As a general practice, my consumption of new music has gone WAY DOWN since the 'Eldar Days' of high school (Ahh, the fond memories of scouring each music store in Northridge Mall for Kreator cassettes!) But occasionally I will come across something interesting. Lately that something has been this new flux of "retro" sounding metal acts. Witchcraft was the first one, then Blood Ceremony and now Ghost. I have to say, Ghost is freaggin' amazing. This has every right to be popular. Nine songs on the record, and seven of them are near-instant hits. You want to talk about HOOKY CHORUSES? Oh my gawd! Ghost has them. I can see no reason why whatever crap Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber are putting out couldn't be replaced with Ghost's "Death Knell". Listen to that chorus! That's satanic POP MUSIC folks!
I've got nothing against the use of nonsense themes in music if done well, but the only thing which sort of bugs me is that Satanism is such an overtapped well. If Ghost sang about some other mythology it might be cool, but when the execution is THIS GOOD I can let it slide. Watching a live video of them made me strongly wish they would get some of those oafs to grab a mic and sing some goddamn backup vocals. If any band needs to "blast forth with three part harmony" it's Ghost. That would be sweet.
You owe it to yourself to have a listen to this record. I won't go into whatever influences they may or may not be using, but quite frankly I don't care. Okay, so Mercyful Fate…some have said Blue Oyster Cult, not sure about that. Okay, I'll stop now. I just like what I hear. And it's got cool cover art. (The only reason I even know about Blood Ceremony and Ghost in the first place.) I was a little worried about the 2x4 nature of the waveform, but to be fair it's got fine tooth comb action going on. Can't have everything I guess.
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