Ghost Tapes
Heavy music. Feeling in every frequency.
Emotional, expansive alternative metal from Hertfordshire. Built on shared chemistry and delivered with a tight, energetic live show.
MEET THE BAND
It started with wanting to be in the same room.
Ghost Tapes began with a simple idea: bassist Jack Cox wanted to make music with people whose playing he loved.
The connections were already there. Jack knew guitarist Peter through a former member, and drummer George from school. George had played in another band with vocalist Pat. Bringing them together gave those shared histories somewhere new to go.
Formed in 2025, the Hertfordshire four-piece make heavy music with emotion at its centre. Their foundations lie in the alternative music and 2000s metal they grew up with, shaped by tastes that have kept expanding.
For Jack, the motivation is still right there in rehearsal: being together, making something, and reaching the point where everything outside the room falls away.
SIXTY PEOPLE. ONE SWEATY BASEMENT.
A pretty good place to begin.
Their first proper gig was a sold-out, 60-capacity basement show, sharing the bill with some of their best friends in other bands.
Their verdict: “Sweaty and incredible.”
It’s a fitting opening chapter for a band built through local connections. Friends on the bill, a full room and a chance to put the songs in front of people.
Since then, another change has started to register: more invitations to perform, with people reaching out to them. That recognition means a lot. Being asked back is also part of how they define success.
THE SOUND
Emotional. Large. Dynamic.
Ghost Tapes bring together metalcore, alternative metal and emo, with a shared background in 2000s heavy music.
Alexisonfire, Funeral For A Friend and Deftones offer starting points for listeners finding their way in. The band’s own three-word description—“Emotional, Large & Dynamic”—puts feeling and scale alongside movement.
Peter usually brings the first musical ideas. The four then work together to shape and grow them, giving each song room to develop through everyone’s playing. Pat responds to the feel of the music and builds his vocal and lyrical contribution around it.
The aim is a physical and emotional response: music that gets people moving in a room, with lyrics they can connect to beyond it.
Start with Eternity.
Patrick Rushton
Lead Vocals
Peter Choo Wong
Guitar & Vocals
George Abercrombe
Drums
Jack Cox
Bass
🥵 BASEMENT TAPES
Their first proper show: 60 capacity, sold out, friends on the bill. “Sweaty and incredible.” Ventilation did not make the review.
🃏 GOTTA CATCH ’EM ALL
Peter is an avid Pokémon card collector. Ask about his collection and allow extra time.
⚽ UP FRONT
Pat was one of his football team’s top goalscorers—possibly the top scorer. Apparently frontman duties extend to the pitch.
🖌️ THE SMALL PRINT
Jack paints miniatures. Some of his creative work is considerably smaller than the band’s sound.
🏎️ PLAYER ONE
George will beat the rest of the band at Mario Kart. They supplied this information themselves, which feels like an official concession.
🏫 BEFORE THE BAND
Jack knew George at school. Years later, that connection helped bring Ghost Tapes together. A school reunion with considerably more equipment.
📩 YOU’RE INVITED
Their favourite shift so far? More people asking them to play. An incoming gig invitation still means something.
⛺ JACK’S HAPPY PLACE
Jack’s dream is Download Festival, somewhere he calls special. 2000trees and Slam Dunk would feature on the others’ lists, too.
The Serious Bit (briefly)
The art comes first. The community helps it happen.
Ghost Tapes came together to present their music as an art form. That’s the clearest statement of what matters to them: making something with care and giving it a life through performance.
Our work together starts with that commitment. Supporting a band means paying attention to the people, ideas and relationships behind the songs, as well as what happens onstage.
For Ghost Tapes, those relationships are central. Jack assembled the band out of admiration for the others’ playing. They develop songs together. Their first show put them alongside close friends. They describe the local music community as the place where people begin and find friendships that can last a lifetime.
That gives us a shared foundation: respect for creative work, support for grassroots music and an interest in helping people discover artists worth spending time with.
Their ambitions keep that purpose in view. Write more music. Perform more. Give audiences a reason to move and lyrics they can take with them. Build something that earns the next invitation.
More songs. More rooms. More reasons to show up.
Asked where they want to be in two or three years, Ghost Tapes gave a straightforward answer: writing and performing more music.
There are festival dreams along the way. For now, the next song, the next rehearsal and the next invitation all count.
Congrats - you've made it this far
That means you should probably wear the merch.
Or listen to the music.
Preferably both.
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