Anybody who’s been following Ghost and their “lore” is aware of that the earlier frontmen/head of the clergy referred to as Papa Emeritus has seen…. lower than savory ends following their runs with the band. Whether or not they’re quietly changed and killed in a lore dump afterward or violently faraway from the stage on the finish of a present, there’s at all times a way of finality with the person in entrance of all of it (although Tobias Forge stays the precise man behind the masks).

Main as much as the top of Ghost’s Imperatour, followers everywhere in the world speculated that Papa would meet his finish through the second of two Los Angeles exhibits. When that didn’t occur, they anticipated him to purchase the farm on the finish of the band’s Australia run. Apparently that didn’t occur both, as followers posted video of Pap Emeritus IV (previously Cardinal Copia) saying that he was finished.

“It’s a giant night time in so some ways, I’m going to allow you to accompany me, you possibly can keep the place you might be and I’m going to go have just a little little bit of a drink over right here…

“I do know lots of people expect some form of explosion, implosion, a miracle the place I simply disappear, in favor of a successor. I’m going to take this ice dice and I’m going to place it down my pants. I often don’t do this, however that’s to make me really feel just a little bit higher as a result of now I’m specializing in that and never on you.

“Simply in case you thought I used to be pissing myself, which I’m certain would have been the good finale. However you understand what? This finale, it’s simply going to be my final present. And I’m going to do my greatest to ship that present to you. And that might simply should be sufficient, OK?”

It’s a fairly large divergence from how issues have gone prior to now, however with the band now engaged on a hybrid narrative/live performance movie, we’ll seemingly know what destiny Papa IV receives.

Within the meantime, I’ll be pulling for the band to have Papa IV maintain off his attackers earlier than assuming full management and releasing a canopy of The Beatles’ “Happiness Is A Heat Gun.” However that’s simply me…