I'm telling you, best concerts I have been to were Ghost concerts. The production and costumes are amazing. And Tobias sounds just as good live. Cannot wait to see more, specially Dance Macabre!
Agreed! I've been to 3 rituals so far, and cannot wait for them to come back around (and of course can't wait for another album!)- love love love this band!
If you want more 80s vibe you could check out Spillways and Dance Macabre. If you want their heavier songs, a couple of options are Mummy Dust and Con Clavi Con Dio. If you want to see more of the silent film aesthetic you can check out their MV for Pinnacle to the Pit.
Ghost is Tobias Forge. Unless something changed over the last couple of years, he writes, sings, plays, records, arranges, & produces all of the tracks, occasionally bringing in session players to do parts he doesn't have the skill to do the way he wants it to sound (but he still wrote the part and played it in demo). The band he tours with are contract musicians (hence the nameless ghoul masks, so he can bring different musicians in and out as needed). There was some legal wrangling early on over this with the first iteration of Ghost BC, but the courts rules in Forge's favor. He's like Tom Scholz, who does everything in Boston except sing.
Cirice won the Grammy and is one of their most well known. Popular favs are: Mummy Dust, Year Zero, Call me Little Sunshine, and Spillways. My favs are also: Ghuleh/Zombie Queen, Respite on the Spitalfields, Con Clavi Con Dio, Per Asprea Ad Inferni, and pretty much all of impera. To get the full effect of Year Zero, try to find a good quality live version - it’s a whole thing with the crowd.
Ghost does some pretty good 80's vibes with 'Spillways' and 'Dance Macabre'....and both have pretty good MV's. 'Call me little sunshine' really goes back to some harder metal feels to me.
seeing square hammer live last October was mind blowing. They play it as their last encore song and it’s just a huge party. Pinnacle to the pit has some awesome bass!!! Spillways is an amazing song with a whole 80’s vibe. Mummy Dust is probably their heaviest. Twenties is a trip (I love it) but in the fandom it’s 50/50 of people liking it and not
You guys should ABSOLUTLEY do Dance Macabre! While I would say it's one of their more poppy songs, it is soooo damn catchy. It's the song that first really got me to listen to Ghost, then Square Hammer here. Now all their songs are daily listens.
RE the music itself . I remember reading/hearing some interview with Tobias where he says he recruits really high-quality players and then has then 'dumb-down' their playing level so it captures the garage/underground/underworld esthetic he is after. Again, he's not dumbing it down for the audience (that'd be an insult) He is not dumbing down the music for the musicians. They are top-notch. He just want top-notch execution of the sound he is after. I personally LOVE the 80's/early-70's sound of a Farfisa organ (tho probably played on some 1028-bit synth ) and the simple guitar lines pounding that catchy sonic hook into my brain, over and over. Pretty sure that exactly what Tobias is after.
This song is responsible for creating so many Ghost fans. I had friends telling me to check these guys out for years, but I was so jaded with the modern rock and metal scene that I didn't want to give them a chance. Turned the radio on for the first time in years because my phone was dead and this came on. Although I prefer pre-Square Hammer ghost, this song is one of their best.
This chorus is so damn good. It really gets stuck in your head. Square Hammer and Rats are among my favorites. I recommmend Dance Macabre and Mummy Dust next.
Please notice the red Cardinal bird at the end of the video. The video following this was Ghost Chapter 1 and there Cardinal Copia made his debute wearing a red Cardinal dress.
'Cirice' is one of my favourites of theirs. Also I think a few good songs to check out would be 'Spillways', 'Call me little sunshine' and 'He is'. The last one I recommend not really for the song itself, but as a really good example of how Tobias will take something and flip it on it's head in terms of lyrics and meaning.
Cool reaction! A funny thing is that Eric has a Scooby-Doo T-shirts. The haters of Ghost often call it Scooby-Doo music. Ghost answered on that, quite modest, and added the date when Scooby-Doo first aired on American TV, September 13, 1969. That's the same date as shown in the video for "Kiss the Go-Goat". That song is supposed to be the first appearance of Ghost as a band (according to the lore, they were actually formed in 2006). 😅
You guys have got it. It’s thoughtful simplicity. There’s really no waste of musical resources and everything is on point, but that quality may be overlooked by some. Nice reaction, keep them coming! I recommend Cirice for a very complete musical treat and, if you want to see more of this aesthetic, From the Pinnacle to the Pit, which happens to also be one of my favourite songs by them.
