10MELIORA GHOST

(2015)

The title of Ghost’s third album roughly translates from Latin as “something better” – fitting for what band leader Tobias Forge conceived as a more guitar-driven opus. Anonymity has always been at the core of Ghost’s self-made mythology, and while Forge has withheld the true identities of the ‘Nameless Ghouls’ who’ve handled guitar duties over the years, it is known that two Gibson SGS, a 1962 Les Paul and a Fender Telecaster were used in the making of Meliora. Each guitar was fed through three different amps to create the album’s rich and impenetrably fortified wall of sound.