Metal Hammer UK

HAVE YOU EVER DONE A SICK IN YOUR MASK?

WITH GHOST, TOBIAS Forge has turned metal into camp and ghastly ecclesiastical theatre. The Swedish frontman has imagined a cast of ghoulish, sassy characters into life; decapitated anti-popes, squeezed a sassy cardinal into too-tight velvet trousers, and taken their 80s-indebted arena rock into the UK’s biggest venues, while the band’s fifth album, Impera, has given them a Top 3 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Tobias has brought the fun back into heavy music, but with no mitre to hide behind this time, can he handle your questions?

I got into horror movies because of Ghost. What are your favourite horror movies, and what horror movies would you recommend?

@The_Moon_Thief, Twitter

“There’s two branches of horror movies for me. There’s old classic slasher films, as in and stuff like that, but then you have the really good horror films, the ones made by really talented directors who primarily don’t doby Stanley Kubrick, by Steven Spielberg, by Francis Ford Coppola,

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