Ghost have released an official music video for their track “Umbra,” marking the fourth single from their Billboard 200-topping sixth studio album Skeletá. The video for the latest single from the record was directed by Amir Chamdin.
The record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making Ghost the first rock act to achieve this feat since AC/DC‘s Power Up in 2020. Skeletá moved 86,000 equivalent album units in its first week in the U.S., with a remarkable 77,000 of those being pure physical sales, including 44,000 units on vinyl.
The album also topped numerous other U.S. charts, including Vinyl Albums, Independent Albums, Rock Albums, and Hard Rock Albums. Internationally, Skeletá secured the No. 1 spot in Sweden, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, and Finland, while charting at No. 2 in the UK, Netherlands, and Norway, No. 4 in France, and No. 6 in Ireland, underscoring Ghost‘s widespread global appeal.
Skeletá tracklist:
- “Peacefield”
- “Lachryma”
- “Satanized”
- “Guiding Lights”
- “De Profundis Borealis”
- “Cenotaph”
- “Missilia Amori”
- “Marks of the Evil One”
- “Umbra”
- “Excelsis”
The band is now wrapping up the final stretch of their North American headlining tour, with the following dates still on the schedule:
- February 15 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena
- February 17 — Portland, OR — Moda Center
- February 20 — Sacramento, CA — Golden 1 Center
- February 21 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
- February 23 — Inglewood, CA — Intuit Dome
Tobias Forge has shared that Ghost will soon enter a period of downtime once their ongoing North American tour wraps up, marking the first time in roughly fifteen years that the group will not be immediately committed to recording or touring.
In a recent interview with Adam Wallis of Canada’s Global News, Tobias said: “Besides the [ongoing North American leg of the ‘Skeletour‘] tour that we’re doing now, we have nothing else planned. So the future is right now very open. Creatively, I have a lot to do. I’m actually recording currently, but it’s not a covers EP and it’s not a new Ghost record. So, I actually do not know exactly what and when anything will happen.”
Forge views this uncertainty as a positive development, noting that the band has been operating on a relentless schedule for a decade and a half.
“And that’s a good thing, because for 15 years now we’ve been going at it nonstop, where cycles have basically just sort of been stitched together. Every time we’ve ended an album cycle, I’ve walked off stage knowing that Monday morning I will be in the studio and our next show is there. So it has been that sort of sort cyclical nonstop thinking ahead, thinking forward, expand, expand, expand, expand, for a long time, and I’ve come to a point where I’m just, like… I still have ideas, I still have dreams, I still have things that I think we have not achieved — definitely the wish list is still there — but that’s gonna be at some other point.”
