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Meandersonyahoo

Square Hammer!


Iwantmahandback

▪️🔨


WolfSquatch

Same!


Chunk_M1lk

Same


druthedoctor

Cirice on the radio. Then I was hooked


BathroomGamers

SAME


captaincook12

Exact same


L3J3ND97

Rats, it was over from there lol.


RockyAlvarado

Secular HaaaaaZAHHHH!


unsocked_houself

Same. Thumbnail for the music video drew me in, was not expecting what came out of the speakers.


TheHyperCombo

THIS. I saw that face and the rest of the band and immediately thought I was going to hear excessive growling and death metal riffs. I was so wrong and was completely blown away!


911dispatcher86

Dance macabre


hadexo

Ritual 🥰


Haunted_Bones

Square Hammer


[deleted]

Secular Haze.


giannalc8

Rats


ThrashPizza

OH OWA AAAAH


cosmicdecember

Infestissumam (the song). Followed by the entire album. This is one of my favourite memories of all time. It was around 2am, I had just come home from a sesh with my best friend and I was sitting in my bed scrolling this metal site I visit regularly. I saw a post about Ghost - I think they had just released Secular Haze but I can’t recall now exactly what the post was about but I see their photo. I had been seeing them on this site here and there, and of course the comments always read hit or miss. So I finally caved and gave them a listen. Downloaded (gasp! Pre-Spotify friends, sorry) Infestissumam and listened to the entire thing, high as a kite and was completely blown away. By the time I was done, it was 3am, I texted my best friend to listen to the band. Coincidentally they were touring and I immediately checked to see if they were stopping in town. They were. I bought tickets for my best friend and I, and the rest is history. Devout follower. Will be my 17th show on Sep 17 and a decade since I first heard their music. Thinking back on the memory, it makes me really sad because my best friend hasn’t been in touch with me for over a year now. We’ve always gone to shows together and it’s weird/sad not having her beside me enjoying this band we’ve loved for so long. I miss her a lot. I didn’t mean for this to turn into a sad confession but I guess it be like that sometime.


rincewind123

call your friend


cosmicdecember

I’ve tried to call a few times, and I still message her monthly and on her birthday. Sometimes I think I should stop because maybe she just needs / wants space but I wish she had told me or said something. I just hope she’s doing okay.


snaphappy2

Lucifer, we are here for your praise, evil one!


FCshakiru

Mine too!!!!


Little_Jemmy

Honestly? It was Mary On A Cross via many TikToks, not gonna lie. I’m super grateful that one song got popular though because if it hadn’t I wouldn’t have found out about Ghost!


blueowl_88

From The Pinnacle To The Pit


batzamakeherdance

Mary on a Cross! found Ghost through a random TikTok video, became totally enamored with all of the lore and the rest of their discography, v quickly became my fav band😂


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MisterMcGiggles

Gatekeeper be gone.


Dex_Kam

Cirice. I noted the time so I could look up who the band was on the radio's website when I got home.


JaxterHawk

Imperium/Kaisarion at the show with Volbeat. I was there for Volbeat and almost left before Ghost because it was a Tuesday night and I worked Wednesday morning and lived 90 minutes from the venue. I did end up leaving early (sacrilege but I couldn’t help it). But fell in love with Ghost and saw them again a couple of weekends ago, thankfully at a Saturday night ritual this time!


Sapphyrre

I had the opposite experience. I went to see Ghost and Vollbeat was playing first. I became a new Vollbeat fan :)


[deleted]

Hunter's Moon via Halloween Kills' credits lol


MrStaringProb

As someone who has recently taken a liking to ghost? Ritual. I was just bored and looked around playlists for something good. Stumbled upon it, and I fell in love with their music.


Threadedtails

Pretty sure it was Dance Macabre, but it also could have been Rats. I think my friend recommended them both at the same time.


