Tobias Forge

Tobias Forge (born 3 March 1981) is a founding member of Ghost, as well as being the band's current lead vocalist and frontman. For the first 10 years of Ghost's career, Forge like the rest of the band had kept his identity secret, but was promptly outed in light of a 2016 lawsuit sued by his former bandmates. Ever since the lawsuit, he has been more public and forthcoming about his work in the band, but still keeps a rather reserved demeanor.

Early Life
Tobias Forge grew up in Linköping, Sweden. He spent most of his early childhood living with his mother and older brother Sebastian, the latter of which he credits with his very early music education. Sebastian gave him many of his own records when he was as young as three or four, and by age eight, Tobias already owned his own record and guitar.

Tobias's interest in the occult also began at an young age—at first manifesting as an aversion to Christianity, as many of the Christians he met in his early life were, "not very nice people", including his stepmother and a particularly strict religious schoolteacher, the latter of which became his "symbol for Christianity and not being very nice". Eventually this aversion lead him to foster an interest in Satanism and the occult as a form of rebellion against the Christian authority figures in his life, which was bolstered even further by the music he was surrounded by at the time.

Personal Life
He is currently married to his wife Boel Forge and has two twins with her.