Papa Emeritus II had announced he would run for the office and even set up a website where people could vote and hear a new song. It appears he was not chosen. Although the website is still up, so if you want to check it out it’s right here.

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Ghost B.C. frontman Papa Emeritus II is Running for Pope and the band has a brand new song streaming

Posted by SeanB on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM (PST)

Those lovable Swedish satanists Ghost B.C. are at it again. Frontman Papa Emeritus II has announced that with the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, he will nominate himself to run for the title of Pope. he has even set up a website where you can vote and in return hear a brand new song titled “Year Zero.”

To cast your vote and listen to “Year Zero” click right here.

“Year Zero” will be on Ghost B.C.’s upcoming sophomore release titled Infestissumam, being released under the new label Loma Vista Recordings. This will be the follow up to 2010′s Opus Eponymous and is produced by Grammy Award-winner Nick Raskulinecz.

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Video: Scion A/V have uploaded The Gates of Slumber song “Death March”

Posted by tyrusrunyan on Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10:27 AM (PST)

Indianapolis doom metal band The Gates of Slumber have debuted a video for the song “Death March” off of their Scion A/V EP, Stormcrow, which was released last month by…you guessed it, Scion A/V.

You can watch the video here.

The bands last full length studio album The Wretch was released in 2011 via Rise Above Records.

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Ghost B.C. and Ides of Gemini announce Haze Over North America 2013 Tour

Posted by GageT on Monday, February 4, 2013 at 2:28 PM (PST)

Mysterious Swedish heavy metallers Ghost B.C. and Los Angeles doom trio Ides of Gemini have announced that they will be joining forces for the Haze Over North America 2013 Tour.

Ghost B.C. will be touring in support of their upcoming album, Infestissumam, out later this Spring, while Ides will be supporting their album Constantinople, out last spring via Neurot.

Check out the tour dates here.

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Ghost cover and release studio version of ABBA’s “I’m A Marionette”

Posted by SeanB on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 5:34 PM (PST)

Mysterious Swedish heavy metal group Ghost have released a studio recording of their cover version of ABBA’s “I’m A Marionette.” It is being reported that the track actually features Dave Grohl on production and drums, but that hasn’t been confirmed. Release is via Spotify and as the B-side on a limited 10-inch clear vinyl of the band’s new single, “Secular Haze.”

To listen to the song for yourself click right here.

Ghost are slated to unveil their sophomore album Infestissumam sometime in the spring 0f 2013. It will be released under the new label Loma Vista Recordings and produced by Grammy Award-winning Nick Raskulinecz. One of the band’s Nameless Ghouls recently spoke with Decibel about the decision to cover ABBA:

“We are Swedish, and ABBA has always been a very, very strong part of our modern musical heritage. We all grew up with their music very present. Not only that — ABBA basically took a few hundred years of traditional Swedish music and made it into pop songs. I’m talking about folk music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Anybody outside Scandinavia probably isn’t familiar with those tones or musical language. But one of the reasons ABBA broke through so enormously first in Sweden was probably because of their folk music influences. I think anyone from Scandinavia is easily infatuated with that sort of music, so ABBA has a deeper meaning to us, I think.”

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Ghost sign major record contract

Posted by SeanB on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 8:50 AM (PST)

Swedish satanic mystery metal group Ghost have been signed to Seven Four Entertainment, reportedly for an advance in the neighborhood of $750,000. This is apparently a new label formed by ex-Warner Brothers exec Tom Whalley and is part of the Universal Republic family. There’s not much info around about Seven Four and there’s a Myspace page for what looks to be a defunct hip-hop label that goes by the same name, so this may be their first signing.

Ghost recently wrapped up a North American tour where they opened for Mastodon and Opeth and no doubt earned quite a few new fans and probably some leverage with contract negotiations.

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Random Metal Shit Monday: Heavy Metal Jesus

Posted by MetalRiotJD on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 10:00 PM (PST)

A good Monday to all my fellow heathens and cretins out there and welcome to Random Metal Shit Monday. This is the place where you come to get your metal fix and laugh, scream, cry, punch away the dreariness that is the dreaded Monday.

Today’s randomness is in honor of the most honored and epic of liches, Jesus. No zombie Jesus here. He was a lich damnit! In honor of his lichness we bring you two videos of varying taste. One a piece of sludgy goodness that quotes from the New Testament and the other a statement done in the form of epic power metal.

