“From the Pinnacle to the Pit” by Ghost

"From the Pinnacle to the Pit" was the second single from Meliora, the third album by Sweden's Ghost, out in July 2015 on Loma Vista. A Nameless Ghoul pitched it as a stomping, riff-driven thing in the Led Zeppelin mould, the sort of song that ought to rattle out of car speakers in the lot of an American high school. Klas Åhlund produced it, Andy Wallace mixed, and Tobias Forge sings lead, with the Nameless Ghouls on the instruments.

Zev Deans shot the video in the manner of a 1920s silent picture, splicing in clips from the 1949 films Act Your Age and Forces Occultes and from Cecil B. DeMille's 1930 Madame Satan. A student hauled into the headmaster's office learns how a man can harness a god's power, turns all-powerful, loathes what he has become, and ends up as the band's singer, Papa Emeritus III.

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