When I started to write the Volbeat songs, all those melodies that I grew up with very naturally became a part of the music… mixed with all the heavy stuff I heard as a teenager. Then, when I was old enough to get my own place, something that was missing was my family’s record collection so I started buying those vinyl albums I used to listen to at home. I grew up with parents who were constantly listening to that era of music… As a child, that music was as normal as drinking water. When I write, it comes very natural, because I’m not painting myself into any corners where I have to stick to one style. How does that all fit together in your brain? So (“Last Day Under the Sun”) is a song about hope and forgiveness and the way to come out on the other side, where there is light.īeyond Johnny Cash, there’s so much to Volbeat’s catalog that screams ‘50s and ‘60s pop melodies, even with the heavy guitars. But I found a way out of that dark place and now I’m enjoying life.
If it wasn’t for a strong mind and some really good friends, I don’t know where I’d be. I’ve been there with alcohol and mourning the loss of my father.
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There’s when Johnny Cash changed his life and became a new man, a believer in God, I guess.Īnd I could totally use that, because I think we as human beings struggle with different things in our lives - be it drugs or alcohol or a loss of a family member - where we dig ourselves into that dark place and don’t know how to get out again. He wakes up a couple days after and feels like he’s been given a second chance. It was inspired by a story about Johnny Cash where he’d become so sick and tired of life, because he was so intoxicated by drugs and alcohol, that he walked around in a forest and into a cave to basically lay down and die. The new album, Rewind, Replay, Rebound, begins with a big, fun banger called “Last Day Under the Sun.” The opening riff sounds like The Rolling Stones, but I heard Johnny Cash actually inspired this one. It felt like I’d drank 7,000 beers and 10,000 sleeping pills at the same time. A car picked me up at the airport, and I got to the show like 20 minutes before stage time. I got to the hospital, stayed there for a day and then flew back to America. I had to knock on the door of my tour manager and say, “I’m going home.” A few hours later I was in the air. I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I went to the hotel gym and I was running on the treadmill and the phone rang again and, it was my girlfriend holding our daughter and saying, “You’re a daddy!” I almost flew off the treadmill. I was in bed in my hotel in New York when the phone rang and my girlfriend said “I think my water just broke!” Lucky for her, she was at her parents’ house, so her mom took her to the hospital. They said “no problem, we’ll fix that.” But then my girlfriend gave birth two months before she was supposed to - in the beginning of the tour. When we got offered the Metallica tour, I told our management that there would be a part at the end of the tour that I’d have to skip to go back to Denmark and be part of the birth of my first child. How on Earth did you manage to fly home to Denmark between American stadium shows to meet your newborn daughter? Let’s flashback to your last major tour, supporting Metallica in 2017.
2) and further concentrates the band’s hybrid style, paying greater homage to Cash, Lewis, Metallica and Motörhead than ever before.Īs the four-piece embarks this week on its latest summer tour, supporting Slipknot across the U.S., we caught up with Poulsen to discuss the new tunes, his wild introduction to fatherhood - and how a sea monster story just might save the world. Fast-forward nearly two decades and Volbeat is hard-rock’s preeminent psychobilly freight train, masters at melding traditional pop progressions, blazing riffs and singer/guitarist Poulsen’s soaring howls for a sound that speeds in a dozen directions at once. Volbeat’s blistering seventh album, Rewind, Replay, Rebound, drops Friday (Aug.
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