Ghost fans, you're getting another way to experience the band live! Ghost has announced an official soundtrack for their upcoming concert film 2 Big To Rig, and it's coming August 27.

The 19-song collection captures the band live, including their recently released performance of "Umbra." So even if you can't catch the movie in theaters, you'll be able to crank up the live soundtrack and bring a little Ghost chaos home with you.

The full set includes live versions of favorites like "Cirice," "Year Zero," "Mary On A Cross," "Dance Macabre" and "Square Hammer," along with plenty more.

And if you want the full visual experience, 2 Big To Rig hits theaters and IMAX starting August 26. Consider this your excuse to turn it up loud and let the Ghouls take over. 

Swedish dark synthpop band Priest, which features former members of the metal group Ghost, has announced a new album. "Altered State Police," the band's fifth studio record, arrives October 23rd via Blue Nine, led by the new single "Python." Driven by relentless electronics, industrial textures, and flashes of 1990s big beat, the track tackles digital surveillance, turning constant monitoring into what the band calls a dystopian dancefloor anthem. The full album is built as an immersive, front-to-back listening experience exploring surveillance, political distrust, technological dependence, and the blurring line between human and machine. Active since 2017, Priest has built an international following with releases like "New Flesh" and "Body Machine." The band consists of vocalist Mercury, who previously played bass as the Nameless Ghoul "Water" in Ghost, keyboardist Salt, formerly Ghost's "Air," and programmer Sulfur. 

The band Ghost is getting into the holiday spirit by helping deliver food to people in need in Los Angeles. On Friday, the Swedish rock group teamed up with the YMCA's FeedLA program to send out a branded robot called the "Skele-Bot" to deliver food packages in the Inglewood area. The band said in a statement that they were humbled by the fans who came out to their Skeletour this year and wanted to give back during the holiday season. Ghost is currently touring in support of their album "Skeletá" and will kick off the next leg of their North American tour in Florida on Jan. 21^st.

We wish to inform you, Ghost will launch the era of Papa V Perpetua on April 25th with their sixth album "Skeleta".

Mastermind Tobias Forge shows off the group's new look in the first single and video, "Satanized," which is on YouTube now.

And the band has launched the "Satanizer," which uses photos of fans faces to put them in the "Satanized" music video. 

Ghost's last album was 2022's Impera.

https://satanizer.ghost-official.com/

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Ghost's upcoming tour will see the band require fans to put their phones in Yondr pouches so they won't be out while the band is playing. And Tobias Forge said the decision goes back to filming their concert movie.

Forge has said, "I really wanna underline that the ban has nothing to do with, let's say, copyright control. It's not that we wanna sit on all the material and we don't want anybody to monetize [their videos]; it has nothing to do with that."

Forge said that making Rite Here Rite Now in Los Angeles they used the Yondr pouches and "what ended up happening was that we had such an engaged crowd that seemed joyous in a way that… I had to go back years and in time since I last saw a fully engaged crowd where everybody's actually watching [the show]. They don't have to watch me, but they're watching the band."

He added, "I really believe that the younger portion of our crowd will, as they did in L.A., come out saying, like, 'That was not only a great concert; that was also an overwhelming experience.' Because I do believe that you will feel that."

GHOST pays  in Cleveland at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse July 17th

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What Happens in Vegas, Stays on the FumataCast! Let us live in the anticipation of what could be. 

Ghost are teasing the latest character that Tobias Forge will play when the band returns to the road in April.

They've already announced that official name is Papa V Perpertua, and the group posted an ad on a billboard in Las Vegas with the phrase "V is coming."

Ghost used that billboard in Las Vegas to announce their new Pope in a way similiar to how the Catholic Church announces a new Pope has been elected.

Late Monday night the top of the billboard started pumping out black smoke, and then the band posted on its socials "We wish to inform you that our Sin City council is complete. Papa V Perpetua's ascension is imminent. So let's gather together at 12am EST on Wednesday, March 5th. All are welcome to escape the travails of daily life and to become one with the phantasmagoric spectacle."

(When the Catholic Church elects a new Pope, they send out white smoke to announce that someone has been picked.)

The also linked to a YouTube video called "Satanized" that will go live at midnight.