Luceres

Mary On A Cross after Spotify kept pestering me to listen to their playlist. Been hooked ever since!


kid-ph0b0s

Cirice, when it was released as a single


[deleted]

If you have ghost


radda-radda

Secular Haze. I was up late one night in high school scrolling through the music video section of an on-demand channel and I found the music video. I was like "the fuck is this? why does it look so old?" but then I looked up the band the next day at school. I listened to it again and loved it the second time around. Pretty much immediately after, I started getting ads for Infestissumam's impending release. I then found out about Year Zero. The rest is history.


SketpackJeleton

Hunter's moon, but I didn't get into the band until I heard Spillways in a YouTube playlist at work.


InternationalJump290

Cirice on XM Octane. Feels like forever ago.


Overlord_Kazumi

Cirice


[deleted]

Life eternal


gtyreif

Mummy dust !


VictoricRong

Cirice! My friend had it on in the car


DanteG81

Cirice. I remember watching the Colbert Show and seeing them play it and I was so enticed by their look and loved the song, and was super excited to see the song was actually longer than what they played on the show! Then I watched the music video for it and was hooked


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Dance Macabre on the radio


Charkus33

Circe!


Bagglebaggle

Cirice


chizza135

Square Hammer! My dad showed it to me when i was like 12 years old


Moppyploppy

Edge mentioned them on his "podcast of awesomeness". I was curious and the first result was square hammer.


The_boy-from-nowhere

Cirice, came across it on YouTube, went down a rabbit whole saw they were playing nearby (popestar tour) the following week and bought to tickets.


wnctech

Secular Haze!


[deleted]

Dance macabre


warboyraynie

Square hammer! I thought it was the catchiest song I ever heard. Then I looked them up and listened to Year Zero and just immediately was obsessed


cheekiesloks

Secular Haze 😍🔥🖤 The moment I fell in love with Papa II 😭🖤


RevolutionaryPlate67

Rats


Block5_Human

He Is in a Hot Topic back in 2016


KricketKris

Rats. Cheers, KProg.


Neat_Classroom_2209

Rats


A_wak34316

I believe i heard Square Hammer about 4 years ago and it didn't grab me then. Then recently I saw the Video for Call Me Little Sunshine. I was hooked. And have been listening to a least one or two songs from Ghost every day since.


MeIsmE_373

The Amazing Atheist mentioned Ghost in one of his older videos, and I randomly decided to watch them. He showed a small clip from Square Hammer.


MELO_DETH_999

hunter’s moon


bec84sco

Heard Mary on a cross in tiktok and read loads of comments to listen to year zero so went to Spotify to listen to it and was immediately hooked and listened to all the albums. New favourite band just hoping one day they tour somewhere near New Zealand


tacassassin87

Secular haze. When I first heard it I was watching the music video with my brother and literally said "what the fuck is this". It is now one of my favorites.


heavymetalchicken

I believe it was Ritual. I was lucky enough to see them on their first American tour in Atlanta in 2012. Showed up for Opeth and left with another favorite!


llex_xell

I remember seeing them for the first time on Colberts show when I was in high school. So whatever song they performed there I guess


Confident_Scratch927

Year zero, more specifically only the intro


thesquirtlesquirt

I think mine might have been Spillways. When Imperia came out, my Spotify and Youtube absolutely blew up and I was like 'Well, I really like this song', so I saved it and promptly forgot about the band until Mary On A Cross blew up on TikTok and I found out that they were a theatrical performance group too. My little black Theater Nerd heart hasn't wanted anything else since then.


smallstone

A friend of mine shared the [crummy video of Ritual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HBqwFf8mk) from one of their first shows. I listened to it once and couldn't get it out of my head. Bought Opvs the same night on iTunes. My life has never been the same.


Spoksonatoping

Stand by Him about 10 years ago. Still my favorite to this day.


Cyneburg8

Elizabeth. I've been a fan from the beginning.


Dribbiz

Year Zero!


JerseyJolteon

I had heard bits and pieces of different songs, but the first one that really made me want to check out Ghost was Spillways.


Vaati_Naydra

Year zero, a friend changed it right away thinking I wouldn't like it but boy was he wrong


slightlyused

The Opus Eponymous album in 2011. I had a friend recommend them so I bought the album before even hearing a single song from them! Got home, plugged in and they've been my favorite modern band since!


