Ghost drop ‘Peacefield’ music video with rare live footage from phone-free Skeletour

Ghost has unleashed the Peacefield music video with first glimpses of the 2025 Skeletour run after banning phone use during shows.

Ghost have thrown open the gates to their new era, dropping a music video for Peacefield that captures the first electric moments of their 2025 Skeletour.

Dropping overnight (April 28), the Peacefield music video stitches together live footage from the band’s early shows on the Skeletour run, cut with stylised visuals under the eye of director Amir Chamdin and producer Matilda Almeida. 

Peacefield — Skeletá’s opening track and third single — only just arrived last week, but the rollout has been full throttle. The track’s towering vocal hooks and chorus structure have already sparked comparisons to Journey’s ‘80s stadium classic “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”.

Based on the YouTube comments under the Peacefield video, those ‘80s vibes have extended to Ghost’s music video visuals – and fans are loving it. It’s our first real taste of Ghost’s new live chapter, with the tour operating under a full phone ban, to varying levels of fan reception.

The Skeletour was announced late last year, with the decision to ban phones based on the experience of filming the band’s concert movie Rite Here Rite Now. The movie was shot over two performances at the KIA Forum in LA in 2023, during which fans were directed to lock their phones in sealable Yondr pouches. 

Ghost’s frontman, Tobias Forge (aka Papa V Perpetua), said in an interview with Planet Rock that the crowd was “fully engaged” in a way he hadn’t seen in years. With that realisation, the no phones policy at Ghost shows came to be.

Fans keep their devices on hand, sealed in Yondr pouches, while the real world melts away for a couple of hours. “I don’t wanna turn this into an ageist thing where I’m gonna tell 14-year-olds everything was better back then,” Forge said to Blabbermouth. “But I swear that the experience of shows and the making of memories, the making of magic, was much more powerful [at the phone-free LA shows].”

Given we haven’t been able to catch a glimpse of the first few Skeletour shows on social media, this new music video is a tantalising first look at what Ghost fans can expect as the band travels the world with their new album.

Skeletá launched on April 25 to a fresh wave of critical acclaim. Ghost are already making it clear: this isn’t just a new album and tour, it’s a new chapter. And, if the Peacefield video description is anything to go by, it’s also an “inception point for much more to come.”