Seven Inches of Satanic Panic by Ghost

Seven Inches of Satanic Panic, the third EP from Swedish rock band Ghost, first went out digitally on Loma Vista on 13 September 2019 and later on 7-inch vinyl, a record some called a two-track EP and others simply a single. Tobias Forge produced it and wrote the songs with Salem al Fakir and Vincent Pontare, and it plays like a sly throwback: "Kiss the Go-Goat" and "Mary on a Cross" are sugar-coated, retro psychedelic rock with the band's devil-worship camp poured on thick.

It was a stopgap between Prequelle and Impera, and then the internet got hold of it. In 2022 "Mary on a Cross" blew up on TikTok and went top 40 in thirteen European countries, and it eventually went double platinum in the United States, Brazil and Poland. Not bad for a stopgap.

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