Ghost’s shock rock descends upon Anaheim’s Honda Center

While the night sky had hardly a cloud in sight, a darkness still engulfed the Honda Center.

Ghost, the Swedish heavy rock band often associated with demonic imagery and shock rock aesthetics, took the Anaheim venue by storm on Saturday, Feb. 21, before the group’s final Skeletour stop at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood on Monday, Feb. 23.

The band opened its set behind a black textured wall that served as a curtain and resembled something from an eerie dark-fantasy novel. The setting...