I just don't agree. I'm having so much fun listening to this album. It's pure power pop candy, and i think it's actually quite inspired. I wish we could all just have too many drinks and dance our candyasses off to this shit cuz while i agree it's not by conventional measures ghost's best album, I've never had more fun listening to one. And I think you're mistaking this album's misalignment with your particular tastes, expectations and musical centrality with poor quality. I've yet to read a review that says this album's anything less than great (I'm dismissive of critic takes generally, but adds more credence to the idea that this is not objectively a bad album).
It depends on how you define heavy. I don't think that double bass drums and screaming = heavier. I consider Con Clavi Con Dio and Ritual to have some pretty heavy riffage.
It's really about how you define it. I think slower tempo grinding type stuff can be heavier than thrash. I think Cirice is pretty heavy and if you listen to the guitars, they aren't that heavily distorted
It may grow on me but Faith is really the only one I keep listening to. Rats will probably be cool live, whenever they head this way. Hopefully they have whatever pope succession thing they're doing sorted out by then because it's sweet when he walks out in the robe and huge hat.
It might grow on you after you have a chance to get it in ya live, but I doubt it'll really grow on you much with just more listens. Not much acquired taste here with this one. Don't think the show will disappoint you.
That Cirice guitar riff was wasted on the rest of the song Also Celestial by Isis is still probably the heaviest album I've heard
After buying and listening to this album a lot in the past week or so I've warmed to Dance Macabre quite a bit The other non-instrumentals that I didn't like to begin with only seem to get worse. "Don't you forget about dying. Don't you forget about your friend death." I wish they could stop trying to make this sort of shit happen. The playing is still pretty good on these songs, though. It's like he wanted to have big prog stuff without actually going all the way. No half measures. The mastering/mixing is really fucking good for this sort of album. It makes me wonder how the stuff I'm talking above got through. Ghost has hit Portland on each one of its West Coast tours going back to like 2010, so I would be happy to pay to see them for the 3rd time. It will also be the first "metal" concert for 4 or 5 of my friends.
It's just ok for me. I like Dance Macabre and Faith but little else. Faith is really good but it's really disappointing that's the only song i feel all that strongly about.
Pro Memoria is really the only song I dislike, but the whole album is a little too poppy for me. Just used to there previous albums too much.
My man ugafish just picked up second row seats to see the glam rock band Ghost at the North Charleston PAC. Cannot wait. My other buddy got two tickets as well (second row) so we may have an extra if any of you fags want to join us. Cannot wait.
I think he's influenced by ABBA which doesn't make sense from a genre aspect but obv he's from Sweden
" Forge says: “I want to make a different record from Prequelle. I want it to feel different. If I dare to say heavier, people think that it's going to be Mercyful Fate all the way – but I definitely have a darker, heavier record in mind.” But he cautions: “I have always pushed myself to write the songs that we don't have instead of going back. It maybe would've been a smart move to just try to replicate Opus Eponymous. “I can regurgitate. I grew up with metal. It's in my DNA, so I can formulate death-metal lyrics easily. But I try not to repeat myself on that.”"
I think he's said that before every one of their albums and in general it's standard pre-album hype talk for pretty much all rock and metal bands. "The new album is going to be weird and softer" doesn't generate much interest
I still believe that Martin Persner and Simon Soderberg were significant contributors to the writing of the good Ghost songs, and am skeptical that this album will be anywhere close to the first 3.
Prequelle gave a lot of credence to that because it wasn't great. Still hard to know. Tobias is pushing 40 and usually most bands start sucking around that age if not sooner
that song sucks. maybe it will be like the last album where like 3 of the songs were worth listening to. i liked mary on a cross though
That song fits pretty seamlessly with the rest of Prequelle. Hoping it was cut from the album and they threw it on this soundtrack. Every album to this point has sounded quite different than the previous, so I’m really hoping that they do the same here. Not optimistic though.