![]() ![]() Opener "Last Day Under the Sun" is inspired by the life and lyrics of Johnny Cash it includes welcome re-appearances from backing vocalist Mia Maja and the Harlem Gospel Choir, with a fist-pumping chorus and enormous, hooky guitars (a la early Boston). Produced by longtime collaborator Jacob Hansen, its 14 songs revolve around themes of immortality and innocence, and how the pursuit of perfection ultimately leads to emptiness. It's the band's first album to feature new bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. Volbeat, led by songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist Michael Poulson, have brought in even more hooks and sophisticated melodies without losing their ability to riff and roar with the best of the metal pack, thanks in no small part to ex-Anthrax lead guitarist Rob Caggiano. Rewind, Replay, Rebound is the band's seventh album it's appreciably different from what they've done before, but not completely. Volbeat possess the chops, imagination, and swagger to carry it off in front of 50,000 European fans. Buy the album Starting at $24.09įor Denmark's Volbeat, the truly classic rock era existed from 1953 to about 1986: from Chuck Berry and Elvis to the heyday of punk rock and thrash metal, with periods in between where rockabilly, surf, glam, and hard rock flourished. OK, Volbeat are not a band that will get you any 'my band is heavier than your band' bragging rights, they're not cult-cool like some other bands but I'm a long way the age where that matters there are times when I like to play an album of well crafted rock songs with pop-y choruses songs that make me feel good and this hits the spot for that kind of listening, so for its genre and what its meant to do, its 5 stars for me.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. There's even a guest Vocal from Neil Fallon of Clutch and its good to hear him on a different kind of song to his band's grittier style. I won't list the tracks but the whole album had me smiling most of the way through and I'll bet this stuff will sound great live. Listening to this for the first time I was pleased that Polsen's vocal style now sounds (to me at least) natural and more like the live sound. The album opens with a nice bright rock song with an infectious chorus, and from there throws out song after song of singalong melodic hard rock, but dipping into Rockabilly, Blues/Stoner riffs, Metallica Style riffs, angelic female backing vocals, big choruses and high quality musicianship, while not being afraid to have songs that sound different to one another. After seeing them live I listened to some earlier studio albums and at first wasn't as keen on those as their live sound, Michael Polsen to my ears didn't sound as natural on the studio album songs as he does live and the 'dirtier' live sound really suits them I love the 'Lets Boogie' live album. I got into Volbeat after seeing them as a support band about 3 years ago and have seen them live again since at Download, both times being impressed by a 'Feelgood' band who work hard on stage to give people a great time, with a charismatic but down to earth frontman who looks like he loves what he's doing. Now older and wiser I like loads of genres, but value music that makes you feel something and has some passion about it. So here we have it, another Rock band release and people complain about it not being heavy enough, not being as good as their debut.same narrative I've been hearing in almost 40 years as a music fan who started out as a rock and metal kid in the 80s. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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