However, they also do full frontal assaults, head-on, like in the songs "You or them" or "River Queen". And again, the shifts in speed throughout - yumyum! Two hard-singing men in a duet, go figure.
"The Garden's Tale" even features some Danish (!) singing, by guest-singer Johan Olsen, leadsinger in the Danish band 'Magtens Korridorer' (yeaah! -go, biologists!). The much slower, but comparatively fantastic build-up in speed and intensity in 'The human instrument' is one of the best openers on any of the albums I own, for sure. The shift in energy is one of the best I have every heard in any song.
Much has been written about 'Sad Man's Tongue' already, but that doesn't change the fact that if you don't start (at the very least)stomping you foot when you hear it, you seriously need to have your ears examined. While die-hard fans of any band will often see this as "selling out", I think that in this case it is more a question of Volbeat being a band that is so playful & experimental, eager to try whatever they think will sound good - that it simply will not work to put them in a narrowly defined box. This, their second album, is a bit more polished than the first. Take some old-school (and that's a compliment) Metallica/Megadeth riffs, throw in some very tight drumming indeed, and pour over liberal amounts of Poulsen's vocal metal-jodel artistry - and voila! This may well be how future historians will one day write about Volbeat's stompin' & rockin' sound.
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