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Tobias Forge has brought Repugnant back from the dead, and he’s handed the microphone to someone else. The Stockholm death metal band the Ghost frontman formed in 1998 and buried in 2004 has released a new recording of ‘Premature Burial’, with a video Forge directed, for the horror anthology V/H/S Mixtape, now streaming on Shudder. Three original members are on it.

The vocalist is Erik Danielsson of Watain, the Swedish black metal band whose live shows involve actual blood, and Forge, who sang the original, is behind the camera instead of behind the mic.

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What Repugnant Just Released

The new ‘Premature Burial’ is Repugnant’s first new recording in two decades: a re-cut of a 2004 song, made for V/H/S Mixtape, with Gustaf Lindström on bass, Thomas Daun on drums, Gottfrid Åhman on guitar, Erik Danielsson on vocals, and Tobias Forge directing the video.

V/H/S Mixtape is the latest instalment of the found-footage horror franchise, and the song sits inside it; the video, credited to Forge as director on YouTube, is the band’s first since the reunion. The original ‘Premature Burial’ dates to 2004, the year Repugnant split, and it was Forge’s voice on it then. Lindström, Daun and Åhman are all former Repugnant members, and Lindström also played bass in an early version of Ghost, which makes this as close to the 2004 lineup as you can get without Forge singing.

Danielsson is the surprise. Watain are one of the bands that defined modern black metal’s extremity, on stage and off, and the idea of their frontman singing for the man who wrote ‘Mary On A Cross’ is the kind of Stockholm-scene crossover that makes sense only if you know both of them came up in the same rooms twenty-five years ago. He sounds right. That’s the part fans are arguing about.

Why Repugnant Matters To Ghost Fans

Repugnant are the band Forge was fronting before Ghost existed: formed in 1998, a run of singles and EPs, a split in 2004, and a posthumous album, Epitome Of Darkness, in 2006 that became a cult record in Swedish death metal.

Forge sang and played guitar, under a name that wasn’t Papa Emeritus yet, and the music was old-school Stockholm death metal in the Entombed and Nihilist line: buzzsaw guitars, no theatre. If you’ve only heard the Ghost catalogue, it’s startling. If you’ve heard the heaviest death metal records of the era, it fits right in. He briefly reformed the band in the early 2010s and shelved it again when Ghost took off.

He’s been candid about why it didn’t last the first time. ‘I don’t know if we were good enough or whatever,’ he said in a recent interview, before landing on the real reason: at 21, ‘I wasn’t mature. I wasn’t thinking. I wasn’t there yet.’ Twenty years and a string of arena albums later, he’s there now, and he’s chosen to direct rather than sing. That’s a man who knows exactly what Repugnant should sound like and has decided it isn’t him anymore.

The Death Metal Project Everyone Keeps Hinting At

Ghost are on hiatus, Forge is reportedly recording a death metal album, and Earache Records says it has signed a ‘connected-to-Ghost death metal band’; nobody has confirmed those three things are the same thing, but they’re hard to keep apart.

The hints have been stacking up since the summer. In June, Hammerfall drummer Johan Koleberg said he was helping Forge prepare drums for unspecified new music. Earache boss Digby Pearson then said the label had signed a ‘connected-to-Ghost death metal band’, adding that ‘apparently, he’s doing a death metal album, as well.’ Now a Repugnant song appears with three original members and a Forge-directed video. A full comeback hasn’t been announced, and the band hasn’t said whether this is a one-off for the film or the first thing from a record.

Read the pieces together and the shape is obvious, which is probably the point. Ghost’s break was always going to have something in it, and Forge has never been a man who rests; the Mary On A Cross story alone tells you how long he sits on ideas before he uses them. Whether the Earache signing is Repugnant, a new band with the same people, or something else entirely, Forge is making death metal again, and this song is the proof of concept.

The Take: The Mask Comes Off, And It’s The Right Call

Forge not singing is the smartest decision in this story, because Repugnant with Papa Emeritus on vocals would be a Ghost side project, and with Danielsson it’s a death metal band.

Here’s the counter-argument: fans wanted to hear Forge scream again, it’s his band, and handing the mic to someone else makes the reunion feel like a tribute act. Fair. But Forge’s voice in 2026 is the most recognisable clean voice in arena metal, and the moment it appears on a death metal record every review becomes about Ghost. Danielsson gives the song a frontman with no theatre to shake off, from the one genre that’s never needed a mask, and lets Forge do the job he’s actually best at, which is building the thing and pointing the camera.

It also tells you how seriously he takes it. Ghost’s whole identity is costume, and Forge has spent fifteen years controlling every frame of it. Taking himself out of the frame here, on the band he was too young to get right the first time, is the opposite of a vanity project. If the Earache record is this lineup, it’ll be the first Forge release in two decades that nobody can call Ghost. Good.

TL;DR

• Tobias Forge has revived Repugnant, the Stockholm death metal band he fronted from 1998 to 2004, with a new recording of ‘Premature Burial’ for the horror anthology V/H/S Mixtape, streaming on Shudder.
• The vocalist is Watain’s Erik Danielsson, not Forge, who sang the 2004 original and directed the new video; original members Gustaf Lindström, Thomas Daun and Gottfrid Åhman play on it.
• Ghost are on hiatus, Forge is reportedly recording a death metal album, and Earache says it has signed a ‘connected-to-Ghost death metal band’; a full Repugnant comeback is unconfirmed.
• Forge on the original band: ‘I don’t know if we were good enough… I wasn’t mature. I wasn’t thinking. I wasn’t there yet.’

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Watch the new ‘Premature Burial’ above, then tell us on the Loaded Radio app whether you’d rather hear Forge or Danielsson on a full Repugnant record. Ghost, Watain and Repugnant are on the stream this weekend.

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