Anyway, you gotta admire Tobi's creativity. He writes a very retro sounding song, so how does he tie it with the mythology? but of course it's a song sang by a young Papa Nihil in the summer of love
No doubt there!
I am pretty new to the Ghost train so am not up on the mythology of the band. But damn if I don't enjoy the music. Can't wait to see the show in 7 days!
The backstory in short:
The band Ghost "belongs" to a satanic cult that wants to spread satanism throughout the world or whatever, they identify themselves as "the clergy", that's why whenever you see some announcement it's always "The Clergy wishes to inform you that....".
The whole thing is a spoof of the catholic church so the singer presents himself as "Papa Emeritus". After every album the "pope" got replaced, because he wasn't spreading the message good enough, and so Papa Emeritus got replaced with Emeritus II and he, in turn, with Emeritus III (always the same singer, Tobias Forge).
When Emeritus III got the boot, he got dragged by "security" out of the stage, and appeared a very, very old looking "pope", called "Papa Nihil" or "Papa 0", basically the mastermind of the whole thing. He announced a new chapter and eventually the new singer (again, always the same dude with a different character) was now a cardinal - Cardinal Copia, the current frontman. (It was becoming predictable and stale to change pope with every album, so they came up with the idea of a cardinal this time around).
So this is where we are now, and these two now songs, sounding very retro, are being presented as a 50th anniversary re-release of an album that never existed in the first place, and sung by Papa Nihil when he was young (in the video clip the caption clearly mark the year as 1969). I don't know which idea came first to Tobias - to have an EP with the "very old singer from the '60s" hence he wrote two songs in that style, or he happened to write two songs in that style and came up with the backstory of forgotten 1969 recordings to justify that.
The point is that there's a good theatricality and creative fun behind the whole Ghost image and it's not to be taken tremendously seriously, enjoy the ride and this mashup of satanic cults, slapstick comedy as it can be seen in the short videos they're posting on YouTube and good rocking music