Ghost’s big announcement might not be Ghost at all

Last Friday, Ghost dropped a tiny Instagram post that sent the fandom into full detective mode: “Next Week… Something Is Happening 🤘”. That’s it. No date, no picture of Papa, nothing else.

And we’re now in “next week”. So naturally, everyone has a theory. New album? Tour? The movie? Sure, maybe. But there’s one theory that keeps coming back, and honestly, the more you dig, the less crazy it sounds.

What if it’s Repugnant?

Wait, what’s Repugnant?

Before Papa, before the masks, and even before arenas, there was Repugnant. A Stockholm death metal band Tobias started in 1998, back when he went by Mary Goore. He sang and played guitar, they put out a handful of demos and EPs, toured a bit, and then it all fell apart in 2004. Their only album came out two years later, after the band was already dead.

Tobias has said it broke his heart, and that at 21 he just wasn’t mature enough to make it work. He tried to bring it back in 2010, played a few shows, even announced a new album. It never came out. Ghost blew up, and Repugnant went back in the coffin.

Fun fact: some fans never got over it. Under an old Ghost video from 2012, you can still find this comment:

Fourteen years later, that guy is about to get his wish.

The clues are stacking up

Ghost has been on pause since the Skeletour ended in February. But Tobias hasn’t exactly been chilling.