Limited Blue Sparkle Vinyl. A daringly beautiful combination of satanic rock music with an almost unthinkable pop sensibility, 2010's Opus Eponymous (Latin for self-titled work) is where it all began for the beautifully dark global phenomena Ghost! Standing motionless and anonymous beneath the painted faces, hoods and robes, the nameless ghouls of Ghost deliver litanies of sexually pulsating heavy rock music and romantic lyrics, which glorify and glamorize the disgusting and sacrilegious. The simple intention to communicate a message of pure evil via the most effective device they can find: Entertainment. This is black metal at it's most original and deceiving; compositions such as "Ritual" and "Death Knell" majestically weave their melodic spell of evil through the senses until the listener finds themselves utterly possessed and open to any diabolical suggestion.
Opus Eponymous fits practically perfect within the early days of metal, back when Black Sabbath had just hit the scene and were giving way to the rise of this sinister new genre of music. If you were to put Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Colt, and Mercyful Fate in a blender, you pretty much get Ghost.