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“Cirice” by Ghost
From the album Meliora (2015)
“Cirice” by Ghost appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2015. It was first released in 2015 on the album Meliora. Its best result is #27 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #27 hard rock song of 2015.
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"Cirice" takes its name from the Old English word for church, which suits Ghost just fine: the Swedish band gave it away as a free download from their website on May 30, 2015, the lead single from their third album, Meliora. It started out welded to "Devil Church" as one dark, doomy nine-minute instrumental with no chorus; producer Klas Åhlund helped a chorus emerge, and the two pieces were cut apart.
Tobias Forge sings it, the Nameless Ghouls handle guitar, bass, keys and drums, and Andy Wallace mixed it, and it keeps tightening the screws, getting heavier as it goes. It climbed to 4 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2016, and put the band on American television for the first time, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on October 31, 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015 | 30 |
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