The first track on Ghost’s fifth album, Impera. “Imperium” serves as the lead-in to “Kaisarion,” establishing a musical motif that returns at the end of the album in the song “Respite on the Spitalfields.”
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Imperium was written by Tobias Forge.
Imperium was produced by Klas Åhlund.
That’s meant as a national anthem opening. In the illustrations that come with the record, there’s a big city landscape and this cart rolling into town at sunrise. It has a beginning element that I like.
—Tobias Forge, Metal Hammer