My uncle chose this to be played at his funeral last year. He was a big Ghost fan

"He is the desobedience that holds us together" Perfect.

I snuck this song into the playlist at Christmas dinner last year. Everyone loved it lol.

I hear this song and I imagine the Devil just sitting there wiping his eyes, going "aw, fellas!"

Whoever the boys behind Ghost are, there's no denying that they're a band of immensely talented musicians.

Is it just me or is Ghost one of those bands where every song is good?

just when they play this song live, and everyone is singing along like we are at a big praise and worship church, is honestly such a mood

I consider myself a Christian. I love this band. And I see nothing wrong with that... 🎵

This is one of those Ghost songs that will get people attracted to their music. Great work boys!

I have yet to see a comment on how beautifully this lyric video is done. It's like watching art in motion.

Uplifting, addictive, stunning! The melody... when he say "He is..." WOW! an instant classic.

I love how he made this sound like every contemporary Christian song out there...until you listen a little closer.

Definitely the most emotional song about Satan I've ever heard

This song is so damn beautiful.

Despite What people say when they hear me listening to Ghost, I don't worship the big guy down stairs. These guys are just masterful song writers with a theme. A lot of songs of theirs are deeply metaphorical.

I'm a Christian and I love this band. They have their own sound. Which is more than I can say for most other bands.

This band is possibly the most uplifting band I've ever heard.

Immensely haunting, and when "and we are falling, over the precipice" comes, so do the goosebumps. That, i ain't had in years..!! Awesome song.

id start taking church more seriously if their music ever got this good

3 months ago I buried my grandfather, the next day after ceremony I met this song... My grandpa was the biggest authority in my life. He was the light that enlighted my life path. He raised me, he taught me and he showed me how the man should be. For me, HE IS.

Infernally divine music ❤️

Just discovered this, and I am blown away. I'm an old guy who never believed I would hear the likes of the past masters in their prime (early 1970's), like Alice Cooper or Blue Oyster Cult, again in my lifetime, but these Swedes have done it (not saying they crib from the old bands...Ghost is amazingly original). Metal from the dark side with a talent for melody, and in this one, truly gorgeous harmonies and intelligent lyrics. Venning into Eric Woolfson territory with this single. Highly proficient musicians and vocal work. Listening to various tracks, I'm discovering fantastic diversity in style. Really, I have to thank Sweden for giving us the previous rockers TSOOL, and now Ghost, since Americans and even the Brits don't, or can't, do this any more. In the post-rock era, you just don't expect to find stuff like this, original, and instantly classic. I understand their act, their schtick, and I love it. They're in their prime, like their fans. I sincerely hope they continue their ascension.

I'm totally slipping this in my grandma's karaoke playlist.

Plot twist it's a song sung from the perspective of a moth who loves a candle.

Best song of the album. Enough said.

First time listening to the band. Way better than expected. Great song.

All they're acoustic songs have a very haunting nature.... I love it so much.

as a classical philology student, i so fucking appreciate all latin in ghost's music, like, shit, these all hits different. nostra dis pater, nostr' alma mater

Ghostpel!

I bet you could sneak this song into a church.

I have to say as a man 50 years old I have never heard anything like this, love it.

One of the most beautiful songs Ive EVER heard in my life. Song writing, performance, production etc. is pure perfection.

THIS IS SUCH A FUCKING MASTERPIECE

This song is so good and it will always have a very special place in my heart, as it is the first song I heared by Ghost. Papa's voice has a devilish feature in it and that's why it's sooo amazing!!!!

I've heard this song dozens of times and it still gives me chills. Quite possibly one of the best Ghost songs but there are so many good ones.

This was the song that l singed for my grandfather in his funeral.... because he was a shinning light without the one I couldn't see, he was the force that make me be..... whenever he stay now thanks for everything, fot that wonderfull remembers, thanks for all my dear old man :')

This band is awesome their singing is so clean.

Satanic Gospel - my new favourite genre

The best rock ballad of the 21st century. It's an absolute and immovable truth.

