Here’s the setlist from Ghost’s U.S. Skeletour

Fresh from his appearance at Saturday’s mega Back To The Beginning gig in Birmingham, Papa V Perpetua made it to the States to kick off the next leg of Ghost’s incredible Skeletour.

The band hit Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena on Wednesday, July 9 to deliver a killer 22-song set for the first night of this run, making a couple of tweaks from the UK and European dates earlier in the year.

Once again they opened with the excellent Skeletá one-two of Peacefield and Lachryma, before playing Spirit and then Infestissumam’s Per Aspera ad Inferi for the first time in six years. After that there was a similar career-spanning mix of everything from The Future Is A Foreign Land to Cirice and Satanized, before Opus Eponymous’ Satan Prayer for the first time since 2020.

Then, the second half of the set brought an unstoppable run of bangers, from Rats to Kiss The Go-Goat, Mummy Dust and Monstrance Clock, and a three-song encore of Mary On A Cross, Dance Macabre and Square Hammer. Phew…

Here’s everything they played:

Ghost Skeletour World Tour 2025 U.S. leg setlist

1. Peacefield
2. Lachryma
3. Spirit
4. Per Aspera ad Inferi (first time since 2019)
5. Faith
6. Majesty
7. The Future Is A Foreign Land
8. Devil Church
9. Cirice
10. Darkness At The Heart Of My Love
11. Satanized
12. Satan Prayer (first time since 2020)
13. Umbra
14. Year Zero
15. He Is
16. Rats
17. Kiss The Go-Goat
18. Mummy Dust
19. Monstrance Clock

Encore:

20. Mary On A Cross
21. Dance Macabre
22. Square Hammer

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