GHOST

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: expressive occult psychedelic rock / metal

it is nothing new that away from writing original material Tobias Forge spends downtime digging through other bands' catalogs, reworking some songs in his own style, but this time Tina Turner and Genesis cuts brought back to life are genuinely captivating: We Don't Need Another Hero retains emotional weight of the original, yet Ghost transforms it into monumental, arena-sized rock anthem, while Jesus He Knows Me turns its biting satire of televangelists into an even heavier, mischievously theatrical and genuinely provocative number with its relevance impossible to ignore; remaining three covers add further shades to this colourful EP, maintaining its driving rock energy, with Iron Maiden Phantom of The Opera sounding perhaps closest to the original, where Papa's vocals once again prove capable of giving other artists' songs an unmistakable character while paying tribute to metal classics; US edition