Ghost's Tobias Forge Plays His Favorite Riffs 

I think that's the point

Where’s the accent?? And his normal Voice seems much higher

@@morgueannarue381 a lot of swedes don't have obvious accents

His accent seems a cross between "American" and possibly Finnish. I really am not sure but there's a touch of 2 different accents.

Tobias wore masks and makeup was put on the masks

Exactly! He should like name his band like "Ghoul" or "Ghost" or something

@@TimGoesToOhio Nah, spirit or crashdïet sounds better to me 😄

@@lordasperger9878 I thought of something like Papa Rat

@@timescore5916 Soft Cookie seems good too🤔

@@lordasperger9878 or loveable dork with a thing for Satan Good, right?

That sounds like me. I have three albums of death metal and can't remember how to play any of it.

@@HotRod12667 Whatever Man.

@@theoutlawtorn69 🙄

@@HotRod12667 Jim is just jealous that's all 😂

is it playback when he plays them on stage or something? lol

I really love how you can actually *feel* the songs gaining momentum, which is something supposedly all music does but never seems to be especially noticable. Kaisarion, Watcher in the Sky, Hunter's Moon, and a few others (wanna say either Square Hammer or Dance Macabre, but I've been on a Impera binge since the album dropped dropped so I may be misremembering) basically just scoop you up and roll away with you and it's just so good

I feel the same way about dance macabre

Darkness at the heart of my love sounds like a classic song that everyone knows

while it is fascinating to watch shredders and how technically gited those people are just a small percentage of musicians can really write hooks the way ghost does it. I know I will be probably never as technical as those people because I simply don't have will to spend that much time playing I like to play like couple of hours per week. But to feel music and write catchy songs and riffs. thats something tobias should inspire in any of us.

Despite not having heard anything by them, when I saw Ghost in live i was able to end singing every chorus so yeah youre so right

Say what now?

How do you know what his grandmothers house looks like 😳😳

I pictured him living in a dark castle

Hahahah my son said something like hey he has a couch like Grammie so I know what you are saying Good eye

Not to mention he stole my wardrobe from when I was 15... LOL Tobias is awesome.

Jacoby awww that is so so nice.

He better live his best life now cause his afterlife is gonna SUCK

I couldn’t agree more. Insulting Religion and God… His afterlife is definitely going to suck burning in hell. Hope he repents 🙏

@@metalduder6766 'We're not critiquing God, we're critiquing man' - Tobias Forge

Metal Duder yeah if you believe in comic book heroes that’s all the Bible is a comic book with out pics and idiots eat it up

Laughed at super fast note vomit. I immediately think of Slayer. I love Slayer's chuggy riffs but when they freak out and just start spamming notes as fast as they can, it doesn't really do it for me.

Two bands that don't know how I'm a single bed song that come to mine for me are Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath. Iron Maiden's new album and Ozzy's new album BOTH kick some serious ass.

As much as i hate to comment this on a video thats about metal, bts is another group that writes their songs like this, their thinking is amazing, everything, the lyris the music the instruments. Its rare to find group/bands like this

@@NinjaSushi2 yeah, if you’re going to play that fast make your notes MEAN something. There’s nothing impactful (well, aside from certain scenarios like more noise and avant garde oriented music where that’s the catch) about notes just being played kinda impulsively. One of my favorite death metal bands that is technical, but make every note and melody count is Revocation.

@@mokkimokki8484 lmao

Yeah Ghost has a cool classical arrangement about them.

Agreed.

Hahahahahaha true

😂

This is just another mask he wears.

It is a new mask with elasticity improvements

Jan Šmucr same!!

dinofond He has been goofing around in interviews since he did interviews as “special ghoul”.

5:21 That he plays?

Максим Кост the rhythm part for square hammer I believe

dinofond so did I! I found this video and went OMG! I just absolutely loved it!

