My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: tobias forge is a singer, musician and songwriter . he is the leader of the masked rock band Ghost . Forge’s identity as the Ghost frontman was only confirmed in 2017 . Forge fronted the Stockholm-based death metal band Repugnant from 1998, under the stage name Mary Goore . they recorded their only studio album Epitome of Darkness in 2002, but it was left the group released two EPs and one album, So Far So Noir (2006), before disbanding . Forge, Persner and Simon Söderberg were also members of the Linköping-based alternative rock band Magna persner left Ghost in July 2016 and reformed Magna Carta Cartel . he performs as its singer, originally under the stage name Papa Emeritus . Peter Hällje, a former band a legal dispute over the band’s name forced them to release the album “Ghost B.C.” in the united states . Forge performed as Papa Emeritus II for this album, as well as the subsequent EP Papa Emeritus III retired at the end of Ghost’s 2016–2017 Popestar Tour . for the band’s fourth album, Forge adopted another new persona, Cardinal Copia . During the final show of ghost “was always sort of… I guess a Bathory sort of band,” forge says . forge claims “no legal partnership” ever existed between other members and himself . Cardinal Copia joins Candlemass his brother died from a heart disease on 12 march 2010 . he was also a published author . forge stated that as an adolescent he “unquestionably [threw] my hands he cited a strict stepmother, the alienation he felt at her home . he also cited an even stricter religious schoolteacher for making him run “headfirst into the arms of the devil”
