Volbeat – Michael Poulsen (vocals, guitar), and Jon Larsen (drums), and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) – will release their ninth album, God Of Angels Trust, on June 6 via longtime label Vertigo/Universal. Pre-order it here.
Today, the band shares the track-by-track video below, discussing the album’s second single, “In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’s Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom”. Watch below:
Poulsen previously stated, “I had so much fun writing these lyrics. It’s about the outcasts and fallen angels of God – all the angels that were cast out of Heaven. And I’m being told to collect them in this big wagon and bring them to a barn.”
“There’s a ritual going on where the fallen angels are being sacrificed to Satan’s spawn to create soldiers for a new dark kingdom. So, instead of inviting my lady out to go to the cinema, I say, ‘I have something better. You have to see what’s going on in this barn… we’ve been invited to see the birth of Satan’s spawn and watch the world go down. How about that?'”
“I think some people will read the lyrics and go, ‘What’s wrong with this dude?’ But, it’s all for fun. It’s like a silly horror movie. Or is it?”
With God Of Angels Trust, the Danish band – which has scored ten #1 songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock airplay chart, the most ever for a band based outside North America – has thrown caution to the wind, ignored comfort zones, and paid little heed to traditional songwriting in the search for something more immediate and surprising. The end result will thrill Volbeat’s dedicated legion of fans.
“In the past, I’ve taken a long time to write and obsessed over so many elements of the songs before finishing them,” says Poulsen. “This time, I wanted to make a Volbeat record without thinking too much about it. Instead of following any kind of structure I said, ‘Okay, there are no rules. I can do anything I want. I can start with a chorus or do songs that are just a bunch of verses stacked on top of each other. Anything goes.’ That was freeing for me and made it exciting to write this album.”
Poulsen’s excitement to thwart convention is palpable throughout God Of Angels Trust, a punchy, crunchy album that’s undeniably Volbeat, yet marches to a fresh new metallic and melodic energy.
Poulsen started working on songs for the follow-up to 2021’s Servant of the Mind in the summer of 2024. Volbeat was taking a year-long break from touring to give Michael a chance to recover from throat surgery and to tour with his death metal band, Asinhell. Driven equally by his excitement to record a new Volbeat album and by his determination not to follow convention, Poulsen worked on songs for a mere three weeks with bandmates drummer Jon Larsen and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. Amazingly, they worked on a new song at every rehearsal. Three weeks into the process, Volbeat had arranged half of God Of Angels Trust. That’s when Poulsen decided that having no rules meant he could follow his muse wherever it took him, and he veered off on a different path. He and the band still wrote and rehearsed two songs a week, but they started composing more familiar rock songs that drew from traditional elements.
The band entered the studio with their longtime producer Jacob Hansen in the fall of 2024. As with the songwriting, Poulsen wanted to work quickly and rely on instinct, so they just plugged in and started to play. To keep the music sounding urgent and immediate, Volbeat recorded live in the studio, playing as few takes as possible before moving from one song to the next.
When it came time to add lead guitar, there was no question that Volbeat would tap Flemming C. Lund, who currently tours with the band and worked with Michael in Asinhell. A mere 13 days after they started working with Hansen, Volbeat were finished.
As impressive as it is that Volbeat wrote and recorded an entire album in about five weeks, what’s more incredible is that God Of Angels Trust sounds as fleshed out, eclectic, and fulfilling as albums that have taken 10 times longer (or more) to create. In the end, creating such a strong album so quickly was a tremendous challenge that demanded Zen-like calm, a joy for exploration, maximal creativity, and razor-sharp concentration to pull off.
The band’s official D2C store is here.
Available formats:
– 180g Black LP
– “Grandma’s Wallpaper” LP – Exclusively at volbeat.dk
– “Lamplight Glow” LP – Exclusively at Republic Records/Universal Music’s websites
– “Mystery Color” LP – Exclusively at independent retailers
– Glow in the Dark LP – Exclusively at EMP
– Oxblood LP – Exclusively at Revolver
– Red and White Danish Flag LP -Only available in Denmark
– Limited Edition Cassette
– CD
– Deluxe Hardcover Book CD With Expanded Artwork
God Of Angels Trust tracklisting:
“Devils Are Awake”
“By A Monster’s Hand”
“Acid Rain”
“Demonic Depression”
“In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’s Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom”
“Time Will Heal”
“Better Be Fueled Than Tamed”
“At The End Of The Sirens”
“Lonely Fields”
“Enlighten The Disorder (By A Monster’s Hand Part 2)”
Volbeat will return to the road on the “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide,” beginning in June and running throughout 2025. The tour begins in June with a co-headline Canadian run with Three Days Grace and special guests Wage War, which will be followed by headline treks in the U.S. with special guests Halestorm and The Ghost Inside, and Europe and the UK with special guests Bush and Witch Fever. The band announced this morning that a second show at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena has been added to the tour on September 20.
Tickets and VIP packages for all shows are on sale now at volbeat.dk. Find Volbeat’s tour itinerary here.
