GHOST have announced "2 Big To Rig (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)", the audio companion to the band's second feature film. It arrives August 27 through Loma Vista Recordings, one day after the film itself opens in cinemas and IMAX worldwide.
The record was captured across two sold-out shows at Mexico City's Palacio De Los Deportes, in front of close to 40,000 people. Its title is a joke at the expense of the production that ended there: "2 Big To Rig" refers to GHOST calling time on the "Skeletour" world tour in February 2026 because the staging had simply outgrown what could be transported. The film was made so the ritual could reach the territories where mounting the show was never logistically possible.
Leading the release is a live rendition of "Umbra", the cowbell-driven penultimate track from the international No. 1 album "Skeletá", delivered by Papa V Perpetua and the nameless ghouls. The nineteen-song set draws on all six GHOST albums and makes room for non-LP favourites including "Mary On A Cross", "Kiss The Go-Goat" and "The Future Is A Foreign Land", alongside "Satanized" and "Lachryma".
What the film does not show is that three Mexico City dates were planned and only two survived. Tobias Forge told Metal Hammer the band flew in five days early to acclimatise to the altitude, and that he woke up on show day feeling strange.
"When I came to the venue, I couldn't stomach anything — everything was just flowing through me — and for every hour that went by, I was getting more and more drained. And then, all of a sudden, I started puking violently," he said. "Everyone's getting super-nervous: not only is the show dependent on this, but we also have a film depending on this!"
Severe food poisoning left him unable to stand. "Even if you get me up onstage, I will not be able to sing. Then you just have to do the rational thing: 'Fuck this, we need to pull the plug.' The rest of the evening, I was just lying on a stretcher with intravenous liquid going in." Director Amir Chamdin reworked the shoot around the remaining two nights. "He was like, 'Just relax, we'll figure it out'," Forge recalled. "So we had to deal with what we got, but obviously, it goes without saying: 'We better not fuck up now!'"
"2 Big To Rig (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" track listing (all live from Mexico City, 2025):
- Peacefield
- Lachryma
- Spirit
- Majesty
- Future Is A Foreign Land
- Devil Church
- Cirice
- Satanized
- Satan Prayer
- Umbra
- Year Zero
- He Is
- Rats
- Kiss The Go-Goat
- Mummy Dust
- Monstrance Clock
- Mary On A Cross
- Dance Macabre
- Square Hammer
Source: blabbermouth.net