Album of The Week – Ghost: Impera, Limited Opaque Maroon Vinyl, music review with Reverence Music

This new album comes as the fifth instalment in the Ghost discography.

The Swedish rock band have steadily risen and risen over a relatively short career to stadium and festival headlining status.

They divide opinion with their appearance and they do look like they are going to deliver a very different sound from what they actually do.

Their theatrics, storytelling, and live performance have catapulted them in to the spotlight.

Impera finds Ghost transported literally hundreds of years forward from the 14th century Europe Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018’s Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle.

The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon.

Over the course of Impera’s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made.

All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colourful melodic backdrop making Impera a listen like no other.

This is a new version of the album on Opaque Maroon Vinyl.

The album has pushed the band on to new heights, headlining huge venues all over the world and even poised to release a feature film in the cinema “Rite Here, Rite Now”.

The band most recently previously released their covers EP “Phantomime” featuring cover version of songs from the likes of The Stranglers, Tina Turner and Genesis.

Ghost - Impera (Limited Opaque Maroon Vinyl) is out on June 14.