Ghost, a band with a pope from hell and the rest of the band beeing anonymous, even on stage, dressed in their caps. They have created a tremendeous hype and I understand why. The mystique that surrounds this band is apealing to a lot of people and a live show is something very different. Then you are fooled to believe the music is death or at least heavy metal? Nothing could be more wrong! This is melodic hard rock very much in the vein of 1970's Blue Öyster Cult, which also were very mystique in those days. In fact it sounds so much BÖC that Ghost could easily be confused with them.

The album reached nr. 28 on the Billboard chart even though the band had trouble finding an US distributor due to their explicit cover work showing painted naked body parts and satanic things. It reached nr. 1 on the Billboard Hardrock-chart and also on the Swedish national charts.

Compared to the 1st album I find this as a pretty boring album. On the 1st there were some really powerful, heavy and also good melodic songs, here it just tuffs on and on in the same mud. No track is bad but there's really something missing.

1)Infestissumam (-) Intro.

2)Per asprera ad in ferni (8,0) Great main riff and mystique rhythm and melodic chanting chorus.
3)Secular haze (6,5) Monotone and not much happening.

4)Jigolo har megiddo (7,0) Uptempo and not much to talk about even if there's is some nice parts.

5)Ghuleh/zombie queen (7,0) First a mystique part and then an uptempo melodic "Beds Are Burning"-tempo.

6)Year zero (6,5)

7)Body and blood (6,0) Blue Öyster-copycats once more. Not at nearly as good as BÖC though.

8)Idolatrine (6,0)

9)Depth of Satan's eyes (7,0) Nice heaviness in this one. It makes me nod my head.

10)Monstrance clock (6,5)

Score: 6,72

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