GHOST are currently in a battle for the top of the UK album chart with their latest release ‘SKELETÁ’.
Official Charts Company reports that the band are currently in the No.2 position midweek, behind Stereophonics. If GHOST hold their position, they will match their previous chart high achieved by 2022’s ‘IMPERA’ and become their fifth album to land in the Top 10.
The album includes the singles ‘Satanized’, ‘Lachryma’ and ‘Peacefield’ and frontman Tobias Forge recently spoke with us for our ‘The Album Story’ digital cover and described his process of working on the record:
“Bill Bailey once said, ‘When I write a joke, I always go backwards. I start with the laugh, and then I try and figure out what caused this laughter’,” he recounts. “Sometimes writing songs is exactly like that. But it’s harder when it comes to a full, cohesive piece of work that is very dynamic. I try to help myself by adding slight dogmatic rules. “Don’t make Impera 2”, so cross that idea out. “Make an introspective record”, circle that. Then what are the basic subjects around that? Let’s say love, hate, hope, acceptance. Good, I understand this. What do they sound like? Then you try and figure that out.”
Find out where ‘SKELETÁ’ finishes in the UK album chart when it is revealed in full this Friday (May 02).
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