I've already given Ghost song rec's on your other videos of theirs, but I gotta say again, it's really worth checking out some of their early stuff to get a feel for how different every album is. You never really know what direction a Ghost album is gonna go in musically. Tobias has pop, rock and metal influence both personally and in his production crew and it really shows. Also have you dived into the lore of the different papas at all? Because this video teased a new character taking center stage. The red cardinal was the only other colour in there and it was very deliberately placed. If i'm remembering correctly some of the other events where hinted at in the video as well, but i'd need to rewatch the not flipped version to be sure.
Great reaction guys!! I had a good feeling that you'd like this! The groove, riff, lyrics and yes, the visuals are infectious AF. I fell in love with this track instantly when it was released. I am also a big horror fan, so the influence and homage to old horror in the video was spot on. Glad you guys are expanding your appreciation for this band! Cheers.
Ghost is amazing, but yes please do more Ghost, they have crossed genres a lot from Cirice, Danse Macabre, Spillways, Hunters Moon, and more. Just a lot you'll never get bored :D also this one reminds me of hammer horror :D
I have to say He Lives. That was my introduction to Ghost. It was so over the top. I couldn't help but love them. Imagine Tobias, as a church Pastor. It's so fun.
Nice, Square Hammer refers to Free Mason imagery. There's a lot of misconception about the Free Masons in pop culture and Ghost is playing on that misinformation in this song. Very awesome reaction🤘🏼🤌🏼
I came here to comment this. I was listening to this song with a Mason friend of mine in the car, and he explained to me that the lyrics actually refer to the story of the third degree of Masonry. The whole song is littered with Masonic references, not just the title, but then he adds “before the devil” in the chorus as a wink to the misconceptions of masonry, and also because… well… ghost is a satanic band after all.
@@TheScareLab it's as "satanic" as the Mystery Schools of the ancient world are. That's where all the knowledge comes from. There's a lot in the chorus. He mentions not only the Square Hammer but then a level, a square as in carpenter square and I think mentions corner stones and key stones somewhere in the song too.
@@DefinitelyNotBender That’s true. The entire song is a run down of the third degree ritual. It’s my personal interpretation that Papa is singing from the perspective of the Worshipful Master, guiding a Mason into the third degree. You can look up the degrees of masonry, but there’s a whole ritual involved where the Mason who is progressing needs to answer some questions regarding the true secrets of a master Mason and why the knowledge was lost (you call on me to solve a crooked rhyme). There’s other lines relating to the story of King Solomon (the sacred coffin, for example) but the chorus sounds to me like a Worshipful Master asking the Mason for their pledge that they will keep the secrets of the order.
@@TheScareLab yea I know the ritual. And I got that perspective from the song also. Like a sage walking a pupil through an awakening. Coal to Gold. Spiritual Alchemy. I'm well aware of it all.
CIRICE! It’s my absolute favorite song of theirs. Year Zero is another incredible track and Monstrous Clock! Man there are too many good songs by Ghost. I still remember when they were called Ghost B.C. I saw them open for Maiden years ago during the Book of Souls tour when they were still smaller and that was a fun ass show to be in the pit for.
Another thing about this song and video. The song itself were supposed to be a concert opener (Ghost concerts are called Rituals, though). It ended up to be a concert closer, Tobias wasn´t happy with it as an opener. The video is quite important to Ghost lore and succession. All singers are called Papa Emeritus and they have evolved through the years. The Papa shown in the video is Papa III. A square hammer is actually a religious artifact, used to smash the forehead on the pope (the one in the Vatican) when he died to really be sure he was dead before electing a new pope (not sure if that takes place today, but it did in the past). That's why you see Papa III looks quite perplexed in the video when they start to wield the hammer over the coffin. He is seeing what's coming. You will also see a bird on the tomb stone, a Cardinal. A couple of months after this video, Papa III is killed (along with his brothers, Papa I and Papa II) and is replaced by Cardinal Copia (later becoming Papa IV). The Ghost lore is really funny to follow and giving the band another dimension. I can recommend yo to see the Ghost Chapters on their own UA-cam channel. Amusing and fun!