Satanic pop 👀

Thant's why I love them, and one of my friend can't stand them :D

They aren’t metal r/ overused

Heavy metal? LMAO

they’re a hard rock band

xD

Lol

wooooooooooooooooooooooooo

😂😂 same with mine.

you are awesome 😃🤘🤘

...yes >:)

Could you elaborate on this sexual dark energy pl0x

@@jeyi3224 Nile is solid. I love Ghost too. Check out Repugnant, they're Tobias' death metal band before Ghost was even a thought.

Je Yi How about you shut the fuck up and let people enjoy things :)

@@jeyi3224 You're big dumb.

not a grandpas guitar

whats the song called before he plays square hammer?

@@petya06 Elizabeth

reminds me of when i called an acoustic guitar a normal guitar and my music teacher laughed at me 🙃

and every metal guitar player

Yet simple ='s not being very good. lol

*Does Turkey Noises in A Minor

HAHAHAHAHAHA XD ty hahahahahaha

He cracks me up lol. I feel the same way about shredders. "Ok dude you're really good at memorizing and then regurgitating scales. I get it." Not hard to do if you set your mind to it.

#aminorturkey

0:46

But he said... "the first one was..."... and the first one was Stand by him ... so it's okay when he's playing the song 😋

When Cannibal Corpse showed up for Ace Ventura, Jim Carrey was such a huge fan that he sat through their sound rehearsal and was asking them to play some of their older songs that they themselves forgot to play.

@@jakyvirtorks4304 Cannibal Corpse is from '88. Ghost is from '06. Totally and completely different generations and years.

@@RespiteofChampions not really. Ave Ventura came out in 1994...meaning Cannibal Corpse would've been 6 years old by then. So the math adds up.

2:01

i farted

@@Eleven66611 good job

Can you blow him a little harder please

Clearly you've never listened to metal

@@randovision8418 clearly you can't respect other people's opinions

@@kwiebus24 someone who likes ghost isn't a person

@@randovision8418 wow so you're THAT kind of metalhead. Grow up and accept the fact that not everyone likes the music you like.

RandoVision: Ghost got like 100 times better songwriting than whatever chuggachugga band you listen to. Simpleminded fool

He's been in the music industry since he was in early teens, writing songs in English and people in that biz usually talk enough English (especially as the frontman/vocalist and songwriter) to keep improving, and Swedes do not dub movies or TV shows and usually consume a shitload of US media content growing up - so a form of neutral american accent is what they end up using/adopting fully.

@@jersay3442 It's probably more because schools in Sweden start teaching english in the 2nd grade

Having seen Ghost, he definitely had a mild accent while on stage and bantering with the crowd. It's not very strong and it almost comes across more as a regional dialect/accent than it does someone who speaks English as a second language, but it's there.

@@browncoat697 The accent he uses on stage is a put-on. It's like a weird Dracula impression that he keeps up when performing to maintain the persona. He speaks completely different in interviews compared to on stage

Tomas Haake is like that too

Yeah, he played for a long long time without any incomes from Repgunat Subvision etc. And anyone who sticks with death metal isn't in it for the money, death metal bands in Sweden are happy when they get to tour and sell some merch.. No one actually get to Entombed, Dismember early 90s popularity when death metal was all the rage in sweden.. Easier for melodeath bands to get inernational tours and get a huge fanbase. Tobias knew these things but stuck with good ol death metal for a good while even though all death metal bands were underground for years.. Excluding Bloodbath that is a suupergroup

He kicked the other members of the band out of the blue because "Ghost is a solo project". And also; they were friends.

​@Cardinal Copia's Love Slave I have all the documentation from the trial, and no. Forge did not start the band alone. He and Söderberg started the band. If you read the papers you will also know that Forge did not write all the songs. However he wrote or co-wrote a lot of them. Believe what you want, I couldn't care less.

OnTheSquare OnTheLevel if he wrote everything then why does he have such a problem playing simple ghost riffs?

@@taximaxi1431 What do you mean such a problem??

Kamyab same

Couldn’t help but laugh at him there. This kid needs to meet Tommy Emmanuel

He’s playing the Grandpa Guitar

Grandpa's guitars

iLike Labradors nailed it!

thats one of the things i love about him

Would definitely not call his speaking voice deep.

