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Song is the second single from Swedish metal band's new album, Impera
Ghost brought a bit of the occult to Jimmy Kimmel LiveWednesday with a performance of “Call Me Little Sunshine,” the second single from the band’s latest album, Impera.
Led by frontman Tobias Forge — who performs under the stage name Papa Emeritus — the theatrical Swedish metal outfit showcased the track during a pre-recorded performance filmed at the historic Mountain View Mausoleum in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Forge shared how the pandemic influenced Ghost’s new album . “I was in a very good place personally, but the world was the opposite,” he said. “We now have mechanisms within our own Western empire who are actively trying to, and to some degree have, created this time machine where we’re regressing. We’re flattening the earth. We’re submitting to stupidity, which is fucking unbelievable.”
Ghost — who used the name as Ghost B.C. due to legal concerns until 2015 — recently wrapped an expansive U.S. tour with Danish metal outfit Volbeat, and will kick off a month-long European tour April 9 in London.
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Ghost have just announced their fifth album, Impera. The record bears 12 new songs, including the previously released single "Hunter's Moon" and the latest offering, "Call Me Little Sunshine," for which the ghastly group conjured up another captivating animated music video.
The announcement comes nearly two years after the band unveiled its latest frontman, Papa Emeritus IV, at a festival show in Mexico in March of 2020. It was the final concert in support of 2018's Prequelle and firmly set in motion the next chapter of Ghost's dark legacy, which we now know will continue through Impera.
"Call Me Little Sunshine" counters the bombast of "Hunter's Moon" with a reliable mid-paced hook riff that opens the track and carries forward through the verse and even the chorus. If there's one thing Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge has exhibited over the years, it's how to maximize a simple and wickedly effective motif, and he does exactly that on this second Impera single.
Watch the music video for "Call Me Little Sunshine" below.
In the fall of last year, Forge told KLAQ about the inspiration behind Ghost's successor to Prequelle, and said, "The album that I have been working on, I came up with that concept years ago. We played in Seattle in 2013, 2014 — something like that — we played at Showbox At The Market. I remember that day I came up with the idea for this record, this upcoming record. Because I got a book called The Rule of Empires. So, basically, I wanted to make a record about the rise and ultimately the unescapable fails and falls of empires."
He continued, "An idea like that can take — at least me — quite far. So once you get that idea of, like, 'Oh, now I know what the pile is gonna look like. I know now what not to put in there.' And it was the same thing with Prequelle; it was gonna be about the great death, a medieval, primordial threat of annihilation which was, I guess I wouldn't say carnal but maybe a tiny tad more spiritual and philosophical death, with the ever presence of actual termination, whereas this record about the empires was gonna be a little bit more practical, I guess; a little bit more, I don't wanna say political. So it wasn't really hard to be inspired by the last couple of years."
Impera will be released through Loma Vista/Concord on March 11, just one week after Ghost finish their co-headlining U.S. tour with Volbeat and special guest Twin Temple. See those upcoming dates at this location and, to pre-order Ghost new record, head here.
Ghost, "Call Me Little Sunshine" Lyrics (via Genius)
Call out in the middle of the night
For when else would I hear you?
Fall out in the cold starlight
I can save you if you doYou will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk aloneCall me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little SunshineLight up in the middle of the day
For how else could you see me?
Ease up to the hunter from thе prey
And transform indefinitelyYou will nеver walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk aloneCall me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little SunshineYou will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
Even when you're dead and gone
You can always reach me
All you gotta do is call me, call meCall me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little Sunshine
Ghost, "Call Me Little Sunshine" Music Video
Ghost, Impera Album Art + Track Listing
Ghost, 'Impera'
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01. "Imperium"
02. "Kaisarion"
03. "Spillways"
04. "Call Me Little Sunshine"
05. "Hunter's Moon"
06. "Watcher In The Sky"
07. "Dominion"
08. "Twenties"
09. "Darkness At The Heart Of My Love"
10. "Griftwood"
11. "Bite Of Passage"
12. "Respite On The Spital Fields"
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