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Prequelle is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band Ghost. It was released on June 1, 2018 and produced by Tom Dalgety. The album's first single, "Rats", was released ahead of the album on April 13, and as of July 28th, had peaked at number one for four weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart. The album marked the band's strongest selling debut to date, landing at number 3 on the Billboard 200, selling 66,000 copies in its first week, with 61,000 of those being "traditional" album sales.[1]
The album's theme focuses on Medieval times and the Black Death along with more modern themes.
Contents
1 Background
2 Music and themes
3 Reception
4 Track listing
5 Personnel
5.1 Ghost
5.2 Additional personnel
5.3 Technical personnel
6 Charts
7 References
Background
Prequelle is the fourth studio album by Ghost, and the first to be recorded since the band's leader was officially confirmed to be Tobias Forge. Produced by Tom Dalgety, recording sessions began in 2017 at Artery Studios in Stockholm, while mixing began at Westlake Studios in West Hollywood in January 2018.[2][3]
Forge stated that in contrast to the "very, very lavish, stupid sort of procedure" used to record the previous album Meliora, they "streamlined down a lot of things" for Prequelle. Most of the recording was done by only he and Dalgety, thanks in part to Dalgety being able to engineer the album in addition to producing it. When they needed a drummer or pianist they simply called in a session musician who left upon completing their part. This made the whole process "very relaxed" and "focused." However, the two did feel the pressure of living up to the success of the previous album; "I just try to find some sort of middle ground where you acknowledge it but try not to be blinded by it [...] but I was definitely not caving in because of that pressure. It was not an angst-filled recording. The recording was actually very nice. It was good — we felt that what we were doing was good."[4]
On March 31, 2018, a video titled "Ghost – Chapter One: New Blood" was released on the Ghost YouTube channel as an advertisement for the album and for the new character frontman Forge would play, Cardinal Copia.[5]
Two singles were released for the album, Rats on April 13, 2018, and Dance Macabre on May 18, 2018.[6][7]
Music and themes
Prequelle has been described as hard rock,[8][9] arena rock,[9][10] heavy metal,[11] doom metal,[8] progressive rock,[12] and pop rock.[13] The album includes 1970s and 80s influences such as, Blue Öyster Cult, Boston, ABBA, and hair metal.[14] Forge had the theme for Prequelle planned out for years, dating to even before Meliora.[4] He described the theme as "survival through a tumultuous time of your existence basically being threatened" and the concept of "death and doom".[4][2] He wanted to make a record about the Plague and the Black Death, which led to about half the population of Europe dying. But he said it also led to "mortality issues" such as memento mori and "seize the day" because the other half survived.[4]
Forge also said that it is themed around "medieval times, but it's definitely clinging onto a lot of very current things."[2] He remarked that in recent years many rock elders have died, such as Ronnie James Dio, David Bowie, Prince and especially Lemmy, which affected him much more that he thought they would; "It's made me want to be a little bit more attentive when it comes to trying to make sure that you're making the best of the opportunities that you have with your seniors. That is something that has affected me and this record a lot."[15]
The opening track "Ashes" features Minou Forge, Tobias’ daughter, singing "Ring a Ring o' Roses", a nursery rhyme said to have originated during the Plague.[16][17]
"Rats" is about something "spreading as wildfire and completely destroying things quicker than you know," like the Black Death.[2]
In another plague reference, "Dance Macabre" aims to capture a "joyous nocturnal sort of life in a disco song", such as people excessively partying because they know they are going to die.[2]