Over the course of seven record-breaking albums the band has picked up number one songs (including nine #1s on the US Mainstream Rock chart and counting, the most of any band based outside of North America), multi-platinum certifications, awards, and accolades all over the planet. Since forming in 2001, Volbeat has gone from the clubs of Copenhagen to headlining stages around the world, including the famed Telia Parken stadium in Denmark (becoming the only domestic artist to ever sell out the venue). Not ones to rest on their laurels, their forthcoming album Servant Of The Mind, which was written and recorded during the shutdown and quarantine necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is introspective but pulls no punches and is no less raucous or driving than their previous efforts.
King Diamond)" from 2014's acclaimed (and gold-selling) Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, and have grabbed multiple Danish Music Awards. They have racked up nearly three billion cumulative streams over the course of their career, notched a Best Metal Performance Grammy nomination for "Room 24 (feat. Volbeat are two decades deep into a career that has found them sharing stages with genre legends like Black Sabbath, Metallica, Motorhead, Slipknot, Megadeth, Anthrax and more. Album opener "Temple Of Ekur” returns to the ancient themes explored in past songs such as "The Gates of Babylon,” while the epic album closer "Lasse’s Birgita” explores the story of the first witch burnings to occur in Sweden in 1471. He is on a mission, speaking to darker forces and fallen angels." Meanwhile, "The Devil Rages On" looks at the idea of the devil taking human form. "The Sacred Stones" tells the story of "an earthly being who has committed himself to the dark side. Other songs on the album weave intricate and fascinating tales. Stine Bramsen) (the former of which became the band’s ninth #1 single on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart). The album also includes the double barrel of summer songs the band released in June: "Wait A Minute My Girl” and "Dagen Før" (feat. 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 wrote the whole album in three months," recalls Poulsen, "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 actually ended up playing all the bass on the new record, since I’ve played bass a million times in the past on records, but in the rehearsal room that was a missing element to the sound, so everything ended up being really guitar heavy.For Servant Of The Mind, the band - Michael Poulsen (guitars/vocals), Jon Larsen (drums), Rob Caggiano (guitars) and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) - took their signature heavy metal, psychobilly, and punk ‘n’ roll sound up a notch while showcasing Poulsen’s keen ability for songwriting and storytelling. Interestingly enough, going into this record we didn’t have a bass player we’d parted ways with Anders, and during the whole rehearsal process we had no bassist. I was producing on this album again, so during that time I was also thinking about the overall big picture and how everything was working together. “We spent a lot of time in the rehearsal room in a pre-production sense, just hashing out ideas and making sure we had the best batch of songs. We played our last show of the cycle in Odense, Denmark about a year ago, and we’ve been off ever since then working on the songs for this new album, Seal The Deal And Let’s Boogie.” How did the songs for the new album come together? We worked really hard on that album cycle and we were extremely busy.
“We put out Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies in 2012 and we toured all over the world a number of times. What have Volbeat been up to since the last album came out?
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