Scan’d from booklet

I would like to give you my opinions and thoughts about this incredible album of Danish heavy metal band called Volbeat. Their newest album, “Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood” went straight to my heart.

One of my favorite songs on this album is “Still Counting”, which opens up with a reggae-fied guitar beat, and mixing classical thrash with reggae is something new for me, I haven’t heard it before. And as the reggae fan I am, I can’t resist on giving this song a top grade, it has it all: awesome words, awesome guitars, awesome bass licks and pounding, ass kicking and ear-raping drums
In the booklet you get when you buy the album, you have these small notes before the lyrics. For this one it says:

This one is about one of the persons living in “The 10 houses”. He sits in the bar talking to one of the guitar gangsters.

The first lines in the song goes like this: “Counting all the assholes in the room, well I am definitely not all, well I’m not alone. You’re a liar, you’re a cheater, you’re fool”
This brings me back to song number 1 (2 if counting with the intro) “Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood” that tells you a story of a guitar gangster that sees “10 small houses” and goes into a The Bar. The Bar also brings me back to their first single from this album, “Maybelenne i Hofteholder” where this old man sings about a lovely stripper he saw at table 45 in “the Bar”. It gets confusing while only reading this, but if you buy the album, you’ll understand, hehe.

Saturday I love you like gold. Not like the Monday, you pass like a ghost.

The main concept of this record is that it’s following a story that goes through their previous records: “Rock The Rebel / Metal The Devil” and “The Strength / The Sound / The Songs”.
I love that they aren’t getting away from this 50s sound that they have going on, the Rock-a-metal-billy thing, or what they call themselves on their MySpace “Metal that even your Mom would like”. I am not so sure that my mom would like all the songs on their albums but maybe the most catchy ones.

I also have to mention that they had, as they had in “The Strength / The Sound / The Songs” album, a cover. Their first cover was a song with Dusty Springfield called “I only wanna be with You”, that gave Volbeat a pop-ier feeling, with its catchy lyrics. This time, the cover is called “Making Believe” which was a bombastic hit single back in the 50s. I also can connect this song to their Social Distortion influences, they have also recorded this song.
Update - 13 September: Another cover on this album is “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” which was recorded by Hank Williams in 1949, which gave him first spot on “Billboard Country Singles” the same year.

At last I want to thank Volbeat, and their crew for showing us what real rock n’ roll is a about, with a pure and raw Metal sound. Cheers!
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