In honor of the announcement, both headliners will feature huge sweepstakes on their Facebook pages where fans can enter to win grand prizes such as a guitar signed by all bands on the tour, meet & greets with all four bands on the tour, as well as tickets to the shows and many other cool prizes.įIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, undoubtedly one of the most relevant and successful rock bands globally, dominated 2013 with the releases THE WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN AND THE RIGHTEOUS SIDE OF HELL ─ VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2.
For tickets go to ww. or For 5FDP VIP experience info go to. The co-headlining arena tour across North America will kick off on September 16 at the Maverik Center in Salt Lake City, UT. Fred Frank, President of FRANK PRODUCTIONS offers: “We are excited to put two of the globally most relevant and hottest bands of the genre into major arenas across the country to bring fans an amazing night with 4 bands on the bill at a great value”. Special guests on the tour will be HELLYEAH and NOTHING MORE. Global rock heavyweights FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and VOLBEAT announced that they’ve joined forces to bring fans one of the biggest rock tours of the year produced by Frank Productions/NS2. Tickets may be purchased online at by phone atĨ5, at the Venue Box Office and participating Dillon’s Tickets on-sale SATURDAY, JUNE 7th at 10:00am MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 2014 | Door Time 5:30 | Show 6:10pm Rock & roll can ask no more.With Special Guests HELLYEAH & Nothing More In other words, they all affirm life, fun, and better days ahead. But these 13 songs, penned during a time of great global uncertainty, are wonderfully crafted, beautifully recorded, and performed with an incendiary energy. Servant of the Mind doesn't offer much in terms of change for Volbeat. Poulsen's vocal keeps the band centered even as he sings of witch burning in 15th century Sweden. Closer "Lasse's Birgitta" enters with edgy, reverbed blues and rockabilly guitar vamps before a thrashing "Paranoid"-esque riff asserts the tune's body. "Step Into Light" is horrific metallic surfabilly with a soulfully resonant vocal. "Becoming" nods at death metal as drums and bass swing under the punishing guitars but again, Poulsen sends it over the top with a fist-pumping refrain. While the proceeding "The Passenger" answers with a punky '80s thrash vamp through the verse, its refrain offers the kind of pop-metal grandeur only Volbeat and Ghost - and vintage Blue Öyster Cult, of course - are capable of summoning. Volbeat render it an unapologetic AOR anthem with slick, sheeny '80s production, a cruising tempo, and an irrepressible pop melody perfectly melding Bramsen's and Poulsen's voices. "Dagen Før" features a guest vocal from Stine Bramsen of Danish pop heroes Alphabeat.
The band know how to throw curve balls, too. Contrast this tune with the brutal chug and burn of "Say No More," with its proggy stop-and-start bridge, double-timed drumming, and assaultive guitars. In typical Volbeat fashion, however, the chorus delivers an infectious lyric hook without sacrificing the heaviness. The charging drum kit and distorted bassline add ballast and textural dimension. The guitars charge at one another with 1980s thrash metal abandon, forcing Poulsen to climb above them. "Shotgun Blues" is darker, edgier, and more ferocious.
What emerges is a dynamic update of Heaven and Hell's approach transformed through Volbeat's musicality. Poulsen deliberately channels Ronnie James Dio in his singing.
"The Sacred Stones" commences with a massive Black Sabbath-like dual guitar riff from Poulsen and Rob Caggiano, underscored by Jon Larsen's thudding tom-toms and kick drums and Kaspar Boye Larsen's filthy bassline. The chugging guitar riff, driving tempo, and Poulsen's crystal clean, hooky vocals combine to make it a stadium anthem. With its roiling drumkit and bass intro, opener "Temple of Ekur" is as epic and excessive as its title. Written in three months, it was recorded in three weeks. Again produced and mixed by longtime collaborator Jacob Hansen, Servant of the Mind is arguably the darkest, loudest, and heaviest album in their catalog -as well as their most accessible. while glossing up their sonic approach (a tad) and re-emphasizing the theatrical potential in guitarist/vocalist Michael Poulsen's songs. Eighth album Servant of the Mind continues their M.O. After two decades, seven previous studio albums, multi-platinum sales, and sold-out concerts across the globe, Denmark's roots Volbeat have remained stubbornly consistent in wielding massive, power and thrash metal riffs, passionate rockabilly swagger, and punk rock attitude.