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IMPERATOUR - EUROPE 2022

• Date 11 Apr 2022
• Venue The O2 arena
• Doors Open 6.00pm
• Availability On sale now

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Ghost will bring their European "Imperatour" to The O2 in April 2022. Plus Special Guests Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and Twin Temple.  

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Ghost Announce ‘Imperatour – Europe 2022’ European and UK Arena Tour Dates

Ghost are bringing their dark extraveganza to arenas across Europe in 2022 and you can get details on all the dates and supports here.

Ghost bring their dark extraveganza to arenas across Europe and the UK in 2022 with the announcement of their biggest UK & European tour to date.

The tour, branded ‘Imperatour – Europe 2022’, will see the band supported across all shows by Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats and Twin Temple .

‘Imperatour – Europe 2022’ Tour Dates

04/09 – Manchester, Arena, UK 04/11 – London, O2 Arena, UK 04/13 – Glasgow, Hydro, UK 04/15 – Birmingham, RWA Arena, UK 04/17 – Rotterdam, RTM Stage Ahoy, HOLLAND 04/18 – Paris, Accor Arena, FRANCE 04/19 – Cologne, Lanxess Arena, GERMANY 04/21 – Leipzig Quarterback Immobillen Arena, GERMANY 04/22 – Frankfurt, Festhalle, GERMANY 04/24 – Prague, Arena, CZECH REPUBLIC 04/27 – Tampere, Nokia Arena, FINLAND 04/29 – Stockhom, Avicii Arena, SWEDEN 04/30 – Oslo, Spektrum, NORWAY 05/01 – Malmo, Malmo Arena, SWEDEN 05/03 – Brussels, Forest, BELGIUM 05/05 – Milan, Mediolanum Forum, ITALY 05/07 – Barcelona, Olympic Arena Badalona, SPAIN 05/08 – Madrid, Vistalegre Arena, SPAIN 05/11 – Vienna, Stadthalle, AUSTRIA 05/13 – Zurich, Hallenstadion, SWITZERLAND 05/15 – Hannover ZAG Arena, GERMANY 05/16 – Munich, Olympiahalle, GERMANY 05/18 – Budapest, Arena, HUNGARY

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The Swedish metal stars’ dates kick off on April 9 in Manchester, UK, and conclude on May 18 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Ghost will embark on a massive European headlining tour in April 2022. The band’s ‘Imperatour’ will kick off on April 9 in Manchester, U.K. and conclude on May 18 in Budapest, Hungary. Support on all shows will come from Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Twin Temple.

In September, Ghost released a new single titled “Hunter’s Moon” which is featured in the latest blockbuster installment of the legendary film franchise Halloween Kills . The Halloween Kills soundtrack arrived on October 15 via Sacred Bones, with the film hitting theaters the same day.

Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace, Ghost’s “Hunter’s Moon” plays as the Halloween Kills end credits roll, and will be released January 21, 2022 as a collectible seven-inch single by Loma Vista Recordings. “Hunter’s Moon” can be streamed, purchased, and/or pre-ordered in its vinyl incarnation. The retail version of the seven-inch will feature the special B-side “Halloween Kills (Main Title)”, performed, produced and engineered by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

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“Hunter’s Moon” features Opeth’s Fredrik Åkesson on guitar and The Soundtrack Of Our Lives founder Martin Hederos on the piano. Producer Max Grahn and “A Ghoul Writer” are listed as the song’s composers and lyricists. The official music video for the infectious first new track from Ghost since 2019’s “Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic” was directed by Amanda Demme.

Also two months ago, Ghost announced a 26-date co-headlining U.S. arena tour with Volbeat and special guests Twin Temple , coming to cities including Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix.

Buy or stream Ghost’s “Hunter’s Moon” .

Ghost’s ‘Imperatour’ 2022 European dates are as follows:

Apr. 09 – Manchester, Arena, UK Apr. 11 – London, O2 Arena, UK Apr. 13 – Glasgow, Hydro, UK Apr. 15 – Birmingham, RWA Arena, UK Apr. 17 – Rotterdam, RTM Stage Ahoy, Netherlands Apr. 18 – Paris, Accor Arena, France Apr. 19 – Cologne, Lanxess Arena, Germany Apr. 21 – Leipzig Quarterback Immobillen Arena, Germany Apr. 22 – Frankfurt, Festhalle, Germany Apr. 24 – Prague, Arena, Czech Republic Apr. 27 – Tampere, Nokia Arena, Finland Apr. 29 – Stockhom, Avicii Arena, Sweden Apr. 30 – Oslo, Spektrum, Norway May 01 – Malmo, Malmo Arena, Sweden May 03 – Brussels, Forest, Belgium May 05 – Milan, Mediolanum Forum, Italy May 07 – Barcelona, Olympic Arena Badalona, Spain May 08 – Madrid, Vistalegre Arena, Spain May 11 – Vienna, Stadthalle, Austria May 13 – Zurich, Hallenstadion, Switzerland May 15 – Hannover ZAG Arena, Germany May 16 – Munich, Olympiahalle, Germany May 18 – Budapest, Arena, Hungary

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Ghost announce 2019 UK and European arena tour

Ghost will head out on the UK and European leg of their Ultimate Tour Named Death this winter

Ghost have announced the UK and European leg of The Ultimate Tour Named Death which will take place later this year.

