Ghost's fabulous latest album is officially our album of the year - but who else made the list?

From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal ...

The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover, heading up a Spooky Season special issue, with a choice of Papa IV dressed as a Halloween ghost or the frontman in a shiny gold suit. It also ...

That’s why the records by those bands, along with 10 more listed here, represent the genre’s best — and heaviest — albums ...

If you’ve had any reservations about Ghost in the past, cast them aside, pop in Prequelle, and crank it to 11; this album will make you a believer. On the surface, Prequelle is an album about the ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

For all its legendarily sacrilegious, soulless lyricism and unholy mocking costuming, Ghost – the Swedish Satanic doom metal act with anonymous membership whose album “Meliora” won a 2016 Grammy for ...

Instead, the singer and sole creative force behind Ghost identified the more open-ended aspects he's looking for in the producer of his band's next album, what will be the follow-up to 2018's ...

His name is Cardinal Copia, but this guy’s no choirboy. The cross he wears is inverted, his face is obscured by spooky makeup and he sings hymns that praise Lucifer. Copia — aka Swedish musician ...

If you’re simply after some solid Swedish heavy metal music, this Grammy Award-winning band will quench your thirst. But if you’re also on the hunt for a sinister-looking crew destined to give you ...

“Can Ghost be considered a metal band?” is an argument that’s been raging ever since the band’s second album, when they emerged from out of the occult metal underground, adored by all the cool kids, ...

Doom comes in a variety of flavors. The Swedish band Ghost prefers its heavy metal to be loud but melodic, scary but inclusive. As the enigmatic group played Monday to a full house at the Mayan, it ...