Before there was Volbeat, the Volbeat dude (Michael Poulsen, singer/guitarist/songwriter dude, all the other guys are sidemen), released two awesome albums both in the style of Entombed/Unleashed Viking Metal and one of the sickest Death N Roll albums out there. (Views to the Dim = Death Metal...

I HATED these guys when Chris first started posting about them, but gave them another try recently (Apple Music = not paying additional :D), but this new disk is pretty awesome. It's not really high brow music by any means, but I really dig running to them.

Every time these guys pop up on XM, up goes the volume. :metal:

I think we're all in agreement that the Grammys are pretty worthless as a whole, but this is still pretty cool anyway. "Room 24″ by Volbeat Featuring King Diamond Nominated For Best Metal Performance In 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards | Metal Blade Records :kd:

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Scorpions haha! GMM 2011 Live - Generation Pretty sweet. Def intrigued on seeing Stu Block with Iced Earth! :metal:

also this video is fantastic. I classify it under "music that isn't metal but that metal fans generally like" opinions?

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have confirmed their two-week May 2009 US tour. Danish metallers VOLBEAT are the support act for NIGHTWISH's final North American Dark Passion Play tour: May 1 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre May 2 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre May 3 - Allentown...