Watch Ghost tear through Kaisarion live in clip from upcoming movie Rite Here Rite Now

Papa Emeritus IV of Ghost onstage in 2023
(Image credit: Ghost via Youtube)

Ghost have released a short clip from their upcoming film Rite Here Rite Now, showing the pop-metal pontiffs play 2022 track Kaisarion.

The 81-second snippet can be watched via the video player below.

Ghost have also announced that the movie, which will combine concert footage with a fictitious narrative, will spend extra time in global cinemas, and can now be viewed from June 20 to 23.

Tickets to showings are now available.

A soundtrack album will be released on July 26. A preview of the record, a live version of 2015 song Absolution, can be streamed now.

Rite Here Rite Now was announced on May 1 and its trailer came out on May 9.

Ghost founder and lead singer Tobias “Papa Emeritus” Forge commented: “Over a decade ago when Ghost got signed to [current record label] Loma Vista, Tom Whalley (owner and CEO) asked what the story of the band was.

“He felt telling a story was vital in order to get new fans engaged.

“I said that because we were a new ‘baby’ band and more importantly we were an anonymous baby band, there wasn’t really a compelling story to tell.

“Not yet anyway.

“But I told him that if he wanted a story, I could come up with one.

“This film is the fruit of that conversation.”

Rite Here Rite Now will combine footage filmed during the band’s two-night residency in Los Angeles last year with newly shot footage inspired by their long-running ‘webisode’ series.

Kaisarion originally appeared on Ghost’s latest album Impera. The band are expected to release a followup record soon, and Forge said onstage during the band’s final Impera tour date in October that he will next be seen as a different persona.

Forge has historically changed to a new “era” of the Papa Emeritus character for every new album cycle.

Forge said in a 2022 interview that he already knew the title, sound and approximate release date of Ghost’s next album.

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