oh this is crazy, i just found you to watch other people react to Ghost, since I just recently discovered them... clicked on your channel for more, and BOOM you've uploaded a reaction to one of my favourites by them! this video was meant for me!
mummy dust is a must listen, it’s a lot heavier than their normal and so good! also year zero and watcher in the sky (especially live because the guitar is louder and the touring band members mess around with it) are freaking amazing too, i discovered them and sleep token at the same time and fell in love immediately
So, what I think is the story of those clips is as follows: There is another song whose clip follows the German expressionistic style of films, which is "From the Pinnacle to the Pit". It is set in a society where the Church of Ghost took over (probably the Antichrist, as he was announced throughout the Infestissumam arc, is ruling the world) and a new Papa Emeritus is about to be born. A student shows uncanny interest in the matters of the Church and his mentor takes him to a building where a very important ritual headed by the Church was about to happen. On the elevator, the machine turns him already into a man and then he arrives at the designated floor to meet the Priestess (probably the equivalent of Sister Imperator, head of the Church in our era). She grants him profane knowledge and he also gets to know about the debauchery and intrigue in the Church. A tragedy follows as he falls off the building but he rises as Papa Emeritus III, or Terzo, and as the message of "From the Pinnacle to the Pit" is about Satan falling from the heavens, so is his message about the pontifical role he took for the Church. Then, we have "Square Hammer". Terzo was introduced to the fandom as the youngest and most extravagant Papa, often acting like a total jock and heartbreaker, to mock how current Youth Pastors act to prey on naive teenagers and clueless adults with shallow promises and toothsome words. This is denounced by another clip, "He Is". But in "Square Hammer", we see Terzo following his career as a superstar, starring in the first motion picture ever. But then, a curse falls upon him, as the visage of him wearing the papal robes keeps ruining everything to remember him that he is Papa Emeritus and his duty must be more important than any frivolity. In this same clip, the movie shows a Papa Emeritus III welcoming his dearest brother to wield the Square Hammer from their father's coffin. Later, we see a red bird, a Red Cardinal, on the big screen before the movie ends. Years later, Terzo was removed from the stage because the Church was tired of his "Popestar" bullshit and named Cardinal Copia, the Red Cardinal, as the new temporary leader of the Church. It was revealed in later short films that Cardinal Copia is the bastard son of the late Papa Zero, or Papa Nihil, the first lead singer of Ghost, way before Papa I. It is possible that Square Hammer was a prelude to what would happen with Terzo, the ascension of Copia as Papa IV, and the truth about Papa Zero lineage.
3 songs i would love yall to listen to. 2 are by Testament- return to serenity and trail of tears, 2 of my favorite songs in the world. 3rd is a song by aband called heilung- Traust. Prepare yourselves for this one. Transports you to a time long past and long forgotten
Been listening to Ghost for around 6 years now, here are a few OLDER song suggestions: Faith, Cirice, Kiss The Go-Goat, Elizabeth, Majesty, Year Zero, Idolatrine and Mummy Dust. My personal favorites!
You guys need to check out a live performance of them! I fell in love when I saw them live. Tobias’s voice is beautiful live as well. Check out “Mary on a cross- live in Tampa.” I know you reacted to the studio version already but I’m telling you, the live version is amazing 😭
Late to the comments but GHOST is my favorite and "Square Hammer" was originally what sparked this. I wanted to point out that one of the reasons I find this band and song so particularly moving is due to it's underlying yet obvious counterview to popular mass norms. For example, everyone has heard or used the phrase "swear to God" as some kind of unequivocal proof of truth to whatever they were trying to say: yet we all have known someone to use the phrase in full knowledge that they were being false or lying without a blink of an eye. In "this song Tobias Forge questions the genuineness of a person's character by putting them "on the square, on the level" [a actual representation of measurable fairness (balance), equality, and intention (right angles)] in search for truth. Furthermore asking if put to stand on a scale of selfless truth, would you be "ready to swear right here, right now, before the devil" rather than God. Funny how people view that as more consequential and usually refuse to swear their statements in Hell's Court for fear of punishment, but will disrespect the same virtue at Heaven's Gate. Ironic how the best way to sort out the liars & hypocrites in your life is to ask them if they'd swear to the devil what they say is true. Food for thought and air guitar solos.
