The Press Release:
Ghost has revealed details of its upcoming RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023 summer tour with special guest Amon Amarth. Produced by Live Nation and FPC Live, the 27-date tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 2nd in Concord, CA at Concord Pavilion, with stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Austin and more before wrapping up with the band’s Monday, September 11th return to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Ghost continues to elevate and reaffirm its status as one of the world’s most esteemed and celebrated creative forces. Accumulating well over a billion streams, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock band continues to bring the “euphoric spectacle” (ROLLING STONE) of its live shows to ever-growing and increasingly impassioned crowds, headlining arena tours including sold out shows from The Forum in Los Angeles and Barclays Center in New York to London’s O2 Arena and Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. In March 2022, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported in a Calendar cover story that Ghost had “conquered metal and the charts” when its fifth album IMPERA debuted at #1 in a sweep of the U.S. album charts, entering the BILLBOARD 200 at #2 and bowing at #1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany and Finland, while cracking the top 5 in the UK (#2), Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Canada (#3), Australia (#3), France (#5), Ireland (#5), and more. Produced by Klas Åhlund and mixed by Andy Wallace — and featuring “Spillways”—hailed as a “sweetly constructed rock tune” by THE NEW YORK TIMES, the GRAMMY-nominated “Call Me Little Sunshine,” and Active Rock #1 radio single “Hunter’s Moon” — IMPERA finds Ghost transported centuries forward from the Black Plague era of its previous album, 2018 Best Rock Album GRAMMY nominee Prequelle—or as ROLLING STONE put it, “Ghost predicted the pandemic, Now the metal band is foretelling the fall of empires.” The result is the most ambitious and lyrically incisive entry in the Ghost canon: Over the course of IMPERA’s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made… All in all, the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date is set against a hypnotic and darkly colorful melodic backdrop making IMPERA a listen like no other — yet unmistakably, quintessentially Ghost.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with a Citi cardmember presale (details below) and Artist presale on Tuesday, February 14th. Additional presales will be available throughout the week before the general on sale starting Friday, February 17th at 10am local time on Ticketmaster.com.
CITI PRESALE: Citi is the official card of Ghost’s RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 14th at 11am ET until Thursday, February 16th at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
GHOST RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023:
Aug 02 – Concord, CA – Concord Pavilion
Aug 04 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
Aug 05 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
Aug 07 – West Valley City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
Aug 08 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *
Aug 11 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Aug 12 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater
Aug 14– Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Aug 15 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Aug 16 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
Aug 18 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview
Aug 19 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
Aug 20 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
Aug 22 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
Aug 23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
Aug 24 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
Aug 25 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Aug 27 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
Aug 29 – Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park
Aug 30 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place
Aug 31 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sep 02 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
Sep 03 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Sep 05 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Sep 07 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Sep 08 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
Sep 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Kia Forum ^
* Non-Live Nation Date; ^ Amon Amarth Not on This Date
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PiercingMetal Thoughts: The continuing infiltration of the masses by the band Ghost is astonishing. I say this because with each and every album and the subsequent tour they just keep on growing. Now four Papas into their history, they will continue along with the touring for their “Impera” album on this “Re-Imperatour”. I love that their bringing along the mighty Amon Amarth and this should really raise more awareness for them which is never a bad thing. I’ll admit a little sadness at the lack of any closer to my area dates but I did catch them back in 2022 over at the UBS Arena. I had a wonderful time and if you didn’t see that report just click HERE to be up to speed. I’ll wrap this one up now and ask you as I always do with what do you think about this news. You can chime in down below in the comments section and I shall see you again soon. Watch out for each other out there.
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