Photo by Tracy Lollar
Slasherwave soloist GOST will kick off a two-week run of US headlining shows this week. The Prophecy Tour 2025 begins in Dallas, Texas Fridayt, March 7th and closes in Brooklyn, New York on March 22nd. Support will be provided by Dead Register. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.
GOST – Prophecy Tour 2025 w/ Dead Register:
3/07/2025 Double Wide – Dallas, TX
3/08/2025 Whittier Bar – Tulsa, OK
3/09/2025 Resonant Head – Oklahoma City, OK
3/11/2025 X-Ray Arcade – Milwaukee, WI
3/12/2025 Reggies / Music Joint – Chicago, IL
3/13/2025 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
3/14/2025 Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
3/15/2025 Preserving Underground – Pittsburgh, PA
3/16/2025 No Class – Cleaveland, OH
3/19/2025 The Space – Portland, ME
3/20/2025 Middle East / Upstairs – Cambridge, MA
3/21/2025 Milk Boy – Philadelphia, PA
3/22/2025 The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY
GOST’s critically lauded Prophecy full-length is out now on Metal Blade Records. The record claimed multiple Billboard chart positions upon its first week of release, including #1 Electronic Albums, #14 Current Hard Rock Albums, #20 Top New Artist Albums, and more.
GOST exists in the dark crack between black metal and the most shadowy end of electronic music. Since the release of the Radio Macabre EP at the start of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their Skull debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and main-brain James Lollar has become an increasingly singular force in music. Far more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he’s often grouped with, GOST is a harsh and unique digital nightmare that takes the listener right into the heart of the abyss.
Prophecy serves as Lollar’s most exhilarating and dangerous sounding work to date. It’s a record that perfectly reflects the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with religious and political overreach, and progress, “being rolled back to the fucking 1950s.” Prophecy was recorded by Lollar alone in Texas during a burst of creativity at the end of 2022. Following the experimentation and more melodic touches of 2019’s Valediction, the record also acts as something of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of GOST.
From the industrial scrape of “Death In Bloom,” the doomy “Decadent Decay,” and the demonic pulse of “Golgotha,” Lollar welds together elements of pulsing synthwave, the otherworldly nastiness of black metal, and the pound and snarl of Ministry at their most unhinged to create a whole that sounds genuinely dangerous, somewhere between metal and a rave in Hell.
Prophecy is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find ordering options at metalblade.com/gost.
Watch GOST’s “Leviathan” video HERE, the “Judgement/Prophecy” video HERE, and the “Widow Song” lyric video HERE.
“Hellish blasts of blackened industrial like ‘Death In Bloom’ and ‘Digital Death’ harken back to the digital demonology of 2018’s Possessor. While harshness eclipses hooks, mascara traces remain: ‘Widow Song’ enjoys the silence of humanity’s demise.” — Decibel Magazine
“Bewitching black-metal hisses laid over thumping darkwave synths and thwacking industrial drums. A match made in Hell.” — Revolver on “Widow Song”
“The world his music inhabits is nocturnal and sinister, bathed in crimson neon; while its electronic beats might point a bony finger in the direction of the dancefloor, the environment it portrays is more ritual than rave…Prophecy continues in this established trajectory, with Satanic soundbites and Biblical artwork conjuring an end-of-days vibe altogether in keeping with the horror movie synths reverberating throughout.” – Kerrang
“…while each song could stand alone as a pop banger, there’s a definite flow to the album as well… If you’re frustrated with the world today and don’t know whether to get mad or dance about, it this record will make you do both. It’s a confusing feeling, but bear with us; it’s also strangely cathartic.” — MetalSucks
“GOST provides both synth and metal purists a focal point to indulge upon with hellish glee. Prophecy will no doubt go down as a stylistic staple, an example of how to make immense music of infinite flavors that pulverizes all fortunate enough to be in its wake.” — No Clean Singing
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