i would suggest checking out one of there full lives part it out or whatever is need but the difference in sound and vibe from studio to live is night and day both are amazing but the concerts just bring excitement as well
You should check out their video for 'Cirice' (Old English for “Church”). It won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2016.
I came here to suggest Cirice too. Absolutely fantastic.
Can't wait cirice is a great song
Same. The music video is also incredibly fun, probably my favorite of their music videos.
Cirice is definitely my favorite by them. Dance Macabre is also great
Yessss! Def their best song
I'm telling you, best concerts I have been to were Ghost concerts. The production and costumes are amazing. And Tobias sounds just as good live. Cannot wait to see more, specially Dance Macabre!
100% agreed. Dance Macabre is my favorite song from them!
I get so excited when I see Ghost in the title! 🤗🥰
Yes, 💯. This song
introduced me to Ghost and down the rabbit hole I went, never to leave 😂😊
Totally agree. Just saw them for a fourth time in August. Might of been the best show yet
Agreed! I've been to 3 rituals so far, and cannot wait for them to come back around (and of course can't wait for another album!)- love love love this band!
The Scooby-Doo shirt is very accurate because we lovingly call them satanic Scooby-Doo music 😂
came here to say this but I knew in my heart it had already been said.
@@rosiebones_ scooby-doom
If you want more 80s vibe you could check out Spillways and Dance Macabre.
If you want their heavier songs, a couple of options are Mummy Dust and Con Clavi Con Dio.
If you want to see more of the silent film aesthetic you can check out their MV for Pinnacle to the Pit.
Spillways and Dance…, Definitely!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
I agree with this.
This.
Ghost is Tobias Forge. Unless something changed over the last couple of years, he writes, sings, plays, records, arranges, & produces all of the tracks, occasionally bringing in session players to do parts he doesn't have the skill to do the way he wants it to sound (but he still wrote the part and played it in demo). The band he tours with are contract musicians (hence the nameless ghoul masks, so he can bring different musicians in and out as needed). There was some legal wrangling early on over this with the first iteration of Ghost BC, but the courts rules in Forge's favor. He's like Tom Scholz, who does everything in Boston except sing.
This is the first song of theirs I heard and it's how I fell in love with them
Same
Same! ❤
Me too ❤
Ghost’s cover of ‘Jesus He Knows Me’ is great and the music video is…interesting 😅
That song was amazing. Even Phil Collins said it was an amazing cover.
Cirice won the Grammy and is one of their most well known. Popular favs are: Mummy Dust, Year Zero, Call me Little Sunshine, and Spillways. My favs are also: Ghuleh/Zombie Queen, Respite on the Spitalfields, Con Clavi Con Dio, Per Asprea Ad Inferni, and pretty much all of impera. To get the full effect of Year Zero, try to find a good quality live version - it’s a whole thing with the crowd.
Ghost does some pretty good 80's vibes with 'Spillways' and 'Dance Macabre'....and both have pretty good MV's. 'Call me little sunshine' really goes back to some harder metal feels to me.
The scooby-doo shirt is a fitting choice considering that ghost is basically scooby-doo chase music
seeing square hammer live last October was mind blowing. They play it as their last encore song and it’s just a huge party. Pinnacle to the pit has some awesome bass!!! Spillways is an amazing song with a whole 80’s vibe. Mummy Dust is probably their heaviest. Twenties is a trip (I love it) but in the fandom it’s 50/50 of people liking it and not
THIS BAND! . . . DEFINITELY a new favorite for me! 🤗👍👍
They do not disappoint!
I wasn't disappointed! 🤷♀️🫂🤘 Has sorta OLD SCHOOL vibe!😏
@Spunky62 They really do!
