VOLBEAT reveal the details for their anxiously awaited sixth full-length album, Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie available June 3rd. Multi plantinum selling Danish hard rock outfit uncorks the first single The Devil’s Bleeding Crown and announces the pre-order for the album today. Fans who pre-order the album will receive an instant download of the first single. Pre-order the album and check out the single’s lyric video here.
The Devil’s Bleeding Crown pairs a galloping guitar riff with propulsive thrashed-out grooves. The band performed it only once in entirety last summer in Odense, Denmark and had fans waiting for more. The track quickly builds into an anthemic refrain meant to be chanted at festivals worldwide. It’s classic VOLBEAT through and through.
Earlier this week the band teased album details to their dedicated fans by creating an online treasure hunt. Clues for the album title were left in streaming playlists, listed on their social media channels, and in the Rebels & Angels community forum. Once fans uncovered the words from the album title, they entered those words on the Volbeat website to reveal the characters from the album cover art which also unlocked the album pre-order. They also unveiled a video teaser for the album. Check out the teaser here!
Produced by longtime collaborator Jacob Hansen and co-produced by frontman Michael Poulsen and lead guitarist Rob Caggiano, the record includes a total of 13 new tracks, reflecting their signature hybrid of rock prowess, metal power, blues soul, and rockabilly swing. The full tracklisting is below.
On the new album, “After months writing and recording, we’re thrilled to finally be able to unleash Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie into the world,” says lead singer Michael Poulsen. “Play it loud!”
TRACKLISTING:
1. The Devil’s Bleeding Crown
2. Marie Laveau
3. For Evigt
4. The Gates of Babylon
5. Let It Burn
6. Black Rose
7. Rebound
8. Mary Jane Kelly
9. Goodbye Forever
10. Seal The Deal
11. Battleship Chains
12. You Will Know
13. The Loa’s Crossroad
VOLBEAT emerged from Copenhagen in 2001. Since then, they’ve tirelessly clawed their way to hard rock’s upper echelon with endless touring and a string of five beloved full-length albums. Recently, their 2010 album Beyond Hell/Above Heaven has sold more than 1.5 million and featured hit single “A Warrior’s Call” and adds the band’s 8 Top 5 singles at Active Rock with 5 number ones! 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies bowed at #9 on the Billboard Top 200 upon release and it spawned the GRAMMY Award nominated “Room 24” [featuring King Diamond]. It received Platinum Certifications in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Gold in Canada, Finland, Switzerland and USA. Volbeat has announced their summer 2016 tour which includes headlining Rock Am Ring. The band has sold in excess 3.5 million records worldwide.
2016 TOUR DATES
13 April US Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
14 April US Las Vegas, NV The Joint*
15 April US Indio, CA Coachella
18 April US Modesto, CA Modesto Center Plaza*
20 April US Chico, CA Silver Dollar Fairgrounds*
21 April US Fresno, CA Rotary Amphitheater†
22 April US Indio, CA Coachella
24 April US Phoenix, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre*
25 April US El Paso, TX A. Chavez Theater*
26 April US Lubbock, TX Lonestar Amphitheater*
03-05 June GER Vulkaneifel/Flugpl.Mending Rock am Ring Festival
03-05 June GER Nürnberg / Zeppelinfeld Rock Im Park Festival
05 June NL Nijmegen FortaRock
06 June US Bangor, ME Rise Above Festival
07 June GER Berlin Zitadelle
09-11 June AT Vienna Novarock
10-12 June FR Paris Download
17-19 June BE Dessel Graspop
17-19 June FR Clisson Hellfest
22 June NO Bergen Bergenhus Festning
24 June DK Odense Tinderbox
25 June FR Strasbourg Artefacts Festival
29 June DK Nibe Nibe Festival
30 June-02 July SE Norrköping Bravalla Festival
07-09 July ES Viveiro Resurrection Fest
09 July SE Stockholm Monsters Of Rock
17 July FI Joensuu Ilosaarirock
06 August US Bangor, ME Rise Above
07 August CA Montreal, QC Heavy Montreal
20 August US Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium^
* With guests Black Stone Cherry and Monster Truck
† With guests Black Stone Cherry, Red Sun Rising and Monster Truck
^ With Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold