Poulsen explains, “I wanted that Jerry Lee Lewis-like piano playing.
Raynir Jacob Jacildo (piano) and Doug Corocran (sax) of JD McPherson’s band also appear on the song. They are on three songs when they could have easily been on more.”Ĭlutch vocalist Neil Fallon is featured on “Die to Live,” the result of touring together and a love for the singer’s gruff and powerful style. In addition to working with backing vocalist Mia Maja on several tracks, Volbeat once again recruited the Harlem Gospel Choir, who appeared on the song “Goodbye Forever” on a prior album, to feature on three songs, including the single “Last Day Under the Sun.” Weaving the choir into the Volbeat sound was a seamless process, with Poulsen saying, “I didn’t have to think about it. On Rewind, Replay, Rebound, the band invited several guests appear and to give the record a thick and varied rock ‘n’ roll vibe. Now, in 2019, we replay it, and we even become stronger.” Some songs could easily be on our first two or three records - that is where we rewind.
If you’ve been going through something and you have been down, and then rise up and get stronger, that’s the rebound. “When you do that, you replay that when you grow up. “With the lyrics, you go back in time to your own childhood and fly away to what you did as a kid,” Poulsen continues. The songs are personal but they are relatable.” Whether it’s a certain smell, a color, a location, a feeling, or something that happened in the summer that made you feel good, or when you were really struggling, but you found your way through to the other side and continued being inspired by life and the challenges therein. If you listen to the lyrics, the listener can go back in time and think of his or her own childhood. “Yeah, me either!’ The album has a hint of going back in time to your childhood. “There is a side of it where people will go, ‘Oh, wow, we didn’t know you could sing like that,’” Poulsen says with a laugh. All of those elements and contrasts combined are ultimately the connective tissue that will bind the album to its listeners. The balance and challenge was to incorporate these new ideas into what is typical Volbeat,” and that meant mining their own personal pasts and that of the genre they traffic in. To keep things interesting and in order to remain true to their sonic identity, Poulsen and his bandmates knew they had to dare to try other things and to introduce “new elements that haven’t really been touched upon on previous albums. The frontman became a father two years ago, and in order to be away from his family by making music and touring, he has be firing on all musical cylinders and playing music he and the fans love.
The stakes are not only professionally higher for Volbeat and Poulsen. No matter how old the band gets or how many records we do, there is always going to be that signature sound.” But we would not be able to do this record if it wasn’t for the work we have done in the past. As long as you are inspired and you are satisfied with what you come up with… I will say this is our best work because it has to be our best work until the next records comes. “You are still eager and have that desire when it comes to music and lyrics. “The whole point for us, and a lot of other bands, going into the studio, is because you still have something to prove - not just for the fans, but mostly for yourself,” says Poulsen. It also aims to bring rock back to the forefront. With their own nearly 20-year history, which includes tours with Metallica, Motorhead Slipknot and beyond, over one and a half billion streams, a 2014 Best Metal Performance Grammy nomination for “Room 24” from Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, and multiple Danish Music Award wins, Volbeat return with an album that, when all is said and done, will help usher in the rock ‘n’ roll surgence that is both long overdue and inevitable. The end result finds the band reaching a creative summit. They have made their sound fresh for themselves and for their diehard legion of fans by distilling from and paying homage to rock ‘n’ roll’s rich, storied past. For their seventh album, Rewind, Replay, Rebound, the multi-platinum selling Danish rock band Volbeat - Michael Poulsen (guitars/vocals), Rob Caggiano (guitars), Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass), and Jon Larsen (drums) - have built upon the DNA-distinct, psychobilly punk ‘n’ roll sound they are known for. The saying goes that while we may be through with the past, the past is never really through with us.