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- Band:
Volbeat - Duration: 00:44:10
- Available since: 06/06/2025
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Vertigo
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After the global success of “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies”, the first Danish album to enter the top of the Billboard Chart since the time of the Aqua, the Volbeat have found the perfect formula for what is called by many 'Elvis Metal' – a peculiar mix of metal, punk rock and rockabilly capable of combining the power of the metal with the Vintage atmospheres of Elvis of Elvis of Elvis Prisley and Johnny Cash – with a progressive lightening path that touched the peak with “Rewind, Reply, Rebound”, only to then return to slightly more Heavy sounds with the penultimate “Servant of the Mind”.
Filed under track – not without some controversy – the release of Rob Caggiano, who had played in all the albums mentioned above, the trio led by Michael Poulsen returns after four years with “God of Angels Trust”, ninth disc loading esoteric expectations starting from the cover artwork and 'diabolical' titles scattered in the tracklist; Yet, in fact, it is the 'usual' album of the Volbeat, the son of a formula that has now been rooted and which we could summarize as an ideal compromise between the last two studio works.
The influence of the metal of the “Black Album” remains central starting from the first single “by a Monster's Hand” and finds confirmed in the tight riff of “Demonic Depression”, kissed by a particularly stinished refrain, to close in beauty with “Enlligen the disorder (by a Monster's Hand Part 2)”, another song equipped with a nice shot between one rolling and the other.
The lightest atmosphere that had characterized “Rewind, Reply, Rebound” finds vice versa full expression in summer cut songs such as “Acid Rain” or “Time Will Heal”, where Poulsen can give free rein to his more radio-friendly vein, reaching new hybrid shapes in the rockendant punk “At the End of the Sirens” or in the most sinuous “Lonely” Fields ”, full of a somewhat left joy to the keyboard special who seems to want to pay homage to the famous main theme of John Carpenter's” Halloween “.
The rockabilly parenthesis of “In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan's Spawn in a Dying World of Doom” sounds as an intersection between James Hetfield and Johnny Cash but, beyond the divertissement Of the title and good work on the solo guitar of the new entrance Flemming C. Lund, it is less spontaneous compared not only to the classics of the past, but also to the most linear “Better Be Fueled Than Tamed”, a Thrash -colored rockabilly characterized by a nice bass round in the foreground and rhythmics that again call the Four Horsemen into question.
All formally perfect, but the impression is that that spark of eclecticism of the first works or desire to amaze their qualitative peak (the aforementioned “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies” and the subsequent “Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie”) is missing: with “God of Angels Trust” the Volbeat vice versa play on the safe side, with a more domesticated formula and dosed with the balance in the different elements, but still winning to get to the general public.
If they are among Hetfield and Ulrich's favorites, on the other hand, there will be a reason.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
