Prequelle

Prequelle
Studio album by Ghost
Released	1 June 2018 (2018-06-01)
Recorded	2017–2018
Studio	Artery Studios, Stockholm, Sweden Psalm Studio, Bath, England Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Hard rock arena rock heavy metal progressive rock pop rock
Length	41:43
Label	Loma Vista
Producer	Tom Dalgety
Ghost chronology
Popestar (2016) Prequelle (2018) Seven Inches of Satanic Panic (2019)
Singles from Prequelle
"Rats" Released: 13 April 2018 "Dance Macabre" Released: 18 May 2018 "Faith" Released: 20 December 2018

Prequelle is the fourth studio album by the Swedish rock band Ghost. It was released on 1 June 2018 and produced by Tom Dalgety. The album's first single, "Rats", was released ahead of the album on 13 April, and as of 28 July, had peaked at number one for seven weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart. The second single, "Dance Macabre", later topped the same chart for two weeks as well. The album marked the band's strongest selling debut to date, landing at number 3 on the Billboard 200, selling 66,000 copies in its first week, with 61,000 of those being "traditional" album sales.^[1] The album's themes include medieval times and the Black Death, along with more contemporary subject matter.

"Prequelle" was nominated for the Best Rock Album Grammy Award at the 61st annual awards ceremony and the Swedish Grammis Award in the category of hard rock/metal.

The album was released with five different versions of the cover art, each with the rider and horse in the foreground placed in a different position.^[2]