So fine by me I grew up with all these legendary performers of the 50s and all these heavy metal bands.” We did meet people who didn’t understand what Volbeat was all about and they’d say ‘Well you’re not 100% metal or you’re not a 100% rock and we’d say, ‘You’re right!’ We are 100% everything that inspired us so we don’t need to be 100% only metal. “So we just kept doing what we were doing,” continues Poulsen, “and we still heard how special and unique we were and maybe at the same time we thought that maybe there were youngsters who really had tough times and they identified with us and I can truly understand that. When we did the first two albums people were talking all the time about how unique we were but we were totally aware of who we were inspired by so we just said, ‘we don’t know that we just like these kinds of bands.’ They’re a hard band to pigeon-hole because you just can’t nail down the layers of sound they’re known for, so does combining all these various elements help or hinder Volbeat’s success? “If anything it’s helped us,” says lead singer Michael Poulsen with a smile, “because these days it’s so tough to come up with stuff you haven’t heard before, but we were not even aware we had something special going on people were talking and saying we had something special and unique. But are they really doing something new and different? We think so and so do the legions of fans in every country they visit. And what can be said of those who grace the stage wearing only black?-there can only be one man in black and we all know who that is, but how do we describe the “other men” in black to be more specific? - One word Volbeat.įormed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2000, Volbeat has become one of the most talked about bands around the world fusing thrash, rockabilly, metal, country and western, punk and everything in between to produce the metal sound that is Volbeat. But one must be careful to balance the spectrum for without the light there can be no dark and we all know the dark is where the most prolific and sometimes haunting lyrics and melodies come from. Black is said to be a protective color, as nothing can penetrate it it absorbs. Ask any painter about light and dark values and they might tell you the color white is the presence of the complete spectrum and black the absence of all visible light.
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