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Today, the band shares the track-by-track video below, discussing the album’s second single, “In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’s Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom”. Watch below:
Poulsen previously stated, “I had so much fun writing these lyrics. It’s about the outcasts and fallen angels of God – all the angels that were cast out of Heaven. And I’m being told to collect them in this big wagon and bring them to a barn.”
“There’s a ritual going on where the fallen angels are being sacrificed to Satan’s spawn to create soldiers for a new dark kingdom. So, instead of inviting my lady out to go to the cinema, I say, ‘I have something better. You have to see what’s going on in this barn… we’ve been invited to see the birth of Satan’s spawn and watch the world go down. How about that?'”
“I think some people will read the lyrics and go, ‘What’s wrong with this dude?’ But, it’s all for fun. It’s like a silly horror movie. Or is it?”
With God Of Angels Trust, the Danish band – which has scored ten #1 songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock airplay chart, the most ever for a band based outside North America – has thrown caution to the wind, ignored comfort zones, and paid little heed to traditional songwriting in the search for something more immediate and surprising. The end result will thrill Volbeat’s dedicated legion of fans.
“In the past, I’ve taken a long time to write and obsessed over so many elements of the songs before finishing them,” says Poulsen. “This time, I wanted to make a Volbeat record without thinking too much about it. Instead of following any kind of structure I said, ‘Okay, there are no rules. I can do anything I want. I can start with a chorus or do songs that are just a bunch of verses stacked on top of each other. Anything goes.’ That was freeing for me and made it exciting to write this album.”
Poulsen’s excitement to thwart convention is palpable throughout God Of Angels Trust, a punchy, crunchy album that’s undeniably Volbeat, yet marches to a fresh new metallic and melodic energy.
Poulsen started working on songs for the follow-up to 2021’s Servant of the Mind in the summer of 2024. Volbeat was taking a year-long break from touring to give Michael a chance to recover from throat surgery and to tour with his death metal band, Asinhell. Driven equally by his excitement to record a new Volbeat album and by his determination not to follow convention, Poulsen worked on songs for a mere three weeks with bandmates drummer Jon Larsen and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. Amazingly, they worked on a new song at every rehearsal. Three weeks into the process, Volbeat had arranged half of God Of Angels Trust. That’s when Poulsen decided that having no rules meant he could follow his muse wherever it took him, and he veered off on a different path. He and the band still wrote and rehearsed two songs a week, but they started composing more familiar rock songs that drew from traditional elements.
The band entered the studio with their longtime producer Jacob Hansen in the fall of 2024. As with the songwriting, Poulsen wanted to work quickly and rely on instinct, so they just plugged in and started to play. To keep the music sounding urgent and immediate, Volbeat recorded live in the studio, playing as few takes as possible before moving from one song to the next.
When it came time to add lead guitar, there was no question that Volbeat would tap Flemming C. Lund, who currently tours with the band and worked with Michael in Asinhell. A mere 13 days after they started working with Hansen, Volbeat were finished.
As impressive as it is that Volbeat wrote and recorded an entire album in about five weeks, what’s more incredible is that God Of Angels Trust sounds as fleshed out, eclectic, and fulfilling as albums that have taken 10 times longer (or more) to create. In the end, creating such a strong album so quickly was a tremendous challenge that demanded Zen-like calm, a joy for exploration, maximal creativity, and razor-sharp concentration to pull off.
The band’s official D2C store is here.
Available formats:
– 180g Black LP
– “Grandma’s Wallpaper” LP – Exclusively at volbeat.dk
– “Lamplight Glow” LP – Exclusively at Republic Records/Universal Music’s websites
– “Mystery Color” LP – Exclusively at independent retailers
– Glow in the Dark LP – Exclusively at EMP
– Oxblood LP – Exclusively at Revolver
– Red and White Danish Flag LP -Only available in Denmark
– Limited Edition Cassette
– CD
– Deluxe Hardcover Book CD With Expanded Artwork
God Of Angels Trust tracklisting:
“Devils Are Awake”
“By A Monster’s Hand”
“Acid Rain”
“Demonic Depression”
“In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’s Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom”
“Time Will Heal”
“Better Be Fueled Than Tamed”
“At The End Of The Sirens”
“Lonely Fields”
“Enlighten The Disorder (By A Monster’s Hand Part 2)”
Volbeat will return to the road on the “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide,” beginning in June and running throughout 2025. The tour begins in June with a co-headline Canadian run with Three Days Grace and special guests Wage War, which will be followed by headline treks in the U.S. with special guests Halestorm and The Ghost Inside, and Europe and the UK with special guests Bush and Witch Fever. The band announced this morning that a second show at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena has been added to the tour on September 20.
Tickets and VIP packages for all shows are on sale now at volbeat.dk. Find Volbeat’s tour itinerary here.
BraveWords Records… home for Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse, The Chris Slade Timeline, Rhett Forrester & Rob Robbins, Prophets of Addiction, Jack Starr, Crimson Glory, ASKA and Lillian Axe.
Make sure you are following the label on Facebook. >> https://www.facebook.com/bravewordsrecords
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