THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Produced by Gene Walker and mixed by Andy Wallace and Dan Malsch, Ghost’s sixth psalm Skeletá is their most unflinchingly introspective work.
Where previous 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 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 result is a singular collection of timeless, universal sentiments, filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view. But Skeletá is much more than the sum of its tracklist. Its songs form a thematic arc that begins with the ascendant and anthemic Peacefield, then delves into progressively darker spiritual territory by way of the bittersweet melodies of Lachryma, demonically hooky single Satanized and soul-searching ballad Guiding Lights.
Coming off a last few years defined by an American Music Award and iHeart Radio Award-winning international No. 1 album, an RIAA-certified platinum single, and a massive world tour immortalized in a box office record-breaking feature film, 2025 is poised to be Ghost’s busiest, most ambitious and outright biggest year to date. They have only begun the next phase of its inevitable path to world domination.
The tour supporting Skeleta will feature the debut of the newly anti-christened Papa V Perpetua, as he presides over a phantasmagoric new production that promises to elevate the live rituals that propelled the band’s debut feature film Rite Here Rite Now to become the highest-grossing hard-rock cinema event in North American history. Skeleta and its accompanying tour stand to radically grow the always burgeoning, uniquely impassioned and unflaggingly loyal legions who eat, sleep and dress Ghost. From longtime devoted disciples to the curious uninitiated, all will be welcomed to find communion, salvation and escape in Skeleta and the ever-expanding world of Ghost.”
