Metal Injection
June 1, 2011 (?)
As the success of this devil worshiping ministry grew and their unholy gospel spread from shore to shore it was only natural that their growing congregants would be clamoring for more of them. We had a taste of the high that the devil’s oblivion brings and we wanted more.
Hearing our cry, two nameless ghouls sat down with Frank Godla from Metal Injection, likely during Ghost’s first steps of corruption on the American shores either at Deathfest or before the ritual at The Studio @ Webster Hall.*
Transcript
Omega........nameless Ghoul on the left
Phil.............nameless Ghoul on the right
Frank..........Frank Godla, interviewer
Omega: We’re Ghost, [and] here to get your fix on Metal Injection
[Title Card with musical sting]
Frank: What’s up guys, Frank here with a couple of the unnamed ghouls of Ghost
[clip of Elizabeth performance]
Frank: I’m sure as a couple of uh, immortal ghouls, it must be pretty hard to find one another. It’s not as though you’re gonna run into at like, a local library or a club or something like that. What really brought this congregation together?
Phil: The mission caste upon [this] cell to form…I guess we had to form a band? And uh, with reliable chaps that could handle their instruments [in] unison..uh…so we did.
Frank: I understand that you’re using metal music as your medium for your message and, uh, is there any specific reason why you chose metal music for that?
Phil: The music and the lyrical content is um…quite transparently devilish. Uh, [it] was very suitable to use metal oriented music, uh, in order to put a message across. Unlike a lot of, uh, our colleges who have, uh, set out to, uh, spread basically the same exact message but in, uh, lot more, uh, subtle way.
[second clip of Elizabeth performance]
Frank: Is there any musical or outside otherwise influences, uh, for, uh, Ghost?
Phil: We have a lot of influences and…uh…from a lot of different, uh, kind of genres that doesn’t necessarily have to do with metal. Although, most of them are probably…rock and some of them used to be called heavy metal.
Frank: A little over a year ago Fenriz from Darkthrone, uh, is really, what kind of…I guess, put you guys out there ‘n you know, brought attention to you guys. Um…and in a quote he actually said that, uh, ‘Ghost will be the It band of 2010 and beyond,’ but I just wanna know, how do you guys feel about Darkthrone?
Phil: I think they’re a great band…uh…’specially the old stuff…was, um…monumental.
Frank: Being an unconventional band, what kind of activities do you do--unlike other bands, you know, while you're touring?
Omega: To each his own, really. I, myself, read a lot of books, listen to lots of music [just] by myself.
Uh…whereas…some of the other guys is, uh-
I mean they’re-
It’s no…
It’s not much of a group in that sense we’re, we’re like um…basically we don’t need to be with each other at all times. We’d rather not.
[clip of Ritual performance]
Frank: There’s a lot of talk right now of the apocalypse coming about in 2012 and all. How do you feel about the apocalypse? Do you have any insight as to how it’s gonna happen?
Omega: It’s happening. It’s uh-
Phil: It’s happening all the time. We’re-
That’s uh, I think that’s one of um…uh…they’re called misconceptions of--uh…of actually the th- the apocalyp- apocalyptic future. People tend to forget that we’re…pretty much-
Omega: We’re running it.
Phil[overlapping]: Yeah. Pretty much.
Omega[overlapping]: You know
Omega: [indistinguishable] Really, I’d say we, um, concerning the environment-I don’t know. Personally, I-I-I consider it a yoke on the, uh, businessmen claim that- the uh, the scientist say, when the scientist go ‘oh no, we have to do something about it’ and the business say- business men say ‘That’s just, uh, that’s just an idea. That’s just an [observation] from you.’ Which, where as I say it’s not, because the scientist have no winning thing telling this to us, at all. Where as the businessmen has, have to have somethings that’s the other way. So…I’d, I’d say it's happening all and, uh, and [laughs] There’s really no one else to blame but ourselves, so…
Frank: If you haven’t already, check out the new record, ‘Opus Eponymous’...and if you can, check ‘em out on tour if they’re around.
*The upload date for the YouTube video is September 18, 2011[1] and the original post date for the interview on the Metal Injection site is June 23, 2011[2]. However I found a reference to the interview in an article for Metal Injection by Robert Pasbani who is the videographer for it in an article about the upcoming Ghost US Tour mentioning missing the New York show, but managing to talk to two of the ghouls in their first video interview[3]. Which probably means they were either able to catch them earlier at Deathfest, or got an interview in before the doors opened at The Studio.