PRESS/RYAN CHANG
Tobias Forge isn’t one for regrets.
“Of course, if I could go back in time and curate everything, there would be a few things that I would have done differently,” says Ghost’s frontman. “But that has very little to do with my actual career.”
The last 12 months have borne this out. In September 2023, Ghost played two spectacular shows at Los Angeles’ 17,500-capacity Kia Forum. While they’d headlined the venue before, it was only for one night. This pattern of growth was repeated across the whole of the US leg of their recent Imperatour.
“On this last tour, you can tell that something has happened,” he tells Hammer. “There’s a lot more kids at the show. The last time we played Detroit, we played in front of 4000 people. This time, it was over 10,000. We’re doubling everywhere.”