18 Facts About Tobias Forge

Tobias Forge is the frontman, leader, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member of the masked rock band Ghost, performing live as their vocalist under the stage names Papa Emeritus, Cardinal Copia, and Papa Perpetua.

Tobias Forge was a member of the band Superior under the stage name Leviathan in 1996.

Tobias Forge fronted the Stockholm-based death metal band Repugnant from 1998, under the stage name Mary Goore, which Metal Hammer reported is a play on the name of Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore.

Between 2000 and 2002, Tobias Forge was a guitarist for glam metal band Crashdiet using the Mary Goore name.

From 2002 to 2008, Tobias Forge was vocalist and guitarist of the pop rock band Subvision.

Tobias Forge played guitar and bass, with Persner and Soderberg both handling guitar and singing duties.

Since 2006, Tobias Forge has acted as chief songwriter and business leader of the rock and heavy metal band Ghost, a project and role that contributed to a significant rise in his fame and popularity, following many years of involvement in other underground acts.

For recorded material, Tobias Forge seems to play most of the other instruments in addition to vocals.

Tobias Forge performed as Papa Emeritus II for this album, as well as the subsequent EP, If You Have Ghost.

Tobias Forge is credited as Papa Nihil on the two-track release Seven Inches of Satanic Panic, which is purported by the band to have been recorded in 1969.

For Ghost's fourth album, Prequelle, Tobias Forge adopted another new persona, Cardinal Copia.

Tobias Forge's music has been described as heavy metal, doom metal, hard rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, pop rock and death metal.

Tobias Forge appeared in the last episode of Netflix series Clark, that aired in May 2022.

Tobias Forge grew up in a predominantly Christian environment, where he was exposed to Christian teachings, films, and stories about Jesus from a young age.

Tobias Forge stated that, during his adolescence, he "unquestionably [threw his] hands into the hands of Satan," citing his experiences with both a strict stepmother and a strict religious schoolteacher, which led him to feel alienated and ultimately embrace Satanism as a rebellious response to what he perceived as the oppressive ideologies of certain Christians.

Tobias Forge is married and the father of fraternal twins, a son named Morris and a daughter named Minou, born in 2008.

Morris is featured on Ghost's cover of the Metallica song "Enter Sandman", which Tobias Forge recorded to support Camp Aranu'tiq, a summer camp for transgender youths.

Tobias Forge is a member of the Swedish Order of Freemasons.