Ghost‘s trip to the ‘Grammys‘ last night, February 15th, and their subsequent win for ‘Best Heavy Metal Performance’ was documented via a slideshow with commentary for Rollingstone.com. One of the band’s Nameless Ghouls also commented of the big win as part of the feature, offering:
“We never got to the nervous part, which was kind of surreal. We got in the room so late that our producer and one of our A&R men didn’t even know we had made it into the room, so they headed to the podium to collect the prize. If you look at the video of our acceptance, you see those two dudes out of nowhere walking toward to the stage. Then they cut to us coming down the aisle. That was basically us coming into the room almost a minute before. The awards show itself was very, very short for us. We went in, got the prize and left.
We’ve never claimed to be anything but happy for the nomination. That’s maybe a non–rock & roll thing to say, since most rock bands underline how little they care about getting prizes. But we’re pretty open with the fact that we were happy to be nominated, especially for a Grammy. Very, very few Swedish artists are, and when they do, they don’t win it. We had the motivation that we’re not going to win this, but we’re doing it for the laughs.
We had already won in that sense. And when the category came up and we came into the room, it was “all right, no rest for the wicked.” Then all of a sudden, you feel how fucking important it actually is. Getting a Grammy is not to be belittled at all. It means a lot. All of a sudden you’re elevated to another level.”
