Ghost (aka Ghost B.C.) still have some more tricks up their sleeve when it comes to covers. One of the bands Nameless Ghouls recently chatted with thequietus.com about a number of topics. Some points of interest included the mention that the outfit have an unreleased cover of Army Of Lovers‘ “Crucifed” in the can.
Speaking of that the ghoul stated:
“Now, as we’ve recorded a bunch of songs that are covers – and there are even more songs that will be out in the future – we have sort of found a modus operandi for working with that type of material and a few of the prerequisites we like. I’m not saying these are guidelines to be followed strictly to the letter, but first of all it has to be a great song that allows us to find another way to create, one way or another, an amendment or enhancement – which does not necessarily make it better, but it has to have some sort of its own identity.
I mean, hearing another punk band do ‘Sonic Seducer’ in a rocky, distorted way, or ‘Search And Destroy’, it will just sound like another version of that song, so we’re really trying to add another identity to the song as if it were one of ours to begin with. And obviously it has to have a lyrical theme that would somehow fit into what Papa is.
I’ll give you an example of a song that nobody has heard us do yet, and you won’t hear us do for a while: do you remember the band Army Of Lovers? Do you remember a song called ‘Crucified’? If not, after we’re done, Google it; we’ve done a cover of that.”
There was also word that frontman Papa Emeritus II won’t sit at the head of the group forever. When asked about his ‘induction’ into the outfit late last year, the ghoul stated:
“…We have a succession thing going and his time was up. A new era has begun, so enter a new Pope. And yes, that will happen again.”
