It’s hard to argue with their light touch: comical track titles such as Pelvis on Fire tell you all you need to know about how seriously Volbeat take themselves, while the album’s guest list – Slayer guitarist Gary Holt, Clutch vocalist Neil Fallon and the Harlem Gospel Choir – speaks to their eclectic nature.
There are splashes of sax and 1950s piano on the furiously fun Die to Live, while acoustic ballad When We Were Kids showcases their more tender side. Fist-pumping guitar riots such as Sorry Sack of Bones find them doing little to disrupt the formula that gave them such success, reaching instead for more face-melting guitar solos, huge pop hooks and Metallica-indebted vocal wails.
It’s a sound that’s made them a rock institution in their homeland: last year, they played to 48,000 people in Copenhagen’s Telia Parken, the nation’s biggest ever headline show by a native band.
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