Ghost bootlegs! 7" vinyl singles + flexi discs

Let me state right away that I´m usually a huge fan of the vinyl bootleg and hunt after them like crazy!
That being said however, I am NOT a fan of this recent trend of mega limited editions - often only five or ten copies. Not only is it almost impossible to find them, but if you do manage to track one of them down the price asked for them are nothing short of ridiculous.
I like to try to get as complete a collection as possible, but those limited quantities and accompanying prices effectively kills both the collecting spirit and the wallet.

For this reason, I do not collect bootlegs by Ghost and none of the records listed above are my own. I still like to keep an eye open for what´s out there and have saved pictures of bootlegs over the past three years when I have found them. I don´t have any first hand information on any of them and all I know is what can be read on the pictures. More colors available of some release, a second run produced of another - I have no idea! When I find it I will add it, but for now, this is all I know.
All pictures come from searches on eBay over the years.

Besides the first entry below, which was actually the first one that ever appeared for Ghost fans, the bootlegs are not presented in any particular order.

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Here comes the sun/Interview (Metal Injection Youtube interview)

This single was the first vinyl bootleg that was ever produced for the Ghost market.

10 individually numbered copies available: 1-5 in clear vinyl, 6-10 in black.

A piece of paper is included with number and additional information on the release.

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Live Ceremony 

(Intro + Con Clavi Con Dio/Elizabeth)

Recorded live at Hellfest, Clisson, France, June 19 2011.

66 copies total. Clear vinyl (haven´t seen any other color)

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Live Ceremony At Music Feeds Studio 

(If You Have Ghosts/Ritual)

Recorded live in Music Feeds Studio, Australia, January 2014.

50 copies total. Black vinyl.

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Here Comes The Sun

Recorded live at Cupolen, Linköping, Sweden December 15, 1012 + 

The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA. USA February 2, 2012

Same song on both sides?

Allegedly 300 copies total, mostly black, but clear vinyl also exist.

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Live Ritual

Recorded live at Fuzz Club, Athens, October 8, 2011

66 copies total, black and clear vinyl.

Same as above, but a picture disc. 50 copies.

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Con Clavi Con Dio

Recorded live at Hellfest, Clisson, France, June 19 2011.

1-sided disc with image on one side and music on the other. 

20 copies.

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The Secular Summoning

(Secular haze/I´m a marionette)

Recorded live at Cupolen, Linköping, Sweden December 15, 1012 

Picture disc, 50 copies.

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Con Clavi Con Dio

Recorded live in Fuzz Club, Athens, October 8, 2011

Clear flexi disc, 10 copies.

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 Live At Roadburn, Midi Theatre

(Stand By Him)

Recorded live at Roadburn Festival, midi Theatre, Tilburg, The Netherlands, April 4, 2011.

Clear flexi disc, 10 copies.

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Live At Coachella

(Year Zero)

Recorded live at the Coachella Festival, Indio, CA. USA on April 21, 2013.

Both black flexi and clear flexi available.

10 copies, but I´m not sure if it´s 10 copies total or 10 copies of each color.

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 Live At Coachella

(Ritual) 

Recorded live at the Coachella Festival, Indio, CA. USA on April 21, 2013.

At this time I have only the clear flexi confirmed, but probably both black flexi and clear flexi exist.

(see above entry)

10 copies, but I´m not sure if it´s 10 copies total or 10 copies of each color (if more than one exist).

If you have ghost

Initially released in Scandinavia in November 2013 as strictly limited 500 copies clear vinyl and 1000 copies black vinyl. The clear vinyl was sold exclusively by Bengans (a retailer with stores in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Linköping) and only available as part of a bundle that also included the "Infestissumam" Redux -CD. Both clear and black vinyl editions sold out instantly.
Both the clear and the black vinyl were distributed without shrinkwrap.

Shortly after, not sure if it was late 2013 or early 2014, an international edition in black vinyl, and slightly altered cover, was issued. It is till available, so no limited edition on that one.
In August of 2014 a second edition of this international version was issued in purple vinyl, but I have not been able to find out how many copies were produced.
Both the black and the purple vinyl were distributed shrinkwrapped.

Scandinavian edition, front cover

Scandinavian edition, back cover

Scandinavian edition, clear vinyl,

 Scandinavian edition, black vinyl

 International edition, front cover

  International edition, back cover

  International edition, black vinyl

  

 International edition, purple vinyl

Secular haze

The 200 clear vinyl edition of this 10" single was originally intended to be an exclusive release when Ghost played in their hometown of Linköping, Sweden on December 15, 2012. The show where they quite spectacularly said goodbye to Papa Emeritus I and welcomed the new Papa Emeritus II.
For reasons not clear to me, this never happened and as it turned out, all clear vinyl copies were eventually sold by Bengans; a record store with shops in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Linköping. It is my understanding however, that all clear vinyl copies were sold exclusively by mailorder by Bengans, and not in any of their shops. Please correct me if I am wrong.

The vinyl finally arrived in February 2013, about two months behind schedule and also about two months ahead of the "Infestissumam" album.

Front cover

Back cover

 Clear vinyl, limited to 200 copies. Scandinavia only.

 Black vinyl, limited to 1000 copies. Scandinavia only*.

* Some of the black vinyl singles were saved to be included in a special limited bundle for the North American market when the "Infestissumam" album was released. The single was only available in a very limited "super deluxe bundle" which, apart from the single, also included the "Infestissumam" album on red vinyl + download, a T-shirt and a quite ugly litho-poster.

Infestissumam, colored vinyl editions

After a lengthy absence from this blog I´m back to deliver some new pictures and mindless blabber. This time I thought I´d mention the band´s latest album - Infestissumam. It is supposed to mean something like "the biggest threat" according to an interview with a band member at the time of release, which was April 2013 by the way. 

These are the four different colours that are currently available. Please read more about each colour under their respective picture.

2000 (or 4000?) copies, clear vinyl, Scandinavian edition.

This was the first vinyl edition that was released. Originally promoted as "Swedish edition" but later corrected to "Scandinavian edition". This means that it was originally sold and marketed in Scandinavian based shops only, but the album was actually made (printed/pressed) in the EU, as stated on the label and the credits page in the booklet attached in the gatefold. 

"The booklet attached in the gatefold"? Yes, this edition comes with an 11-page booklet that contains the infamous drawings (see examples below) that caused a minor moral panic among pressing plants in the US, as they refused to include these pictures in the CD-booklet or on the CD itself, which caused the CD to be released some weeks later than planned in the US.

But I digress; back to this vinyl release. Some collectors on discogs, eBay and other places, state that this was made in 4000 copies, and they might be right. After all, Univesal themselves state that to be the amount pressed. BUT...I´m quite sure that the internet ads at the time of release claimed the album to made in 2000 copies only. That number is also stated in Janne Starks book on Swedish hardrock and heavy metal. 

The album also comes with a printed innersleeve with lyrics on one side and the "Scourger" drawing on the other. This drawing is absent from the aforementioned booklet. Released in April 2013.

Scourger

 Ghuleh/Zombie queen

2000 copies, black vinyl, Scandinavian release. 

Everything but the colour of the vinyl is the same as the clear vinyl edition.
Released in May 2013.

2000 copies, transparent yellow vinyl, Scandinavian release.

Everything but the colour of the vinyl is the same as the clear vinyl edition.
Released in late May/early June 2013.

Transparent red vinyl. US/international release.

Gatefold cover with band picture to the left and lyrics to the right. Plain white innersleeve + voucher for downloading the album in .mp3. Chronologically this was released in the spring or early summer (probably May). 

I don´t have any pressing numbers on this one.