Metal Anarchy

Volbeat have been using their coronavirus downtime to work on new music and during a recent interview with “Whiplash,” the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, Michael Poulsen discussed the musical direction that the band are currently heading in. According to him, “there’s a lot of heavy stuff in some of the new songs.”

Poulsen said the following:

“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. 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. There’s a lot of heavy stuff in some of the new songs that I’ve got.”

He continued after being asked how the new material compares to “Rewind, Replay, Rebound”:

“I know for sure that what I’m writing right now is not really similar. 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. So right now I’m doing a lot of spontaneous VOLBEAT songs that have really a lot of… [It’s] uptempo, it’s heavy, it’s very riffy, there’s even thrash songs, but again, there’s also these really huge rock songs. Right now, I’m in a place where I’m kind of revisiting some of more uptempo and more heavy stuff. So I’m very excited about my whole situation when it comes to writing for VOLBEAT.”

He also dived deeper into his songwriting process:

“Writing is such an emotional thing — things have to come to you very naturally and then you just have to go with the flow. 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. So you just have to go with what your heart tells you. 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. We have a lot of energy we wanna burn out. 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. That’s why I’m saying that what I’m writing right now is more uptempo. I’s very, very, very spontaneous writing, and there’s a lot of energy in it.”

[via Blabbermouth]