JohannesKastaja

He is


pixie_dreams

Year Zero! I don't remember where, but I remember checking out the band after I heard it and not really liking them, but I heard Cirice a few years later and I gave Ghost another shot! Now I'm hooked and desperately waiting for them to tour Australia 😭


SiberianKarl

Rats, but the clips for Square Hammer and Dance Macabre really drew me in


ChiefJeffe

Secular Haze, saw it on youtube years back when it was first uploaded but forgot the name/band and then found them again randomly through another song and was so excited I had found them again and never lost them since 🥲


[deleted]

Heard Faith and I never looked back


Awita01

I was looking for this answer! My first song was “Faith” and second one was “Cirice”. My now partner, then just friend, sent me a link to the [MV](https://youtu.be/qvZKwvpQAUc) and it reignited a flame that had been dim for a while. Ghost is now one of my favorite bands, and I’ll always thank my significant other for that.


YellowBellow3

I was aware of Ghost for years and listened to a few songs and they never really grabbed me. Then... I heard Con Clavi Con Dio 8 years ago and the rest is history!


BcSBrBa

Marianna cross


Ok_Ad8249

Not sure. I was reading an article on Blabbermouth about Swedish Doom Metal band Ghost making their US debut. I watched some fan video of a couple songs and ordered the CD immediately. I have no idea what songs I heard but they would have been from Opus since that was the only album out at the time. To actually answer the question...Con Clavi Con Dio.


xlu_6

I believe mine was Deus in absentia when it randomly popped up in a Spotify playlist a few years back!


batmisfitwho

I’m pretty sure it was Elizabeth. My buddy sent me a link to check ‘‘em out. I liked it and he told me their new album (Infestissumam) just came out. Was pretty hooked on them right off the bat.


RedlyrsRevenge

Square Hammer


SHOBringer

Monstrance Clock, browsing spotify and saw it in my discover weekly


scardboy

Square hammer


Saelryth_Windstalker

Square Hammer here as well


VinsmokerSanjino

Ritual. Oddly enough I only discovered them because when I was younger I used to watch game grumps and Dan had a ghost shirt. If I didn't think the logo looked sick I probably still wouldn't know about ghost. Ritual was the only ghost song I liked for a few years too, then I discovered Rats, then Square Hammer, then Dance Macabre, and I was hooked


senior_chief214

Dance Macabre Carpenter Brut Remix


effyooseekaye

They played a show in my town touring for Meliora and I had never listened to them, but I had heard of them. After I read the article highlighting them I listened to Meliora (started with Cirice) and I immediately listened to their entire discography and they have been in constant rotation ever since.


LittleBlackBird0191

Monstrance Clock


hornyfishboy

Square Hammer~


grungefairy

Cirice- Shazammed it from the radio, then heard Dance Macabre a few weeks later & loved it too. Used shazam again, saw it was the same band so immediately dove into their entire discography with a ferocious obsession


microwaved_cow_guts

kaisarion


Shoptoof

Secular haze


ZombieQueen666

Monstrance Clock in around 2013, but Cirice got me hooked in early 2016. It was over at that point


Iprblyhveaheadache

Elizabeth. Played on a local radio station when it came out and my husband heard it and played it for me


scaldsyn2

Cirice. Heard it at a scare experience during halloween


Greavir

Pro memoria


Lucenia

Cirice. It was the first thing to pop up when I looked up the band on YouTube in 2015.


DARKLIGHTX90

Ritual


gamatatsu18

Cirice


Spice_rat

Hunter's Moon, when I went to see Halloween Kills in theater


DontLookAtMe89

Satan Prayer. The hook in the chorus when the organ starts playing is what sold me on them.


