Photo by Tracy Lollar

Slasherwave outfit and recent Metal Blade Records signees GOST will release the thundering thirteen-track full-length, Prophecy, on March 8th, 2024, today revealing the record‘s first video/single and preorders.

GOST exists in the dark crack between black metal and the most shadowy end of electronic music. Since the release of the Radio Macabre EP at the start of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their Skull debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and main-brain James Lollar has become an increasingly singular force in music. Far more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he‘s often grouped with, GOST is a harsh and unique digital nightmare that takes the listener right into the heart of the abyss.
Now GOST returns with their sixth album, Prophecy. Unquestionably their most exhilarating and dangerous sounding work to date, Prophecy is a record that perfectly reflects the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with religious and political overreach, and progress, “being rolled back to the fucking 1950s.”

“It’s about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical end of the world – the rise of Satan and Armageddon,” says Lollar. “In America, there’s been a big rise of scared, reactive Christianity again, and almost like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an appropriate time to bring Satan back into things.”
Recorded alone in Texas during a burst of creativity at the end of 2022, Prophecy is the perfect vessel for such things. Following the experimentation and more melodic touches of 2019‘s Valediction, Lollar says it also acts as something of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of GOST.

“When Valediction came out, COVID hit, and I guess people weren‘t so into art while the world was on its knees,” he says. “I also wanted to reconnect with some of my older fans who maybe didn‘t feel that album so much. I wanted to go back in time and bring some of the older shit back, some of the older sounds.”

In advance of the release of Prophecy, GOST has unveiled the first single, the record‘s title track, and its accompanying video (which includes intro track, “Judgement”).

Elaborates Lollar, “With ’Prophecy,‘ I wanted to revisit some of the sounds of ’Possessor.‘ Rather than simply replicate those sounds I expanded upon them. I pushed the saturation and compression to their literal limits, resulting in some of the heaviest sounds I have yet to produce. I wanted to combine some classic EBM elements with my digital metal sound as well. This EBM influence can be heard throughout ’Prophecy.‘ Horror has been a huge aspect of my sound since day one and that theme is ever present on ’Prophecy,‘ through ratcheting strings and dreadful choir lines. ’Prophecy‘ expounds on the slasherwave genre I originally created with ’Behemoth.‘”

Watch GOST‘s “Judgement/Prophecy Calibrated” video HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKBi3GWqHbQ

Prophecy will be available on CD, LP, and digital formats. Find preordering options at www.metalblade.com/gost
Prophecy Track Listing:
1. Judgment
2. Prophecy
3. Death In Bloom
4. Deceiver
5. Obituary
6. Temple Of Tears
7. Decadent Decay
8. Widow Song
9. Golgotha
10. Digital Death
11. Shelter
12. Through The Water
13. Leviathan

GOST is currently traversing North America supporting Katatonia on their Sky Void Of Stars tour. Additional support is being provided by SOM on select dates. See all remaining dates below.

GOST w/ Katatonia, SOM [remaining dates]:
11/16/2023 Thunderbird Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
11/17/2023 The Roxy – Cleveland, OH
11/18/2023 The Forge – Joliet, IL
11/19/2023 Lyric Theater @ Skyway – Minneapolis, MN
11/21/2023 The O – Denver, CO
11/22/2023 Commonwealth – Salt Lake City, UT
w/ Katatonia:
11/24/2023 Bossa Nova Ballroom – Portland, OR
11/25/2023 Rickshaw – Vancouver, BC
11/26/2023 Neptune Theater – Seattle WA
11/28/2023 Cornerstone – Berkeley, CA
11/29/2023 Strummer’s – Fresno, CA
11/30/2023 Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
12/01/2023 The Glass House – Pomona, CA
12/02/2023 Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
12/04/2023 Granada Theatre – Dallas, TX
12/05/2023 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX
12/06/2023 Scout Bar – Houston TX
12/08/2023 Hell @ The Masquerade  – Atlanta, GA
12/09/2023 Level 13 – Orlando, FL

GOST:
James Lollar – everything

What press worldwide has had to say about Gost

“The lines between hesher and dancer grow faint every day, and one man in particular aims to toss those boundaries right in the trash. Gost, arguably the hardest hitting of the sub-genre has always taken a satanic approach to his dance tunes” – METAL INJECTION

“MYSTICUM meets THE CURE.” – METAL.DE

“There‘s a sleazy, seedy edge to Gost that markedly sets them apart from fellow keyboard enthusiasts like Carpenter Brut and Perturbator.” – KERRANG

“The music here gathers elements of house, synth pop, industrial, gothic rock, noise and metal and rolls these together into a very cohesive synthwave fusion. ” – GHOST CULT  MAG

“There‘s a reason metalheads are so taken with synthwave, and Gost is the prime example of why: sure, keyboards and electronic beats aren‘t metal in the purest sense, but good god is this shit heavy.” – METALSUCKS

“This is music that wants to hurt you, but not without toying with you first. You‘re subjected to harrowing death rattles, pained moans and jarring, brain-blurring glitches – it‘s the sound of Satan being wrenched out of your blackened soul.” – METAL HAMMER (UK)

“unholy beautiful marriage between Lucifer and synthwave, and what better vessel to tackle this project than Gost”- NEW NOISE MAGAZINE

“a blistering amalgam of black metal fury and coldwave detachment” – ECHOES AND DUST

“Fans of Pertubator, Gary Numan, Mayhem, Carpenter Brut and Nine Inch Nails could all find enjoyment in the darkness here.” – AT THE BARRIER

“horror aspects of his dark-synth work shined boldly with thick satanic atmosphere, both musically and aesthetically, which enamored his work to a great deal of metalheads.” – INVISIBLE ORANGES

“On par with genre grandmasters like Perturbator and Carpenter Brut” – LEGACY

“Gost sound like a heart pounding with fear, like the darkest corner in the deepest cellar” – ROCK HARD

“Mystic, aggressive, atmospheric” – SONIC SEDUCER

DISCOGRAPHY:
Albums
Skull (July 2013)
Behemoth (April 2015)
Non Paradisi (September 2016)
Non Paradisi (Secret Arcana) (September 2016)
Possessor (March 2018)
Valediction (October 2019)
Rites of Love and Reverence (August 2021)

EPs
Radio Macabre (January 2013)
The Night Prowler (February 2013)
Nocturnal Shift (April 2013)
S/T (February 2014)

Singles
Driller Killer – From out of Nowhere (Gost – cover) (January 2014)
Christine – Death on Wheels Part II (Gost remix) (January 2014)

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