They previously revealed a string of North American shows which run throughout September and October, with the new performances set for November and December.

Ghost will kick off the tour in the UK and Ireland over six nights from November 16 before travelling to mainland Europe for a further 12 shows, which will wrap up in Toulouse on December 19.

The band will be joined by special guests All Them Witches and Tribulation , with tickets going on sale this coming Friday (July 12).

Last month, Ghost leader Tobias Forge revealed that while work on the follow-up to 2018’s Prequelle was in its early stages, it likely won’t see the light of day until 2021 .

Ghost: The Ultimate Tour Named Death UK and European dates Nov 16: Nottingham Motorpoint Arena, UK Nov 17: Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, UK Nov 18: Glasgow SSE Hydro, UK Nov 20: Dublin 3Arena, Ireland Nov 22: London SSE Arena Wembley, UK Nov 23: Leeds First Direct Arena, UK Nov 30: Katowice Spodek, Poland Dec 01: Prague Universum, Czech Republic Dec 03: Budapest BSA, Hungary Dec 05: Mantova Palabam, Italy Dec 06: Zurich Halle 622, Switzerland Dec 08: Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi, Spain Dec 10: Lisbon Altice Arena, Portugal Dec 11: Madrid Palacio Vistalegre, Spain Dec 13: Eckbolsheim Zenith Of Strasbourg, France Dec 17: Esch-Sur-Alzette Rockhal, Luxembourg Dec 18: Saint-Herblain Zenith Nantes Metropole, France Dec 19: Touslouse Zenith Toulouse Metropole, France

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AO Arena, Manchester Tobias Forge’s band of ghouls just reached No 2 in the UK charts, and their symphonic metal – complete with bat wings, confetti and flamethrowers – has universal appeal

I t’s some feat bringing corpse paint to the mainstream, but Ghost have done it: the Swedes arrive for the opening night of their first UK tour in three years having seen their new album Impera reach No 2 in the charts last month.

The band’s identities were once totally secret, and although the rest remain anonymous – referred to as Nameless Ghouls, and wearing headgear that’s part steampunk, part Tom Hardy’s Bane – Ghost are a less mysterious proposition now that the theatrical Tobias Forge is known as their frontman. Not that this has had any impact on their symphonic, pop-savvy metal. What started as a doomy occult band has morphed into a blockbusting arena act, like a spooky Def Leppard without the flowing locks.

We’re two songs in and the prescient Rats already has a packed arena in raptures. Released pre-pandemic, Forge sings: “In times of turmoil, in times like these / Beliefs contagious, spreading disease.” Remove the driving guitar chugs from Spillways and in another lifetime it could be an Abba staple, such is its outrageously catchy chorus – that plinking piano opening surely a tribute to Mamma Mia from their fellow Swedes.

“Do you like a lot of oomph?” Forge enquires, before the band launch into Mummy Dust. Its zany keytar solo isn’t fooling anyone: with hulking, Metallica-esque riffs, this is Ghost’s heaviest song. On the moody Cirice, Forge slinks across the stage wearing bat wings, before funereal stomper Square Hammer inspires the most frenzied singalong of the night.

There are confetti cannon, costume changes, flamethrowers and other forms of pyro, but the band is self-aware, preventing proceedings from ever getting too cartoonish. As one of the three guitarists relishes a solo spot on From the Pinnacle to the Pit a little much for his liking, Forge playfully reprimands them with a wagging finger; this is pantomime as much as rock’n’roll.

Ghost have often delved into history for thematic fare – 2018’s Prequelle drew on the Black Death, Impera from Victorian empires – but they’ve always seemed one step ahead during their sensational, transatlantic rise. Forge has said that he’s already decided the title of Ghost’s next album; one only hopes that he’s not forgetting to take all of this in, because his band have something magnificent to offer in the present.

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Ghost has revealed details of its upcoming RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023 summer tour with special guest Amon Amarth. Produced by Live Nation and FPC Live, the 27-date tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 2nd in Concord, CA at Concord Pavilion, with stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Austin and more before wrapping up with the band’s Monday, September 11th return to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

Ghost continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the  “euphoric spectacle”  (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London’s O2 Arena and Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had  “conquered metal and the charts”  when its fifth album  IMPERA  debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace — and featuring “Spillways”—hailed as a  “sweetly constructed rock tune”  by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the GRAMMY-nominated “Call Me Little Sunshine,” and Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon” —  IMPERA  finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee  Prequelle —or as ROLLING STONE put it,  “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.” The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of  IMPERA’ s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made… All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making  IMPERA  a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.

