Watch Ghost perform three track acoustic set live in Chicago

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Ghost perform Rats, Cirice and Jigolo Har Megiddo live in the studio for Chicago radio station 101 WKQX

Ghost's Tobias Forge (Image credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis - Getty)

Ghost (opens in new tab) were recently special guests on Chicago radio station 101 WKQX (opens in new tab).

Tobias Forge and co played a short acoustic set for the station’s Live In The Lounge segment which saw them perform Rats, Cirice and Jigolo Har Megiddo.

The broadcaster has now uploaded three videos from the session and although the lighting is low, the band sound on top form. Check out all three clips below.

Ghost frontman Forge reported in February that work had already begun work on the follow-up to 2018’s Prequelle, and earlier this month said he was planning to make the new album “darker” and “heavier”.

He told Revolver (opens in new tab): “I want to make a different record from Prequelle. I want it to feel different. If I dare to say heavier, people think that it's going to be Mercyful Fate all the way – but I definitely have a darker, heavier record in mind.

“I have always pushed myself to write the songs that we don't have instead of going back. It maybe would've been a smart move to just try to replicate Opus Eponymous.

“I can regurgitate. I grew up with metal. It's in my DNA, so I can formulate death-metal lyrics easily. But I try not to repeat myself on that."

Ghost will head out on the road from September across North America on The Ultimate Tour Named Death (opens in new tab).

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.