This is Volbeat making a full-on rock album and if that’s the album they wanted to make, more power to them but it’s going to alienate a portion of their fanbase (on the other hand, they’ll likely gain as many new fans with a safer approach). Here, they don’t have one foot in each camp with unequal weighting, depending which era you’re listening to. This album is taking the saccharine incarnation of Volbeat and watering it down further. One listen of this new album completely shattered those expectations. Rewind, Replay, Rebound sees them return to the naming convention of those older, heavier albums and I thought it’d be a reflection of them looking back at those grittier times. And because of the shift, they remained as hard as ever to categorise. Meanwhile the last couple saw them take the opposite tack – upping the rock and dialling back the metal and with the more commercial and radio-friendly sound, saw them explode in popularity in recent years. Their first four albums were far heavier but still tinged with rock to make them accessible to non-metal fans. And indeed, their back catalogue only serves to defend that.
That band too metal to be rock but too rock to be metal and their touring activities are a great reflection of that – not looking out of place on either a rock or metal billing.
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