He sounds pretty Tenor to me. His voice is so clean

Just saw them in Mansfield. YOU MUST SEE THIS LIVE!!! Best show I've EVER seen.

Yeah you're right. For me, I really dig the allusion to some similarity between masons and satan.

Definatley see more charisma from him when he is playing, it's probably the most animated I've seen him without a mask!

@@swiftyball Totally. When he started fooling around that energetically at 0:42 I was totally surprised, didn't see that one coming :D A whole new side of him and therefor a great video

Yeah can't be serious all the time it does seem like he digs not having the mask on

Shaddup

@@stormcorrosion176 hug

Ya like so animated!! Haha wtf....

You can tell by the voice, you have to have alot of passion to replicate that kind of singing and screaming 😅

Ted The way it would be like the elf that guards the bridge

Tobias Forge, Warforged priest of Tyr

Son of Freyr, eternal king of Uppsala

toxzik I like your ideas and your profile picture.

@@TheTheode Thank you kind sir for acknowledging my ideas and for appreciating my Unle Acid profile picture. You have good taste in ideas and music, clearly! :)

I want an acoustic version of everything.

Everyone

i saw someone do a cover on acoustic which i loved

How about Mummy dust in acoustic😂😂

@@hakonreinas5013 i'm intrigued...lol

I hate how accurate that description was 🤣🤣

My local youth pastor's name is Don. 😃

"Anyway, here's Amazing Grace!"

Wolves in sheep's clothing

CALL THE FBI!

Not everyone has bionic wrists like james hetfield. Alternate picking is totally fine lol

I only play it alternate these days but it is impossible to make that song sound GREAT with alternate.

All this fuckin clown can do is goof around. He doesn't take music seriously. He thinks the jacket, metal shirt and guitar are *just* fashion trends. He's not a musician, he just likes looking like one with none of the talent to make him one.

@@jessegilbert9568 You are a fucking dumbass. Tobias has no talent? You can say whatever you want about Ghost, their music isn't for everyone for sure, but Tobias is literally one of the most talented rock songwriters currently. Get outta here.

😉 been saying that since hearing his acoustic version of If You Have Ghosts a year ago...it would be brilliant if ghost could have their jar of flies and sap like/unplugged moment.

They've played quite a few songs acoustic, Rats, Cirice, Dance Macabre, Ghuleh/Zombie Queen etc. All of them sounded amazing and I would buy the fuck out of an acoustic album.

Yeah I need an acoustic version of Square Hammer right now, while watching the vid I was just willing him to stop talking and keep playing!

Yes, that would be incredible.

thats what ive been kind of hanging out for too. we know they (ghost) can do it so i dont understand why a company like MTV unplugged hasnt asked them.

Watch 'Mark Knopfler on guitars' when he starts to play Romeo & Juliet. It's brilliant.

@@taunokekkonen5733 Mark Knopfler is an amazing guitar player. Love Sultans of Swing from Alchemy Live.

I agree.

Yes! Respect! You are spot-on!

What I wouldn't do for a collab between them. Shame Tobias/Papa never got to be in Metalocalypse

That's a great comparison. And Holy Shit would a Ghost/Metalocalypse crossover be both narratively hilarious and musically epic.

COLAB AF NEEDED!!!

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING- :D

He does have some beautiful ass eyes 😂

@@GregGallagher Right?

@@infelicitas for real, I love this guy.

6 6 6

What do you mean you miss it? It hasn't gone anywhere

SAMW

That’s their heaviest song for sure

Made me tear up hearing him play Stand By Him. The song that started it all

Nope, you can see him pretending to be Alpha and playing Ghost songs in 2014

There was a multi part series of TF dressed as a Ghoul playing through the songs.

