I’ve given the album two good listens since it came out today.

It’s pretty good but i have a few complaints.
-First, at 40 minutes it’s a little short, especially considering 3 of the tracks are instrumentals.
-We already heard the best songs before we even had this. Rats and Dance Macabre are just incredible tunes, but the drop off to the next tier of songs is steep.
-Too ballad heavy. It needs a Mummy Dust-type rocker. If it had one more heavy tune, it solves all three of these issues.

It’s ballsy having two full-length instrumentals. I like that courage. 30 years later i’m still waiting for Slash to have that type of courage.

Rex wrote:

Ghost's new album "Prequelle" drops on Friday, June 1. Here's a couple of tracks off that.

Dance Macabre is the song of the year. It’s full-on pop, yeah, but so catchy and memorable. The hook was stuck in my head for days after 1 listen.

And there’s actually some really clever lyrical things going on when you know the song is about the plague and spending your last hours alive making the most of every second.

I learned about this album here, I think, and I randomly saw it on my Amazon thing and I thought... fuck it, I'm giving these guys a chance. The vinyl is beautiful and they have all the old school horror vibe (they steal everything visually in the Rats video from other horror films - but at least they are artistic and visual about it, like KISS, but to a hardcore horror fan, despite the average viewer not having a clue it's all stolen). At least it isn't Rob Zombie retardation... well besides the white horse in the video... which is also akin to spaghetti western ideals where he who rides the white horse is a ghost.