"Hi I'm Cardinal Copia and I'll be your freestyle dance instructor."

Tobias Forge has said that he wants Ghost to sound like the greatest band from the seventies and eighties that you've never heard before. Mission accomplished.

The character design and body language of Cardinal Copia is outstanding. The way Tobias describes him as some sort of charismatic, Freddie Mercury type really made me realize what a great era this was for the band. Cardy got moves man

1:04 how I walk to the microwave when my pizza rolls are done

Dance choreographer: Ok how many twirls should this dance have? Tobias: Yes

I swear this man took ballet lession or smth.. those spins were too professional

If this video were around during the 80s it would've been legendary. It's a masterpiece.

I love how Papa doesn't sexualize his dancers- they're artists and not just eye candy and that's rare

1:04 that must be one of the best dance movements ever

Sometimes when I’m sad I come back to this music video and watch the cardinal do his little fancy dance. Cheers me up everytime

My son is 5 and I didn't realized he stopped to watch this music video (i had it on while cleaning.) Next thing i know, he's dancing around the house and growling "Them rats!" Highlight of my day lol ❤

3:48 Best part of the song... I could listen to this over and over. So powerful!

2020 Update : BATS

This song prevents me from hearing the word rats like a normal person again.

I'm a ol metal head and these guys absolutely kick ass

The song that made me actually become a ghost fan

"Darling, lets go to a musical" "Cats?" "No, Rats!"

I'm SO late discovering this band and their music. Ghost is now my favorite band, love their sound.

Can’t believe the Cardinal predicted the style of the Wednesday dance, lol in all seriousness there’s something so hilarious and haunting seeing the movements range from poetically smooth and ballet like, into unpredictable full body gesticulations

I’m a 15 year old girl who’s a huge kpop listener and my dad introduced me to tons of rock bands and I have loved ghost for over 5 years now ❤️

Cardinal Copia clearly won the second most "Employee of the Month" awards with them fire dance moves. He's killing it.

When it’s the Black Plague but you have to practice your pirouette.

I love the whole song, but my favorite part is when he stops and the gears start turning and you can nearly hear him think “Imma ride that horse”

Come for the metal. Stay for the pirouettes. Thats Ghost.

Cardinal Copia is definitely the man to take this band into stratosphere levels of notoriety and fame. He’s already legendary.

Imagine releasing a song that becomes more relevant as time passes.

Who came here and did NOT expect to see Tobias Forge dancing 😂😂😂

My mom: come show everyone that little dance you do Me: 1:04

For the few who don't understand the dancing, it's sinister, in the tradition of the original Twin Peaks series, when the possessed serial killer did Fred Astaire-like dances. Here the cardinal is doing a sort of homage to "Singin' In the Rain," only the puddles are blood, not water. It's macabre. And it suggests disease, as in St. Vitus' Dance, a symptom of Sydenham's chorea. Nothing campy about this -- it's horror for those with eyes to see.

I only discovered Ghost's music approx a week ago and I'm completely enraptured. I'm ashamed it took me this long join the party, but I'm glad to be here now

2:31 That is certainly one of the most beautiful guitar solos in metal. Short but charming.

*1st time hearing Rats* "Eh, it's okay.." *11th time hearing Rats* (Dances in sync with the Skull Dancers)

I just realized that Cardinal’s “Papa” skull makeup is a rat skull and it makes everything so much more epic

Ghost should get a Grammy every year till 2050.

Ghost is a walking religious trauma to me. I love it.

4 years later and this song still fucking kills. I can't decide between jazz hands, moshing, headbanging, or dancing. I think that's why I love it so much. Musically it invokes all these different feelings and it's just fucking glorious. I almost peed my pants seeing it live twice. Long live Ghost 👻

If you cant handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my 1:04

We need more musical geniuses like this. Great music and very entertaining to watch. Future musicians should take note.

Who else loves this band in 7/2024, way after midnight can't sleep listen to Ghost all night.

When you've got razzle dazzle but also hail Satan. Ghost in a nutshell.

It’s taking everything in me not to learn the choreography

I can’t believe I’m so late to this band. One of the greatest I’ve heard, never going back

this shit got me sobbing cause its hilarious 😭 the spinning got me

I love his "singing in the rain" moment with the umbrella.

Idk why this band gets so much hate, they are awesome

Moments in this mv that never fail to crack me up: - The lil jaw wiggle at the beginning - 1:04 - Special Ghoul putting his freaking _leg_ on the _keyboard_ - SG playing guitar with gloves on - Evil horse

Dance choreographer: and what type of dance style would you like for this song tobias: **yes**

Me going to the bathroom at 3am The demon in the hall 1:04

I hope my neighbors like Ghost.

I’m so glad to be living in these times of turmoil. Because we wouldn’t have ghost. And as they said, if you have ghost: you have everything

It would be an ideal song to kick start a live performance

For those wondering what the white guitar is, it is a Hagstrom Fantomen. Not really sure if anyone even cares but I went through the trouble of figuring it out so might as well share.

