But not everyone’s a fan. “We obviously are a polarizing band,” Ghost’s fearless leader Tobias Forge — alternately known as the diabolical priest character Papa Emeritus or Papa’s panda-eyed ...

Rock is not completely dead yet. Of course, the genre never truly is. It goes in cycles...sleeps and then reawakens with more volume and ferocity. Rock might still be in its slumber, but not totally.

Since emerging more than a decade ago, the Swedish band Ghost has increasingly crafted the sort of live rock spectacle fitting a big arena setting. On Thursday night, the group finally got to do it in ...

The arena at the Peoria Civic Center was converted into a temple of gothic rock last Thursday as Swedish rock sensation Ghost brought their 2026 Skeletour to the heartland. Born out of the mind of ...

Ghost’s sound features good old-fashioned Scandinavian pop stamped with the textures of metal and ‘80s rock. At the LCA concert, material from the spring release “Skeleta,” the band’s sixth album and ...