Dance Macabre
| Dance Macabre | |
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| Ghost | |
| publication | 17th May 2018 |
| length | 3:56 |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| Author (s) | Tobias Forge |
| Producer (s) | Tom Dalgety |
| Label | Spinefarm Records |
| album | Prequelle |
Dance Macabre is a song by the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost . It was the second single from the fourth studio album Prequelle .
Emergence
The song was written by the singer Tobias Forge , who used the pseudonym Cardinal Copia on the album Prequelle . Forge described Dance Macabre as a song that "gets straight to the point" and is intended to strike a balance between two songs Forge described as "ambitious". Forge compared the song to a chase in a feature film . The song was produced by Tom Dalgety. In terms of content, the song deals with the time of the Black Death , which claimed an estimated 25 million lives in Europe between 1346 and 1353 . While many people were dying, the pubs and brothels were in full swing as people partied as if there was no tomorrow as people knew they were going to die.
" Dance Macabre captures this happy, nocturnal lifestyle in a disco song ."
A video for the song was published on Instagram in mid-May 2018. During the video you can hear Dance Macabre , but you can see prominent musicians like Kirk Hammett from Metallica or Phil Anselmo (ex- Pantera ). In October 2018, the band released an official music video . Zev Deans directed the clip that tells the backstory of the character Cardinal Copia .
reception
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Dennis Drögemüller from the German magazine Visions wrote that the entrance riff "seems to have been played in with the penis in its cockrockiness ". From the “pre-chorus you have to talk about Abba , at the latest in the chorus about Toto ”. Jonas AM Erbaş from the online magazine Metal.de says "Ghost combine lively disco grooves with first-class hard rock sound". The result would be "a lively number that gives rise to rampant dance madness". Andreas Schiffmann from the online magazine Musikreviews.de described Dance Macabre as a "fiesta paragon of catchiness on the album".
Dance Macabre reached number 68 on the Swedish singles chart. In the US , the song reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart. It was the third number one on these charts, after Square Hammer and Rats , based on airplay on the radio. The US online magazine Loudwire led Dance Macabre at number five of the top 40 hard rock songs of the year 2018. The German magazine Visions led the music video for Dance Macabre among the 20 best music videos of the year 2018th
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Liu Kuhn: The mask falls . In: Rock Hard , June 2018, page 14
- ↑ GHOST's TOBIAS FORGE Compares New Song 'Dance Macabre' To A Cinematic Car Chase. Blabbermouth.net , accessed February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Steve Appel Ford: Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge Reports From Studio in First "Unmasked" US interview. Revolver , accessed May 24, 2018 .
- ↑ GHOST Releases New Song 'Dance Macabre' Via Instagram Stories. Blabbermouth.net, accessed February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Jeff Cornell: GHOST REVEAL PAPA EMERITUS 'SEDUCTIVE ORIGINS IN' DANCE MACABRE 'VIDEO. Loudwire , accessed February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Chart sources: SE
- ^ Dennis Drögemüller: Ghost - Prequelle. Visions, accessed February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Jonas AM Erbaş: Ghost - Prequelle. Metal.de, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Schiffmann: Ghost - Prequelle. Musikreviews.de, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Kevin Rutherford: Ghost Waltzes to Third Mainstream Rock Songs No. 1 With 'Dance Macabre'. Billboard , accessed February 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Loudwire Staff: The 40 Best Hard Rock Songs of 2018. Loudwire, accessed December 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Dennis Drögemüller: The 20 best music videos 2018. Visions, accessed on December 29, 2018 .
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