Ghost / Meliora(1LP/16 PAGE BOOK)

Meliora is the exact moment Ghost stopped being a cult curiosity and became the most dangerous pop-metal band on earth. After two albums of deliciously campy retro-satanism, Tobias Forge (now Papa Emeritus III, complete with top hat and corpse paint) teamed up with pop genius Klas �hlund and made a record that sounds like Blue �yster Cult and ABBA had a baby raised by Mercyful Fate in a haunted cathedral. Every song is built for arenas, every chorus is an earworm dipped in holy water, and every guitar solo feels like it�s trying to seduce your soul.