Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus III seems to have a pretty diverse musical taste, though it seems like a lot of his likes are older music if you're going off Ghost's cover songs.
In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Rock Show With Daniel P Carter, Emeritus says some of his favorite artists over the years have been Guns N' Roses, King Diamond, Metallica, and even more recently Sia, and also talks a little bit about life on tour and his favorite Ghost song.
This might sound a little bit strange, but usually when I’m on tour, I don’t think too much about our own material. It’s something that you perform and sort of goes through your body. Luckily when you do have a crowd—when you do have an audience and there’s that sort of feedback and that circulation; I—at least, myself—I don’t find it tedious playing songs that you’ve played 500 times, because you have a recipient and there’s like a conversation.
So it sort of gets new every time. Your mind is sort of not only focusing on the music. "Cirice" is definitely one of those where there’s sort of a natural movement in it. Because it has pauses and it has… I just find it even now, looking back on it, "hmm, that got quite OK. I like it."
I love everything Ghost has done up to this point, but I've got to agree with Emeritus – "Cirice" is just such a damn good song it's a little ridiculous. If you somehow missed "Cirice," check that out below, and then listen to the full interview below that!
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[via The PRP]
