Volbeat

One more Sonisphere show!

volbeat — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:03:27 +0000

This time Finland is up for some Volbeat summer rockin. Volbeat joins the impressive line up with Iron Maiden, Him, Slayer, Heaven & Hell and many more! So if you’re around Pori, Finland on August 7^th don’t miss this one! Kippis!

Volbeat reveals album title!

nils.reimann — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:55:06 +0000

The writing process is well under way and a title is already set:

Front man Michael Poulsen explains: “The Album title is “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven”
(no reference to religious beliefs). The title refers to the overall theme of the album, and it continues the storyline from where “Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood” left off…”

The album will be released in September throughout Europe. The band are very excited about the writing process, carrying the songs into both extreme metallic territory, punk variations and some very catchy stuff at the same time. On top Volbeat is bringing in various guest appearances. Michael continues:

“We have fast, slow and mid-tempo songs. We still blend different styles of punk, rock’n’roll, rockabilly, metal, heavy metal, thrash metal, country – we still keep it very open, it’s just music! I cannot say too much about it right now, but we’re really excited about it and it’s going to be very, very cool. Again we’re going to give people something they haven’t heard before. We always try to do something special and different on each and every album.”

Watch out for much more news about “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven” upcoming shows and much more on this site…

VOLBEAT RETURN TO COPENHAGEN

rainer.frauboes — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:53:17 +0000

We’re very pleased to announce that we’re returning to our hometown to play COPENHAGEN LIVE on June 2nd. We haven’t played CPH for a while, so to return to a legendary venue like 10-Øren to perfrom with our label-mates Rammstein will be nothing short of fantastic! Amager will never be the same!

Tickets and info: www.copenhagenlive.dk and www.billetnet.dk

WE PLAY DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL and SONISPHERE IN SWITZERLAND

rainer.frauboes — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:22:13 +0000

Good news for all you folks in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Download Festival has announced the first 9 bands for this year’s festival! We’re proud to play Donnington along with AC/DC, Them Crooked Vultures, Deftones, Megadeth, Wolfmother, Motörhead and many others. See more on http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/

And for your Swizz folks – we join The Big Four, Heaven And Hell and many more – see more at on http://sz.sonispherefestivals.com/

Cheers

Volbeat

An update from 12th of December

volbeat — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:48:52 +0000

We’re in San Jose and it’s unfortunately the last show on the Metallica tour. Prio to the show we remind ourselves that this is the last show and we really want to put an extra effort into this. We actually play a really good show, and the response is great. It’s a great finale and probably our best on this tour, even though every show has meant a lot to us. After the show we get presents from Metallica. James and Lars come into our dressing room and give us all a black bathrobe saying:”VOLBEAT learning to speak english the METALLICA style, one show at a time”. A joke from James who didn’t understand what we said speaking danish with Lars. We also get a signed band photo with a personal greeting and most important a big thank you from the band and crew who have enjoyed our music and company. We experienced a lot and it feels great to know that the hard work put into this VOLBEAT band has paid off. We’d like to thank Metallica and their crew for this fantastic experience, and also their respect for us as persons. And last but not least the great support we had from the audience at every single show. A lot of fans have travelled to see us perform in the USA. You’re the real deal and we know we can trust in you. We’re looking forward to return and play more shows in 2010, and before you know it we’ll see you again! Thanks everyone!

Cheers
Michael, Jon, Anders and Thomas

L.A. – from a winner’s point of view.

volbeat — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43:29 +0000

Alexander from Germany – the lucky competition winner – wrote us a short diary of his trip to L.A.. Thanks for that Alexander! good to meet up…

December 9th
We headed for the Troubadour around 6pm to meet up with Volbeat and se the concert afterwards. After some negotiating with the venue security (They didn’t listen to us at all) the tour manager Daniel showed up and settled everything. Daniel took us to the tour bus and we had pictures taken and had a talk with Anders, Jon, Thomas and Michael. It was fantastic and the band hung out with us for a long time – Thanks for that and thanks for the autographs – we’re really grateful!

When Danko Jones went on stage Volbeat wanted to see their show and we all left the bus and went into the Troubadour. After that Volbeat entered the stage and played a fantastic show for a rocking crowd! Great show! We went home to our hotel and had to sleep immediately after being awake for 35 hours.