WELCOME
You guys should ABSOLUTLEY do Dance Macabre! While I would say it's one of their more poppy songs, it is soooo damn catchy. It's the song that first really got me to listen to Ghost, then Square Hammer here. Now all their songs are daily listens.
you can tell these guys will love it just by looking at their background
I’m a proud Ghoul, and so is my 15yo daughter!! Ghost is amazing!
RE the music itself .
I remember reading/hearing some interview with Tobias where he says he recruits really high-quality players and then has then 'dumb-down' their playing level so it captures the garage/underground/underworld esthetic he is after.
Again, he's not dumbing it down for the audience (that'd be an insult)
He is not dumbing down the music for the musicians. They are top-notch.
He just want top-notch execution of the sound he is after.
I personally LOVE the 80's/early-70's sound of a Farfisa organ (tho probably played on some 1028-bit synth ) and the simple guitar lines pounding that catchy sonic hook into my brain, over and over. Pretty sure that exactly what Tobias is after.
Cirice, Faith, Call me little Sunshine, Dance macabre, Spillways, those are all bangers by Ghost!
This is the song that hooked me into their music! Great reaction!
Not above, not below, always on the square, always on the level.
This song is responsible for creating so many Ghost fans. I had friends telling me to check these guys out for years, but I was so jaded with the modern rock and metal scene that I didn't want to give them a chance. Turned the radio on for the first time in years because my phone was dead and this came on.
Although I prefer pre-Square Hammer ghost, this song is one of their best.
"Call Me Little Sunshine" and "Ritual" are two songs i'd love to see you guys react too.
This chorus is so damn good. It really gets stuck in your head.
Square Hammer and Rats are among my favorites. I recommmend Dance Macabre and Mummy Dust next.
Please notice the red Cardinal bird at the end of the video. The video following this was Ghost Chapter 1 and there Cardinal Copia made his debute wearing a red Cardinal dress.
'Cirice' is one of my favourites of theirs. Also I think a few good songs to check out would be 'Spillways', 'Call me little sunshine' and 'He is'. The last one I recommend not really for the song itself, but as a really good example of how Tobias will take something and flip it on it's head in terms of lyrics and meaning.
If you liked the 30’s Hollywood vibe, the music video for their song “From The Pinnacle To The Pit” is also a fun watch 👍🏼
All I can say, is that you need to see that shit live. I have seen them 5 times in the last year, and they close the show with it. Just amazing.
Cool reaction! A funny thing is that Eric has a Scooby-Doo T-shirts.
The haters of Ghost often call it Scooby-Doo music.
Ghost answered on that, quite modest, and added the date when Scooby-Doo first aired on American TV, September 13, 1969.
That's the same date as shown in the video for "Kiss the Go-Goat". That song is supposed to be the first appearance of Ghost as a band (according to the lore, they were actually formed in 2006). 😅
you nailed with the Scooby-Doo shirt, this song's intro could be perfectly used on a chase scene of Scooby-Doo
Thank you for doing more Ghost!! I love every song, Tobias is a genius & an amazing showman. Best concerts you'll ever experience.
Cuando suena square Hammer en los conciertos es increíble, ghost es increíble ❤
The way I dropped everything to immediately watch this ❤❤. Happy to see more Ghost
You guys have got it. It’s thoughtful simplicity. There’s really no waste of musical resources and everything is on point, but that quality may be overlooked by some. Nice reaction, keep them coming! I recommend Cirice for a very complete musical treat and, if you want to see more of this aesthetic, From the Pinnacle to the Pit, which happens to also be one of my favourite songs by them.
I've already given Ghost song rec's on your other videos of theirs, but I gotta say again, it's really worth checking out some of their early stuff to get a feel for how different every album is. You never really know what direction a Ghost album is gonna go in musically. Tobias has pop, rock and metal influence both personally and in his production crew and it really shows. Also have you dived into the lore of the different papas at all? Because this video teased a new character taking center stage. The red cardinal was the only other colour in there and it was very deliberately placed. If i'm remembering correctly some of the other events where hinted at in the video as well, but i'd need to rewatch the not flipped version to be sure.
