{"id":57384,"date":"2025-11-20T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:34:17","slug":"this-is-why-ghosts-tobias-forge-wants-to-get-scuba-license-98kupd-arizonas-real-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57384\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why Ghost\u2019s Tobias Forge wants to get scuba license \u2013 98KUPD \u2013 Arizona’s Real Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ghost:<\/p>\n

Tobias Forge of Ghost performs in concert during the band\u2019s Skeletour at the Moody Center on August 14, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Amy E. Price\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

They say you need to face your fears to overcome them, which is why Ghost frontman Tobias Forge is hoping to get his scuba diving license.<\/p>\n

No, Forge isn\u2019t afraid of fish. Instead, he tells\u00a0Metal Hammer<\/a> that the years he\u2019s spent wearing a mask onstage during Ghost concerts have led him to developing \u201cquite a not-comfortable claustrophobia,\u201d and he hopes scuba diving might help with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do that, for all my life!\u201d Forge says of scuba diving. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t have any money and couldn\u2019t afford it. Then my next problem was I didn\u2019t have time. Now I\u2019m like, \u2018I need to do that.\u2019 I need to make sure that I get to terms with my claustrophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been very \u2018maritime\u2019 and drawn to the ocean,\u201d he continues. \u201cIn my alternative life, I\u2019m a wreck diver!\u201d<\/p>\n

Forge previously told\u00a0Metal Hammer<\/a> that he had a panic attack during a Ghost concert in 2015 while wearing his mask.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told there was only one entrance into the venue; you had to walk in on the right side of the stage, past the stage, and then into a backstage area,\u201d Forge recalled of the show. \u201cSo, essentially, you couldn\u2019t get out. You were locked in. That was what I was told. And I didn\u2019t think of it until during the show, when all of a sudden I was like, \u2018I need to know where the door is\u2026I can\u2019t get to the door. Stop! Stop! Get the mask off!\u2019 I had to get everything off. Restart the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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