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Ghost

Umbra

Release date: 23rd April 2025

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About This Track

'Umbra' arrives as the penultimate track on Ghost's sixth album 'Skeletá', a five-and-a-half-minute finale that channels the album's embrace of 80s excess and theatrical grandeur. Tobias Forge has described it as the record's "final fight", a climactic moment before the closing credits roll. The song itself is unabashedly carnal, built around religious imagery and devotional language repurposed as intimate surrender: "In the chapel of the holy one / In the presence of the chosen son / I see your light shine through." The track exemplifies what makes 'Skeletá' work so well. Solos rip through with unrestrained energy, the metal-pop formula Ghost have perfected feels neither overwrought nor cynical, and the sheer confidence of the execution carries the day. A Dork four-star record, and 'Umbra' stands as proof that Ghost can sustain their particular brand of gilded theatricality across a full album without tipping into excess.

"Umbra" is a track by Ghost, from the album Skeletá, released 23rd April 2025. The track is 5:32 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Ghost.

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Ghost

Ghost

Lyrics

Umbra

In the shadows, pale and cold
In the shadows, lay my soul
In the shadows, death becomes your lover

The altar is lit with black candles
The darker, the better, so thrilling
It's killing you

In the chapel of the holy one
In the presence of the chosen son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the Godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you

In the shadows, stripped of sin
In the shadows, deep within
In the shadows, I will make you my angel

The altar (altar) is lit with black candles
The darker (darker), the better, so killing
It's thrilling me

In the chapel of the holy one
In the presence of the chosen son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the Godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you

In the chapel of the holy one
In the presence of the chosen son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the Godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you

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Track details

From Skeletá

5:322025
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Skeletá
Skeletá
Ghost
24th April 2025
Track number
9
Release year
2025
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    3:57
  4. 4Guiding Lights
    3:24

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
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    Producer
    Gene Walker
    Co-Producer
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    Drums
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    Guitar
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    Vocals
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    Bass Guitar
    Tobias Forge
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
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    Andy Wallace, Dan Malsch
    Organ
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    Piano
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    Calle London Gustavsson, Fat Max Gsus, Mark Rankin, Martin Eriksson Sandmark, Niclas Lindström, Vincent Pontare, Wille Enblad
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