In Denmark, Poulsen wrote the music for Servant… in only three months. For New York, it seemed like everything was getting better and then it got worse again.”
You gotta understand, Denmark is very different from New York what was going on there was definitely not the same as we were dealing with. “I had a hard time feeling inspired and that had a lot to do with everything going on around me. “It was a dark time for the whole world and rock bands were definitely not excluded,” he says. Lockdowns isolated Caggiano on the other side of the planet to his bandmates, trapping him in New York while they stayed in Denmark. The band toured extensively in 2019, but plans to stay on the road the following year were killed in their crib by the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s a good chance that the urgency with which Servant… was written and recorded has made it this more frenetic counterpoint. “Personally, I felt like maybe there could have been some more heavy tunes to balance it out.” “There’s this one part of the Volbeat sound – the more melodic side – and there’s a lot of that on the last record,” he says. Although it lived at the same convergence of metal and rockabilly that every other Volbeat release has, it leant deeper into melodic pop in a move that Caggiano now admits was “polarising”. Then there’s Shotgun Blues: a chugging anthem with twin-guitar harmonies and hefty dollops of power metal silliness.Īll this muscle puts Servant… at odds with its immediate predecessor, 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound. The Devil Rages On can best be described as Pantera meets Elvis, Southern metal licks twanging beneath singer/rhythm guitarist Michael Poulsen’s faux-American drawl. While it’s still melodic as hell, Servant… lets him indulge those leanings more than any Volbeat album before it.īecoming, one of the album’s four singles, is the most metallic the band have ever been, fully embracing death metal on a main riff crammed with tremolo picking. Not only does he dress the part and have two stints in Anthrax on his CV, but he also expresses his love for underground upstarts like Sleep Token and Void Rot during our conversation. The guitarist is obviously an iron-clad heavy metal aficionado. It all sounds like Volbeat, but there are definitely some heavier riffs this time around, which I love!” “It’s very much in line with the last record, the record before that, the record before that and even the first record. “There is definitely a Volbeat sound, but it’s always evolving,” Caggiano says, before applying that statement to their brand-new seventh album, Servant of the Mind. In light of their obvious success, it seems like the four-piece have mastered their own formula for rock ‘n’ roll heroism.
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