Ghost’s Tobias Forge & The Hellacopters Team Up To Cover Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil

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Ghost frontman Tobias Forge has teamed up with The Hellacopters for a cover of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Sympathy For The Devil’. The performance was aired last Friday as part of Sweden’s televised quiz show På Spåret on TV network SVT.

For the performance, Tobias Forge dressed as his latest persona, Papa Emeritus IV, the fourth of Ghost’s ghoulish frontmen. The cover see’s the Ghost frontman deliver a sombre, more subdued version of the track. Check the cover out below:

Here’s the original for comparison:

Ghost’s fifth studio album, led by Papa Emeritus IV, is currently set for release in Autumn 2021.

Last year, talking to Swedens VK, Forge said the new album won’t be a pandemic based album saying “I have already made a record about God’s wrath and doomsday, even if ‘Prequelle’ was not about just infection from a medical perspective. But I have a feeling that there will be plenty of doomsday and quarantine-confirming records in the future [from other bands], and I think I might not participate in it.”

Forge also revealed previously, in an interview with 1428 elm from 2019, that the next album from the band would consist of “Slightly more riffage” than 2018’s ‘Prequelle’, saying “I always say that each new album is like a reaction to each of the previous so since Prequelle is not a hard rock or heavy, heavy metal album, the natural reaction to that will be to write something that isn’t — I don’t want to use the word ‘soft.’ It will be different from Prequelle, the same way Prequelle was different from Meliora, etc. I’ll write a record that we don’t have yet, because otherwise what’s the point? But I definitely have an album in mind with slightly more riffage.”