- 2025-04-13
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MUSIC
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Ghost Releases New Song “Lachryma”
Swedish rock band Ghost released a new song “Lachryma” on April 11, 2025.
The song is the second single off of their upcoming sixth studio album “Skeletá”, which is set to be released on April 25, 2025.
The album is their first LP in three years since the 2022 album “Impera”.
The track was written by Tobias Forge and Max Grahn. Produced by Gene Walker.
The accompanying music video was directed by Amir Chamdin, who also directed the previous video for Satanized”.
The band frontman Tobias Forge told Metal Hammer about the song, “It opens with more of a riffage. And I guess now comes off as somewhat of a 'typical' GHOST mash-up, where it's heavy on one end and met with a big, bombastic chorus. That's a song about self-deceit.”- The new album comprises 10 songs and is its most introspective work to date. Produced by Gene Walker.
The lyrics offer a conversational, one-on-one portrayal of the emotional landscape in each of the 10 songs.
Tobias Forge told Brent Porche of Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR radio station about the album, “It is a record that is introspective to a further degree, I guess, than especially the previous record [2022's 'Impera']. Just to be clear, I do believe that most artists usually create a new record based on where they were on the previous one - not as a counter-reaction, but usually there's something that you wish to achieve that you maybe didn't on the previous[ one] or you wanna change something or just fill your... At the end of the day, what you're doing is basically you're filling your repertoire with hopefully songs that you didn't have before.” -
He continued, “But thematically, I usually have some sort of thematic guideline when I write, first and foremost for myself in order to make sense of what the new record is so it's not too whimsically just about everything at the same time. But where 'Impera' was very much not only extroverted, but exteriorly reflecting on bigger society, social issues, and also, as the title implies, imperial structure and its ultimate demise, it didn't feel very productive to continue down that and make an 'Impera 2', talking about the continual demise of... I was more attracted to the idea of this this record that was more shining a light in inside and making a record about healing aspects of being essentially a human being in whatever structural design, because at the end of the day, most humans are surprisingly alike and display the same abilities to sentiments. And these sentiments are usually quite basic. And that idea was attractive to me - making a record that had a song about hope, had a song about hate, had a song about love, acceptance and all these things.” - source : Apple Music