This is the song that got me hooked on Ghost.... they are fabulous!😁❤ Need to check out Cirice, as well. Great tune....
Great reaction guys!! I had a good feeling that you'd like this! The groove, riff, lyrics and yes, the visuals are infectious AF. I fell in love with this track instantly when it was released. I am also a big horror fan, so the influence and homage to old horror in the video was spot on.
Glad you guys are expanding your appreciation for this band! Cheers.
Ghost is amazing, but yes please do more Ghost, they have crossed genres a lot from Cirice, Danse Macabre, Spillways, Hunters Moon, and more. Just a lot you'll never get bored :D also this one reminds me of hammer horror :D
twenties, watcher in the sky, dance macabre, cirice, call me little sunshine, and the list goes on for ghost's music
I have to say He Lives. That was my introduction to Ghost. It was so over the top. I couldn't help but love them.
Imagine Tobias, as a church Pastor. It's so fun.
So happy you guys reacted to this song! I don't listen to Ghost a lot but i love this song!
you guys should totally react to either spillways or darkness at the heart of my love from ghost they are my favs by far
Nice, Square Hammer refers to Free Mason imagery. There's a lot of misconception about the Free Masons in pop culture and Ghost is playing on that misinformation in this song. Very awesome reaction🤘🏼🤌🏼
I came here to comment this. I was listening to this song with a Mason friend of mine in the car, and he explained to me that the lyrics actually refer to the story of the third degree of Masonry. The whole song is littered with Masonic references, not just the title, but then he adds “before the devil” in the chorus as a wink to the misconceptions of masonry, and also because… well… ghost is a satanic band after all.
@@TheScareLab it's as "satanic" as the Mystery Schools of the ancient world are. That's where all the knowledge comes from. There's a lot in the chorus. He mentions not only the Square Hammer but then a level, a square as in carpenter square and I think mentions corner stones and key stones somewhere in the song too.
@@DefinitelyNotBender That’s true. The entire song is a run down of the third degree ritual. It’s my personal interpretation that Papa is singing from the perspective of the Worshipful Master, guiding a Mason into the third degree. You can look up the degrees of masonry, but there’s a whole ritual involved where the Mason who is progressing needs to answer some questions regarding the true secrets of a master Mason and why the knowledge was lost (you call on me to solve a crooked rhyme). There’s other lines relating to the story of King Solomon (the sacred coffin, for example) but the chorus sounds to me like a Worshipful Master asking the Mason for their pledge that they will keep the secrets of the order.
@@TheScareLab yea I know the ritual. And I got that perspective from the song also. Like a sage walking a pupil through an awakening. Coal to Gold. Spiritual Alchemy. I'm well aware of it all.
Tobias already came out to say most people think this is a song about masonery but that’s not right 😩 haha , he just said it recently
I envy you for learning about this just now, one of my fav bands, they are magic!!
Love that you guys are loving Ghost 🖤💜
This is my favorite Ghost song snd they have SO MANY good ones.
CIRICE! It’s my absolute favorite song of theirs. Year Zero is another incredible track and Monstrous Clock! Man there are too many good songs by Ghost. I still remember when they were called Ghost B.C. I saw them open for Maiden years ago during the Book of Souls tour when they were still smaller and that was a fun ass show to be in the pit for.
Love Ghost, they are awesome, incredible in concert, so much fun and such a vibe. 💀🖤💀
Square Hammer is their best song
Ghost+ best rabbit hole ever! Start from their best and 1st album OPUS! And best song Ritual!
a good bookend to this video is "From The Pinnacle to the Pit" SAME COOL GOTH horror movie aesthetic that you guys were loving! good song too
Best concert you will ever go to in your lifetime
Ghost songs to react to: spillways, ritual, dance macabre, year zero, griftwood, Jesus he knows me, from the pinnacle to the pit, twenties
Another thing about this song and video. The song itself were supposed to be a concert opener (Ghost concerts are called Rituals, though).
It ended up to be a concert closer, Tobias wasn´t happy with it as an opener.
