Ghost announces 'Impera'

New album available Mar 11th

Ghost will release its new album, Impera, on March 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. It will be the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rockers fifth album and is supported by the new single, “Call Me Little Sunshine,” available now across digital platforms.

The phantasmagoric visual interpretation lensed by iconic director Matt Mahurin and starring Ruby Modine is also available.

Impera will be released on a variety of formats including CD, standard black LP, baby blue cassette, Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orchid LP with The Chronology of Papas set of 5 stickers, and a variety of retail exclusive editions, including Target exclusive coral vinyl with art print.

The album will also feature “Hunter’s Moon,” Ghost’s fourth consecutive active rock No. 1 radio single, as heard over the end credits of the horror smash Halloween Kills.

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 the set’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 colorful melodic backdrop making Impera a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.

The album was produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace.

Ghost will kick off a co-headlining 26-date US arena tour with Volbeat on January 25th, with support from Los Angeles’ Twin Temple. Tickets and limited VIP packages for the Live Nation-produced trek are available now via Ticketmaster.

Ghost and Volbeat will commemorate their monumental joint headlining tour with a limited edition double A-side 7-inch vinyl featuring each of the band’s contributions to The Metallica Blacklist via Blackened Recordings. Ghost’s cover of “Enter Sandman” on Side G and Volbeat’s “Don’t Tread On Me” on Side V will be pressed on crystal clear vinyl and limited to only 3,000 units with 115 copies available at each tour stop on a first come, first served basis.