Swedish spooky rock legends GHOST just spilled the beans: they filmed their last two Mexico City gigs on this year’s “Skeletour” for a future live spectacle. Because nothing says “rock history” like grainy 16mm footage, right?
After frontman Tobias Forge got hit with a nasty case of *~mysterious tacos~* (okay, fine, food poisoning), canceling the September 23 show, the band went all-out for the September 24 and 25 gigs at the Palacio De Los Deportes. They even dragged out a vintage camera to film it, because why use an iPhone when you can flex “old-school cred”? 📸 GHOST posted: *”Children of Mexico! Two out of three nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming… We shot it all on 16 mm, for the rest of the world to see at some point. But for now it’ll be our little secret. Again; Deepest apologies for the first night being cancelled. Thank you and Good Night / A Nameless Ghoul”.* Classic Ghoul drama.
MTV Europe’s “Headbangers Ball” queen Vanessa Warwick—who’s basically GHOST’s personal hype-woman on their GTV channel—gushed online: *”The rat is out of the bag! A new GHOST live concert movie… filmed in Mexico City on 16mm film — old school style! This will make the magic of the *’Skeletour’* available to everyone in perpetuity! Last night’s ritual was on another level… GHOST always provide so much to look forward to.”* Vanessa’s been headbanging since the ‘80s, so she knows her stuff.
Earlier this year, GHOST wrapped their U.S. “Skeletour” leg, supporting their sixth album “Skeletá” (dropped in April). This tour? More drama than a telenovela. Creative director Tobias Rylander and Forge designed a stage that mashed up gothic cathedrals with concrete brutalism—think “haunted IKEA” meets “rock opera.” The centerpiece? A giant glowing Grucifix hanging overhead, because subtlety is for cowards. 🏛️ The lighting nodded to QUEEN and VAN HALEN—two bands whose guitar solos could probably crack stone. Fun fact: Rylander’s résumé includes Beyoncé tours and THE 1975’s artsy stage setups. Talk about range.
“Skeletá” crushed the Billboard 200 at No. 1, selling 86K units in week one—44K on vinyl alone. It’s the first hard rock album to top the chart since AC/DC’s “Power Up” in 2020. Take that, Spotify algorithms! The music video for “Satanized” introduced Papa V Perpetua, the latest in GHOST’s ever-revolving line of papal frontmen (because four Papas weren’t enough). Forge has cycled through Papa Emeritus I-IV and Cardinal Copia, because why settle for one persona when you can have a whole lineage?
So, to recap: GHOST filmed Mexico, built a concrete cathedral-stage, banned phones, and outsold AC/DC. All hail the rat pack.
