Ghost & Amon Amarth at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

GHOST continues to elevate & reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed & celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the “euphoric spectacle” (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing & increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from the New York’s Barclays Center to London’s O2 Arena. In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported that Ghost had “conquered metal & the charts” when its 5th album IMPERA debuted at #1 in a sweep of the US album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 & bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany & Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2) & more. Produced by Klas Åhlund & mixed by Andy Wallace — & feat. “Spillways”—hailed as a “sweetly constructed rock tune” by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the #7 YouTube trending “Call Me Little Sunshine,” & Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon” — IMPERA finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle—or as ROLLING STONE put it, “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.” All in all, the most current & topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic & darkly colorful melodic backdrop making IMPERA a listen like no other, yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.

Formed in 1992, Amon Amarth became modern metal greats the hard way. The Swedes steadily built a formidable reputation as a ferocious live band and, as the years passed, were increasingly recognised for their recorded achievements. Breakthrough releases like 2006’s With Oden On Our Side and 2008’s Twilight Of The Thunder God, cemented their popularity throughout the metal world. Jomsviking (2015) hit the #1 spot in Germany’s official album chart and swiftly became their most successful worldwide release to date. Amon Amarth return to action in 2019, with their biggest, boldest and most bombastic musical statement to date. Amon Amarth – completed by vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström and drummer Jocke Wallgren – know that expectations for their next move are at an all-time high. The excellent news is that the band’s 11th studio album, the aptly-named Berserker, is guaranteed to have all discerning metal fans punching the air with joy. Today, Amon Amarth stand tall and unassailable: over 25 years into a career that has seen them evolve from humble origins in the dark, dank rehearsal rooms of their native Tumba to their current status as explosive festival headliners and one of the metal world’s most widely adored bands. All of this and more has been captured in the band’s recent live DVD and documentary, The Pursuit Of Vikings: 25 Years In The Eye Of The Storm.