Take a look at unseen images from our Ghost cover shoot
Here's a fresh look at Papa V Perpetua
By Nick Reilly
As fans of Ghost continue to enjoy our digital cover with the Swedish rockers, we’re delighted to share two previously unseen looks from the band’s frontman Papa V Perpetua.
Having unveiled his new look for the start of the band’s latest campaign, the photos offer two contrasting perspectives at the frontman’s unsettling new look. The first, which you can see below, is a close-up peek at the mask adorning his face alongside a clawed hand, while the second – below – sees him shows him sporting a pair of giant wings – giving off subtle Jeepers Creepers Vibes.
Describing the band’s new era, he told Rolling Stone UK: “I’ve been always thinking about what we would do next. Always walking off the stage thinking about the next step, and that has been the end of every tour I’ve ever done with Ghost. I’m always finishing a tour cycle thinking about the new record that I’m going to make, all the new places that we’re going to play and everything else I want to achieve.”
With new album Skeleta on the way, the musician is also ready to show off a record he’s incredible proud of. “I’ve finally come to a point where I know we have this record that I feel super proud of. We have a great tour ahead of us, and I’m just going to enjoy that,” he said.
“Having been working with this Ghost project for 15 years straight, I’ve always thought of my career, the momentum and the whole movement to be very elusive. The momentum needed to constantly be filled with content. I hate that word, but it’s a word that people understand. It [needed] to be filled with meaning and as many achievements as possible before it was over.”
With Skeletá, Forge also wanted to stray away from the pitfalls of recreating the same kind of project twice. “There was an abundance of social and political commentary on the previous album. I completely stand by that record 100 per cent and do not feel that there was something wrong with it, but I definitely felt that I was not interested in writing an Impera Two,” he explains. The musician wanted to preserve the sanctity of each Ghost era being easy to define. “I wanted [Skeletá] to become more of an introspective, healing record, a new record that shone a light on the innards of my mind.”