Ghost has just dropped a new track titled ‘The Future Is A Foreign Land.’
The band announced the release on social media and revealed that this song from their debut film ‘Rite Here Rite Now’ dates back to the 1969 era. They also revealed that it was written by the fictional character Papa Nihil. Although Papa Nihil supposedly penned other Ghost songs like ‘Mary On A Cross’ and ‘Kiss The Go-Goat,’ ‘The Future Is A Foreign Land’ had never been released until now.
The track debuted during the end credits of ‘Rite Here Rite Now’ and is the only previously unreleased studio recording on the film’s original soundtrack.
Making A Movie Is ‘Draining’
Ghost’s debut film was first confirmed in October last year. It hit the cinemas on June 20, and the frontman Tobias Forge appeared at the movie’s world premiere two days before. In a conversation with Rock Sound, Forge discussed the challenges of being a filmmaker:
“As any semi-gargantuan task, as fun as it is, it’s also draining. I’m used to working towards deadlines, but filmmaking is definitely a lot… You can release records into the society and people will buy it or not, whereas tickets you have to sell too, but cinemas are a little bit like venues. So you can’t just release a film or move it like a week. If you don’t deliver on time, it would be delayed, like, months. So we’ve been sort of zoning in on this date, basically today, for the last nine months.”
During their two-night shows at the Forum in Inglewood, California, the band did not allow phones. Instead, a professional camera crew filmed everything. Sometime after the show, the frontman confirmed everyone’s suspicions that Ghost was making a movie. In another interview, Forge said they were working on a film that would include footage from those California concerts ‘mixed with something else.’
You can hear the song down below.