A bad moon’s rising, but that seems like a good omen for Volbeat fans. You see, after serving up a monstrous first taste of their impending God of Angel’s Trust LP last month, the rockabilly-metal maniacs have now returned with an epically titled and devilishly delightful follow-up barnburner called “In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom.”
The tune plays out something like a Satanic Hee-Haw jamboree, with Volbeat leaning into a hickory-scented juke joint jangle, ahead of pushing their amps to the max through a more metallic swing, which culminates in a shreddin’ finale.
Throughout, bandleader Michael Poulsen delivers a theatrically vibrato-wagglin’ vocal performance about a hell of a party befalling a farm property one night.
“It’s about the outcasts and fallen angels of God — all the angels that were cast out of Heaven. And I’m being told to collect them in this big wagon and bring them to a barn,” he explains in a statement
Poulsen continued: “There’s a ritual going on where the fallen angels are being sacrificed to Satan’s spawn to create soldiers for a new dark kingdom. So, instead of inviting my lady out to go to the cinema, I say, ‘I have something better. You have to see what’s going on in this barn… we’ve been invited to see the birth of Satan’s spawn and watch the world go down. How about that?”
A music video for the tune leans into a GOAT’d visual aesthetic, and you can see the gleefully ritualistic display up above.
As previously reported, Volbeat’s next album is out June 6th, and the band begin a North American tour in Vancouver, BC with Three Days Grace the next day (June 7th).
Pre-orders for Volbeat’s God of Angel’s Trust on exclusive oxblood-colored vinyl, limited to 1,000, are available now in Revolver’s shop.