The video is quite important to Ghost lore and succession. All singers are called Papa Emeritus and they have evolved through the years. The Papa shown in the video is Papa III.
A square hammer is actually a religious artifact, used to smash the forehead on the pope (the one in the Vatican) when he died to really be sure he was dead before electing a new pope (not sure if that takes place today, but it did in the past). That's why you see Papa III looks quite perplexed in the video when they start to wield the hammer over the coffin. He is seeing what's coming. You will also see a bird on the tomb stone, a Cardinal. A couple of months after this video, Papa III is killed (along with his brothers, Papa I and Papa II) and is replaced by Cardinal Copia (later becoming Papa IV).
The Ghost lore is really funny to follow and giving the band another dimension.
I can recommend yo to see the Ghost Chapters on their own UA-cam channel. Amusing and fun!
oh this is crazy, i just found you to watch other people react to Ghost, since I just recently discovered them...
clicked on your channel for more, and BOOM you've uploaded a reaction to one of my favourites by them!
this video was meant for me!
Welcome to Rykerroad!! 🤗💜
Papa Emeritus loves us all! This makes me think of pop music back in the 80s.
You guys are going to love "Call Me Little Sunshine"
Keep them up! I love these rabbit holes!
Not only one of my favorite Ghost songs, but one of my favorite rock/metal songs of all time. Check out "Cirice" and "Hunter's Moon"
mummy dust is a must listen, it’s a lot heavier than their normal and so good! also year zero and watcher in the sky (especially live because the guitar is louder and the touring band members mess around with it) are freaking amazing too, i discovered them and sleep token at the same time and fell in love immediately
Been waiting for you to listen to Square Hammer in particular! ❤️
And now you know why they close with this! It's an epic ending to the shows.
Seen them live twice and top tier performances
It's not one of their most popular songs, but check out "Griftwood". It's like Square Hammer, but turned up to 11.
So, what I think is the story of those clips is as follows:
There is another song whose clip follows the German expressionistic style of films, which is "From the Pinnacle to the Pit". It is set in a society where the Church of Ghost took over (probably the Antichrist, as he was announced throughout the Infestissumam arc, is ruling the world) and a new Papa Emeritus is about to be born. A student shows uncanny interest in the matters of the Church and his mentor takes him to a building where a very important ritual headed by the Church was about to happen. On the elevator, the machine turns him already into a man and then he arrives at the designated floor to meet the Priestess (probably the equivalent of Sister Imperator, head of the Church in our era). She grants him profane knowledge and he also gets to know about the debauchery and intrigue in the Church. A tragedy follows as he falls off the building but he rises as Papa Emeritus III, or Terzo, and as the message of "From the Pinnacle to the Pit" is about Satan falling from the heavens, so is his message about the pontifical role he took for the Church.
Then, we have "Square Hammer". Terzo was introduced to the fandom as the youngest and most extravagant Papa, often acting like a total jock and heartbreaker, to mock how current Youth Pastors act to prey on naive teenagers and clueless adults with shallow promises and toothsome words. This is denounced by another clip, "He Is". But in "Square Hammer", we see Terzo following his career as a superstar, starring in the first motion picture ever. But then, a curse falls upon him, as the visage of him wearing the papal robes keeps ruining everything to remember him that he is Papa Emeritus and his duty must be more important than any frivolity.
In this same clip, the movie shows a Papa Emeritus III welcoming his dearest brother to wield the Square Hammer from their father's coffin. Later, we see a red bird, a Red Cardinal, on the big screen before the movie ends.
Years later, Terzo was removed from the stage because the Church was tired of his "Popestar" bullshit and named Cardinal Copia, the Red Cardinal, as the new temporary leader of the Church. It was revealed in later short films that Cardinal Copia is the bastard son of the late Papa Zero, or Papa Nihil, the first lead singer of Ghost, way before Papa I.
It is possible that Square Hammer was a prelude to what would happen with Terzo, the ascension of Copia as Papa IV, and the truth about Papa Zero lineage.
