The Dark History Behind Ghost's Prequelle 

Key points about the lawsuit: 1) The only Ghoul to ever contribute to any writing of Ghost material was Martin Persner (Omega, who wrote instrumentals for Year Zero and the entirety of Zenith) was not a part of the lawsuit. None of the Ghouls suing Tobias had ever written anything for Ghost, and were from the beginning hired as live musicians, the drummer and bassist at the time had been in the band for a year. 2) The lawsuit started after the Ghouls wanted a pay raise, which Tobias did give them, but afterwards they claimed they couldn't understand the new deal since it was in English (all the previous deals were also in English). After Tobias presented them with a deal in Swedish, they refused it and sued him, leaving Tobias without a band with a world tour around the corner. 3) Ghost wasn't originally a band in 2006, it was just Tobias showing some riff ideas to his longtime musical friend and collegue Gustaf Lindström aka "Gurra", who he recorded the demos with later on. Gurra along with Martin Persner and former drummer Aksel Holmgren all supported Tobias, in that Ghost was always a solo-project of Tobias. The Ghouls were originally hired when Tobias had released Opus Eponymous and needed a touring band for the live shows to support the album. 4) After the Ghouls lost the lawsuit, they complained about the decision, but lost the following cases as well. This did not stop them from becoming absolute pathetic humans and acting like children. Their most despicable act was making a sexual fan-fic of Tobias and his dead big-brother, who was somewhat of a father figure to Tobias and one of the most important people in his life. He died the same day Tobias uploaded the first Ghost songs into MySpace, and he has since then it felt like a brutal deal, where he managed to start his life-ambition project, but had to lose his brother. The Ghouls also rip off Ghost's thematic's in their own projects, and keep typing insults in Ghost related comment fields. Ghost is Tobias, Tobias is Ghost, it has always been his and he nearly lost it due to greedy former "friends" who wanted to ruin his life's work, and we nearly lost the privilege of having Ghost around because of the Ghouls, luckily all is well now and he has a cast of professionals working with him and Ghost is going strong.

1:01 not just any little girl, Minou Forge (TF's daughter!) provided the eerie vocals for "Ashes"!

The lyrics of Faith could also very well be referencing the lawsuit. ”The accuser sends the bill” and ”a pack of fools can take the stand” both definifely give off that vibe. I also saw someone mention that if you switch Faith to ”Ghost”, the lyrics will say ”Ghost is mine” which could be referencing to Ghost being a solo project. Then again that’s just speculation and quite far fetched🤷‍♀

Faith is a straight up reference to how Ghost started and the lawsuit

What a masterpiece of an album! Great video my man! Job well done🤘🏻🤘🏻

this video was beautifully explained :) thanks for making this!

Really enjoyed this one! There's a third story being told (about Copia's rise), but I love that you compared the association between the plague and the lawsuit. Well done! ❤

Amazing video! Made me appreciate Prequelle more than I already did. Would love to see the other Ghost albums as well :)

I really, really want you to do all the Ghost albums. This was fantastic.

I enjoyed this video so very much! I didn't know any of this so thank you for making it! Do you think you could do the rest of the Ghost albums? That would be so interesting to know about the rest.

I love the edition of this!!!! And the background story is so interesting! Thank you

Love the video, please make more of these ghost albums vids like of Impera

Absolutely loved watching this- your analysis is so detailed. Now I need to re-listen to the album! thanks for sharing

I oh definitely need this for every album.. I’m so serious.. 👹👹👹👹👹

Fun fact: The girl singing in Ashes is actually Tobias's daughter

awesome work man ! I really enjoyed it

That was awesome and educational.

such a good video!

Thank you for this. I LOVE this album.

Prequelle is my favorite ghost album

When hearing this album it was blatantly obvious it was a coveted FUCK YOU to his old bandmates with a story about the black death. Hes a clever cookie.

👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great video but this is nothing new. Roger Waters/Pink Floyd, the Van Halen brothers/Michael Anthony, Gene and Paul/ Ace and Peter. Someone always wants more especially now when making a living in the music business is only for those who don't actually make music. I'm looking at you Spotify, Ticketmaster, Livenation and every investment firm buying up catalogs.

Ring around the Rosie is actually associated with the great fire of London, not a plague.

So, Tobias is the Morrissey of this band. Tight-fisted and duplicitous.

Tobias betrayed his friends. And you need to learn how to pronounce ’Tobias Forge’ correctly.

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