1:04 my sleep paralysis demon in the corner of my room

words can't describe how much i'm in love with the band, the music, and everything about it it's like a gold mine of serotonin where have i been all this time

it’s been like 6 years and i’ve JUST noticed that he kicks the shit out of a plushia😭😭

Come for the song, stay for the pirouetting

1st time listening: hey this is pretty cool 20th time listening: help me I have a problem

How is this song 4 years old already? It's still as fresh to me as it was when it was released. To me, Rats is to Ghost as Gutter Ballet was to Savatage. Just totally embracing the dramatic storytelling in their video, backed by an awesome song to match.

I would like to be in Tobias Forge's head for a MOMENT to know how this was conceived. I want him to look at the coordinator and go "Needs more rats... say, do you think we have the budget for a horse too?"

Crazy? They said i was crazy. They locked me in a room, a rubber room with RATSSSSSS (aaaAAAA)

I wanted to search up Ghost of Tsushima but I just ended up searching ghost by mistake, I don't regret anything ._.

If Cardinal Copia doesn't perform any of the choreography at any show I attend, I will ask for my money back

I love rats so much 💀💀

This was the first song I heard when I first discovered Ghost around 2018-2019, and it's still my favorite song of theirs. I love that it's simultaneously heavy and uper catchy. When hearing it live in Oslo, I was amazed by how huge the chorus sounded and how badass the outro was. Ghost, thank you for making this timeless masterpiece.

that ending riff deserves its own song!!

if metal was a broadway musical, it would be called Ghost.

SIGH. Look at my little ballerina rat king. 🥹🥰🖤

hits different when you have rats in your attic 🐀

I'm 52 and an old school metal head. Love these guys and wish people my age would support the future generations of hard Rock. These guys also do a great job of incorporating 70's and 80's gothic music into their sound.

Fun fact: Director of this video also made the Cirice video!

I choose to believe his lil dancing wasn't even coordinated, he was just vibing and in the moment 😆

The more you understand the lyrices , the more you understand the reallity of the song & then you will love this stuff.

If you think he can dance you should see his father’s father’s father’s father’s father. His father.

One thing a lot of modern rock/metal bands seem to neglect is the importance of a larger than life front man Ghost are one of the few that get it

Legend has it that he's still dancing

wow this is crazy? i was crazy once. they locked me in a room a rubber room. a rubber room with rats. and rats make me crazy

Plague: Dance of the Rats a work of oil on canvas art 17th century featuring rats dancing. The plague dance took place in the early 1500's where people we dancing endlessly through all the death and despair. Many of these dancers died from exhaustion or heart attack. So for those unaware or judgemental, the dancing here is related to that along with the theme of the album, the plague. This is the modern art now that depicts the death and survival of such gruesome times. Also the upcoming track on this album Dance Macabre has to do with people who were dying from the plague went out and just had fun with their remaining days, danced like they've never danced before. Partied and drank, just lived it up until they perished. So yeah it's actually pretty dark. Actually it all has to do with the darkest times in history, so just because there is dancing, doesn't mean it's not dark. It's symbolic.

Filmed in California. Turns out they didn't even need to create a set.

I swear there was a cartoon I used to watch that had the same sound as in 3:49 I don’t know if it had anything to do with rats but it’s bothering me that it sounds so familiar, yet I can’t remember anything about it 💀

The bass and drums alone on this track are masterful. Between the playing, the mix and the Actual tone (Fender Jazz is outstanding). An excellent quality hard rock tune all around.

Me in 2018: Amazing song Me in 2020: Damn it world! This song wasn't supposed to be a suggestion!

I love how much this sounds like an 80's horror movie credits song.

5 years later, and ballerina Cardi is still one of the best sights to ever have graced this Earth.

Is this some like dark version of ratatouille or something because now I’m feeling that vibe

I love how the last 30 seconds of this song exist as an incredible starting point for an entirely different song. Yet Ghost has so much going for them, they just integrated it at the end of this song instead, as if that riff doesn't go HARD.

Ladies and gentlemen, this Friday the 13th we are witnessing the birth of a classic.

This was the song that got me into Ghost. My friend was telling me about the band and I asked if I could hear a song, she put on this music video. I've been hooked ever since.

Seeing Rats performed live, that ending riff is *so* crunchy and satisfying

The last riff should last longer. It's heavy af

“Ghost is such a dark theme” Ghost : 1:01 , 1:28

When I was growing up, all the kids that were into the popular dance bands said they didn't care for metal cause you couldn't dance to it. Mr. Forge, please show the class how you CAN dance to metal!

4th listen and I'm now 85% used to the Cardinal. EDIT: 5th listen and now 96% used to the Cardinal. EDIT EDIT: 6th listen and now 100% used to the Cardinal. Ghost kills it again.

Friday 13th. Nice touch.

2024 and I still like this song too much

Perfect soundrack for my 20 days quarantine. Edit : my infinite quarantine

Maybe as a child Tobias was sent to the dancing classes and now he decided to use those skills😂

Headbang: no dance like Cardinal: *definetly*

Fucking of course i had to awaken as a rat therian

CDC worker: Sir I'm going to need you to clear the area immediat- Cardinal Copia: *pirouettes* CDC worker: No okay you're good

Really digging this, getting some major 80s vibes from the theatric vocals, guitar tones, and keys.