Sure, the songs on “Rock The Rebel…” have often been built around melodies and arrangements similar to those already used way back in the 50’s, but when delivered in a much heavier way it all sounds fresh.Ī few cool picks from the album would include “The Garden’s Tale” that could be described as the hit of the lot. Volbeat’s guitarwork, at it heavier moments weighs in a very similar chunkyness of bands such as Corrosion Of Conformity or even Black Label Society. And in the process they have created a style that is in it’s uniqueness extremely invigorating and interesting.īesides the golden rock’n’roll oldies, the most obvious comparison point amongst other bands would probably be Danzig, but even then Volbeat sounds quite different, namely in importing much heavier and modern metal elements into the ‘Elvis sound’. To be quite honest, all that kinda elements thrown in together could’ve easily resulted in a horrible failure, but as can be heard on this album – Volbeat has pulled it off with flying colours. Metal and rock’n’roll are the most dominant ones, but there’s also a bit of punk, a slice of stoner rock, a dose of thrash, a trifle of country… quite a handful of various undertones really. But that’s just describing it very roughly, going deeper inside one can hear echoes from very various music styles. Like the album title points out in an overly obvious way, Volbeat’s music is a mixture of old time rock’n’roll and modern kind of heavy metal. And judging by this album, they well deserve to. And apparently I’m not the only one left in the shade, it seems as the band is only just breaking through to the bigger venues.
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Nope, indeed not your typical metal group at all.Įven though they’ve released a full length album “The Strength/The Sound/The Songs” back in 2005, this is the first time I even heard of Volbeat. And that’s before the lyrics even kick in – in which point you could well be overcome by an eerie feeling that all those conspiracy theories about Elvis Presley still walking amongst us might just be true and the king of rock’n’roll has made a comeback with some leather and spikes added to his suede shoes. During the first thirty seconds of the opening track “The Human Instrument” you get greeted by some heavy riffing, a pounding drumbeat you could march to, and a lone steel guitar to start the whole show. It takes maybe a split second until it hits you that these guys from Denmark aren’t exactly your typical thirteen-in-a-dozen metal group and their new release “Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil” isn’t your typical metal album.