Glut Your Soul

— Tobias Forge on what Satan means to him

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The way Tobias sings pale white horse in “Witch Image”. Reblog if you agree.

TOBIAS x

I’m listening to the full interview again and sobbing because Tobias mentions Sebastian by name😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 never forget how much Tobi loves and misses Sebastian.

Have you heard the interview he gives in Swedish where he talks about Sebastian for the whole last part? Someone in the comments translated if you don’t speak Swedish, it honestly made me cry

Yasssss girl I love that interview it’s so heartfelt and deep but also funny and charming at times. And when THAT part happens I just fucking sobbbbbb,

Hello there! 👋 Another archived artwork for Papa III alternate face paint. It may looks silly tho putting Papa II face paint on Papa III faces but-

- i really had to do it😅

its our boy special ghoul !!!!

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I'm back to having a lot of free time on my hands so here's another papa in brush pens cuz I wanted to do something colorful and papa 2 is my happy place.

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bonus stills:

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Happy Infestissumam day! The album turns 7 years old today.

As per e-mails exchanged between Tobias and the ghouls in December 2010, it seems that the band started working on the second album almost immediately after the release of Opus Eponymous.

Initially, Tobias had two ideas for the title – “Infestissumam” and “The Sound of Doom to Come,” the latter of which he seemed to be in favour of more. This is how he described his ideas in one of the e-mails:

What you can see in the first picture is that very rough draft of what his general idea for the album cover was. The second picture is a painting by Maria Ackerfors based on that draft. It wasn’t used as the cover, but Maria worked with Ghost on multiple other occasions – she shot some of the first photographs of the band and designed stage backdrops for them.

Meanwhile, sometime in early 2011, Tobias met Zbigniew M. Bielak - a Polish architect/artist/very cool guy in general. He was particularly impressed by the work Zbigniew did for Watain’s Lawless Darkness a year earlier - a series of 12 very meticulous illustrations based on each song on the album - and commissioned him to create a similar series for Infestissumam. As you can see, the original idea for the front cover that Tobias had in mind is still there in the final product: we have both the baby antichrist and a Papa-esque figure looming over him (referencing the poster for Milos Forman’s Amadeus of course).

As for the fate of that second title… The rest of the band wasn’t as fond of it as Tobias, so in the end they went with the other option, to which his response was:

Bummer 😉

Backcover illustration for Ghost new album “Prequelle”. Art by Zbigniew M. Bielak

if I purchased an opera house and found out there was something known as the “phantom” demanding a monthly salary to simply leave us all alone, and the former opera manager had apparently gone ahead and paid him for decades, I’d simply continue paying him and keep my fucking head down. RIP to Andre and Firmin but I’m different

actually if I bought an opera house and there WEREN’T an Opera Ghost I’d hire one. No one goes to the opera anymore bc it’s not sexy enough. We need some gothic terror

I don’t have a life...

Btw i’ll add Papa Nihil soon

What is Papa up to?

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