Another special song is “Sad Man’s Tongue”, which is inspired by the true sheriff Johnny Cash. It’s also the first single from the album. Then we have the amazing “Garden’s Tale” where Johan Olsen from the Danish act Magtens Korridorer lends his voice and sings his parts on Danish. Ness”, “Devil or the Blue Cat’s Song”, and “River Queen”. It’s really hard to pick any personal favorites, however, the absolute killer tracks and the ones you can listen to several times in a row are “The Human Instrument”, “Mr. There’s not a single bad track amongst the 11 songs.

The production by Jacob Hansen in Hansen Studio is absolutely flawless. Almost every song makes you want to bang your head really hard. The album has a wonderful musical landscape and production. Maybe it’s easiest to call Volbeat’s music a mix of thrash metal and rockabilly.

Singer and founder Michael Poulsen sounds a little like Danzig. It’s kind of hard to describe what kind of music Volbeat plays it’s a strange but wonderful mix of the older Metallica albums, Motörhead, Misfits, and Elvis. Their debut came out in 2004 and it’s now about to be followed up with ROCK THE REBEL/METAL THE DEVIL. Volbeat are one of Denmark’s biggest metal acts and rose from the ashes of Dominus.

New volbeat album rebel