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Chapter 1: Who is Tobias Forge and what is Ghost's latest news?
Thank you so much. You're making me blush here.
That's the plan right out the gate. Thank you so much for talking to us. This is awesome. You just came off of, really, in the last few months, an epic tour, I would say, is the least way we can describe it. It was basically two years.
Yeah, I guess it's stretched over two years. I don't remember exactly, but something like that.
Yeah, it's insane. You also just put out the highest grossing hard rock cinema event in North America. No big deal. Casual. Yeah, very casual. You've gone on kind of like a media sabbatical in between and you've written an entire album. And you also collaborated with Dark Horse Comics to expand the whole ghost lore with a four issue comic book arc, which is really cool.
Are you a vampire is our first question or do you sleep?
Considering the fatigue I feel, I'm apparently not known. Let's put it this way. I mean, in last year when I was working on the record simultaneous with the film, there were definitely moments where I felt...
like clear signs that big endeavors like that are better handled singularly I don't remember whatever you call it you do one thing at a time it's very hard to keep focus somehow I managed to do that but it's it was definitely hard you know the good thing about the film was that a large part of it was based on footage that we'd already you know secured that that we'd already shot in
So that was, you know, a good lion's share of the content, if you will. You know, sometimes with making records or making making films, you just have to stay on script. You just just do what we decided. My problem is that I don't really I don't really work like that. I'm I'm sort of off the cuff, do improvising stuff. And so any project will demand a lot of my time.
mental presence and acuity which is fun when you've done it but it can be really tiresome and I've definitely sort of not to be ageist here but I'm sort of approaching that age when I start feeling a little bit of results when things get a little bit too much
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Chapter 2: What is the creative process behind Ghost's music and albums?
So we were, we were working with, with, with a certain amount of rapport and background, which was comforting. Because you trust the other people, you trust them, you know that we're working towards the same goal and everybody has, you know, the intent of making everything as good as possible. I know that no one...
who the hell would go into a production with with the opposite you never know you just never know anymore definitely feel sometimes that someone is phoning it in and especially if it's like a big production with a lot of people and obviously someone is there someone is there because they're getting paid so and they're they're functional too so it's that's not a problem but
Yeah, it was quite closely knit, and we were not a big bunch of people working on this one. As some of you fans might know, we, I, basically have a little bit of a divide between how I make the records and then whom is performing on stage.
And, you know, across, you know, my 15 years career as this band, I've experimented a little bit with that, but I've learned the hard way that if you're not going to use everyone, it's better to use no one. If not everybody's being called in for their ability and their special gift, anybody who's excluded from that, they're going to take that the wrong way. It's not going to be great. Yeah.
So it's just better. I've just found it more comforting and more productive and nicer to everybody to just work with others. And then Once we get the band together, you know, then we haven't nagged each other down. We haven't worn each other down throughout the process of making a record, which a lot of other bands do. Oh, I'm sure.
They have already been in the studio and, you know, killing each other for a year. Oh, yeah.
I hear about that all the time. Some of the greatest bands like Fleetwood Mac wanted to kill each other half the time. Yeah.
Yeah. Making records, especially if you are collaborating, it is very, I don't have a better word, it's an intimate process. I'm sure. You know, it's a very, you have to be very open and daring.
Well, and it's kind of like you're letting your own personal journal, your own diary, you're giving it to a bunch of people to kind of help make into something that everyone's going to listen to. I can't imagine that.
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