No phones allowed when Ghost plays Tampa’s Amalie Arena this weekend

It doesn’t feel like a decade since Ghost, one of the biggest Swedish metal bands of all time, brought its “Black to the Future” tour to The Ritz Ybor, conveniently exactly ten days before Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown were supposed to land in the future.

Inevitably, the Nameless Ghouls have now accumulated over 10 billion streams, and their latest album Skelatá hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year.

The group’s return to Tampa—which comes after Hurricane Idalia got a gig at the old Gary amphitheatre axed in 2023—will be a phone-free event, in which you’ll have to lock your devices up in a Yondr pouch, so dust off that internal camera. Maybe they don’t want pictures taken of them pulling a Kiss and taking off those masks (they won’t, but we can hypothesize, right?).

Tickets to see Ghost play Amalie Arena in Tampa on Saturday, July 12 are still available and start at $47.75.

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This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2025.