I let you the meaning of "Nostro Dis Pater - Nostr'Alma Mater", imho the most important line of this wonderful song. ...and please, if you want, read the post scriptum ad the end of this loooong nerdy comment. ----Nostro Dis Pater Both the words are a mix of modern italian and latin. First half italian, second half latin. Now let's check out the meaning of the words: - "Nostro" means "our". In latin it should be "Noster", from "noster, nostra, nostrum", masculine, feminine, and neuter latin words. In italian, the neuter gender is not used anymore: there's only "nostro" for masculine and "nostra" for feminine, both meaning "our". - Dis Pater: here we have the first interesting thing, that gives to the song a very special meaning. "Dis" is a latin word that comes from the latin word "dives": it means "rich". "Pater", as you probably can figure it out, it's the latin word for "father". In italian it is the origin of our "Padre", for the french "Pere", for the german "Vater"... and for Star Wars "Vader" (Darth Vader sounds so similar to Dark Father ). So we have the Dis Pater as a "Rich father" or "Father of richness". When in the song Tobias sings "Nostro Dis Pater" he is thanking and adoring "Ouf Father of richness". What kind of richness? Well, material richness. The ancient Dis Pater god is also called Pluto. Pluto was not the dog of Mickey Mouse. "Pluto" was the ancient greek god of richness, son of Demetra, sister of Jupiter. Have you ever heard about "plutocracy"? So, here we have the first meaning of "He is - Nostro Dis Pater": "He is, our Father of richness". But "Dis Pater" has another meaning. In the ancient times (and still now, somewhere), the "material richness" was represented by bronze, gold, silver, copper, tin etc. If you were a man of the 1500 b.C. you could have found them only by digging. Digging underground. This material richness literally underground. So the God of richness, is also the God of the underground richness. This ancient God of Richness ended up being associated with the concept of the pagan "afterlife". Of course, the ancient Greek and Latin religion did not have Cristian heaven and hell. There was only one "afterlife", the Hades. So the old God Dis Pater became the other name/symbol of the greek god Hades himself, the God of the Underworld. What's the latin name of Hades? Pluto. So we have two Dis Pater: the Pluto of the richness, and the Pluto of the underworld. The line "He is - Nostro Dis Pater" now get a new meaning: "He is - our God of Underworld". Hey, wait a minute! Tobias in almost all songs speaks of the Christian religion and its Prince of Darkness: Satan, or Lucifer, the morning star that Tobias mentions right at the beginning of the song. And what better way to celebrate Satan, if not by representing him with the name of one of the most ancient deities who inspired his figure? We westerners still believe in the ancient greek and latin undeground: we just changed its name in "Hell". And we still afraid of the Devil. Why? Because he can condemn us to eternal suffering. Maybe you know the immortal italian poet Dante Alighieri, who lived in the 1300 and basically "invented" italian language and all the mythology we still believe in. In his masterpiece poem "The Comedy", or "The Divine Comedy", he tells us his fantastic travel through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. The poem is full of elements of classical pagan mythology, Christian mythology, philosophy and is a cruel commentary on Italian society in the 1300s. In the Hell (or Inferno) he invented, Dante shows us how the souls of the dead are judged on the basis of their sins and divided into groups, on the basis of the sins committed. Dante calls "Dite" the eternal city of Hell were he puts the souls of those who committed sins voluntarily. In latin, the word "Dis" is used in this way: dis, ditis, diti, ditem, dis... and dite. So to conclude our reasoning about "Dis Pater": Tobias sings about "Him", our Dis Pater, who is our God of Richness, but also the God of Underground, the pagan Hades and the Christian Hell. So, basically, Satan. And Tobias tells us t we must celebrate Him: because he can brings us richness, but also can condemn us to eternal suffering, burning in hell. Not bad, for only two simple words. Not let's moving on to the second half of the line. -------Nostr'Alma Mater Also this one is half italian and half latin. I already told you about "nostr' and its meaning, so let's focus on the word Alma Mater. "Mater" is the latin word for italian "madre", english "mother", german "mutter" etc. "Alma" has two meanings. Alma was - and sometimes is - used by italian poets for the italian word "anima", which means "soul". So, "Alma Mater" could be... Mother Soul. Well, it is not very convincing!! But Alma is still a female name used in Italy. The female name Alma comes from the latin adjective "almus - alma - almum" which literally means nourishing, who feeds us and take care of us. So, Nostr'Alma Mater means "Our Mother who feeds us". Now we have: Our Father of Richness - Our Mother who feeds us. But how does she feed us? Which kind of... food? The most ancient university of the world, founded in a.D. 1088, is the University of Bologna, Italy. If you search for it on Google, you will find that the full name of that university is "Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna". So here we have the second, metaphoric meaning of the "Alma Mater" of the song: knowledge. The "Nostr'Alma Mater" of the song is a Mother who feeds us with knowledge and gives us wisdom. And who is, in christian mythology, the Mother who feeds the human being and gives him knowledge? Yes. The Holy Mary. The mother of Jesus, who lives in Heaven. So now I can conclude the reasoning. What does "Nostro Dis Pater - nostr'Alma Mater" means? It means "Our father of richness - our mother who feeds us". "He is" the one who takes care of us, giving us economic and physical well-being. But also it means "Our father of material richness - our mother of knowledge". "He is" the one who gives us gold, silver... in a word, money, so power. But "he is" also the one who gives us knowledge, wisdom, who take care of our minds and thoughts. And so he gives us the power to think about us, our future, our destinty. The last one meaning? "Nostro Dis Pater - Nostr'Alma Mater" could mean "Our Satan - our Holy Mary". So here we have the most controversial interpretation of the line: on first there's Satan, the Evil, the Male. Then we have Holy Mary, the Good, the Female. Evil and Evil, Male and Female, Hell and Heaven, Darkness and Light. Not bad, for a line with only 6 words. What can I say? Well... Tobias studied well the classics and... damn, he's so good with lyrics!!!! Hope you find all this interesting! Sorry for my english and bye from Italy *p.s: About a year ago I wrote basically this identical comment... and thousands of you liked it so much. But some months ago I changed my user-id on KZfaq and all my past comments, included that one, has been delated. That's why I wrote it again, with more informations.

