Swedish papal metal act Ghost will return with a new album,Skeletá, this April, with a newly anointed pope as frontman. Ahead of the April 25 release of Skeletá, Ghost’s first album since 2022’s Impera, the band have shared the video for the demonic first single “Satanized,” which also gives fans …
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Unlike the scores of paranormal investigators on reality TV, Andrew Haigh has made a career as a successful cinematic ghosthunter, chasing after entities whose presence is unquestionably felt. The British filmmaker’s apparitions take the forms of suppressed pain, unresolved trauma, unspoken resentment, and earth-shattering secrets in movies often, though not …
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This post contains spoilers for “Wahoo!,” this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. Among the great things about Reservation Dogs is that there are no strict storytelling rules. Anything goes in a series which easily toggles between kitchen sink drama, magical realism, and broad comedy, …
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Papa Emeritus IV and Swedish heavy metal act Ghost blasphemously celebrated Easter Sunday with a surprise cover of Genesis’ 1992 single “Jesus He Knows Me.” Fitting for a song that spoofs televangelism, Ghost paired their rendition with an Alex Ross Perry-directed, age-restricted video featuring the duplicitous Father Jim DeFroque who …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Papa Emeritus IV is coming to an amphitheater near you. Ghost, the Swedish hard-rock band led by the man of a thousand faces, Tobias Forge, has announced a …
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While all eyes were on the Bronx and Aaron Judge’s pursuit of the home run record, there was a Ghost sighting at the Chicago White Sox game as frontman Papa Emeritus IV threw out the first pitch. In full stage makeup and White Sox gear — complete with Papa IV …
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When your day job requires you to dress up as a satanic pope, you’re going to have a complicated view of Christianity. But that doesn’t mean Tobias Forge, the creative mastermind behind the occult-rock band Ghost, can’t appreciate the religion’s artistic and cultural beauty. “In the same way that I …
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