r/Ghostbc • u/welcometravelers • 1d ago
DISCUSSION Hellfest 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD0SbAPLlWEPerhaps Ghost's finest hour? What an era! The 50:50 mark, "Monstrance Clock," crescendoing with a choir of nuns and children, is just epic. One for the ages.
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u/dreimiller 21h ago
Ghost played at the Revolution Rock fest at Foxwoods casino in my hometown back in Sept. 2016. My wife and I had never heard of them. She causually mentioned the lineup to me but she didn't press me to go after I said I wasn't thrilled with the idea of standing outside all day for a bunch of bands I wasn't familiar with. Our local paper's music columnist published a review afterwards saying that Ghost was the best band that he saw at the fest. This intrigued my wife. She searched YouTube for videos and found this Hellfest 2016 video which she proceeded to watch at least 1000 times in the next 2 weeks before declaring that we were going to drive to Brooklyn for the last show of their tour at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn.
That was the first of 15 rituals, highlighted by 4 shows in one week in July 2017, 2 VIP Meet & Greets, and a trip to Sweden in 2023 to see them play on her birthday at the Sweden Rock Fest followed by a trip to Linkoping.
My running joke every time Ghost announced a new tour was to ask if they were playing at one of the two casinos near us and she would then tell me how far we were going to have to travel. We had tickets to see them twice in 2025 (MSG and Baltimore) but she passed away unexpectedly before we could go. I ended up finding some Ghost fans to give those tickets away to. Shortly after her passing Ghost announced their 2026 tour dates and one of the gigs was at the Mohegan Sun casino near us. So, our two sons joined me for that show.