December 10th
We woke up way too early due to jet-lag and went for a walk on Hollywood Boulevard. We saw walk of fame and many other interesting sights. In the evening the Anaheim show was up. We took a cab in good time (4.45 pm) – we should be there at 7pm. The traffic was heavy and we arrived just before 7pm. The biggest indoor arena I’ve been to in Germany is the Color-Line-Arena (16.000 capacity) and the biggest stadium is Dortmunds’ Signal-Iduna-Park (82.000 capacity). The Honda arena seemed way bigger than the Color-Line-Arena, so we rushed to the nearest guest-list entrance. The staff was extremely cool and after Daniel helped us clearing the guest list we entered the arena just in time to see all 3 bands (Volbeat, Machine Head and Metallica) perform. Once again the show was fantastic! THANKS!
Alexander

Volbeat takes a quick look into the crystal ball for 2010!

nils.reimann — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:25:35 +0000

Hello!

We’re about to wrap up yet another busy year for us. It’s been a great pleasure to tour the Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood album. We’ve never played for so many dedicated fans. It took us to almost every good festival and venue in Europe and to USA for 2 tours. The first part of 2010 are planned for continuing writing songs for our next album. We’ll hit the studio in April and album release is planned for the fall. During the summer we’ll play a handful of festivals i Europe and will tour full throttle in the fall. Stay tuned on the website for more updates.

Thanks for the support – it means the world to us!

Cheers

Volbeat

Our Western Swing

rainer.frauboes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:50:44 +0000

The 3 latest shows with Metallica in Boise, Sacramento and Anaheim were great, though the shows start to feel more and more similar. The response has been good at every single show and we’ve left the stage with a smile every time. James Hetfield gave me a nice present. He came into our dressing room with a painting of Elvis and said: Here little e, here’s big E, ha ha ha. James had written a little letter on the flipside of the painting for me. Nice present, I’m really happy abut that one. We did our own headliner show at The Troubadour in L.A. Our good friends in Danko Jones opened and kicked ass as always and played an excellent set. It was a sold out club show with something like a 450 capacity. We’re never going to forget this show, because the response was a killer! It was like in Europe a few years ago, before we could sell out big venues. We were thrilled to get such an amazing response at our first L.A. headliner show ever. And we ended up playing a 115 minutes set, a lot more than we were asked, so quite a few encores. THANKS for the support, it means everything to us!!!

Prior to the show we said hello to the two competition winners who had won a trip to L.A. for the Volbeat show. So we invited them onto the tour bus, hung out for a while and made sure they had a few items to bring home. A couple of hours before that we visited the Rainbow Club, who’s Lemmy’s (of Motörhead) regular spot, to get some beer and food and check out where the mighty father orders his whiskey from , we ended up there again after the show, hung out with fans and had a blast.

Michael

We’re back in USA, diary from freezing Idaho

volbeat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:21:08 +0000

After being home for a few days we flew to Zurich, Switzerland, to kick off our own, tight European tour. Originally the tour was planned to last for 6 weeks, but when Metallica asked us to join the US tour, we had to minimize the amount of dates. So we put together a tight schedule through Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Holland. We’ll continue the European tour in early 2010 going to Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia by the way. But it was good to be back on common grounds and with all you European fans. Unfortunately the last show in Holland ended with Michael collapsing on stage due to exhaustion from a serious flu.

When the chock from that was over, we had a couple of nights at home. We flew from Copenhagen again, via London to Las Vegas. We landed the night before the show and even though we were pretty jetlagged, we went out for dinner and some Las Vegas nightlife. We were invited to a local metal bar, owned by Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Vinnie Paul (Pantera), where the Metallica fan club held a party, but we politely passed on that one, as it was getting past midday Danish time and we had to get some sleep.

We woke up early Saturday and spent the morning in downtown Las Vegas before going to the venue for sound check. This time we were a lot more used to the stage in comparison to the tour start in Toronto a month earlier. We played a good show and some fans had brought Volbeat banners and the response from the crowd was great.

After the show, some of us stayed at the venue to watch Machine Head (who had taken over the main support slot from Lamb of God) and Metallica. Others went to see the Pinball Hall Of Fame. Anders and I squeezed a Willie Nelson show before the bus headed off to Salt Lake City.

Right now we’re in Boise Idaho, its freezing and we hide inside the bus all day, figuring out how to get back at James Hetfield and win our ongoing dressing room fight…

Thomas

Volbeat returns to Holland!

volbeat — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:34:11 +0000

Volbeat plays a substitution show at the 013 on February 24th. Fans who can’t attend this show, can return their ticket until January 24th. Tickets from the November 29th show will still be valid on the February 24th show. If any tickets are returned, these will be made available for sale…

Cheers!