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Tobias Jens Forge (Swedish pronunciation: [tʊˈbǐːas ˈjɛns ˈfɔ̌rːɡɛ]; [1] born March 3, 1981) is a Swedish musician. He is the frontman, leader and primary songwriter of the masked rock band Ghost , performing live as their vocalist under the stage names Papa Emeritus and Cardinal Copia .
Following the break up of Repugnant, Forge went on to form and front the Swedish rock band Ghost, where he achieved a higher level of success and fame. When Tobias Forge (Goore) received the 2019 Platinagitarren award from STIM for his musical accomplishments, jury member and journalist Ika Johannesson stated that "Old school death metal has ...
Since the band's inception, Forge has performed under several incarnations of pope-like personas bearing the title of "Papa Emeritus". For the release of the band's 2018 album Prequelle , as well as their 2018–2020 concert tour A Pale Tour Named Death , Forge performed in the persona of "Cardinal Copia", a character who, at the final show of ...
Prequelle is the fourth studio album by Ghost, and the first to be recorded since the band's leader was officially confirmed to be Tobias Forge.Produced by Tom Dalgety, recording sessions began in 2017 at Artery Studios in Stockholm, while mixing began at Westlake Studios in West Hollywood in January 2018.
Loudwire described the song as "one of the more metal moments of Prequelle, and interpreted its lyrics to be Forge's response to being taken to court by earlier members of the band in 2017, which Forge went on to win, notably with the lines "A fecal trail across the land /Although it stinks, feels, and looks identical / A pack of fools take the ...
Forge was inspired by the music diversity that Queen would have with their albums, feeling that Ghost could similarly use some diversity. [11] Lyrically, the song is about the Black Plague – a theme across the entire Prequelle album – specifically about how people would literally dance and party until they died to cope with the illness.
Rite Here Rite Now is a 2024 American concert film directed by Tobias Forge and Alex Ross Perry.It features Swedish rock band Ghost performing at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on the final two North American dates of their 2023 Re-Imperatour concert tour.
They have released 5 albums and 4 extended plays (EPs), gathering 72 songs, mostly written by frontman Tobias Forge under the credit of "A Ghoul Writer". This article gathers in the table below all the songs released by Ghost since their debut album Opus Eponymous (2010), in alphabetical order, and gives the song's writer(s), the first release ...