self-titled

May 27, 2011

Ghost snagged a feature with self-titled in the lead up to their first apperance in the United States. The article is still available on the website here:

As there is some text corruption and the original links in the article lead to some dead sites, I have done my best to restore the original here using the Internet Archive and correcting the corruption errors

FEATURE: Ghost's The Ghoul With No Name Shares Some Life Lessons

Since Stockholm’s very own Ghost are playing a pair of rare stateside shows in the coming week–one at Maryland Deathfest on Sunday, and one at Webster Hall’s small Studio space next Wednesday night–we asked their anonymous frontman (The Ghoul With No Name, specifically) one simple question: let’s say you know you’re going to die tomorrow, and you’re asked to leave behind a list of five tips on how to live your life the Ghost way. What would that list say?

We expected answers involving sacrificial lambs and grease paint; we got this instead…

How To Live Your Life the Ghost Way:

1. Quite your job, but don't tell anyone. (And if fiancée's friends and family ask why, don't say anything.)
2. Pursue ambitius rock star career, but don't tell anyone.
3. Be away from home for roughly 100 days in a year, but don't tell anyone why...
4. Finally tell fiancée's friends and family that you have actually quit your job in order to try to make a living off of music, but when they slame the "LOSER!" tag on your face, don't tell anybody about the Grammy.
5. List five really pretentious tips on how to live life in perfect Ghost manner, but don't tell anyone."

Note: It seems in the early years, some festivals and publications did not interpret Nameless Ghoul as the title we know it as now. This is one of several instances I have found where "Nameless Ghoul" has been paraphrased by a publication. Proof that the devil might be on your side, but editors answer to a different master.

Likely the Grammy they are refering to is the 2011 Swedish Grammis nomination.