I got to the hospital, stayed there for a day and then flew back to America. I had to knock on the door of my tour manager and say, “I’m going home.” A few hours later I was in the air. I couldn’t go back to sleep, so I went to the hotel gym and I was running on the treadmill and the phone rang again and, it was my girlfriend holding our daughter and saying, “You’re a daddy!” I almost flew off the treadmill. I was in bed in my hotel in New York when the phone rang and my girlfriend said “I think my water just broke!” Lucky for her, she was at her parents’ house, so her mom took her to the hospital. They said “no problem, we’ll fix that.” But then my girlfriend gave birth two months before she was supposed to - in the beginning of the tour. When we got offered the Metallica tour, I told our management that there would be a part at the end of the tour that I’d have to skip to go back to Denmark and be part of the birth of my first child. How on Earth did you manage to fly home to Denmark between American stadium shows to meet your newborn daughter? Let’s flashback to your last major tour, supporting Metallica in 2017. 2) and further concentrates the band’s hybrid style, paying greater homage to Cash, Lewis, Metallica and Motörhead than ever before.Īs the four-piece embarks this week on its latest summer tour, supporting Slipknot across the U.S., we caught up with Poulsen to discuss the new tunes, his wild introduction to fatherhood - and how a sea monster story just might save the world. Fast-forward nearly two decades and Volbeat is hard-rock’s preeminent psychobilly freight train, masters at melding traditional pop progressions, blazing riffs and singer/guitarist Poulsen’s soaring howls for a sound that speeds in a dozen directions at once. Volbeat’s blistering seventh album, Rewind, Replay, Rebound, drops Friday (Aug.

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