VOLBEAT RETURN WITH MASSIVE NEW ALBUM GOD OF ANGELS TRUST
ALBUM ARRIVES JUNE 6
BAND SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “BY A MONSTER’S HAND” — WATCH HERE
“GREATEST OF ALL TOURS WORLDWIDE” TOUR BEGINS IN JUNE – U.K. ARENA DATES ANNOUNCED FOR NOVEMBER
VOLBEAT — Michael Poulsen (vocals, guitar), and Jon Larsen (drums), and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) — are thrilled to announce their ninth album God Of Angels Trust. The album is set for release on June 6 via longtime label Vertigo/Universal. Pre-order it here.
Today the band also reveal extensive touring plans to coincide, with the global trek “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide” kicking off in June. Full details including the headline UK arena dates in November with special guests Bush and Gel are further below.
Fans can immediately get a first taste of new music via the video for first single “By A Monster’s Hand.” The track is a relentless mid-tempo riff assault, blending crushing rhythms with intricate, unpredictable hooks.
The video was produced by Ghost Atomic and directed by Adam Rothlein, the same team that crafted videos for prior Volbeat hits “Shotgun Blues,” “Die To Live,” and “Leviathan.”
Watch the video, which juxtaposes dynamic live footage of VOLBEAT with an ominously unsettling and familiar face here
With God Of Angels Trust, the Danish band — who have notched up ten #1 songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock airplay chart, the most ever for a band based outside North America — have thrown caution to the wind, ignored comfort zones, and paid little heed to traditional songwriting in the search for something more immediate and surprising.
The end result will thrill VOLBEAT’s dedicated legion of fans.
“In the past, I’ve taken a long time to write and obsessed over so many elements of the songs before finishing them,” says Poulsen. “This time, I wanted to make a Volbeat record without thinking too much about it. Instead of following any kind of structure I said, ‘Okay, there are no rules. I can do anything I want. I can start with a chorus or do songs that are just a bunch of verses stacked on top of each other. Anything goes.’ That was freeing for me and made it exciting to write this album.”
Poulsen’s excitement to thwart convention is palpable throughout God Of Angels Trust, a punchy, crunchy album that’s undeniably VOLBEAT, yet marches to a fresh new metallic and melodic energy.
Poulsen started working on songs for the follow-up to 2021’s Servant of the Mind in the summer of 2024. VOLBEAT was taking a year-long break from touring to give Michael a chance to recover from throat surgery and to tour with his death metal band, Asinhell. Driven equally by his excitement to record a new VOLBEAT album and by his determination not to follow convention, Poulsen worked on songs for a mere three weeks with bandmates drummer Jon Larsen and bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen. Amazingly, they worked on a new song at every rehearsal. Three weeks into the process, Volbeat had arranged half of God Of Angels Trust. That’s when Poulsen decided that having no rules meant he could follow his muse wherever it took him, and he veered off on a different path. He and the band still wrote and rehearsed two songs a week, but they started composing more familiar rock songs that drew from traditional elements.
The band entered the studio with their longtime producer Jacob Hansen in autumn 2024. As with the songwriting, Poulsen wanted to work quickly and rely on instinct, so they just plugged in and started to play. To keep the music sounding urgent and immediate, VOLBEAT recorded live in the studio, playing as few takes as possible before moving from one song to the next.
When it came time to add lead guitar, there was no question that Volbeat would tap Flemming C. Lund, who currently tours with the band and worked with Michael in Asinhell. A mere 13 days after they started working with Hansen, VOLBEAT were finished.
As impressive as it is that VOLBEAT wrote and recorded an entire album in about five weeks, what’s more incredible is that God Of Angels Trust sounds as fleshed out, eclectic, and fulfilling as albums that have taken 10 times longer (or more) to create. In the end, creating such a strong album so quickly was a tremendous challenge that demanded Zen-like calm, a joy for exploration, maximal creativity, and razor-sharp concentration to pull off.
“In some ways, it feels like we’ve come full circle,” Poulsen explains. “If you start drawing a circle over an extended period of time, eventually you’ve going to get back where you started, and that’s how I feel now. I’ve dealt with medical operations, lineup changes, and all these things, and now it feels like a rebirth. It doesn’t feel like we’re doing our ninth studio album, it feels like we’re on our first album again and there’s something really refreshing about that.”
GOD OF ANGELS TRUST TRACK LISTING:
Devils Are Awake
By A Monster’s Hand
Acid Rain
Demonic Depression
In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’s Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom
Time Will Heal
Better Be Fueled Than Tamed
At The End Of The Sirens
Lonely Fields
Enlighten The Disorder (By A Monster’s Hand Part 2)
The album will be available in the following formats:
180g Black LP
“Grandma’s Wallpaper” LP — Exclusively at volbeat.dk
“Lamplight Glow” LP — Exclusively at Republic Records/Universal Music’s websites
“Mystery Color” LP — Exclusively at independent retailers
Glow in the Dark LP — Exclusively at EMP
Oxblood LP – Exclusively at Revolver
Red and White Danish Flag LP —Only available in Denmark
Limited Edition Cassette
CD
Deluxe Hardcover Book CD With Expanded Artwork
VOLBEAT will return to the road on the “Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide,” beginning in June and running throughout 2025. The tour begins in June with a co-headline Canadian run with Three Days Grace and special guests Wage War, which will be followed by headline treks in the U.S. with special guests Halestorm and The Ghost Inside, and Europe and the UK with special guests Bush and Gel. All dates are below.
Fans who pre-order the album from volbeat.dk or select Universal Music Group webstores through 5pm local time on Sunday, March 9 will receive a code to access tickets before anyone else starting Monday, March 10 at 10am local time. Regular on-sales begin Friday, March 14 at 10am local time.
VOLBEAT ON TOUR
2025 UK HEADLINE:
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BUSH + GEL:
November 5 – Nottingham, UK – Motorpoint Arena
November 6 – Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena
November 8 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena
November 10 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
November 12 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
November 13 – London, UK – OVO Arena Wembley
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Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
