.VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen discusses new LP, new daughter and more.
About 20 years ago, Michael Poulsen pedaled his bike around Copenhagen, Denmark, delivering free demos to any record store that would take them.
Poulsen’s parents raised him on the American standards, and as his then-new band Volbeat cut its teeth and hawked its demos in the early ‘00s, those major melodic influences bled deeper into his obsession with thrash guitars and hurtling punk. Let’s flashback to your last major tour, supporting Metallica in 2017. How on Earth did you manage to fly home to Denmark between American stadium shows to meet your newborn daughter?
It was inspired by a story about Johnny Cash where he’d become so sick and tired of life, because he was so intoxicated by drugs and alcohol, that he walked around in a forest and into a cave [Nickajack Cave in Tennessee] to basically lay down and die. He wakes up a couple days after and feels like he’s been given a second chance. There’s when Johnny Cash changed his life and became a new man, a believer in God, I guess.
When I write, it comes very natural, because I’m not painting myself into any corners where I have to stick to one style. I grew up with parents who were constantly listening to that era of music… As a child, that music was as normal as drinking water. Then, when I was old enough to get my own place, something that was missing was my family’s record collection so I started buying those vinyl albums I used to listen to at home.
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