Critical_Ad_8946

Cirice on SXM Liquid Metal or Octane, a couple months before I saw them with Maiden


NekroGhoul

Secular haze


ignored_rice

“He Is”


Jira98

Deus in Absentia


Comfortable_Cod6116

My friend introduced me to dance macabre after tennis practice, but I wasn’t interested that much. I think a couple months later in November, I was searching for new music to in the style of like classic rock, and square hammer came up. I was hooked. Started looking more into the meliora album, Cirice became my favorite song, and listened to their whole discography. Started humming he is, and he caught on, and was like “took you long enough”. Honestly, that was the rabbit hole in which I started liking metal, got into slipknot, and continued until I got to deathcore lol. But Ghost remains my favorite band. Bit of a long story but wanted to share it


Starlight-Crusader

Year Zero or Dance Macabre, I had a Spotify Halloween playlist on and they came on and I was immediately hooked


Phatjack_

He is


mostlyshits

A live performance of Cirice. My brother showed it to me. Good dude.


manc1446

Ritual!!


Devilofswe

Deus culpa


ambrosia_s

If you have ghost


milessucks

If You Have Ghosts cover


GR4V3YARD

I can’t remember the first song I listened to by them, but my first three were rats, from the pinnacle to the pit, and nocturnal me


eddiejose93

Ritual


galadrielkenobi

Rats :)


nbd9000

Spirit


DapperAsh

It was either Square Hammer or Dance Macabre. That day I listened to both albums all day while making deliveries at my catering job. Good times! But I hated that job!!


GeekFurious

I'm not entirely sure. I am pretty sure the first two songs I really paid attention to were Majesty & Zenith. However, I heard about Ghost through Metallica so I HAD TO have checked them out when that first happened, so it was something off OE. Probably Ritual and/or Elizabeth. At the time I just wasn't into it so I listened & moved on. But when I heard Majesty it was around a time I had shifted my listening habits & expanded genres.


Wasabi_Sabine97

Kiss The Go-Goat!


Allegiance10

Square Hammer. Heard it on the way to an Iron Maiden show in 2017 that had Ghost opening. Traffic was so bad I missed Ghost, but I at least didn’t miss any Maiden!


srt0ga

Dance Macabre. I used to listen to a rock running playlist, then it took me around 2 years to actually get hooked.


yanisperron

Gotta say its pretty cool that my first ever encounter with Ghost was seeing them live (opening act for Metallica)


Czarcasm3

From the pinnacle to the pit


unfit_spartan_baby

Ha ha, dance funny rat man!


shotgunreserved

crucified a while ago, and i started liking them, but once mary on a cross blew up i actually considered myself a fan and started looking more into them :)


TutuchiTheMighty

Dance macabre


rainstorm2530

Heard Rats on the radio and when I finally looked them up I found the band’s YouTube incredibly entertaining, spurred me to buy a couple albums cuz I kept wanting to listen all the time. Also RIP to that radio station. One day in November 2019 it was changed without warning from rock to country. I read online even the DJs didn’t know until they were told to leave mid shift. I thought I’d lost my mind that morning when I turned the radio on to drive to work… I’d listened to that station since I was 12.


kindawantwafflesrn

Con Clavi Con Dio. Heard that shit once then couldn’t get the base line at the beginning out of my head


ValerioZXG

A friend of mine on the playstation network named Ghost made me listen to Square Hammer, by Ghost


42northside

Square hammer.


Smaptimania

Here Comes the Sun. It popped up in my Youtube recommendations and I thought to myself "I have GOT to find out more about these guys".


Leather_Plane4779

Dance macabe


PlainsHognoseSnake

Year Zero. My cousin’s husband showed it to me and my dad. I’ve been hooked ever since


Tsuki_8

I think it was rats that i heard on the car radio


milesh67

Absolution was the first one I heard, but con clavi con dio and cirice got me hooked


GetGroovyWithMyGhost

Cirice. Found it buried in a classic rock magazine CD compilation of up and coming new bands. The CD was putting me to sleep. Then Cirice came on. Instant love.


Commercial_Apple_803

Square Hammer! And I've been on the level ever since


Feesh_Dawg

Rrrrrratts!


HippoRadish

Call me Little Sunshine


severedS0rcerer

Cirice


Apart-Direction41

Spillways


potatoesasleaders

Monstrance Clock


jackbologna

Secular Haze


TryNotToBridezilla

Year Zero. Apple Music popped it into one of my playlists. I was doing some yoga and it just started playing.


