Volbeat have also announced their 2022 co-headlining arena tour with Ghost and special guests Twin Temple, coming to cities including Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Album opener “Temple of Ekur” returns to the ancient themes explored in past songs such as “The Gates of Babylon,” while the epic album closer “Lasse’s Birgita” explores the story of the first witch burnings to occur in Sweden in 1471. He is on a mission, speaking to darker forces and fallen angels.” Meanwhile, “The Devil Rages On” looks at the idea of the devil taking human form. “The Sacred Stones” tells the story of “an earthly being who has committed himself to the dark side. Other songs on the album weave intricate and fascinating tales. Volbeat tour 2022 announced: Danish/American rock and rollers VOLBEAT have announced a 26-date co-headlining arena tour with GHOST and special guests TWIN TEMPLE, coming to cities including Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix (full dates below). If you go back to the first record and compare it to where we are now, you can hear how the band has developed its style, while keeping the signature sound.” Their recent albums have continued to spawn major hits like “For Evigt,” “The Devil’s Bleeding Crown” and “Last Day Under the Sun.“I wrote the whole album in three months,” recalls Poulsen, “I was in a good place and mood while at home, and had a captive audience of myself… There are a lot of Volbeat signatures in it. They’re a Danish heavy metal/hard rock band that has been around since 2001, and released popular albums such as Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (2008) and Beyond Hell / Above Heaven (2010). They were scheduled to play some festivals that have since been postponed or canceled including Austria’s Nova Rock Music Festival and Germany’s Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park festivals. Volbeat shared their latest album Rewind, Replay, Rebound in 2019 and has since been hoping to return to live shows. In lighter news, Slash joined Post Malone, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney on covers of Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.” Former drummer Steven Adler accidentally stabbed himself badly but has since recovered. However, individual Guns N’ Roses members have had news lately.

They’ve consistently released new music as their sound has evolved since then, from the recently-reissued Clayman (2000), which just celebrated its 20th anniversary, to their latest album I, The Mask (2019).Īlthough Slash stated in 2019 that Guns N’ Roses were working on their first new album since 2008’s Chinese Democracy, there hasn’t been much news about the classic rock band since their fall 2019 tour ended and their 2020 Latin American tour was canceled due to COVID-19. They’re a widely popular metal band themselves, known for the style of melodic death metal exemplified by their early albums The Jester Race (1996), Whoracle (1997) and Colony (1999). In Flames just announced rescheduled dates opening for Megadeth and Lamb of God’s co-headlining tour, but they were headlining over Megadeth on the canceled 2021 edition of Sweden Rock Festival. While they’ve announced 76 acts so far, there are several more that are yet to be confirmed, and the festival plans to have 89 bands in total. The rest of the 2022 lineup can be found here. The very notion of putting a voice clean enough to pass for the Billboard Top. Most of the lineup is the same as the 2021 lineup, but some acts had to drop out including Megadeth, Dropkick Murphys and Gojira. While an obvious far cry from the 90s death metal mayhem that originally typified his career with Dominus, guitarist and vocalist Michael Poulsen and his outfit Volbeat’s unconventional blend of metal and mainstream music trappings has always seemed a near effortless expression. Some of the artists joining the headliners include Nightwish, Mercyful Fate, Social Distortion, Opeth, 10cc, Devin Townsend, Alestorm, Sodom, Kvelertak and Trouble, among others. Tickets go on sale here this Thursday, May 6 at 10:00 CEST. Despite raging darker, louder, and heavier than almost anything else they’ve released so far, its shiny melodies and beefy choruses keep it accessible. There are a lot of Volbeat signatures in it. He admits, I don’t think it would have sounded like this if not for the pandemic.

The festival will occur at its usual location in Sölvesborg, Sweden, where it has been taking place since it was founded in 1992. On December 3, 2021, Volbeat gave hard rock fans an early Christmas treat in the shape of their eighth studio album, Servant of the Mind. While he is keenly self-aware that the album is a product of the pandemic, Poulsen also realizes it’s completely and totally Volbeat in 2021.

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