“The tour started in Newcastle last night (Monday 23rd September) and we were a little rusty and we had a few technical issues but it worked out. “It’s great to be on tour and I’m excited rather than nervous,” said Larsen cheerily. The Great Danes – and American axe man Rob Caggiano, of course – are touring venues in the UK on a headline run, and Bring The Noise UK were there in the front two, horns in the sky, for their sold-out Glasgow show.īut before we snaked our way through the sea of shirts and hip-swingingggg rock n’rollers, we sat down with Volbeat bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen on the band’s lush tour bus – their home from home during their tour. Volbeat are the band Elvis Presley would have fronted had he hooked up with metal guitarists on a three-day bender with a pair of punk rockers.įrontman Michael Poulsen‘s love of 1950’s era music is obvious in Volbeat, but the Danish band perfectly and seamlessly infuse the vintage hooks with a punk, hard rocking n’ roll vibe, with the whole Volbeat house built upon the foundations of soul shuddering metal riffs of Slayer proportions. It is at times like these when Volbeat smack you dead in the teeth with a welcome wall of distinctive, melodic and thoroughly unique metal-billy. All too often modern rock and metal bands can become enslaved to a type and style of music which is more cookie cutter than innovative, with songs that are as stale as a soggy week-old Dorito you find crushed down the back of the couch.

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