The Holy Ghost started in 2011 as a project by guitarist and vocalist Jens Aker and bassist Thomas Hedblom. The following year, it became a band. That band released the digital-only album ‘The Southpaw Trail’ in 2014. In 2018, the band had changed a few of its members and released ‘Mountain Street Songs’ on vinyl on their own label Sublevels records. The band played a few gigs around their hometown of Stockholm, most notably opening for Refused and Hot Snakes.