Msmrngstr - Star Star

A Wild and Crazy Guy (album) — Steve Martin

“I promise to be different. I promise to be unique. I promise not to repeat things other people say.” 

Joyful bliss

Though satanic in nature, each concert performance is also influenced by religion. One of the ghouls interviewed said that the goal of their unique theatrics is to mimic a church mass “What we wish to simulate at our shows, to the point where it's real, is a mass. It's this idea of religion, where people meet in a room or a building or a place that we have agreed upon as being solemn, and we then conduct predetermined rituals – rituals being the songs, or movements, things like that – in order for us to reach a sense of divine presence. And a lot of the sensations that we are evoking at our shows are very close to the sort of warm religious feelings you would get from an actual church mass. We're using the same sort of symbolism as the church, in a way, but with the idea of achieving bliss. Joyful bliss.”

Deezer Sessions 2015

Tobias plays Square Hammer.... sort of.

Tobias Forge on old fans vs. new fans:

"I get the impression that our ""new"" fans understand that we have a lot to give." Maybe some of our "old" fans don't respond well to the new fan base, but I also know the opposite can be true. I'm no idiot; I know there will always be the infamous brawl between old fans and young fans. Metallica experienced it among diehard fans of the Kill 'Em All era and the new fans that came with the Black Album: it's inevitable (laughs). When the Black Album came out in 1991, the fan base that came with it was incredible, and it's still there thirty-two years later! Makes you wonder who the die hard fans really are:

Kill 'Em All fans who allegedly abandoned the ship or the black album fandom who have stayed with them through it all? At the end of the day, I try not to worry about it too much. """As long as people join our ranks for similar reasons, all should be well."""

Papa Emeritus II singing as Tobias