I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

Tobias Forge

Categorized in : Through Sort Ghost Broke

As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you was very much the symbol for freedom.

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I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

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My name is Tobias Forge and I'm the man behind the mask in Ghost.

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I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.

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You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumming and your classic guitar.

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I don't want to do Ghost as a normal, unmasked band standing around in, like, denim jackets. That was never the plan, regardless of whether people knew who I was or what size shoe I wear.

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Even though 'Prequelle' is a record about death, essentially, it's a record about survival, and I think that that is something that's gone through all the records. Even back to 'Opus Eponymous,' there was a double meaning to things that doesn't necessarily have to do with evil sermons out of some old grimoire somewhere how to summon the devil.

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When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

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Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

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My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's why I'm not very good at that sort of super-fast, shreddy sweeping. So I've never considered myself a traditionally good, fast-playing guitarist.

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I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.

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You want to be as successful as possible. You wanna have the strongest legs to stand on as possible for every album that you're doing.

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Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

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If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

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More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I have in my head, because the original idea has always been bigger. Every time I am in the mode of creating a show, there's always some level of gravity that comes in play, either of a monetary sort, or there's a space issue.

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I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

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The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that want authority for all the wrong reasons, and that is what it has done across all time.

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If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

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It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

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I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

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