Ghost B.C. is at the Granada Tuesday night

You might have guessed that Swedish metal band Ghost – or Ghost B.C., as it is now known in this country – didn’t get popular by handing out lollipops and kissing babies. The six-piece is led by pope-parodying Papa Emeritus II, who prefers gothic garb and skeletal makeup to a white sheet.

The Papa leads an order of five Nameless Ghouls, all similarly costumed in creepy-looking, religious-cult robes. It’s a delightfully ominous cast, even without the sinister soundtrack of Ghost B.C.’s latest record, Infestissumam, a vintage-sounding collection of black metal with some anti-Catholic spoofs and a few spoonfuls of goofy satanic rituals. Something for everyone, then.

Details here.