I wanna do something I care about and I guess that’s what everybody wants to do at the end of the day. Well, you could… but I don’t know how to do that. When you’re working on a song, do you think about how the listener could connect with your music and lyrics?Įverything has to come straight from the heart. Your inspiration comes from literally everything: your personal experiences, history, anything you read. The lyrics have such deep meaning for you. Your writing aspect is very unique in today’s day and age. We have also been very good, constantly touring with the album. Like you said we still have singles playing on the radio, and it’s still selling. We are very proud of what we’ve accomplished and to see how this album survived.

Going to America we know there’s only one guy who did it before us, and that was King Diamond from Mercyful Fate.

We are only the second band of Danish-rock history who has actually made it outside of Denmark. It seems like that album really took off. How has the continued support been for the album? You’re still having current singles on the radio. It’s hit #1 on so many charts in so many countries it’s hard to keep count. Your current album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, has been out for well over a year. Just about to wrap up a tour with Five Finger Death Punch (another breakout act), Metal Insider caught up with vocalist Michael Poulsen at the Plymouth, MI stop of the tour to discuss their success, being joined by former Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano, and his (eventual) collaboration with Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer. Both their current album, 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and their last, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, have sold over 200,000 copies and are still going strong, which would be impressive for any band, let alone a Danish quartet whose music is two parts metal to one part rockabilly.

You can count the number of big breakout rock and metal successes of the last five years on one hand (more about that here), and Volbeat is certainly one of them.

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