But this time, it took me only three months to write everything - all the music, all the lyrics, everything! And it just kind of felt like being back to where we started.
Normally, you wait around to get some inspiration, and then time just runs by and it can be over a year before you have material ready for an album. MICHAEL POULSEN Yeah, there were a couple of times where we were supposed to go on tour and we were told, "That's not going to happen." So it was like, "What are we going to do, then?" And just kind of out of nowhere I said, "Well, I'm going to sit down and try and write an album," and our management said, "That's the perfect idea!" And then I thought, "Wait a minute - why did I say that?" īut the good thing about that was, suddenly I had to do something spontaneous, and that's how this record came out. IT SEEMS LIKE SERVANT OF THE MIND IS A RARE CASE OF SOMETHING GOOD ACTUALLY RESULTING FROM THE PANDEMIC. I was like, 'Fuck the acoustic guitar - we're going big!'" "Normally I would sit down and write with an acoustic guitar, but for this album I threw my acoustic guitar out the window. "And it seemed like everything that was coming out of my sleeves was pretty heavy," he says.
Presented with unexpected time on his hands due the COVID-19 pandemic, Poulsen found the songs pouring out of him so rapidly that Servant of the Mind wound up being written and recorded in only a matter of months. While the piano-pounding "Wait a Minute My Girl" (the album's first single, which reached Number One this summer on Billboard's Modern Rock chart) skews more to the rock & roll roots side of Volbeat's sound, tracks like "Temple of Ekur," "The Sacred Stones" and "Shotgun Blues" are packed with hard-charging riffs, wailing guitar leads (courtesy of ex-Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano, the band's lone American member) and lyrics that explore some intensely metaphysical corners. Produced and mixed by longtime collaborator Jacob Hansen, the album - the band's eighth, and first since 2019's Rewind, Replay, Rebound - may be the darkest and heaviest Volbeat offering yet. Volbeat have also announced their 2022 co-headlining arena tour with Ghost and special guests Twin Temple, coming to cities including Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix.Video of Volbeat - Wait A Minute My Girl (Official Lyric Video) Album opener “Temple of Ekur” returns to the ancient themes explored in past songs such as “The Gates of Babylon,” while the epic album closer “Lasse’s Birgita” explores the story of the first witch burnings to occur in Sweden in 1471. He is on a mission, speaking to darker forces and fallen angels.” Meanwhile, “The Devil Rages On” looks at the idea of the devil taking human form. “The Sacred Stones” tells the story of “an earthly being who has committed himself to the dark side. Other songs on the album weave intricate and fascinating tales. If you go back to the first record and compare it to where we are now, you can hear how the band has developed its style, while keeping the signature sound.” “I wrote the whole album in three months,” recalls Poulsen, “I was in a good place and mood while at home, and had a captive audience of myself… There are a lot of Volbeat signatures in it.
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