Not being on the road actually gave us a newfound energy.” Everything was just super fast and super smooth so we decided to look into doing some cover songs and that is when the opportunity to do the METALLICA song came about. We had everything recorded in the studio in a couple of weeks. Towards the end of 2020 there were still no signs of touring so we went in and did the proper recordings in the studio and then we are ahead of schedule and had them good to go.

“Before we knew it we had 12 or 13 songs ready to go. “ Michael joked to our management during a conversation saying ‘I guess if we’re not gonna tour I might as well write an album’ and they were all on board for that,” discusses Jon.

This was to become what we now know as their eighth full-length release Servant Of The Mind. With an unexpected wealth of time on their hands, VOLBEAT found themselves jumping into another album cycle quicker than they probably anticipated. “We thought we may as well have a bit of a break but after a few weeks we were meeting up in the rehearsal room and jamming through songs just to make sure we were doing something and not just sitting at home.” “We were supposed to go on tour in America in the Spring of 2020 and that got postponed, we had a festival run planned in 2020 and that went out of the window too,” explains drummer Jon Larsen. As with most best laid plans in the last couple of years, this didn’t quite go as they anticipated. VOLBEAT have never been a band to sit quietly for too long, usually playing shows and tours stretching far and wide across the globe for lengthy periods following on from album releases.

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