I just saw them at Hellfest and found them absolutely brilliant. WOW! Just bought their entire discography.

This song gives me so much strength. Unholy, free, pure strength.

Seeing them live changes the sound of all of their songs tbh, I can never unhear my first ritual

Nossa que banda sensacional maravilhosa .isso sim que é som, sem palavras

when i thought rock was dead these guys comin and proves that i was wonderfully wrong...

OMG!!! I love this SONG!!! AMAZING!!! Do not know if I like Cirice as much now. GO GHOST GO!!! You ARE AWESOME!!! Your Little Cirice :-). I wish You that You win the GRAMMYS!!!

I cannot stop listening to this song. I'm obsessed!

If this don't play at my funeral I ain't dying

I had no idea this band existed until I saw Papa Emeritus II (found his name only an hour ago) in a meme. I was really drawn to him for some reason. I looked into it further, found this song and really liked it.

Beautiful song. It reminds me of my sister who's locked up right now, who's my heart, my best friend, and the only person who completely understands me. Thank you so much for this piece of beauty in the world.

I nearly forgot, how great this band is...so happy i found it again after years of not listening:))

I am a huge fan of Ghost. They've done incredible things...It's amazing...

I bought all of their cds. I haven't bought a cd in like 15 years but man, their music is just that good.

This is such a beautiful song....Ghost are an amazing group....I was mesmerised when I first saw them in 2014....they cover so many different genres that almost anyone can enjoy their songs

From an artistic and musical standpoint Tobias is a great vocalist and great with lyrics all of the nameless ghouls past and present are top notch musicians.

Just found about ghost. I've been missing so much. This band is really good.

What a song. What a band. Best thing I've heard in years.

i fucking love that guitar riff, and this song is the number 2 to sing in my car!

