It’s a chilly spring evening in Amsterdam, and the sense of anticipation is electric. A motley gathering of black-clad, grucifix-bearing misfits have all come together at the Concerto Record Store on the Utrechtsestraat for the pre-release ‘Midnight’ listening session of Ghost’s sixth full-length, Skeletá. ‘Midnight,’ of course, is in inverted commas: in a hugely atypical display of disregard for timeliness, scheduling and diarisation, the affiliated Dutch record stores collectively decided to begin their listening parties at five PM so as not to infringe on the weekend festivities beginning on Friday with Koningsnacht – one of the most important excuses to get blackout drunk on the national social calendar, ranking right up there with Carnival and the sun coming out from behind the clouds...