GHOST (Sweden)

jared · Post by **jared** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:05 am

Professor Black wrote:Want to like the demo songs but can't. I will check out the album though.

Keir · Post by **Keir** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:19 pm

Saw the discussion in the ebay insanity thread and figured I'd check them out. Great stuff! However, I agree that the Mercyful Fate comparisons are way off base. I personally think they have more to do with Alice Cooper than anything metal.

sagrotan · Post by **sagrotan** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:21 pm

from all I read over there I am pretty sure I'd love them

must check out soon.

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:58 pm

They have this whole 70's doom rock thing going on, which makes me think of Black Widow, Witchcraft and The Devil's Blood. More "Hippie" than metal.

Quite ok, but nothing to get too excited about. Haven't heard their LP yet though.

Marken · Post by **Marken** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:05 pm

Thought it was ok the first three spins, but after that I just got sick of it. I like catchy stuff, but this is too catchy. Winger, for instance, are meaner and grittier than this.

MEXDefenderOfSteel · Post by **MEXDefenderOfSteel** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:46 am

Marken wrote: Winger, for instance, are meaner and grittier than this.

indeed!!

Marken · Post by **Marken** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:27 am

MEXDefenderOfSteel wrote:
Marken wrote: Winger, for instance, are meaner and grittier than this.
indeed!!

For sure. Put on any of the last three Winger-albums, and you'll find out.

Timewind · Post by **Timewind** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:10 am

Really dig the album, but funniest call I've read online is

"Sounds like something you’d hear on a Scooby Doo cartoon."

haha..

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:20 am

Timewind wrote:"Sounds like something you’d hear on a Scooby Doo cartoon."

Or is it...

?

George · Post by **George** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:10 am

Ernest Thesiger wrote:
Timewind wrote:"Sounds like something you’d hear on a Scooby Doo cartoon."

Or is it...

?

Hahahahahahaha!

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:58 pm

MEXDefenderOfSteel wrote:
Marken wrote: Winger, for instance, are meaner and grittier than this.
indeed!!

Okay, slaughter-boy.

MEXDefenderOfSteel · Post by **MEXDefenderOfSteel** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:40 pm

Avenger wrote:
MEXDefenderOfSteel wrote:
Marken wrote: Winger, for instance, are meaner and grittier than this.
indeed!!
Okay, slaughter-boy.

haha,when comparing to this? why not

Lama · Post by **Lama** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:22 pm

This thread is turning into pure gold! Keep 'em coming!!!!!

Thank Satan for GHOST!!!

George · Post by **George** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:51 am

So it's true that the Repugnant memebers are invovled?
Btw cool band, I like 'em. They are pretty good live too (as I see in their live videos).
Anyway check this video from their performance in Hammer of Doom Festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HBqwFf ... re=related
Seems interesting.

Post by **DaN** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:31 am

No need to rephrase anything, so I'll just repost what I wrote at Miskatonic:

After all this discourse I couldn't help downloading the bloody thing and see what all the antifuss was about... Fuck it - after First Listen I must say I really enjoyed this album.

The hype/media-darlings-factor has never bothered me in cases like this. We're not talking bloody d.i.y.-underground-or-bust-bloody-anarcho-commie-Crasspunk or True-Klt-Esoterik-Blkk-Me'l here - It's just another Heavy Rock band for chrXst sake! GHOST just feels like the WASP of the 10's - i.e. churning out nice catchy Hard Rock tunes coz they don't know better, while wrapping it up in a extravagant/corny package... (like Thor or 80's Alice Cooper for instance:) = enough for me.

I grew up with and discovered HR/HM partly via the uncoolest possible, mainstream acts at the time - Twisted Sister, WASP, Mötley Crüe, 80's Kiss - the kind of bands that all the older "real hardrockers" vomited upon, so I just can't slag 'em + keeping a consistent straight face at the same time, sorry

...and unlike recent "foottappingly decent", ho-hum acts like The Devil's Blood or Witchcraft, Ghost at least write songs that stick in your head after 1 listen. Just like Thor.