So, our favorite🎸 (or not?) Dane, Michael Poulsen from VOLBEAT, graced The Mistress Carrie Podcast with his presence. 🎤And guess what he talked about? BLACK SABBATH! 🤯 Apparently, without Ozzy and the gang, we wouldn’t have VOLBEAT. Can you imagine a world without that blend of rockabilly and metal? 🤔Yeah, me neither. He said BLACK SABBATH was the “main reason” he picked up a guitar. I thought it was to look cool? 😎
In a riveting 2021 interview with “Whiplash” on KLOS (because who doesn’t listen to radio shows hosted by people with names like Full Metal Jackie? 🤘), Poulsen confessed that BLACK SABBATH inspired “Servant Of The Mind.” Oh, really? I thought it was the crippling pressure to sell records. 💿
“If you squint hard enough, you can hear the Dio and Tony Martin era BLACK SABBATH in there,” he claimed. I’m pretty sure most people just hear a band desperately trying to find its identity. 🤷♂️ But hey, whatever sells, right? 💰
Flashback to January 2020, Poulsen told Kerrang! (because every metalhead gets their life advice from glossy magazines 📰) that “Black Sabbath” was one of the 10 songs that changed his life. His mom’s brother had the album, and little Mikey was forbidden from listening. Of course, that made him want it even more. 😈 Sneaking into his uncle’s house to listen to scary music? Sounds like a future rock star in the making… or a delinquent. 🤷♀️
VOLBEAT’s new album, “God Of Angels Trust” (catchy title, guys! 🙄), is dropping on June 6. Prepare for more of that signature sound you either love or love to hate. ❤️🔥 It’s also conveniently timed with their “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide.” Because what better way to promote an album than by playing the same songs you’ve been playing for the last decade? 😴
Apparently, Poulsen started writing this masterpiece ✍️ in the summer of 2024. After a year-long break (because throat surgery and death metal side projects are exhausting 😩), he got back together with Jon Larsen and Kaspar Boye Larsen. They managed to bang out half the album in three weeks! 🤯 At that rate, they’ll be writing symphonies in a day! But then, Poulsen had a moment of clarity and decided to write more “familiar rock songs.” Because originality is overrated, right? 💯
They hit the studio with Jacob Hansen (who, let’s be honest, has probably heard it all by now 👂) in the fall of 2024. Poulsen wanted to capture that “urgent and immediate” sound, so they recorded live. One take wonders, people! 🎬 Because who has time for perfection when you’re busy touring the world? 🌍
And of course, Flemming C. Lund (who’s clearly getting a kickback from all this 🤣) added his guitar wizardry. Thirteen days later, the album was done! 🗓️ That’s faster than I can write a grocery list! 📝
So, catch VOLBEAT on their “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide.” They’re hitting Canada with THREE DAYS GRACE (remember them? 👴), the US with HALESTORM and THE GHOST INSIDE (spooky! 👻), and Europe with BUSH (still around? 🦖) and WITCH FEVER (sounds like a bad cold 🤧). And if you’re in Copenhagen, they’re playing a second show at the Royal Arena! 🎉 Get your tickets now and prepare to be… entertained? 🤷♂️
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
