Solitude and focus seems to have suited Poulson and crew, with the album written entirely in lockdown, and the joy of meeting back up and performing together perhaps further enhancing the recording process as this sounds like the band are having the times of their lives. While checking in at every point of the octogram of styles the band espouses (it is fair to say there isn’t anything stylistically that is particularly new for the band), Servant of the Mind is proof that every arm of the Vol-beast is as muscular as the rest.Īnd speaking of muscular, the heart of the album is chunky, punchy and pounding guitar chuggery – Rob Caggiano sounds like he’s having an absolute party with advance single ‘Shotgun Blues’ being a particularly evident moment of bottom string stomp, with the track also serving to highlight that Michael Poulson is in the finest of fettles – a smile in the voice, confidently striding atop the band’s stadium-filling sound. One of the Volbeat guarantees is that they will cover a lot of ground within the realms of their style and sound – from the surf rock romp of the breezy ‘Wait A Minute My Girl’ to the next track on the album, the doomy ‘Sacred Stones’, which could easily have sat on any post- Ozzy Sabbath album with pride, to ‘ Dagen Før’ from the Entombed (yep!) HM2 powered Death meets Groove Metal of ‘Becoming’ (that builds from hell to a hook to rival ‘Lola Montez’) to the quirky, catchy, Country-tinged duet with Stine Bramsen of Alphabeat – and they will do so with confidence and bluster in a way that means everything on display is defiantly and definitely Volbeat. Underpinning it all is a root Misfits -meets- Metallica -meets-Rockabilly core, and everything you want from a Volbeat album is here in spades, with every aspect – the psychobilly, the dirty Danzig moments, the Black album worship (‘Mindlock’), the arena rock choruses (‘Heaven’s Descent’ anyone!?), the big chugging stomps and the Dusk til Dawn satani-vampiric dance of ‘The Devil Rages On’ – all dialled up and all consistently delivering. Form is temporary when class is permanent. Particularly in the Volbeat camp, because, Servant of the Mind ( EMI ), their twentieth anniversary and eighth studio release, is their best to date. There’s a pervading feeling that age dilutes quality and / or heaviness, yet nothing could be further than the truth. A whole plethora of written-off bands pushing well into their second, third, even fourth, decade with career best releases prove it. The last ten years of evidence proves it.
Our staff voted-for album of the year top 3 picks for this year to prove it. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums and if you have a favorite Volbeat album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.įrom Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil (2007) to Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie (2016), to their latest full-length project Servant of the Mind (2021), this list features all of your favorite Volbeat studio LPs. Vote below for your favorite album, and be sure to check out their top songs whenever you get the chance.At what point do we (I? Is it just me by now…? in which case, I’ll get with the programme asap!) change our default position that bands twenty years deep into their careers shouldn’t be producing their best stuff in a heavy music arena? Cos it’s bollocks. If you think that the greatest Volbeat album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so that it receives the credit it deserves. Rank the Volbeat albums Beyond Hell / Above Heaven Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Rock The Rebel / Metal. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Volbeat singles, EPs, or compilations - only studio albums. Formed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2001, Volbeat's career took off when they released their critically acclaimed debut album, The Strength/The Sound/The Songs (2005), subsequently becoming a popular trailblazer across the Danish rock scene.
On their sophomore outing, Volbeat laid down the template for everything that would. The song was written by Michael Poulsen, Rob Caggiano, and Anders Kjølholm. It was released as the fourth single from their album Beyond Hell/Above Heaven. This Volbeat discography is ranked from best to worst, with the order decided by metal heads worldwide. Since Volbeat is such an influential, hardcore band, let’s rank their greatest studio albums of all time, with the help of your votes. There aren’t many bands who can combine elements of Johnny Cash with Metallica and. A Warrior’s Call is a song by the Danish rock band Volbeat.
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