I's very, very, very spontaneous writing, and there's a lot of energy in it." That's why I'm saying that what I'm writing right now is more uptempo. Even though I run every morning, I still have a ton of energy that I need to get rid of, and I get all that energy out in the new VOLBEAT music. We have a lot of energy we wanna burn out. And that's what I'm doing also right now with the stuff that I'm writing right now, because I think everybody's kind of getting crazy being locked up in their own home.
So you just have to go with what your heart tells you. You can sit down and you can ask yourself, 'Where am I going with this?' And if you try to change it, it becomes another monster, and it's not necessarily a monster you wanna work with. Michael went on to discuss his songwriting process in more detail, saying: "Writing is such an emotional thing - things have to come to you very naturally and then you just have to go with the flow. So I'm very excited about my whole situation when it comes to writing for VOLBEAT." Right now, I'm in a place where I'm kind of revisiting some of more uptempo and more heavy stuff. So right now I'm doing a lot of spontaneous VOLBEAT songs that have really a lot of… uptempo, it's heavy, it's very riffy, there's even thrash songs, but again, there's also these really huge rock songs. That's gonna be another different VOLBEAT album, because if I was writing an album like that again, I would be old before I want to. Speaking about how the new VOLBEAT music compares to last year's "Rewind, Replay, Rebound" album, Poulsen said: "I know for sure that what I'm writing right now is not really similar. There's a lot of heavy stuff in some of the new songs that I've got." And let me tell you, I can't wait to start working on these songs in the studio when the time is right, because there's a certain energy that really, really takes me back to the beginning. He said (hear audio below): "Now that I have all the time at home, there's a lot of time to reflect on your whole career and what you've been doing in the past and what you're doing now and what you wanted to do with the music, so I'm very much inspired right now, so I'm writing a lot of VOLBEAT songs at this very moment.
Mainstream Rock chart.In a new interview with "Whiplash", the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, Michael Poulsen of Danish/American rockers VOLBEAT spoke about how he has been staying busy during the coronavirus downtime. And the hit parade continued full steam ahead with 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound, as its revved-up, Misfits-esque standout, “Die to Live,” gave the group their eighth No. airwaves, by which point Poulson’s formative demonic bellow had smoothed into a radiant, radio-ready voice perfectly suited to open-sunroof anthems like “Fallen.” Volbeat have continued to hone their finely tuned formula of hooks and heft to even greater stateside success, with 2016’s Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie cracking the Billboard Top 5 thanks to the punchy power pop of “Black Rose” (a duet with kindred Canadian rocker Danko Jones). With Volbeat, however, he pursued a bold new sound that fused his love of double-kick-drummed thrash with the outlaw spirit of early rock ‘n’ roll-and, let’s face it, few artists with his black-hooded pedigree would dare introduce their new band with a riff-ravaged cover of the Dusty Springfield standard “I Only Wanna Be With You.” As Volbeat became a chart-topping force in Denmark, an invite from Metallica to open their 2009 North America tour helped push the group’s fourth album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, onto U.S. Strength was never going to be a problem for this band: Singer/guitarist Michael Poulson cut his fangs in the death-metal outfit Dominus.
Copenhagen hard-rock quartet Volbeat debuted in 2005 with the rather cockily titled album The Strength / The Sound / The Songs, but their track record has proven they can back up that claim on all three counts.