Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie
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3rd June 2016 |
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52 min 59 s |
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Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie is the sixth studio album of the Danish Metal - band Volbeat . It was released on June 3, 2016 via Vertigo Records and reached number one in the respective album charts in seven countries. The album was awarded five times platinum in Denmark, platinum in Germany and Austria and gold in Sweden .
Emergence
Songwriting
At the end of July 2014 drummer John Larsen announced that the band was already collecting ideas for a new studio album. By November 2014, singer Michael Schøn Poulsen said he had around ten ideas for the album, which he captured on tour with his notebook or smartphone . The band worked on these ideas during the soundchecks before the concerts. According to Michael Schøn Poulsen, composing the new album was very difficult. He wrote a lot of songs for the album, 25 to 27 of which he discarded. He made most of the compositions at home with the help of a cassette recorder . At the suggestion of a friend, Schøn Poulsen worked for some time with an eight-track recording device with which you could program the drums yourself. After about a month, he put this device in the basement, as this device lost much of his creative inspiration.
At first, as with the previous album, Poulsen tried to write stylistically different songs. After realizing that he had a lot of ideas for simple, straightforward rock songs, he focused on the latter. The songs on the new album should also have more space for melodies , so that the guitars were tuned up to E and Poulsen sings in a higher pitch. In May 2015, Schøn Poulsen assumed that the band would be ready for studio recording in November. Shortly before the start of the recordings, Volbeat announced the amicable separation from their former bassist Anders Kjølholm in November 2015 . For the North America tour in spring 2016, the band signed Kaspar Boye Larsen , who previously played in the bands Withering Surface and The Candidate , as bassist .
Of the twelve tracks that were released on the album, two are cover versions . The original song Rebound comes from the US punk rock band Teenage Bottlerocket on their debut album Another Way . The second cover version is the song Battleship Chains that was written by Terry Anderson. The song became famous in 1986 through the American southern rock band The Georgia Satellites . Originally the band wanted to cover the song When the Sky Comes Looking for You by Motörhead . However, when the musicians learned of the death of teenage bottlerocket drummer Brandon Carlisle, they decided against this plan.
"Two weeks after we recorded Rebound , we got the news that [Motörhead singer] Lemmy had died, which of course shocked us."
Recordings
The recordings for Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie took place in the Hansen Studios in Ribe , Denmark . Studio owner Jacob Hansen acted again as producer , while guitarist Rob Caggiano appeared again as co-producer. Caggiano played both guitar and bass for the album. The album was mixed by the American Joe Barresi. According to Rob Caggiano, the band members were impressed by Barresi's work for the Slipknot album .5: The Gray Chapter , so they chose Barresi as their mixer. The mastering was done by Bob Ludwig, who had previously worked with bands like Led Zeppelin and Metallica . At the end of February 2016 the album was mixed.
Once again, numerous guest musicians can be heard on Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie . In the song For evigt , the singer Johan Olsen from the band Magtens Korridorer appears again , who was a guest singer in the song The Garden's Tale in 2007 . The text for For evigt is in Danish . The Canadian Danko Jones has a guest appearance on the song Black Rose . For the song Goodbye Forever , the band engaged the Harlem Gospel Choir . Other guest musicians are Rod Sinclair, who plays the banjo on the album , and the slide guitarist Anders Pedersen. and the Danish singer-songwriter Mia Maja, who contributes background vocals to some of the songs .
publication
In addition to the regular album, a limited "Deluxe Edition" of the album was released. This includes the songs Slaytan , The Bliss and Black Rose as a bonus , as well as a live version of the song The Devil's Bleeding Crown , which was recorded on August 1st, 2015 in Odense, Denmark . The “Fanbox” contains the album with the four bonus tracks, three patches and a poster . A pair of small boxing gloves will be included with the album exclusively at EMP Merchandising . Another version of the album is available exclusively from the Saturn electronics store . The version is identical to the “Faxbox” and also contains a Volbeat license plate .
The first single The Devil's Bleeding Crown was released on April 7th, the second single For evigt on April 29th. In For evigt and The Bliss is it's the same song, but some passages of are For evigt in Danish written. Music videos have been released for the songs The Devil's Bleeding Crown , Seal the Deal and Black Rose .
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In contrast to the previous album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies , the album Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie doesn't follow a concept. Nevertheless, a loose, thematic red thread would run through the songs on the album. According to Michael Schøn Poulsen, the new album sings about a universe of demons , which are symbolically represented on the album cover.
