GHOST have released a full-song performance of "Umbra" lifted from "2 Big To Rig", the concert film that opens in cinemas and IMAX worldwide on Wednesday, August 26 for a limited run.
The band's second collaboration with Trafalgar Releasing was captured live on 16mm film over two sold-out nights at Mexico City's Palacio De Los Deportes in September 2025. Rather than reconstructing events from a mix of sources, the film plants the viewer in the middle of a crowd of nearly 40,000 people and keeps them there.
That is the key difference between this and its predecessor. Where 2024's "Rite Here Rite Now" was a narrative feature that cracked the global box office Top 10, "2 Big To Rig" is concerned with one thing only: the GHOST live ritual. Behind-the-scenes interludes give screen time to the crew who assemble the band's theatrical vision night after night, and the concert footage itself is the sole pro-shot document of frontman Papa V Perpetua and his Nameless Ghouls from an entire tour that ran phone-free.
The title is a shrug at the reason "Skeletour" ended. GHOST called time on the run in February 2026 after 70 shows across North America, Europe and Mexico — the production had simply outgrown the rooms available to it. The film was conceived partly to reach the territories where staging the show was never logistically possible, and partly for the fans who appear in it: three Mexico City dates had been planned, and the first was cancelled due to illness, leaving two.
"GHOST captured the final nights of the legendary 'Skeletour''s first leg on 16mm film in Mexico City — creating a nostalgic experience and a fitting farewell to an era for fans," said Kymberli Frueh, EVP of content acquisitions and programming at Trafalgar Releasing. "We're proud to share it with cinema audiences worldwide before GHOST takes a well-publicized break. It's the perfect way to close such a significant chapter in the band's history."
The setlist draws on all six GHOST albums, including 2025's "Skeletá", alongside non-album staples such as "Mary On A Cross", "Kiss The Go-Goat" and "The Future Is A Foreign Land". "Skeletá" entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 in May 2025 with 86,000 equivalent album units, 77,000 of them traditional sales — vinyl alone accounted for more than 44,000 copies.
Screening details and showtimes are at 2BigToRig.com.
Source: blabbermouth.net