Ghost’s upcoming covers EP will help them experiment with the new direction they’re taking for their next album, one of the band’s Nameless Ghoul has revealed.
He says the as-yet-untitled record, due out this autumn, incorporates “different elements” so that fans can gradually get comfortable with the band’s change in sound when they release the full-length follow-up to last year’s Meliora.
The Ghoul tells No Brown M&Ms: “I’m not gonna throw stones at the show that we’re doing right now, but this was definitely a baby format of what I had in mind.
“On an ideal night, at a big theatre, it looks okay – it’s cool and it maximises the thing that we’re doing. But I felt that we really need another chance to show what we can do if we have a bigger production on this cycle.
“Doing this covers EP is a little bit recreational in a way. It’s also a good way for us to incorporate elements.
“If you hear the EP, don’t think that, ‘Oh, the next album is gonna sound exactly like this,’ but that is a good way for us to sneak in elements. You might hear a synth sound like this on the next record, but not as evident.”
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Speaking about their 2013 cover of Roky Erickson’s If You Have Ghosts, he describes it as “definitely a new dimension of pop-rock that we hadn’t really done before. It’s sort of closer to R.E.M. than it is Black Sabbath.”
He adds: “We’re not doing the same thing this time, but we’re doing something else in order to get people to feel comfortable with the direction of the next album.”
A Nameless Ghoul previously said the EP would “re-energise” Ghost’s album cycle.
The band are currently touring Europe, and will appear at this year’s Download festival at Donington on June 12.
Ghost tour dates 2016
May 29: Rockavaria, Germany
May 30: Stodola, Poland
May 31: Berlin Waldbuehne, Germany
Jun 03: Metallsvanskan, Sweden
Jun 10: Download, France
Jun 11: Pinkpop, Netherlands
Jun 12: Download, UK
Jun 15: Fornebu Telenor Arena, Norway
Jun 16: Bergenfest, Norway
Jun 18: Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium
Jun 19: Hellfest, France
Jun 21: Herning Jyske Bank Boxen, Denmark
Jun 24: Tons Of Rock, Norway
Jun 30: Roskilde, Denmark
Jul 02: Hell & Heaven, Mexico
Jul 29: Lollapalooza, IL
Sep 17: Rock Allegiance, PA
