Within the colossal grooves of this album you’ll find the band paying homage to, amongst others, classic Metallica, Dio-era Sabbath and Elvis Presley, all the while retaining their. It’s not revolutionary, but Rewind, Replay, Rebound doesn’t sound like Volbeat’s last day under the sun in the slightest. Multi-platinum selling Danish rockers Volbeat return on 3 rd December with their eighth studio album Servant of the Mind and mighty fine it is too On this album, Volbeat effortlessly combine a dazzling array of influences to create another unique and high-quality piece of work.
It’s hard to argue with their light touch: comical track titles such as Pelvis on Fire tell you all you need to know about how seriously Volbeat take themselves, while the album’s guest list – Slayer guitarist Gary Holt, Clutch vocalist Neil Fallon and the Harlem Gospel Choir – speaks to their eclectic nature. Their current line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Michael Poulsen, guitarist Rob Caggiano, drummer Jon Larsen and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. The older you get, the more this taste becomes a sepia-toned memory of better days. It’s warm and welcoming you soak up the familiar taste of homeliness you’ve come to expect. Listening to VOLBEAT is like tucking into a home-cooked meal your mother’s made. NovemJack Press Cosa Nostra PR, EMI Records, Servant Of The Mind, Volbeat. There are splashes of sax and 1950s piano on the furiously fun Die to Live, while acoustic ballad When We Were Kids showcases their more tender side. ALBUM REVIEW: Servant Of The Mind Volbeat. Fist-pumping guitar riots such as Sorry Sack of Bones find them doing little to disrupt the formula that gave them such success, reaching instead for more face-melting guitar solos, huge pop hooks and Metallica-indebted vocal wails.
In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.ĭome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing.It’s a sound that’s made them a rock institution in their homeland: last year, they played to 48,000 people in Copenhagen’s Telia Parken, the nation’s biggest ever headline show by a native band. He was actively involved in Total Rock Radio (opens in new tab), which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and was a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009. In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. It’s not just any motor surrounded by devil girls and zombie dudes you’re in an open-topped ’62 Cadillac all fins, flames and. On her new album, the rap superstar comes up with just the right balance of. Malcolm Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981. His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica (opens in new tab), published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this album is a car.