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Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen Got Married Over the Weekend

Congrats are in order for Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen, who is one again a married man after tying the knot with longtime girlfriend Jeanet Carlsen.

This is the second marriage for the singer-guitarist, who was previously married to ex-wife Lina between 2010 and 2015.

Poulsen and his new bride Jeanet wed on Aug. 20, per a social media update shared on Volbeat's social accounts. The happy couple can be seen engaged in lip-lock with flowers in the forefront, with the caption reading, "Finally married. Michael Poulsen and Jeanet Poulsen: 20-08-2022." Loudwire sends our congrats to the happy couple.

Having toured some earlier in the year, Volbeat are currently off the road allowing the newlyweds a chance at some time for themselves before Poulsen returns to touring. The band will resume support of their 2021 album, Servant of the Mind, in mid-October, kicking off a European tour leg in Hamburg, Germany. See dates and get ticketing details here.

While touring is on a break at the moment, Volbeat continue to remain in the spotlight having just released a new video for "Becoming." The clip was just released this week and taken from their touring.

Last year, Poulsen revealed that "Becoming" was meant as a tribute to late Entombed frontman L.G. Petrov, who died in 2021 after a battle with bile duct cancer. In a statement, Poulsen commented, “it is a tribute to the mighty Entombed and our good friend L.G. Petrov, who sadly passed away. When we were about to record 'Becoming,' it has that opening riff that is really inspired by Entombed, and we thought ‘why not use that same Boss HM-2 pedal on it that Entombed was known for using.’ That pedal is the signature Swedish distorted guitar sound, and is sounds disgustingly good. After we recorded the song we got the news of L.G.’s passing, and decided to dedicate the song to him since En

Volbeat: Inside the unlikely rise of The People's Band

Cross the courtyard beneath the hazy Copenhagen sky where the sun looks like it’s been put through a filter and head through the door into the city’s Lidkoeb whisky bar. Take the stairs going ever upward in a tight coil into the gloom above. Foreboding portraits in oil line the walls as you reach the top floor; a long room lined with dark wood houses an array of tables and cabinets lit with orange light, every available surface filled with whisky bottles from around the world. One table is reserved exclusively for Japanese liquor; beaten-up green, black and brown Chesterfield sofas and chairs litter the room, and beneath a sign that reads ‘Dispensing Chemists’ is a sealed cabinet with the more rare and expensive bottles. Volbeat guitarist Rob Caggiano indicates one such exclusive label from the Ardbeg Distillery.

“They sent a bottle of that into space to see how zero gravity would affect its flavour,” he says, “to see how it’d change its composition.” Band singer and leader Michael Poulsen snorts derisively, “I could piss in it and it’d change that!” Rob, a regular here, remains undeterred, unscrewing the top of another, less expensive bottle and pouring himself a shot. “This,” he says, waving his glass around, “would make a great rehearsal room.” “Yeah,” nods Michael. “We’d manage two songs maximum.

Volbeat are no strangers to dimly lit bars. They dragged themselves up through the club circuit, all across Europe and into America. “People call it ‘doing things the old-school way’, we call it ‘normal procedure’,” says Michael. “Bands who do the whole, ‘We’re on Facebook’ thing,’ I hate that crap. We’ve all travelled around in nineseaters paying to play – that’s how it works in the beginning. You actually sa

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  • Not So New Beginnings: A Conversation With Michael Poulsen of Asinhell

    The multi-faceted musician expands upon his latest endeavor, one that finds the Volbeat frontman treading back to his death metal origins and the wonder of old school vinyl and tape trading.

    Words by Luis (@HeaviestOfArt):

    Asinhell, the new band featuring Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen, Marc Grewe of Insidious Disease and Morgoth fame, and Morten Toft Hansen of Raunchy, has just released their debut album, Impii Hora, via Metal Blade Records and like the Albert Che cover that fronts it, it pays homage to the greatness of the death metal's glory days. With inspirations like Bolt Thrower, Entombed, and Autopsy among others, it's clear that Impii Hora pulls from the source and its ripping compositions do right by the genre's revered history from beginning to end.

    There are no forced elements or attempts to sound distinct, rather a successful attempt to deliver death metal of the highest order. Memorable Poulsen riffs and hooks lead the album's hard-hitting instrumentation, bringing the mastermindback to the death metal origins he had when first forming Dominus. Asinhell breathes life into the Danish musician's musical upbringing and stands tall among the genre's offerings this year, which are many.

    We welcome Michael Poulsen in conversation to talk through Impii Hora and the state of mind it finds him in decades after leaving behind the death metal arena:

    Michael, you've achieved great success with Volbeat and are now embarking upon a new chapter with Asinhell, scratching a creative itch you've had in the death metal arena. What did you envision for this new album upon approaching the creative cycle?

    Michael: You know what? I don't even recall having any expectations because for us, Asinhell is a project based on the love we have for old school death metal. We know it's a style t

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  • Rig tour: Volbeat on the gear that fuels the Danish-American rock ’n’ roll machine

    Those following Volbeat closely might spot some familiar choices in frontman/guitarist Michael Poulsen and lead guitarist Rob Caggiano’s rigs. 

    The band's current tour sees Poulsen favoring his Gibson SG GT and Caggiano sporting a Jackson prototype in vivid purple, a color choice rolled over from his ESP days, running into a Fryette Sig:X.

    But as the shows have got bigger, so have the demands on their gear, and rigs have grown more complex. Guitar tech Tue Bayer says that Poulsen's beloved Marshall JCM800, a cornerstone of his sound, is “a fiddly old lady”, and so has persuaded the reluctant guitarist that a Kemper Profiler will be more consistent.

    Caggiano, meanwhile, is using a custom switching and rack system built by Steen Skrydstrup of Skrydstrup R&D of Denmark that incorporates some Neve 1073 mic preamp secret sauce and brings a little studio fidelity to a live show that’s gotten so big that tech Jerry Carillo now does all Caggiano’s switching. 

    Poulsen, Caggiano, Bayer and Carillo sat down with Total Guitar to explain how it all works.

    Rob Caggiano's rig

    Jackson USA Signature Caggiano Shadowcaster

    Caggiano: “Way back in the day, before ESP, I was playing this quirky guitar called the Outcaster, which was made by Jackson for literally one year, in the early to mid-90s. They were doing a guitar called the Surfcaster, so it’s that kinda thing. 

    "It’s just an offset body. It has an alder body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard. The bridge pickup is my signature DiMarzio that I developed with those guys back in [pauses] 2011? I guess.

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    "I was using the Tone Zone for many years. In the neck, I am not totally sure. 

    Carillo: “I think it’s an Air Norton." 

    Caggiano: I don

  • Congrats are in order for Volbeat