TICKETS:  Tickets will be available starting with a Citi cardmember presale (details below) and Artist presale on Tuesday, February 14th. Additional presales will be available throughout the week before the general on sale starting Friday, February 17th at 10am local time on  Ticketmaster.com .

CITI PRESALE:  Citi is the official card of Ghost’s RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 14th at 11am ET until Thursday, February 16th at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com . 

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Ghost announce four-date UK arena tour for April 2022

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Enigmatic Swedish rockers Ghost have announced a four-date UK arena tour for April 2022.

Ghost’s sprawling European arena tour – dubbed ‘Imperatour – Europe 2022’ – opens at Manchester AO Arena on Saturday 9th April 2022 before calling in at London The O2 Arena (Mon 11th April), Glasgow The SSE Hydro (Wed 13th April) and Birmingham RWA Arena (Fri 15th April).

Following the UK leg, Papa Emeritus IV and co. then hit mainland Europe for 19 further dates throughout April and May.

Support on all shows comes from Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats and Twin Temple.

Ghost UK arena tour tickets:

Tickets to Ghost’s UK arena tour go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 9am on Friday 26th November 2021.

Ghost last played the UK in November 2019 as part of their five-date A Pale Tour Named Death tour. The two-year trek opened with a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in September 2018 and also included support slots with Metallica on their stadium tour.

Earlier this autumn, Ghost unveiled their first new song in two years, ‘Hunter’s Moon.’

Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace, ‘Hunter’s Moon’ is lifted from the soundtrack to the Halloween sequel, Halloween Kills, which hits UK cinemas in October. The song came with a suitable macabre video:

‘Hunter’s Moon’ will get a single release on vinyl on 21st January featuring a B‑side by legendary composer John Carpenter.

In September, Ghost premiered their cover of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ from the charity covers album ‘The Metallica Blacklist.’

Ghost’s April UK tour dates:

Manchester AO Arena – Sat 9th

London The O2 Arena – Mon 11th

Glasgow The SSE Hydro – Wed 13th

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge (aka Papa Emeritus) unmasked

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GWAR’s Blothar unmasked

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Slipknot’s Alessandro Venturella unmasked

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KISS’s Paul Stanley unmasked and without makeup

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Slipknot’s Jim Root unmasked

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Behemoth’s Nergal unmasked and without makeup

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Ex-Slipknot percussionist Chris Fehn unmasked

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KISS’s Gene Simmons unmasked and without makeup

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KISS’s Eric Singer unmasked and without makeup

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KISS’s Tommy Thayer unmasked and without makeup

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Ghost Nameless Ghoul unmasked

In March 2017, a Swedish musician called Martin Persner shared a video claiming he was formerly a Nameless Ghoul in Ghost called Omega. He left the band in July 2016 after a seven-year stint.

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The Cult add extra London show to 2024 UK anniversary tour

It comes after the band announced a 40th-anniversary tour earlier this month

The Cult have added an extra London show to their upcoming anniversary tour. Check out ticket details below.

The announcement comes just days after the rock icons announced details of an upcoming UK tour for the end of 2024 – which will see them celebrate 40 years as a band.

Upcoming shows will be held in 10 cities across the country, and mark the milestone anniversary of Ian Astbury and co. coming together as we recognise them today – swapping their name from the original title ‘Death Cult’ into ‘The Cult’.

Now, following the initial date at London’s Royal Albert Hall selling out, the band have announced details of a second show in the UK capital, this time held at the Roundhouse venue in Camden.

The date is added as an extension to the original run of shows and will take place on Tuesday, November 5 – the day after the Royal Albert Hall gig. Tickets are available now and you can check out an updated itinerary for the UK shows below.

The Cult 2024 updated tour dates are:

OCTOBER 21 – Leicester, De Montfort Hall 22– Swansea, Swansea Arena  24 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall [SOLD OUT] 25 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 27 – Bristol, Beacon [LOW TICKETS]  29 – York, Barbican 30 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall      

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NOVEMBER: 1 – Portsmouth, Guildhall 2 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 4 – London, Royal Albert Hall [SOLD OUT] 5 – London, Roundhouse

The dates for 2024 come following a tour the band embarked on last year, celebrating 40 years since their first formation under the name ‘Death Cult’ .

Taking place around the UK, Ireland and the US, the tour was called ‘Death Cult 8323’ and saw Duffy and Astbury return to play iconic venues they previously performed in at the start of their career.

The live shows focused on Death Cult and their eponymous EPs, and also boasted a setlist that spanned “the three phases of the band, from Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and The Cult’s first two albums: ‘Dreamtime’ (1984) and ‘Love’ (1985).”

Announcing the new run of dates, guitarist Billy Duffy said: “Following up from the great energy of ‘Death Cult 8323’ shows, I’m looking forward to bringing that sense of celebration of the band’s music, and the communion with our fans, to ‘Cult 8424’… CFFC. Let the ceremony commence!”

More recently, Billy Duffy joined Johnny Marr on stage in Frome last summer to play tracks by The Smiths and Depeche Mode .

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