THE SHUDDER OF '69
The history of Ghost has been rewritten. According to the assumed timeline, the line of Satanic papal succession that fronts the band made its first musical outing in 2010, with the Opus Eponymous-preceding single, Elizabeth. As it turns out, lost in the mists of history, and discarded along the boulevard of broken dreams, is another single that predates Elizabeth by four decades: Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic, featuring the tracks Kiss The Go-Goat and . A slice of psychedelia’n’sulphur-sprinkled 60s rock, the songs were fronted by a then-young, yet-to-be-frocked and heedless Papa Nihil. But for all ’s Hammond organ-backed groove, plaintively powerful chorus and hips-possessing refrain, the single clearly never reached beyond the LA clubs where it was first performed. Until now.