“We all wrestle with our own demons, and that is exactly what the artwork represents. That's why the boxer is ahead. It shows: No matter what kind of life you lead, you always have struggles inside yourself. The title Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie also translates nicely onto the cover: Let's fight this fight and then we can have fun. "
The song Marie Laveau refers to the Voodoo - priestess who in the 19th century in New Orleans worked. She was considered one of the most influential people in the city during her lifetime. Numerous stories and legends exist about them to this day. The Gates of Babylon makes reference to the Mesopotamian goddess Ištar . She was considered the goddess of war and sexuality . When Mary Jane Kelly is the fifth victim of the serial killer Jack the Ripper , who in the autumn of 1888 in London district of Whitechapel at least five prostitutes murdered. The perpetrator Jack the Ripper was never caught and his identity is still unknown to this day.
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Reviews
For Sebastian Kessler from the German magazine Metal Hammer , Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie create a “casual rockabilly attitude, oversized rock gestures and shimmering metal solos”. He noted, however, that “you think you've heard some melodies on a previous album”, for which Kessler awarded six out of seven points. For Ronny Bittner from the German magazine Rock Hard , the new album “is a bit crisper than its predecessor in terms of sound and arrangements”. However, he criticized the fact that "a handful of songs with boring single-tone riffing rank somewhere between punk rock and pop". For the “next wash cycle, Bittner would recommend less fabric softener ” and awarded 7.5 out of ten points.
For Dennis Drögemüller from the German magazine Visions , Volbeat's “musical motto party” with Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie reached a “low point that was not thought possible”. After the first song, the album would “hardly bother not to be a metal hit ”, for which Drögemüller rated the album with three out of twelve points. Ingo Scheel from the online magazine laut.de stated in his review that the album “hardly left anything artistically”. Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie called Scheel as "format-Metal in close hit for people who BossHoss with music confuse and to bachelorette leave a burning billiard ball on the arm get stung ."
Chart placements
The album debuted at number one on the Danish, German, Finnish, Austrian, Swedish and Swiss album charts. It also reached number one on the Flemish album charts in Belgium , number two in Canada and Norway and number three in the Netherlands . The album took fourth place in the US album charts , with Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie selling around 51,000 albums in the first week after its release. The album reached number 16 in the British album charts.
The previously released single The Devil's Bleeding Crown rose to number 81 in the German and 61 to the Austrian single charts. The second single For evigt made it to number three in the Danish single charts as well as number 70 in the German and number 62 in the Austrian single charts, while the third single Seal the Deal reached number 78 in Germany and again number 62 in Austria.
Gold and platinum
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 Denmark (IFPI)
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 5 × platinum
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100,000 |
 Germany (BVMI)
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platinum
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200,000 |
 Austria (IFPI)
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platinum
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15,000 |
 Sweden (IFPI)
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 gold
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20,000 |
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1 × gold 7 × platinum |
335,000 |
Awards
The album was nominated internationally in the category Band at the Echo Awards 2017 . However, the award went to Metallica . The listeners of the Danish radio station DR P3 voted For evigt as their favorite song in 2016. The Danish magazine Gaffa named Volbeat as the best Danish band in 2016. In addition, seal the deal & Let's Boogie for Best Hard Rock / Metal release and For evigt awarded the Danish hit of the year.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c VOLBEAT: More 'Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed. Blabbermouth.net , accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ VOLBEAT Is Already Collecting Ideas For Next Album. Blabbermouth.net, accessed June 13, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Ronny Bittner: Analog hermit in a digital world . In: Rock Hard , May 2016, page 18
- ↑ a b c Frank Thiessies: At the crossroads . In: Metal Hammer , June 2016, page 22
- ↑ Volbeat Part Ways With Bassist Anders Kjolholm. Loudwire, accessed November 13, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Frank Thiessies: Dance with the devil . In: Metal Hammer, May 2016, page 120
- ↑ Markus Frey: Volbeat with a bilingual lyric video. Metal1.info, accessed April 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Volbeat in the Danish charts. Hung Medien, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Volbeat in the German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed April 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Volbeat in the Austrian charts. Hung Medien, accessed April 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Volbeat in the Swiss hit parade. Hung Medien, accessed June 16, 2016 .
- ^ Volbeat - Chart history. Billboard , accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Volbeat in the UK charts. The Official UK Charts Company, accessed June 11, 2016 .
- ^ Sebastian Kessler: Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie. Metal Hammer, accessed July 6, 2016 .
- ^ Ronny Bittner: Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie . In: Rock Hard, June 2016, page 94
- ^ Dennis Drögemüller: Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie. Visions , accessed July 6, 2016 .
- ^ Ingo Scheel: Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie. laut.de , accessed on June 5, 2016 .
- ↑ VOLBEAT's 'Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie' Cracks US Top 5. Blabbermouth.net, accessed on June 14, 2016 (English).
- ↑ ECHO 2017: These nominees go into the race. Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Nicolai Sebastian Holle: P3-lytterne har talt: Her er årets lytterhit. Danmarks Radio , accessed March 25, 2017 (Danish).
- ↑ GAFFA awards. Gaffa, accessed March 25, 2017 (Danish).
Web links
- Website of the band
- Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie at Allmusic (English)