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2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Ryan Chang

Lights? Blinding. Pyro? Sizzling. Shamelessly Judas Priest-indebted Grucifix hovering above the stage? Stupidly big. Mummy Dust? Everywhere. 23,000 people? Completely enraptured. Five days before Easter Sunday, inside Manchester’s sprawling AO Arena there’s an even more important resurrection happening. Eighteen months since they last stepped offstage, Ghost are making one of 2025’s most anticipated returns, kicking off their global Skeletour jaunt, appropriately enough, in the city’s Cathedral district.

1 month ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Ryan Chang

At one point tonight, Ghost, so convincingly they give you no reason to doubt them, appear to be playing in Hell. At another, they lift the AO Arena from its housing in the shadow of Manchester Cathedral and place it somewhere in the celestial aether. Should it be a cathedral you want, they both build and destroy one during the course of two hours. And that’s not even really the main event. Tobias Forge has been promising something special for the Skeletá world tour.

1 month ago | thefulcrum.ca | Andrew Wilimek |Ryan Chang

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a shocking return from the graveyard of history, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union (UOSU) has reported they have received a club status request and funding request from a group of former executives from the now-disbanded Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The UOSU has confirmed that the request was quickly and firmly denied despite protests from the group.

Mar 7, 2025 | kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Ryan Chang

Tobias Forge has explained why Ghost are making their next tour a phone-free experience for the audience. Fresh from announcing their sixth album Skeletá (and therefore confirming that this upcoming tour name is, naturally, Skeletour), the singer tells Loudwire Nights that the crowd were “phenomenal” for their Rite Here Rite Now phone-free pair of shows in Los Angeles in 2023, and it made Ghost want to do the same again this time around.

Oct 30, 2024 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ryan Chang

They put on one of the best rock shows on the planet, but if you’re thinking of heading to Ghost’s recently-announced 2025 world tour, then you won’t be able to take any photos or videos of the gig from your phone. Papa and his ghouls have revealed that next year’s headline shows will be phone-free, with the official tour poster on their website reading: “This show will be a phone-free experience. Phones will be secured in Yondr pouches.