Metal Anarchy

Henrik Palm (ex-Ghost) will be releasing a new album, titled “Idiot Plot,” on December 4. The first single, “Familiar Stranger,” can be found below:

“Idiot Plot” Track Listing:

01. “I Wanna Be Your Dork”
02. “Familiar Stranger”
03. “Homebody”
04. “The Road To Absolute Obscurity”
05. “Coffee Knuckles”
06. “Prole”
07. “Spiritual Faux Pas”
08. “Missing Gnome in the Devil Dome”
09. “Patzer”

Palm commented:

“One could claim that boredom is the mother of invention. If boredom equals sobriety and a more healthy lifestyle, then I happily join the choir.

Late summer 2024 I hit the wall and didn’t wanna do anything. Nothing. Nada. The thought of playing and making music repulsed me. Years of bad mental health and self-abuse took its toll. Something had to change and to just let it all go felt GREAT. But… Flash forward a couple of weeks and I met up with Simon [Söderberg, producer] for a coffee. He suggested we meet up and just make a song for fun. I was hesitant but said ‘sure…’ Every other Sunday we made a new song (still just for ‘fun’) in his studio and slowly I felt some familiar version of joy come back. Not full-on euphoria but a good laugh and a half at least.

The songs kept coming and all of a sudden Simon said ‘Okay, we have an album.’ And that album is what you can listen to here. It’s called ‘Idiot Plot’. The title is nicked from literary criticism and is sometimes used to describe stories, movies or other art forms where the plot is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot. It’s also a fitting way to describe my own career. Or even — dare I say — the music industry in general. In contrast to the sober state in which the album was created it’s far more psychedelic than my previous outings. It’s also weirder but at the same time more straightforward.

I hope you dig the album.”