Just look at the comments under Caggiano's interview! There are tons of older fans all over the internet who are pissed about the new direction of the band since Caggiano joined.
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The real Volbeat (pre-Caggiano) and the commercial Volbeat (post-Caggiano joining) and I know that I'm not alone in this sentiment. Evolution does not mean sacrificing uniqueness and what made the band special to begin with in a shallow effort to appeal to the American market by making borderline pop songs that lack what made the earlier material special.Īs far as I'm concerned, there are 2 Volbeats. I'm sick of hearing people say that people like me are not "real fans" and "can't handle change" because we don't agree with everything Volbeat does and aren't afraid to criticize when the sound is going downhill. And most of the commercial songs on Rewind aren't even good. Most of the songs are very commercial sounding and there's only like 4 or 5 of 16 new songs that actually are metal and sound like Volbeat. I didn't even mind having one "pop" album (Seal the Deal) as long as they didn't abandon their metal roots and judging by the newest album, my fears are confirmed. Even the more commercial songs on Outlaw Gentlemen (Pearl Hart, Cape of Our Hero, Nameless One, and Lola Montez)are fairly good. And I did like most of Seal the Deal even though it was largely a commercial album. I actually quite like Rewind the Exit and the bonus track Under the Influence. I'm not even against having some more commercial songs. and the other half of the songs are either bad or mediocre at best. On Rewind, there are like less than half of the songs that are actually good (The Everlasting, Die to Live, Pelvis on Fire, Sorry Sack of Bones, Cheapside Sloggers, and the more commercial sounding title track and Under the Influence). I've been a fan for seven and a half years and started liking them towards the end of the Above Heaven era, but before Outlaw Gentlemen and yes, Volbeat was a legitimate metal band UNTIL BEANIE BOY SHOWED UP. Caggiano's comments in that interview really pissed me off. The band now lacks the heaviness and distinct Elvis metal rockabilly/psychobilly awesomeness that defined it for 4 (5 if you count most of Outlaw Gentlemen) albums and now makes songs that are borderline pop to appeal to the American market and corporate rock. Most (but not all) of the newer songs lack the awesomeness of the old stuff.
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It has nothing to do with being pissed that Volbeat's fandom has expanded dramatically from what it was before Outlaw Gentlemen.
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Like many fans, I am not happy about the new commercial direction. It was like Metallica meets Elvis meets country. Many songs had country guitar and that was their trademark along with Michael's Elvis voice mixed with the metal. And by the sixth album, Volbeat stopped being a metal band and is proving this more and more with album 7.ĭid Volbeat have variety in their sound? Yes. Caggiano is now insisting that Volbeat was "never a real metal band." WTF? Has he not heard the first 4 albums? What planet does he live on? Volbeat absolutely was a metal band for four entire albums and then started going more commercial on the fifth RIGHT WHEN HE SHOWED UP after Thomas left and Anders was getting ready to leave. I know this was argued about a lot around the release of Rewind, Replay, Rebound, but I recently stumbled upon this article and this honestly pisses me off.