Volbeat drop new single "In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth Satan's Spawn in a Dying World of Doom"

Volbeat — Michael Poulsen (vocals, guitar), Jon Larsen (drums), and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) — recently announced their ninth album “God Of Angels Trust”. The new album arrives on 6th June via longtime label Vertigo/Universal. It is available to pre-order now HERE.

The album will coincide with plenty of summer touring on the band's "Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide," with further dates and details below.

And the band has now shared the video for the wonderfully-named, new single In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan's Spawn in a Dying World of Doom. You can stream the new track on your preferred platform HERE or check out the official video below:

Poulsen shares the origin story, saying, "I had so much fun writing these lyrics. 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 continues, "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?"

He admits, “I think some people will read the lyrics and go, 'What’s wrong with this dude?' But, it's all for fun. It's like a silly horror movie. Or is it?"

Horror movie or not — it rips!

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.

The band's official store is HERE.

“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

“God Of Angels Trust” is out on 6th June via Vertigo/Universal and is available to pre-order now HERE.

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 Witch Fever. The band announced this morning that a second show at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena has been added to the tour on September 20th. All dates are below. Tickets and VIP packages for all shows are on sale now at the bands website HERE.

Confirmed European dates are listed below:

2025 EU/UK HEADLINE:

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BUSH + WITCH FEVER

September 18 - Herning, DK - Jyske Bank Boxen

September 19 - Copenhagen, DK - Royal Arena

September 20 - Copenhagen, DK - Royal Arena

September 23 - Amsterdam, NL - Ziggo Dome

September 24 - Antwerp, BE - Sportpaleis

September 26 - Stuttgart, DE - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle

September 27 - Cologne, DE - LANXESS Arena

September 28 - Oberhausen, DE - Rudolf Weber-ARENA

September 30 - Vienna, AT - Wiener Stadthalle