Ghost Tacks More Stops To ‘Ultimate Tour Named Death’

Metal specter Ghost has added seven dates onto its “Ultimate Tour Named Death,” headline run in North America, several of which are in Canada. Nothing More is supporting most of the run.

The additions are mostly in October, with the exception of a Sept. 23 gig at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta. The other new stops in the Great White North are Hamilton, Ontario and Ottawa, Ontario, Oct. 17 and 18 respective. The U.S. additions are Oct. 8 in Moline, Ill.; Oct. 10 in Youngstown, Ohio; Oct. 11 in Huntington, W. Va.; and Oct. 15 in Toledo, Ohio.

The tour starts Sept. 13 in Bakersfield, Calif.’s Rabobank Theatre and continues until Oct. 26 at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls, N.Y. Tickets 

Presales for the new shows began today and the general onsale begins May 24 at 10 a.m. local time.

Ghost has been around for years, but it got a special co-sign from Artist Group International Founder and Chairman Dennis Arfa, who recently identified the band (an AGI client) as an act to watch for the coming year. Arfa was named to Pollstar’s inaugural Impact 50 list.

Ghost certainly has proved it can sell tickets, as the band reported grosses of more then $100,000 12 times last year. The band’s highlights of 2018 came at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 15 with a gross of $393,070; Place Bell in Laval, Quebec, Dec. 7 with a $221,127 gross; and Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Nov. 16 with a $378,858 gross. 

Of course Ghost has demons of its own, with four ex band members suing founder and frontman Tobias “Papa Emeritus” Forge in 2017. The band members claimed Forge withheld money from them and demanded he release financial records and be fined. That suit was dismissed last year, according to Blabbermouth.

Ghost was featured on the cover of Pollstar in 2013 when it was called Ghost B.C. Nick Storch, who still reps the band at AGI, said at the time: “This is an all-encompassing experience. It’s so engaging and I found myself by the end of a show thinking, ‘Oh, is it over already?’ They do things in such a way that you hang on every word.

“I can’t remember the last time a band was so visually stimulating and interesting.”