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'Excelsis' closes 'Skeletá' with the album's most transcendent gesture. Tobias Forge's latest papal iteration sings of deliverance and passage, the lyrics moving between acceptance of mortality and an invitation toward something redemptive. "Everybody leaves one day," the refrain insists, but the song's architecture, layered guitars, swelling arrangement, that repeated exhortation to "excel", transforms resignation into something approaching grace. The track builds methodically, solos arriving like punctuation marks in a sermon, the whole thing pitched somewhere between stadium rock and spiritual testimony. A Dork four-star record, 'Skeletá' finds Ghost in full command of their 80s-inflected excess, and 'Excelsis' proves why that indulgence works. Forge and his band have learned to balance theatricality with genuine emotional weight, the kind of big, lighters-in-the-air moment that could feel hollow but instead lands with conviction. It is a fitting full stop to an album that never mistakes volume for substance.
"Excelsis" is a track by Ghost, released 23rd April 2025. The track is 6:01 long. Full lyrics are available below.
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