Ghost spent the majority of 2020 in the studio and promised a new album due out sometime this year. Now in a new statement from the band, Ghost is promising "several big things" for 2021 without going into much detail. The new album is almost definitely one of those things, and maybe whatever that one-off song the band promised is another?
"Dear Friends,
"I hope this message finds you relatively well and hopeful for the future. Needless to say, we have all experienced a strange year -some of us an absolutely devastating year with loved ones passing, loneliness and a very somber outlook for the future. Yet there is some distance to go before we are somewhat back to where we’d regard life as normal again.
"With this, I want you all to know that we are working diligently on several big things for next year, so please do not confuse our silence with inactivity. And I confess, I wanted to reach out to let you all know we miss you, eternally.
"News pertaining to 2021 will be rolled out throughout the new year, so I ask for nothing but your patience. In the interim, focus on taking care of yourselves and your loved ones. Have hope and strive for a better and more optimistic future, because it’s all within reach. We are almost there.
"Let’s end this year with the knowledge that the roaring TWENTIES will begin in 2021!"
Ghost unveiled Papa Emeritus IV at their only show in 2020, who of course will be the vocalist on the new album. All we know about the new album right now is that Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge wants it to the band's version of Metallica's The Black Album, and that it won't have any fast songs.
