GHOST have released the video for brand new single Spillways.

The typically strange and disorientating video features Papa Emeritus and his Ghouls playing in what looks like a giant underground cathedral, complete with light-up pentagram on the floor, while a mass of dry ice billows around them.

The weird vibes are completed by a troupe of poker-faced dancers sporting flesh-coloured leotards who go from mannequin-like stillness to writhing movement as the video progress. Oh, and did we mention several of them start crying tears of blood towards the end, before the entire place turns a diabolical deep red? 

What does it mean? We’re not entirely sure, though GHOST mainman recently told Metal Hammer that Spillways was “an elegy for the darkness that most people have inside. When you have a dam, spillways are the run-offs so the dam won’t overflow. That darkness inside us needs to find its way out.”

Spillways is the latest single from GHOST’s fourth album Impera, released earlier this year. The band kick off their US Imperator tour on August 26, 2022, supported by MASTODON and SPIRITBOX.