4 parter starting with ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rQreEFdnQvM.html

I couldn’t hear what key he says the song is in. I backed it up and listened several times and couldn’t make it out other than *x* minor. Ultimate Guitar shows it in Dm. I haven’t been playing that long so I was watching his hands to see what chords he was playing and only know 2 of the 4 he played. 😆

@@kylebross2222 Yeah Square Hammer is in the key of Dm. Chords for the verse are Dm-Bb-Am-C. Choruses is Dm-Bb-F-C. Solo is Am-F-E. And, yeah, there are quite a few chords, each with different positions and fingerings, so it can be difficult to decipher what players are playing. Hope that helps! 🤘

@@trig3017 thank you so much for your explanation. Makes total sense. Appreciate it! 🤘🏻

Why do i know most of the songs you mentioned without noticing the progression element

That's crazy cuz I like all these songs, maybe the Chord progressions are the common factor

Yeah, his work ethic must be impcredible to be able accomplish all this awesomeness in a decade

Unskilled Slash nah. He played guitar in repugnant

How about a three guitar attack, like Iron Maiden...I can't imagine putting down the guitar to sing alone.

You have the 'pants no pants? 'video from MCC: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t1yxIBeQJTg.html

Watch these... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rQreEFdnQvM.html

Nah its cool

And his name is Tobias Forge. Is he just a forgery and just got hired to play the mastermind behind Ghost? Don't get me wrong, the choice may not have been better.

To be fair Maiden's Powerslave is sick.

LMAO

he kinda looks like Jamie on the progressive commercial.

Sorry to bother you, I'm helping my bf, he is a musician ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6qXHRxDv4iI.html :) thank you and again sorry

Couldn't agree more

Moe Clomo that’s kinda accurate

LOL like Frankie Muniz forgot all the years when he was a kid. Poor guy...

Not his I dare to think.

I wish a lot of these people would realize that ultra fast and complicated wailing doesn't equal good song writing. So much more to guitar playing than wanking. Sure, there is a lot of talent and a place for it, but there is so much more to writing a great song.

I completely agree with your statement. With us kindred spirits having an affinity for music I can concur that Tobias has a gift of picking out what sounds right, testing out that sound, than merging it with other recordings till it harmonizes not just for the instrumental aspect but also taking the vocals and lyrics into consideration for a successful merge that could be accommodating for each individual involved with each song. I mean I dont get why people gotta be so elitist towards Ghost (If its the theatrics, get over yourselves), its new, authentic, and euphoric in itself and is what drew me to them in the first place.

The guy is a master at his craft. While a lot of people keep arguing if he makes real metal or pop or whatever, his songs are amazing. See how Tobias likes a lot to talk about economic riffs: keeping it simple yet powerful. Drawing comparisons will always be controversial, but his uncanny ability to craft melodies reminds me a lot of Kurt Cobain -even though their songs are very different.

Universally loved? Uh nah bro.

@Not Mick Blotters That would be dumb and boring as fuck and it wouldn't fit Ghost's style at all. Plus, there's nothing "cringe" about it. Rock/Metal needs and will always need bands like Ghost that are theatrical and over the top. Bands like Alice Cooper, Kiss, Motley Crue, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot etc. It isn't just a "gimmick". It's an "image" yes but every band has an image (at least the ones that are worth their salt do). Even guys standing on stage in jeans/leather casual type clothes like Motorhead or Metallica. The inherent badass feel that their music gives the listener demands to have a no nonsense, jeans/leather rocker thing going on but it's still an "image" that they're projecting. Back to my point though, bands like Ghost or Alice Cooper who write and perform the way they do have no business being dressed like ordinary people on stage. The lyrics and delivery would clash completely with the vibe they have going on. Same thing if Motorhead were to go on stage dressed as the guys from Gwar or something. It'd make no sense. Bands, GREAT bands from any era be it Motorhead, Ghost, Judas Priest or whoever, need a sound, look and style to be completely consistent in order to deliver the total package. Case in point, Rob Halford discovered his whole leather, bondage gear-ish fetish around the Hell Bent for Leather days and what came next? British Steel. That album had great tunes yes but it also had a coherent, total package of band look, album art, etc. . I rest my case.

Yes we all love him😁❤️

It's always the one you least expect it from. Muahahaha.

I now want acoustic versions of all these Ghost songs! come on Tobias, make it happen!

