{"id":209,"date":"2022-01-02T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theghostreport.de\/?p=209"},"modified":"2022-01-02T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:45:54","slug":"dear-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theghostreport.de\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"The mastermind of many official Ghost illustrations and designs – David M. Brinley<\/strong><\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a9David M. Brinley with Papa Emeritus III in Tabernacle, Atlanta, on 10th June 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dave, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions about your illustrations and design in general, but also for the band Ghost. Since English is not my first language, have please some mercy on me. <\/strong>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for contacting me and preparing such excellent questions in advance.  I apologize that this took me longer than anticipated\u2026so I appreciate you bearing with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you feel a question is inappropriate or too personal, please just leave it out. I know that the band is also very cautious with information. Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, I want to congratulate you on the great design for Ghost’s new single „Hunters Moon“. The colors are terrific! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you! That was a fun and new favorite of mine as well since it was a tie-in with the Halloween film franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you call yourself a Ghost fan and do you attend to concerts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I am a \u2018dyed in the wool\u2019 Ghost fan and have enjoyed them since their inception\/demo era through and including the new song Hunter\u2019s Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For context, please let me indulge this question a bit deeper.  I first discovered Ghost online via the demo making the rounds online and the buzz surrounding this new mysterious group.  Once Fenriz from the band Darkthrone anointed them the \u2018Band of The Week\u2019 on his blog, I looked forward to an LP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mystery of Ghost for me and many others in those early years grabbed ahold like no other band at the time (or since).  Opus Eponymous was a real eye and ear opener.  I absolutely loved the concept, aesthetic, eclectic influences, and anonymity of early Ghost.  I have always had a very diverse interests in all sorts of music from generally the last 60 years or so,  and what they were doing lined up with all of my favorite bands sonically as well as visually and more.  So of course I had to search and dig online to find all of the projects that were related to Ghost at the time such as Subvision, Magna Carta Cartel, TID, and the early Repugnant material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wife Christina and I have attended Ghost concerts in the USA practically from day one.  We were really into the recorded material and looked forward to seeing them live. Ghost was new and I did not want to miss out on what I believed must have been similar for fans witnessing the same sort of rise that early Metallica went through in the clubs back in the early 1980s.  Not to mention NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) and early punk; when bands were new, fresh, and exciting.  I wasn\u2019t the only one that saw and knew this band was capable of a similar trajectory\u2026so we were not surprised to see how it all has unfolded right up to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I missed their 2011 premier at Maryland Deathfest – but have seen them well over 50+ times live over the last decade from NYC to California and back – and many places in between and down south for vacations and road trips.  The 2012 \u201813 Dates of Doom\u2019 tour was at a time that you could see them in such intimate venues as the Bowery Ballroom NYC and the \u2018Rock N Roll Hotel\u2019 in Washington DC, which was the smallest venue we ever witnessed Ghost live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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