Then there’s Shotgun Blues: a chugging anthem with twin-guitar harmonies and hefty dollops of power metal silliness.
The Devil Rages On can best be described as Pantera meets Elvis, Southern metal licks twanging beneath singer/rhythm guitarist Michael Poulsen’s faux-American drawl. While it’s still melodic as hell, Servant… lets him indulge those leanings more than any Volbeat album before it.īecoming, one of the album’s four singles, is the most metallic the band have ever been, fully embracing death metal on a main riff crammed with tremolo picking. Not only does he dress the part and have two stints in Anthrax on his CV, but he also expresses his love for underground upstarts like Sleep Token and Void Rot during our conversation. The guitarist is obviously an iron-clad heavy metal aficionado. It all sounds like Volbeat, but there are definitely some heavier riffs this time around, which I love!” “It’s very much in line with the last record, the record before that, the record before that and even the first record. “There is definitely a Volbeat sound, but it’s always evolving,” Caggiano says, before applying that statement to their brand-new seventh album, Servant of the Mind. In light of their obvious success, it seems like the four-piece have mastered their own formula for rock ‘n’ roll heroism. I don’t know what it sounded like out there some of those people were so far away it was like they were in another city!” “People to the right of you as far as you can see, to the left as far as you can see. “It was people as far as you can see, but not just in front of you,” Caggiano describes. In 2014, they headlined Poland’s Woodstock Festival, belting out their hybrid jams in front of 600,000 people.
Ten of their songs have topped the US Mainstream Rock chart. They’ve had five albums in a row reach number one in Denmark. It’s this perfect marriage of catchiness and metallic adrenaline that’s made the band one of the biggest in Europe.
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