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Inside the Alluring Concept Rock of Ghost
The band has creepy costumes, arena rock riffs and a back story that fans love and outsiders don't understand. Now they've taken it to the mainstream.
On May 7 at the Uber Arena in Berlin, I saw Ghost, the Swedish hard rock act, in all its guitar-riff glory, complete with creepy costumes, spooky stained-glass projections and pyro effects. Singer and auteur Tobias Forge performs as a character from the band’s “lore,” a complicated fictional backstory that involves a sinister church and its leaders. To fans, Forge isn’t performing as the singer and sole creative force of Ghost — he’s in costume playing Papa V Perpetua, the latest in a series of popelike leaders of a fictional church.
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