The brilliance of this song is soooo underappreciated, it's such artful parody. The title is "He Is" and it starts with clean guitars playing a simple but sad melody, it actually sounds like a typical Christian worship song. In fact even once the triumphant chorus comes in "He is/He's the shining and the light without whom I cannot see" sounds like a line you'd hear in some white guy with an acoustic guitar worship song, but then "And he is/Insurrection, he is spite, he's the thing that makes me be" you realize the song isn't about God, it's about Satan, then the following verses get darker.
Ghost's music, as compared to other metal bands singing about Satan, feel like actual worship music and this song is the ultimate parody of it.
Outside of the base lyrics, I remember at one point hearing Tobias saying this was actually written about a friend and hero of his that committed suicide, but was able to morph it into something that fit into the Ghost umbrella
@chadwick57 I know this comment is 4 years old but I just had to say, this is the most accurate description of this song I have heard. It does sound like a worship song, and I think that is what they are going for but, it made me love it even more.
@chadwick57 I know this comment is 4 years old but I just had to say, this is the most accurate description of this song I have heard. It does sound like a worship song, and I think that is what they are going for but, it made me love it even more.
The brilliance of this song is soooo underappreciated, it's such artful parody. The title is "He Is" and it starts with clean guitars playing a simple but sad melody, it actually sounds like a typical Christian worship song. In fact even once the triumphant chorus comes in "He is/He's the shining and the light without whom I cannot see" sounds like a line you'd hear in some white guy with an acoustic guitar worship song, but then "And he is/Insurrection, he is spite, he's the thing that makes me be" you realize the song isn't about God, it's about Satan, then the following verses get darker.
Ghost's music, as compared to other metal bands singing about Satan, feel like actual worship music and this song is the ultimate parody of it.
Outside of the base lyrics, I remember at one point hearing Tobias saying this was actually written about a friend and hero of his that committed suicide, but was able to morph it into something that fit into the Ghost umbrella
@chadwick57 would u say they are a parody band in total
@chadwick57 would u say they are a parody band in total
@chadwick57 I know this comment is 4 years old but I just had to say, this is the most accurate description of this song I have heard. It does sound like a worship song, and I think that is what they are going for but, it made me love it even more.
@chadwick57 I know this comment is 4 years old but I just had to say, this is the most accurate description of this song I have heard. It does sound like a worship song, and I think that is what they are going for but, it made me love it even more.