During an interview with The Metal Voice, Tobias Forge was asked if Ghost would ever record a full-blown concept album. He responded by saying his previous albums have been “thematical” and “that the next record will be more thematical in the same vein as the previous ones.” However, he did add that he could “definitely see the concept of doing more of a rock opera in the future.”
Forge said the following:
“The records that I’ve done so far [have] been thematical — loose conceptual… litte bit of a framing… As of right now, I know that the next record will be more thematical in the same vein as the previous ones. I can definitely see the concept of doing more of a rock opera in the future… If I’d ever make a rock opera the way that I think we’re talking about here, it would probably — probably — not be necessarily a rock record; it would probably be more classical, more vocal and more traditionally the sort of stuff that you’d hear on a musical — not any musical, but more score-based, if that makes sense.”
He continued:
“For eons, there was this QUEEN musical in London, and I think it was called ‘We Will Rock You’ — that or ‘Mamma Mia!’ [musical based on the songs of ABBA] is based off of a huge catalog of already established music. And I don’t think that that would be what we would be going for. It would be probably something more like, ‘Here’s a completely different record written for this purpose.’ Having said that, I don’t feel necessarily that a rock record would be suitable for that. But I don’t know. We’re not there yet. Maybe in the future. We will see. We will see.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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