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Swedish sextet Ghost (NOT the great Japanese band
Ghost) indulged in
Satanic themes inspired by the glorious black-metal school of Scandinavia on
Opus Eponymous (Rise Above, 2010), but their mediocre
skills and non-existent inspiration were
hardly capable of matching its achievements.
The litanies of the album constitute not much of an improvement over
Aphrodite's Child's 40-years old 666
or Blue Oyster Cult.
This music wouldn't scare a two-year-old child.
The best moment comes perhaps with the
Yes-style instrumental closer Genesis.
This debut was followed by the even more commercial Infestissumam (2013),
whose memorable song is closer Monstrance Clock,
and the mellow EP If You Have Ghosts (2013).
The guitars returned frontstage on Meliora (2015), nonetheless still
an album of conventional pop-metal or, in fact, bland faux-metal
(Cirice).
Then came the EP Popestar (2016) and the album
Prequelle (2018), with the singles
Rats and
Dance Macabre but also the equally catchy Pro Memoria.
The single
Seven Inches of Satanic Panic (2019) contains two songs,
Kiss the Go-Goat and Mary on a Cross,
Ghost seemed to aim to become the metal version of Abba, but they didn't
have a tenth of the talent.
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