The past year has been explosive for Volbeat in terms the new found recognition for your music worldwide especially touring the US and now announcing your first UK tour. With the band readying their new release and preparing for their first ever UK headlining tour, I had the opportunity to submit some questions to the band which Michael Poulsen took some time to respond to.
Now after a successful performance at this year’s Download Festival, the band announced that they have signed to UK label Spinefarm Records to release their fourth studio album ‘Beyond Heave/Above Hell’. Having being hand-picked to open for Metallica and also opening for AC/DC, the band have made this the year of Volbeat. The band which consists of vocalist and guitarist Michael Poulsen, guitarist Thomas Bredahl, bassist Anders Kjølholm and drummer Jon Larsen are inspired by legends Metallica, Social Distortion, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash which they combine to make a unique sound.Īfter taking their native Denmark by storm with all three of their albums being certified gold, including their second album being certified platinum, the band have spent the better the past year taking over the world with tours through the United States and Europe. run.Volbeat hail from Copenhagen, Denmark and were formed in October 2001 by Michael Poulsen, who had previously split up the Danish Heavy metal band Dominus. They’ll hit the road with Ghost and Twin Temple in 2022 for another U.S.
In other news, Volbeat are currently on their “Wait A Minute… Let’s Tour” run. Find pre-order information on Volbeat’s website. Watch the music video for “Shotgun Blues” and view the track list for Volbeat’s Servant of the Mind below.
“Servant of the Mind” follows Volbeat’s 2019 studio release, “Rewind, Replay, Rebound.” Last summer, the band put out two new tracks, “Wait a Minute My Girl” and “Dagen Før,” both of which will be included on the set. Volbeat brings togehter Poulsen, drummer Jon Larsen, guitarist Rob Caggiano and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. “Weird stuff happens when I move into a house… it’s very otherworldly.” “Every time you move into a house, you bring dead people with you,” he said. In addition to announcing the new album, Volbeat have released a new single, “Shotgun Blues,” a hard-charging metal track that sees Poulsen drawing inspiration from some possible ghosts in his new home. If you go back to the first record and compare it to where we are now, you can hear how the band has developed its style, while keeping the signature sound.” “I was in a good place and mood while at home, and had a captive audience of myself… There are a lot of Volbeat signatures in it. “I wrote the whole album in three months,” Volbeat guitarist and vocalist Michael Poulsen said of “Servant of the Mind” in a statement. The deluxe version packs two alternate versions of album cuts, as well as covers of Wolfbrigade’s “Return to None” and The Cramps and Roy Orbison’s “Domino.”
“Servant of the Mind” features 13 new tracks, plus four bonus tracks that arrive exclusively with the deluxe packages. The new record, “Servant of the Mind,” will hit stores on Dec. Volbeat are back with a new album, as the Danish metal outfit has announced the details of their eighth studio set. Volbeat – Story by Charles Ken, photo by Ross Halfinĭanish metal band Volbeat are getting ready to release their eighth studio album, “Servant of the Mind”