Because whatever textures, twists and turns it has, everything here sounds like it has been marinated in their particular hot sauce. There is something comforting about that too. That said, it is unmistakably a Volbeat song. The opening of “Last Day Under The Sun” had me thinking Bryan Adams, and it does a soul-filled backing singer thing that is more akin to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Somewhere, in some parallel universe, those two might be in a band, and if they were it sounds something like this.Ī lengthy record (in that it has 14 songs, not so much in time) it starts in a pretty poppy way. And Exodus/Slayer guitar hero Gary Holt is the other. Volbeat 2019 is best summed up as this: on “….Rebound” there are two special guests. “Sound like Metallica playing Johnny Cash.” Yeah? Nah, it ain’t gonna is it? Thing is, it did. But like all those type of bands, they don’t sound like anyone else, not exactly.Ībout a decade ago a mate handed me a CD he’d made. They are one of those bands with a signature sound. Do you think they are fazed?īut there are many interesting things about Volbeat.

Not least the fact that the last “Seal The Deal And Lets Boogie” was incredible (I gushed a bit and gave it album of the year on this site back in 2016).

So, no pressure then, as “Rewind, Replay, Rebound” is released. Since then, it has been record breaking thing after another, Grammy nominations, opening for Metallica, all this culminated in the gig they played in Denmark, which was released as live DVD last year, which was the biggest crowd ever for a gig by a Danish band in their homeland.

I remember seeing them back in 2013 and it was clear that the UK was finally waking up to their brilliance – and in that respect we were slow compared to the rest of the world. So I had better, in that respect, say that the rise of Volbeat is “striking” rather than impressive, because, lets be honest, no one ever doubted them. Apparently, you should never be impressed when someone does well as it meant you thought that they couldn’t do it.

I’ve got a friend who goes mad with me when I say I am impressed.

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