Ghost has gained its first-ever American Music Award within the newly debuted Favorite Rock Album class. The critically acclaimed, chart-topping IMPERA edged out competitors from Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to win the vote.
Featuring the Rock Radio No.1s “Call Me Little Sunshine”—just lately nominated for a Best Metal Performance Grammy—and “Hunter’s Moon”—the tip credit track from 2021’s No.1 R-Rated movie Halloween Kills—in addition to the at the moment climbing “Spillways,” IMPERA was launched March 11, 2022 by way of Loma Vista Recordings.
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “an escapist rock & roll album,” IMPERA “conquered rock, metal, and the charts” (as reported by the Los Angeles Times), debuting at No.1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, and getting into the Billboard 200 at No.2.
Produced by Klas Åhlund and combined by Andy Wallace, IMPERA units essentially the most present and topical Ghost subject material thus far in opposition to a hypnotic and darkly colourful melodic backdrop, leading to a hear like no different, but unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost. IMPERA’s launch has been supported by the “euphoric spectacle” (Rolling Stone) of the 70+ date IMPERATOUR area tour, throughout which the Wall Street Journal christened Ghost “the next generation of arena stars.”
Back in September, the band launched the official reside video for his or her stunning viral smash “Mary On A Cross.” The efficiency footage for the Ryan Chang-directed clip was filmed on September 6 on the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida through the summer season 2022 leg of the band’s IMPERATOUR.
In a message shared alongside the video, the band wrote, “We wish to inform you that all good things must come to an end. Although the US Imperatour will wrap this weekend we wanted to leave you with this token of our appreciation for your continued support. Watch ‘Mary on a Cross – Live from Tampa 2022.’”