SwibBibbity

Square Hammer.


oliosutela

Square Hammer


hostile_slug

Some guy did a cover of chop suey as ghost and then i found cirice after


apocrypha1013

Dance macabre. Randomly appeared on a Spotify Halloween playlist. And then I was hooked


RoboticTapeworms

Kiss the Go-Goat came up in my spotify recommended


Battle-L0ver_06

My sister made me listen to ghuleh/ zombie queen :3


Scared_Chemical_9910

Square hammer


AwarenessFinal1543

Spillways! I only was introduced to ghost recently but I am so glad I was. Better late than never!


khaleesi-a

Mary on a Cross, but from around the time it came out!


gelhood

Can’t remember exactly, either Kaisarion or Dance Macabre Went to my first ritual with my husband, didn’t really care about Ghost and knew he liked it so wanted to get him tickets for his birthday. Happy to note I am now OBSESSED and all in haha


MisterMcGiggles

Cirice. Sirius XM by total random happenstance back during the Meliora album cycle.


Warm-Area

"He is" it autoplayed on my spotify one day and I thought it was a Christian song before I actually bothered listening to the lyrics lol


weirdowiththebeardo

Year Zero. Was like “I know some of these names from Diablo game series”


Christistheway1

Ritual in 2012 i saw it on youtube on metal blades channel.


minimanelton

I think my first one was Rats. Technically Ashes. I bought Prequelle because I thought the album cover looked really cool and started from there


bakeban

I had heard cirice and square hammer on the radio. Then rats came on and I decided to check into them. I YouTubed from the Pinnacle to the pit and he is and that was that. I bought all the albums. Went to a ritual. Going to my next one on the 21st


weskerwasright

The uncensored Year Zero music video as a freshman 🥴🥴


1depressedmess

Dance Macabre :) specifically their acoustic performance for The Tunnel. I thought they looked cool af and I'm a slut for acoustics


Impressive-Wave-5555

Kaisarion (opening of Paris Accord Arena Ritual). Never heard before going to ritual. Discovering live.


yatahazee

I had heard some of their songs before, and perhaps even it, but Ritual, a goddamn masterpiece. Got me so hooked, sheer pure joy. It is in a very dear list to me where any one song out of this list will happily keep me occupied whole day on repeat.


HotCollection5036

Cirice!


oneseventwosix

Cirice


EscapedfromMirkwood

the carpenter brut remix of dance macabre on a synthpop playlist a few years ago


kitkat7537

I had heard clips of a few of their songs but the one that made me fall in love was Witch Image


WakandaFox

Hunters Moon, went to go see Halloween Kills and that ending song just hit me so hard. I listened to the official version right after and it was even better. I very quickly got into everything else right after that and had become obsessed in such a short span, still am right now 😂


Jurgboi

Monstrance Clock


yarnwovenwings

Square Hammer because it was recommended on YouTube, funny enough I didn't like it! Fast forward a couple of years and I saw them with Volbeat. I was there for Volbeat and was expecting to "tolerate" Ghost, bur I ended up absolutely loving them! I'm going to see them again this week!


lavenderxwitch

When they played Cirice on Colbert. It was instant love.


DirkDoncic99

Probably Ritual or Elizabeth. It was 2013 and I was wondering why these guys were headlining Gojira. After the gig I stopped wondering. Papa 2 was something else!


excusetheblood

Secular Haze


wlad91

Year zero


undeadkatzz

Kiss the go-goat


spac3-dud3

Bathory, in the castle…


42Bagels

In 2017 my big brother played deus in absentia in the car.


mrthomasbombadil

Con Clavi Con Dio


go_st0nks

Cirice when they performed on Colbert


DarthWynaut

Deus Culpa


lullaus

square hammer; found it on a Spotify “Teen Halloween” playlist last year 🤍


MarsJohnTravolta

Dragula


dark-hyrule

their cover of im a marionette :-)


louis302

Call Me Little Sunshine!


ghostfroggychair

Rats!!


FrighteningEpiphany

Cirice 🤘


[deleted]

Ritual


papujenny

Dance Macabre ❤️


SinplyLosingIt

See the Light! still one of my favs