Today’s RMSM is brought to you by the letter “L”, because JESUS WAS A FUCKING LICH!

Come get some!

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Angel Witch releasing new album “As Above, So Below”

Posted by Fireball13 on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 7:09 AM (PST)

British heavy metal band Angel Witch have announced that they will be releasing a new album As Above, So Below. The album is set to be released on March 16th in the UK and Europe and on March 27th in North America via Rise Above Records. You can place pre-orders for the album right here.

The album is produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost/The Gates Of Slumber) and unites newly-penned yet timeless-sounding material such as “Geburah,” “The Horla,” “Brainwashed” and “Upon This Cord” with four long-lost tracks from the classic era. “Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Witching Hour” both date back to 1983/84 whilst “Into The Dark” and “Guillotine” are older still.

Frontal Assault is the band’s latest full-length album which was released in 1986 via Killerwatt.

Click here to see a track listing and a bigger picture of the album’s cover artwork. Click here to listen to the first single off the new album titled “Dead Sea Scrolls.”

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Ghost forced to miss US tour with Enslaved

Posted by jrod1209 on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 3:19 PM (PST)

Swedish doom metallers Ghost have been forced to miss their planned US tour with Enslaved and Alcest due to some last minute complications with the band’s visas.

Ghost’s latest album, “Opus Eponymous”, was released October 19th 2010 via Rise above Records.

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Ghost Announce Autumn North American Tour

Posted by Ehrila on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM (PST)

Mysterious Swedish buzz band Ghost has announced that they will embark on their first ever North American tour this fall following the band’s crowd-pleasing U.S. live promotional performances last week in Baltimore at the Maryland Deathfest and NYC.

Ghost cult leader “The Ghoul with No Name” (who takes the stage in the form of “a satanic pope”) and his anonymous ghouls will team up with Enslaved and Alcest for a three week trek that will launch on September 23 in Springfield, VA. Ghost will be touring in support of their debut album “Opus Eponymous,” released in 2010 via Rise Above Records.

Check out the tour dates here.

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Hellfest Open Air announce Lineup changes

Posted by Ehrila on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 8:38 AM (PST)

The 2011 Hellfest Open Air is set to take place June 17th-19th in Clisson, France. Hellfest announced the following update regarding the line-up change.

Here are the names of the last replacements:

- Disturbed will be replaced by The Answer (Alter Bridge will play at the place of Disturbed)

- Buzov En will be replaced by Ghost

- The Gates Of Slumber will be replaced by Ken Mode

- Wayne Static will be replaced by Zuul FX (Zuul FX will play in first on stage on Sunday, SUP and Firewind will play later).

“As promised, we will publish the official presse release about the reasons of all the cancelations this Tuesday.”

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The Gates of Slumber Announce New Album and Tour Details

Posted by MetalRiotJD on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:24 AM (PST)

Indianapolis doom lords The Gates of Slumber will unleash their hotly-anticipated fifth full-length album “The Wretch” on May 10, 2011 via Rise Above Records/Metal Blade. Featuring eight slabs of punishing metal, “The Wretch” boils doom down to its purest form, resulting in the Indianapolis trio’s finest work to date.

Recorded during the cold British winter of 2010 at London’s Orgone Studios and produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Angel Witch), The Wretch sees The Gates of Slumber pushing its trademark blend of skull-crushing riffs and pounding rhythms to new heights and marks a return to the slower all-out doom tempos of the group’s early albums combined with “true doom metal” lyrical themes. From the funereal crawl of opener “Bastards Born” and the all-powerful title track, to the pounding stomp of “The Scovrge ov Drvnkenness”, the barbaric “To the Rack with Them” and the epic “Castle of the Devil”, The Wretch is a future classic featuring outstanding performances and some of the heaviest metal you will hear in 2011. The album’s deathly cover art is taken from a watercolor and gouache painting by Arik “Moonhawk” Roper (High on Fire) titled “Emerald Eclipse”.

For album and tour details go here.

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Electric Wizard to release “Black Masses” in January

Posted by flyngmonbob on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 5:03 PM (PST)

British doom metallers Electric Wizard are set to release their much anticipated “Black Masses” album on January 18th, 2011. The band that is claimed to many as the heir to Black Sabbath is now set to release their seventh studio album, but first since 2007′s “Witchcult Today” which was released on Rise Above Records.