See Ghost’s brilliant debut on Jimmy Fallon, performing Lachryma from this year’s sixth album Skeletá.
Ghost were the musical guests on the latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (July 23).
Fresh from selling out the legendary Madison Square Garden the evening before – and dedicating that show to the late, great Ozzy Osbourne – Papa V Perpetua and co. remained in New York to bring “a thunderous storm to Studio 6B” as the Jimmy Fallon socials say.
As we expected, they performed Lachryma from this year’s 4/5-rated sixth album Skeletá, and it both looks and sounds absolutely killer…
Speaking to Kerrang! earlier this year about what his ideas were going into the making of Skeletá, Tobias Forge explained: “If I go back a year and a half, I had a quick note-to-self that just said: ‘Introspection record.’ It was not going to be Impera II with a lot of extra bombardment. Instead of shining a light onto something that was an error, it was going to shine a light onto your innards and your soul.
“When I made Impera, I was feeling very good. I was in a good state. I had no real problems in life, and I was generally quite happy, quite content with life. However, as an aficionado of politics and worldwide affairs, [things in that area] were obviously a shit-show. So that made Impera what it was, because it was me reflecting on what I saw was bad.”
He added: “What I needed was a healing record that was gonna comfort people and myself, rather than just explaining all the things that are messed up. We all know that.”
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