From Kerrang!
The follow-up to Ghost’s 2018 album Prequelle is seemingly on the way…
Though huge metal bands like Avenged Sevenfold have announced that they’ll be holding on to their fresh material until touring resumes, it sounds as though Ghost will be steaming ahead with new music – releasing a record as soon as “this winter”.
According to a new interview that mastermind Tobias Forge did with Sweden’s VK, the band might well be unveiling the follow-up to 2018’s Prequelle within the next couple of months, with touring plans that were supposed to be happening in March 2021 being pushed back.
“I have already made a record about God’s wrath and doomsday, even if Prequelle was not about just infection from a medical perspective,” Tobias says of how Ghost’s new work isn’t anything to do with coronavirus or the pandemic. “But I have a feeling that there will be plenty of doomsday and quarantine-confirming records in the future, and I think I might not participate in it.”
In a pre-COVID interview with Kerrang!, when asked about album number five in 2019, Tobias hinted: “I look at many fifth albums as a guide as to the urgency for what that record will need to be, with [Iron Maiden’s] Powerslave being a great example. By the fifth album you’re at a point in your career where you have this momentum built up, and you have the expectancy of people depending on you, so you have to put something special in those many spotlights. You need to step up and make a record that’s worth it and justifies all of these things.”
He also pondered where a new record could take Ghost and how a huge tour slot supporting Metallica last year gave him food for thought: “I regard Metallica as colleagues and friends now, but they’re still Metallica. I am an ambassador and they are presidents. But when I look to Metallica for influence, I’m looking at what they did in 1988. We’re on our fourth album, as they were on the Damaged Justice Tour, so the next stop is the Black Album.”
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- Ghost (Swedish) - Meliora - 1st Black Vinyl + Booklet - UK - vinyl LP - £29.99, $40.19, €34.49 (Back In Stock) (arrived 21-May-2026 16:00)
on May 29, 2026 at 7:58 pmGHOST Meliora (2015 UK/EU first issue 10-track LP pressed on Heavy Weight Black Vinyl. The third studio album by the Swedish rock band, including the singles Cirice, From the Pinnacle To The Pit and Majesty, housed in a single pocket picture sleeve with a printed inner with lyrics and photo and a 16-page booklet. The sleeve is in near mint condition with light signs of play to the disc)
- Ghost (Swedish) - Meliora - 1st Black Vinyl + Booklet - UK - vinyl LP - £29.99, $40.19, €34.49 (New Item) (arrived 20-May-2026 11:33)on May 29, 2026 at 7:58 pm
GHOST Meliora (2015 UK/EU first issue 10-track LP pressed on Heavy Weight Black Vinyl. The third studio album by the Swedish rock band, including the singles Cirice, From the Pinnacle To The Pit and Majesty, housed in a single pocket picture sleeve with a printed inner with lyrics and photo and a 16-page booklet. The sleeve is in near mint condition with light signs of play to the disc)
- Ghost (Swedish) - Infestissumam - Translucent Red + CD - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $67.00, €57.50 (Back In Stock) (arrived 02-Dec-2025 17:00)
on May 29, 2026 at 7:58 pmGHOST B.C Infestissumam (2013 UK/EU limited edition 10-track LP pressed on Translucent Red Vinyl. The second studio album by the Swedish rock band originally released in 2013 and winner of the 2014 GrammisAward for Best Hard Rock/Metal Album, including the singles Secular Haze and Year Zero, glossy gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics printed inside. This example comes with a CD version of the album in its own replica sleeve. All packaging and contents remain in Near Mint condition throughout)
- Ghost (Swedish) - Infestissumam - Translucent Red + CD - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $67.00, €57.50 (New Item) (arrived 01-Dec-2025 13:19)on May 29, 2026 at 7:58 pm
GHOST B.C Infestissumam (2013 UK/EU limited edition 10-track LP pressed on Translucent Red Vinyl. The second studio album by the Swedish rock band originally released in 2013 and winner of the 2014 GrammisAward for Best Hard Rock/Metal Album, including the singles Secular Haze and Year Zero, glossy gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics printed inside. This example comes with a CD version of the album in its own replica sleeve. All packaging and contents remain in Near Mint condition throughout)
- Ghost (Swedish) - Meliora | Deluxe - Neon Green Vinyl - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £36.99, $49.57, €42.54 (New Item) (arrived 18-Nov-2025 08:06)
on May 29, 2026 at 7:58 pmGHOST Meliora | Deluxe (2025 UK/EU limited edition 15-track double album 2-LP pressed on Neon Green Vinyl. Celebrating a decade of Ghost's monumental third album, the Meliora 10th Anniversary DeluxeEdition revisits one of the band's most acclaimed releases from the Papa Emeritus III era. Originally issued in 2015, Meliora captured the Swedish occult-rock ensemble at their creative zenith - blending theatrical grandeurwith apocalyptic themes of human progress and spiritual decay. This expanded edition includes all ten original album tracks plus five bonus cuts, including the RIAA Platinum-certified single "Square Hammer." A landmark release in modern heavy rock, Meliora won the GRAMMY Award for Best Metal Performance (for "Cirice") and remains a fan-favourite cornerstone in Ghost's discography. Features a commemorative Papa III "Mummy Dust" buck. Picture sleeve with 'Neon Green' hype sticker, factory sealed)
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