@@ryancrawcour1567They need to put out a Ghost Unpluggged album! (And I don't care if the Unplugged era is pretty much dead and gone).

Lol yes

Was imagining Black Sabbath

The fuck does this comment even mean? I get the general vibe that you were attempting comedy, but I'm failing to find humor in it.

@@jessegilbert9568 don't be so hard on yourself - I've no doubt you fail to find humour in *lots* of things.

HomeValue Glass lol that’s kind of true now that I think about it

Oprah to Everyone: YOU ALL ARE BREATHTAKING!

@@andymanson3836 you misspelled Opeth

@@nexum9977 Close enough

Both those bands just make me never want to listen to music again

@@datadavis alright

Man down

Thit is a good description of a rockstar

He actualy doesn't drink

@@blackeagle0778 thats too bad. But thats fine he would be fun to jam with.

@@blackeagle0778 He made it sound like he is more into buds over suds in an interview.

And backstab you to earn money

in Portuguese, "guitar" (guitarra) refers only to "electric guitar", and "acoustic guitar" has another name, called "violão". The term acoustic guitar does not exist in Portuguese.

Tenacious D??

@@FMSworld ok, but...Tobias is not from Portugal or Brazil, he is from Sweden...

Funny thing is, there is not a pull off there in the song. Just listen to the recording, that note is 100% picked.

@@FMSworld mental gymnastics to not agree with the op

I agree. But he kept wiping and touching his nose. Coke? Lol coke makes you animated haha

mine was Secular Haze

Sammmeeeeeee

Ritual

Ritual was my first and thought “man this band would be huge if they’d tone the satanic stuff down for Americans” they toned it down with the 3rd papa and BAM! But I still prefer the old ghost, papa 1 & 2 were my fav live shows for ghost. He had the 2 guitarists kickin ass live, they’re still amazing live but the new heads don’t bring the same emotion and soul to the show. Felt like seeing a 70s band, the tone of the guitars were spot on. Now it’s lost a lot of that. But still, Tobias is amazing. One man band.

Mine was Cirice

Yes

Yeah, he just puts a shit ton of makeup on and he changes his whole personality to fit whichever persona he’s playing (Papa I, II, III, Cardinal Copia/Papa IV)

@@cassandrabailey1407 A mask* he only puts black makeup around his eyes.

@@yoinkiez Cardinal Copia is wearing a mask/ head piece

@@yoinkiez he's doing full makeup on the mask again now that Copia's been elevated to Papa IV

Lol once heard cant be unheard

OMS now I can hear it too!!!!😝

I think it's just the jacket rubbing up against the back of the guitar.

@@ethanballard7627 it's definitely just the jacket in general. He looks fuckin ridiculous in it because it's way too small and because it's so small that jacket squeaks when its hanging in the closet. Guitar or not you're gonna hear every little twitch of that guys arms when he's wearing that stupid jacket.

I do now!

He looks ordinary. It's the fame.

@Eddie V Hasn't slipknot done that for years, and their music was always garbage?

@Eddie V Yeah, the music has nothing to do with it......

@Eddie V You're full of shit tho. The theatrical stuff was adopted by the band right after they recorded their first three songs. Look it up

@Eddie V when i first listened to Year Zero, i din't pay that much attention on Papa's costume, i loved the music, the outfits and imagery were just the good bonus

@Eddie V I think that's an incredibly narrow minded view. If you consider the fact that Metallica are huge fans of Ghost, and they have written some of the best heavy metal classic songs I think they know a bit about music. If you look past Ghost's "stage act" and listen to their music, they have some amazing compositions and lyrics. Tobias has a great voice and the ability to change his sound, as well as their diversity in genre/style. I would be happy if they got up on stage in jeans and tees, personally. The costumes add nothing to my listening experience..... 🤷‍♀️

GabrielWithoutWings how many times do I haves to tells you I flys in on a dragons!!!

That is immediately what I thought of when he said that too! Grandpas guitars ams dildos.

I want a battle axe guitars that points me that with ways is north.

Grandpas guitars are not very metal

Ha.... Grandpa's guitar's....... That's for grandpa's.... And pussy's