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Ghost have announced the soundtrack to their ‘2 Big To Rig’ concert film
Concert film and companion soundtrack document the tour's Palacio de los Deportes run.
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'Spillways' arrives as a particularly poppy standout from Ghost's fifth studio album, built on the tension between faith and compulsion. The lyrics trace a cycle of spiritual struggle and self-sabotage, where attempts at redemption collapse into repetition. Ghost render this as rock music at its most gargantuan, the song's architecture swelling and receding with the force of something both inevitable and inescapable. A Dork four-star record. The track's emotional core sits in its insistence that pain and rage remain unresolved, that forgiveness is not the answer being sought. Instead, Ghost identify the cruel machinery at work: the need to bleed, to feed the beast within. The repeated invocation of spillways as a metaphor for release transforms what might have been a straightforward confession into something more architectural, a system of channels through which darkness flows. This is an elegy for the darkness that most people carry, rendered with the kind of conviction that makes Ghost's theatrical apparatus feel earned rather than ornamental.
"Spillways" is a single by Ghost, from the album IMPERA, released 11th March 2022. The track is 3:17 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Ghost.
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