Source: Blabbermouth.net
According to HardDriveRadio.com, Swedish occult rockers GHOST have set “Meliora” (Latin for “better”) as the title of their third album, due on August 21. The follow-up to 2013’s“Infestissumam” was helmed by Klas Åhlund, a prolific songwriter, producer and guitarist who is also a member of the Swedish rock band TEDDYBEARS, and was mixed by Andy Wallace (SLAYER, NIRVANA, SEPULTURA, LINKIN PARK, GUNS N’ ROSES). Songtitles set to appear on the GHOST CD include “From The Pinnacle To The Pit”, “Majesty”, “Devil Church”, “He Is” and the expected first single, “Cirice”, which is tentatively due at the end of May or in early June.
GHOST‘s June 4 appearance at this year’s Sweden Rock Festival will serve as the group’s live debut with “new” singer Papa Emeritus III, the three-month-younger brother ofGHOST‘s previous frontman, Papa Emeritus II (pictured).
The latest issue of Sweden Rock Magazine marked GHOST‘s final photo session with Papa Emeritus II before he was “fired” and succeeded by Papa Emeritus III.
GHOST is planning to return to the studio before the summer to record several cover songs, including one by Leonard Cohen and another by the ’80s Swedish band IMPERIET.
GHOST‘s last release was a covers EP, “If You Have Ghost”, which sold around 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 87 on The Billboard 200 chart. Issued on November 19, 2013 via Loma Vista Recordings, the five-track EP was recorded and produced by Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS, NIRVANA), and included cover versions of songs by ROKY ERICKSON, ABBA, ARMY OF LOVERS and DEPECHE MODE, plus a live version of the GHOST offering “Secular Haze”, recorded in Brooklyn earlier that year.
“Infestissumam” was certified gold in Sweden last fall for sales in excess of 20,000 copies.
Note: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Sweden has revised the sales requirements for albums to reach gold status in the country twice in the last seven years — from the pre-2002 level of 40,000 to the current 20,000.