Ghost has released another song from their upcoming covers EP!
The band has shared a cover of Iron Maiden’s 1980 song “Phantom of the Opera.” The song will be featured on “Phantomime,” which will be out on May 18.
In 2022, Ghost’s Tobias Forge said Iron Maiden has been a “massive influence” on him, explaining:
“When I was a kid, I was sitting with [Iron Maiden’s 1985 live album] ‘Live After Death’ record and I was dead set on wanting to become a professional musician and I wanted to tour. I knew about the concept of touring, but a lot of my knowledge or my preconceived notions of what I thought touring was about was looking through ‘Live After Death’ and seeing all those dates that they were playing everywhere. I sat there with like a big map book and just drew out how they toured, where they played and how often you play. That record in the inner sleeve, you have a lot of information about touring life.”
Other covers included in Ghost’s EP are Genesis’ “Jesus He Knows Me,” Television’s “See No Evil,” The Stranglers’ “Hanging Around,” and Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome).”