'Everything from Elvis Presley to Napalm Death. On their official MySpace site Volbeat lists their influences in their own recognizable way:

Volbeat has a large range of influences, which can be clearly heard in their music. They have also already announced a few festival appearances for the summer 2008. More recently, Volbeat was announced to do a seven-date European spring tour and to support legendary speed metal act Megadeth in Finland and in their home town, Copenhagen. Volbeat also supported Metallica together with Mnemic at their concert on Denmark July 13 of that year. Volbeat opened the Roskilde Festival in 2007. Recently, the album achieved gold status for sales in Denmark.

In week 8 of 2007, the record Rock The Rebel / Metal The Devil debuted as #1 in the Danish Top 40 for CD-sales and at the same time The Strength / The Sound / The Songs re-entered the chart at #21. Their concert at Roskilde Festival 2006 received a 6/6 stars review in the Danish newspaper BT. Volbeat is also praised for its live performances. The German hard rock magazine RockHard gave it 10/10 in a review. This milestone was reached after their concert at the Roskilde Festival 2006.Ĭritics have generally been positive towards The Strength / The Sound / The Songs.

No other Danish heavy rock band Volbeat has been able to get to position 18 at the Danish Top 100 for CD sales in over 10 years. They are inspired by the rock n' roll legends Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Volbeat plays a fusion of heavy metal and rockabilly. Volbeat was formed in 2001 after frontman Michael Poulsen split up his former band, Dominus. In March 2007, it topped the Danish album chart as the best selling album, the first metal album ever to do so. They released their first album, The Strength/the Sound/the Songs, in 2005 and the follow up, Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil, was released in Denmark on February 19, 2007, and in the rest of Europe on February 26, 2007.

Volbeat is a heavy metal band from Denmark, founded in 2001.

Volbeat album themes