'Weird stuff happens when I move into a house. 'Every time you move into a house, you bring dead people with you,' Poulsen said. 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.'Īs for 'Shotgun Blues,' the song's theme was inspired by ghostly events the rocker experienced upon moving. There are a lot of Volbeat signatures in it.

'I wrote the whole album in three months,' Poulsen explained of Servant of the Mind. 'I was in a good place and mood while at home and had a captive audience of myself. Near the bottom of this post, hear 'Shotgun Blues,' see the new album's art and tracklist, and check Volbeat's fall tour dates plus their 2022 dates with Ghost.

23), the band announced the album and its release date while unleashing yet another new tune from the set, 'Shotgun Blues.' The song, and Servant of the Mind as whole, represent the products of a concentrated writing session undertaken by Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen, as a press release outlined.

Volbeat album art