Tobias Forge said that Ghost "already has some songs" for their upcoming album.
In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer , the frontman explained the songwriting process: “I like to compare what I’m doing to being a chef,” he says. “A chef with a few different interests and specialties. So you can open a few different restaurants – an Italian one, a Greek one, an Asian fusion one.”
“But what they all have in common is the seasoning and the decoration and the interior design… the secret sauce. With me, each album, each new cycle, is a new restaurant, but I don’t have to sit with a blank page and invent something new each time because the secret sauce is the same. If it comes from my notebook, it will sound like Ghost.”
Forge also commented on bringing in outside collaborators to help with the songwriting, such as Klas Åhlund ( Britney Spears , Charlie XCX ), Salem Al Fakir and Vincent Pontare ( Madonna , Avicii ), and Peter Svensson from The Cardigans : “What they all have in common is that they all come from a rock background,” explains Forge. “Peter from The Cardigans is an old hard rocker, Klas Åhlund is an old metalhead.”
“These are friends of mine, and we flow very well together. I know that when I take an idea as far as I can, they can say, ‘Maybe we can do this, maybe we can go that way…’ Suddenly, it opens my mind. It becomes multidimensional. I think better when I have someone in the room I trust. It makes me write better because I’m challenged.”
Ghost released the album Impera in 2022, which reached number one on the US album sales chart.
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