On July 28th, MusicRadar.com's Joe Bosso conducted an interview with one of the nameless ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST in Brooklyn, NY. An excerpt is available below:

Nameless Ghoul: “It’s interesting how things are happening for us. When you’re a kid, you want to be a rock star, you want to be known, and you want to get chicks. (Laughs) Now you’re in a famous band and you’re completely unknown. When we created this whole thing in a haze of some substance, we didn’t really think about girls. It was still at the point where we were like, ‘It’s gonna be horror! It’s gonna be this, it’s gonna be that, with smoke and shit.’ Chicks weren’t in the picture. Then you start doing it, and it’s like, ‘Oh, hey… chicks like this. All right.”

Q: How did the band’s makeup and presentation – the whole aesthetic – begin and evolve?

Nameless Ghoul: “The very unsexy start was that Ghost was a project, just a few songs and a vocal. Very early, when it was that embryonic, the few of us that were into the project knew that it wouldn’t fly if it was going to be just a band. What I viewed for the presentation was big and bombastic, this huge fucking thing. (Laughs) But that wouldn’t work if you’re just standing there in a shirt, being a dude. At that point, we were like, ‘Let’s get it together and build it.’

“We needed to jump over some of the steps that everybody else was doing. We managed to get a record deal and a fan base – this was back in the days of MySpace – and all of a sudden we were sitting there, and it was like, ‘Gigs… Oh, shit! We need to get a band together now.’ We got everything together, and yeah, now we look back and it doesn’t look cool. But what you’re seeing at the moment is just the start; we’re looking to 2017.”

Q: To what lengths will you go to try to protect your identities? You’re pretty young, but back in the day, the members of KISS would hide their faces in nightclubs – photographers everywhere were trying to unmask them.

Nameless Ghoul: “I think that we’ve been able to sustain our thing so far because there hasn’t been that kind of level of interest in the band.”

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Ghost released their new music video, for the track 'Monstrance Clock'. The video was shot at the El Rey (LA) and Webster Hall (NYC) and directed by Rob Semmer.

Ghost (known in the US as GHOST B.C. for legal reasons), landed at #1 on the Swedish Album chart with their sophomore psalm, Infestissumam, released April 16th in North America via Loma Vista Recordings. A third pressing of the Scandinavian LP version of the allbum has been released in clear yellow vinyl, limited to 2,000 copies.

It can be ordered here.

Infestissumam, the follow up to the band's debut album, Opus Eponymous, was produced by Nashville-based Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (DEATH ANGEL, DEFTONES, FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH).

BraveWords' Infestissumam review can be found at this location.

The Infestissumam videos for 'Secular Haze' and 'Year Zero' can be seen below:

For more information on Ghost visit Ghost-official.com.