Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Red Vinyl) SUB70945.1 Simone was in her mid-20s

Simone was in her mid-20s and still aspiring to be a classical concert pianist

If the previous album was the coming of age

a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns

bruised shins

Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Red Vinyl) SUB70945.1 Simone was in her mid-20sStanding motionless and anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes (which their sect demand), the six nameless ghouls of Ghost deliver litanies of sexually pulsating heavy rock music and romantic lyrics, which glorify and glamorise the disgusting and sacrilegious. The simple intention to communicate a message of pure evil via the most effective device they can find: Entertainment. This is Black Metal at its most original and deceiving;