3 songs i would love yall to listen to. 2 are by Testament- return to serenity and trail of tears, 2 of my favorite songs in the world. 3rd is a song by aband called heilung- Traust. Prepare yourselves for this one. Transports you to a time long past and long forgotten
Am i the only one that felt like the skeleton on Kyle's shirt was rocking out with this? It was just moving in time because Kyle was, it was amazing.
There’s a reason Square Hammer is the encore. 🥰
I absolutely can't wait for y'all to get to cirice, dance macabre, or even He Is
jokes on them the singer and the guitarist were the same person for the writing/recording stage
I recommend "From the pinnacle to the pit", it has the same music video style as this one!
Also my fave ghost song, for good reason!! Its so catchy and easy to sing. Excited to keep seeing more ghost (and sleep token) songs!!
Please react to Ghost- Call Me Little Sunshine
"Year Zero", of course!
listen to mummy dust.
I saw this for the first time on Ronnie Radke's twitch. He loves Ghost and played a lot of them for us.
Been listening to Ghost for around 6 years now, here are a few OLDER song suggestions: Faith, Cirice, Kiss The Go-Goat, Elizabeth, Majesty, Year Zero, Idolatrine and Mummy Dust. My personal favorites!
Loving this content, guys. Good job! Can't wait to see your Cirice reaction.
See it live. They close their shows with it. ❤
This one's definitely a jam!
You guys need to check out a live performance of them! I fell in love when I saw them live. Tobias’s voice is beautiful live as well. Check out “Mary on a cross- live in Tampa.” I know you reacted to the studio version already but I’m telling you, the live version is amazing 😭
Spillways by Ghost
Not a Ghost fan, just a RykerRoad fan so had to like and comment for the algorithm. 😊
Late to the comments but GHOST is my favorite and "Square Hammer" was originally what sparked this. I wanted to point out that one of the reasons I find this band and song so particularly moving is due to it's underlying yet obvious counterview to popular mass norms. For example, everyone has heard or used the phrase "swear to God" as some kind of unequivocal proof of truth to whatever they were trying to say: yet we all have known someone to use the phrase in full knowledge that they were being false or lying without a blink of an eye.
In "this song Tobias Forge questions the genuineness of a person's character by putting them "on the square, on the level" [a actual representation of measurable fairness (balance), equality, and intention (right angles)] in search for truth.
Furthermore asking if put to stand on a scale of selfless truth, would you be "ready to swear right here, right now, before the devil" rather than God.
Funny how people view that as more consequential and usually refuse to swear their statements in Hell's Court for fear of punishment, but will disrespect the same virtue at Heaven's Gate.
Ironic how the best way to sort out the liars & hypocrites in your life is to ask them if they'd swear to the devil what they say is true. Food for thought and air guitar solos.
My favorite part is how weirdly papa and the ghouls leave their seats
YEEESSS
its look so silly
You should totally check out The Hell I Overcame by Bad Omens!
I'm not a huge fan of ghost, but i love this song, and 'dance macabre'
was Dance Macabre done yet ??? thats the song that put them on my radar for sure!!
The covers give you total feels doooooooooooooooooo it please ofc
You guys need to see the violet orlandi version of this song. Freaking killer
I didn't realize you guys had discovered Ghost! Nice! 😉😁
So who else thought it was hilariously RIGHT that Eric was wearing a Scooby Doo t-shirt to listen to Ghost?
Yes! I was looking for this comment to see if anyone else noticed it. A perfect coincidence. 😀
Cirice and Ritual are really great songs.
They do the 80's vibe so well. Check out call me little sunshine!!
Dance Macabre is a must
Love ghost, my favorite is spillways
The lyrics are from freemasonry the WM is asking the apprentice if he’s on the level with him and ready to move forward
So appropriate that you’re wearing a Scooby-Doo shirt for a Ghost reaction 😂
i would suggest checking out one of there full lives part it out or whatever is need but the difference in sound and vibe from studio to live is night and day both are amazing but the concerts just bring excitement as well
Very much a deep a deep cut, but Pro Memoria has always been a personal favorite.
"Mummy Dust" is ine of their heavier songs.
Please do more ghost! Faith, groftwood, respite on the spitalfields, from the pinnacle to the pit, spillways. They also released a movie recently!