Damn it, Dave Grohl, when do you sleep? The coolest motherfucker in music is currently promoting a new documentary, Sound City. He is also working with Queens of the Stone Age, drumming on their new album. On top of that, he somehow found time to contribute to a Ghost track.
The track is a cover of Abba's "I'm A Marionette" and it will appear as the B-side when Ghost release their single "Secular Haze" on 10 inch clear vinyl. You can pre-order it here.
The band previously told Decibel why they chose to cover Abba:
"We are Swedish, and Abba has always been a very, very strong part of our modern musical heritage. We all grew up with their music very present. Not only that — Abba basically took a few hundred years of traditional Swedish music and made it into pop songs. I'm talking about folk music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Anybody outside Scandinavia probably isn't familiar with those tones or musical language. But one of the reasons Abba broke through so enormously first in Sweden was probably because of their folk music influences. I think anyone from Scandinavia is easily infatuated with that sort of music, so Abba has a deeper meaning to us, I think."
Here is some live footage of the band performing the Abba cover:
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This isn't the first cover the band has done. The band covered The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" on their debut album, and completely made it their own:
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Ghost's new full-length album, Infestissumam is expected this Spring on Loma Vista Recordings. GIVE ME THE NEW GHOST RECORD ALREADY! [via Blabbermouth]