The most beautiful Ghost song.

This is just the most beautiful song ever 😊

I wish there was a 10 minute extended version. That ending guitar could go on forever.

Just saw them live yesterday having never previously heard of them. I've now purchased every song they have. Amazing band. Rock on

Some of their music is just down right beautiful.

One of my favorite songs of all time. Simply beautiful and meaningful.

I love how he sneaks in that "the disobedience" to make a point to people fooled by the song

Remember boys and girls, the devil always has the best songs. Brilliant.

¿Alguien mas sintió que casi se le salen las lagrimas por esta canción?🥲

I love how they combined the epicness and the romance it feels cosmic

am i the only one who feels peacefull with this song?

Excelente composición y magnífica banda. No entiendo como hay personas que la califican mal a tan maravilloso arte.

this brings me to tears - in a good way. so beautiful.

They never manage to fail at making me tear up.

Imagine getting this played on one of those Christian radio stations- and then halfway through it, they revel in horror at the realization that it's about Satan...

Sooooo, I've been playing bloodborne today, and have been stuck on this one fucking boss, amygdala in the defiled chalice dungeon, and I start singing along to this, and I beat his Arse, didn't get hit once... Thank you Ghost B.C.

Love the words & the music is beautiful they go together so perfect..

translation for latin "Our God and Father; our gracious mother."

They are the morning light that rock needed in this day and age.

The most beautiful dark ballad ever made. Simply stunning. Selim Lemouchi knew when heard the demo, too.

Awesome Song by Ghost . Just Awesome .

I listened to this song back when it first came out and Ghost were still kind of unknown. I was in the live of a local band and a girl sung it. I had no idea which song it was, but those lyrics *nostro dis pater, nostr' alma mater* captivated me. I was trying to remember them untill I got home to search them on KZfaq. After all those years I'm still here and no matter how many great songs they make, He Is will always be my favourite Ghost song.

I want someone to love me the way Ghost loves Satan.

That is absolutely fucking beautiful. What a masterpiece. Ghost is the best band to come around in many years.

I can never tire of this, it's such a beautiful song.

as a theistic satanist, this song means so much to me. no matter what the actual meaning is, i always associate it with Lucifer and i feel so close to him when listening to this amazing band. i wish there were more songs like this one, even though He is darkness, rebelliousness and "badassery", he also is the light, a light that just peacefully shines, tempting but never forcing, so tender and truly safe, unconditional love that does not expect obedience in return but wishes for all of us to feel pleasure, both material and spiritual, to listen to ourselves instead of preaching what to believe in. to me, this is what Satan sounds like. calming, powerful and dreamlike, the sound of freedom without restraints. thank you for letting me see, even what they don't want me to, thank you for the wisdom and the strength to stand proud in a world that wants us to kneel and pray. and thank you Ghost for this beautiful song.

LA MEJOR BANDA QUE HE ESCUCHADO EN AÑOS.

God damn but this song is beautiful. Listening to this always brings a sense of peace to me, a feeling of order and a cool warmth if that makes any sense.

I'm a Christian but I really like this song. i don't let my religion get in the way of what i listen to

Still amazed that GHOST is so damned talented.

Beautiful. I cannot stop listening to this. Bittersweet, solemn joy.

Fantastic band and song.

Magnificent melody, love this track.

Magical. I've never heard anything quite like it.

I am basically in love with his voice

I love Ghost so much, and this has to be one of my favourite songs by them.

I want to hear the guitar solo one hour in a row. Pure magic!

I love this song so much. I can listen to it over and over and over and over....which I just did lol.

I saw them live this past Friday and when they played this song I immediately got chills. They put on such a damn good show. 💙

He is....JOHN CENA

His pronunciation when he says " Nostro Dis Pater - Nostr'Alma Mater '' is simply perfect! It sounds like a true ITALIAN!

To me as a loyal Buddhist in Taiwan 🇹🇼, the HE in this song means the Buddha Shakyamuni. Amen 🙏