Welcome to your weekly update of the new tunes we’re cranking at Z975!
Swedish goth rockers, Ghost, return with their new song “Hunter’s Moon”. The band made their debut in 2006 and were then known as Ghost B. C. and began as just two guys recording in a basement. Frontman Tobias Forge said the first song they recorded didn’t sound like just two guys and he then decided that they should be an anonymous “theatre band”. Their love of horror films and “traditions of Scandinavian metal” is what inspired their looks.
Forge then took to a character, “Papa Emeritus” dressing in robes and skull paint. That character went thru a handful of “Papa” name changes, just like any Pope, and Cardinal Copia for a couple years as well while the rest of the band is simply known as the “Nameless Ghouls”.
I’ve never been a fan, but I have to admit, this song is quite catchy. This new song, “Hunter’s Moon” is featured in the new Halloween Kills movie. Rather fitting really that there’s also two videos for it: the one the band did and one spliced with footage from the film. You can check them both here.
Ghost will be hitting the road with Volbeat, January 25th thru March 3rd. St. Louis, MO will be the closest date for us.
