Ghostin Tobias Forge selventää, miksi hän työskentelee mieluummin popmusiikkiin kuin metallimusiikkiin erikoistuneiden tuottajien kanssa
Ruotsalainen okkultista rockia soittava Ghost tuntuu kulkevan omia polkujaan mitä yhtyeen musiikkiin tulee, mikä lienee myös yksi tärkeimmistä syistä sille, miksi yhtye on noussut varsin lyhyessä ajassa varsin valtavaan suosioon. Yhtyeen priimusmoottori Tobias Forge on nyt kertonut tuoreessa Global Newsin haastattelussa, miksi hän suosii uusia albumeita nauhoittaessaan mielummin popmusiikkiin erikoistuneita tuottajia metallimusiikkiin erikoistuneiden tuottajien sijaan. Forgen mukaan nykypäivän metallimusiikkiin keskittyvät tuottajat noudattavat liikaa tiettyä kaavaa, minkä vuoksi työskentely popmusiikkiin erikoistuneen tuottajan kanssa tuo lopputulokseen enemmän mielenkiintoa. Forge avasi aihetta seuraavasti:
“I’m sure people in the heavy metal sphere might have noticed that too. … And there’s a reason for that: metal producers are very purpose-driven. They do a fantastic job and they know exactly what they’re going for. They’re experts in doing exactly that. And I have nothing against it, but that’s not what I’m trying to do. So I need to be fully aware and completely awake in trying to find the right producer for Ghost in that moment.
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“Klas [Åhlund] was perfect for me. His whole professional life, he has been writing pop music and playing in Teddybears and writing records for Robyn and Ellie Goulding. You have all these different artists and this huge variety, but he started off playing prog music. He was a guitar virtuoso playing Yngwie Malmsteen/Ritchie Blackmore-type stuff.
“So when I came and talked with him about making a rock record, he was just, like, ‘Yes, I’ve wanted to do that for such a long time.’ It was perfect for both of us, because we were able to talk about all the common denominators. We could reference things from Euro Disco all the way to Slayer just to explain a simple idea. Whereas if you end up with the typical metal producer, they might say, ‘Slayer, of course. But everything else you mentioned is just ‘ordinary music.”
“I’m not saying that every heavy metal producer is like that, I just feel like metal today, as opposed to 1975, is such a defined genre, that people our age and younger have lived their entire lives knowing exactly what heavy metal is. But people who were around when they made ’Back in Black’ didn’t really know what that was. There’s so many rules now. It’s too refined. The whole culture breathes a little bit of a puritan-like conservatism. In order to make new records, I think sometimes you need to try not to think too much about all of these rules.”
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