The post Ghost’s Cardinal Copia Transforms Into Papa Emeritus IV at Band’s Only 2020 Show: Watch appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Ghost ended their touring cycle in support of 2018’s ...

Swedish rock band Ghost have officially given a fond farewell to Cardinal Copia. Copia was the latest persona of Ghost’s mastermind Tobias Forge. At their final show of the Prequelle tour ...

But for now, you can catch Cardinal Copia fronting Ghost on tour in late summer and early fall. Dates begin Aug. 26 in San Diego with Mastodon and Spiritbox also on the run. Get your tickets here .

Now, meet Cardinal Copia. "Oh Sister, you can not be serious," says a ghastly and time-weathered Papa Emeritus when his heir apparent arrives, boombox held over his should playing suspenseful ...

‘That’s why we have a new guy,’ Forge explains. ‘The Cardinal is not the boss. He’s just the toastmaster. A cardinal is junior to a pope figure. We still have Papa Emeritus [Zero, a.k.a. Papa Nihil] ...

Now, it looks like the current Cardinal Copia may do what no other persona has done before. Could we see Cardinal […] Ghost frontman Tobias Forge has brought to life many onstage personas.

Cardinal Copia takes over for the last Ghost leader, Papa Emeritus Zero, who assumed the role at the conclusion of the band's most recent tour. Zero learned he was on the way out in a recent video ...

Ghost recently embarked on a fall North American tour, which will see the Swedish band headlining arenas for the first time in the U.S. and Canada on select dates, the latest step upward in their ...

Tobias Forge, the man behind Ghost, has suggested that the Cardinal Copia character could continue on to album number five. This would be the first time that Ghost have had the same 'frontman' for ...

The Age of Papa Emeriti seems to be over. In fact, it would appear that Ghost have turned a whole new leaf in general. Used to be — y’know, in the way back when of 2010 – 2015 — that sure as each new ...

Cardinal Copia and his team of seven masked, nameless ghouls, known collectively as the "clergy," opened the show, or "ritual," as they're called, with the short-but-sinister nursery rhyme "Ashes ...