Ghost have announced a stacked world tour for 2025, with dates in Europe, the UK and North/Central America from April to September.
The 55-plus-night tour will kick off at the AO Arena in Manchester, UK, on April 15. It’ll continue through the UK and mainland Europe until late May, then traverse North America and Mexico from July to September. The full list of dates is below.
To coincide with the announcement, Ghost have released a new episode of their online “Chapters” series. The video confirms further dates will be added to the as-yet-unnamed run soon. Watch the clip below.
Tickets to shows in Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Belgium go on general sale at 10am local time, October 31. UK, Portugal, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and all North America tickets can be bought from 10am local time, November 1. Tickets to the Mexico show go on general sale from 11am local time, November 4. Citi and Mastercard pre-sales will be available in North America and certain European markets, respectively.
Ghost’s 2025 tour will be the first time the band have stepped onto a stage since the closing date of the Impera cycle in October 2023.
Since then, the band have released concert/comedy movie Rite Here, Rite Now to global cinemas. The film combines footage of the band’s two September 2023 shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California, with a fictitious narrative. The soundtrack contains The Future Is A Foreign Land, the first new Ghost song since Impera dropped in 2022.
It’s likely that Ghost’s next tour will mark the onstage debut of the next iteration of masked frontman Papa Emeritus (portrayed by band mastermind Tobias Forge). Ghost have historically changed the character with each new album release. Onstage at the band’s final Impera concert in October 2023, Forge/Emeritus said (via Metal Injection), “This finale, it’s just going to be my last show, and I’m going to do my best to deliver that show to you and that would just have to be enough, OK?”
In 2022, Forge said he already had plans for Ghost up to the end of 2025. These plans included what what the band’s next record will be called and what it will sound like.
Ghost 2025 world tour dates:
UK:
Apr 15: Manchester AO Arena
Apr 16: Glasgow OVO Hydro
Apr 19: London The O2
Apr 20: Birmingham Utilita Arena
Europe:
Apr 22: Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium
Apr 23: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
Apr 24: Munich Olympiahalle, Germany
Apr 26: Lyon LDLC Arena, France
Apr 27: Toulouse Zenith Metropole, France
Apr 29: Lisbon MEO Arena, Portugal
Apr 30: Madrid Palacio Vistalegre, Spain
May 03: Zurich AG Hallenstadion, Switzerland
May 04: Milan Unipol Forum, Italy
May 07: Berlin Uber Arena, Germany
May 08: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands
May 10: Lodz Atlas Arena, Poland
May 11: Prague O2 Arena, Czech Republic
May 13: Paris Accor Arena, France
May 14: Oberhausen Rudolph Weber Arena, Germany
May 15: Hannover ZAG Arena, Germany
May 17: Copenhagen Royal Arena, Denmark
May 20: Tampere Nokia Arena, Finland
May 22: Linköping Saab Arena, Sweden
May 23: Sandviken Göransson Arena, Sweden
May 24: Oslo Spektrum, Norway
USA:
Jul 09: Baltimore CFG Bank Arena, MD
Jul 11: Atlanta State Farm Arena, GA
Jul 12: Tampa Amalie Arena, FL
Jul 13: Miami Kaseya Center, FL
Jul 15: Raleigh PNC Arena, NC
Jul 17: Cleveland Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, OH
Jul 18: Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena, PA
Jul 19: Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center, PA
Jul 21: Boston TD Garden, MA
Jul 22: New York Madison Square Garden, NY
Jul 24: Detroit Little Caesars Arena, MI
Jul 25: Louisville KFC Yum! Center, KY
Jul 26: Nashville Bridgestone Arena, TN
Jul 28: Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena, MI
Jul 29: Milwaukee Fiserv Forum, WI
Jul 30: St Louis Enterprise Center, MO
Aug 01: Rosemont Allstate Arena, IL
Aug 02: Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center, MN
Aug 03: Omaha CHI Health Center, NE
Aug 05: Kansas City T-Mobile Center, MO
Aug 07: Denver Ball Arena, CO
Aug 09: Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena, NV
Aug 10: San Diego Viejas Arena, CA
Aug 11: Phoenix Footprint Center, AZ
Aug 14: Austin Moody Center ATX, TX
Aug 15: Fort Worth Dickies Arena, TX
Aug 16: Houston Toyota Center, TX
Mexico:
Sep 24: Mexico City Palacio De Los Deportes