Lead guitarist Rob Caggiano (who previously cut his teeth as a member of Anthrax) also feels little if any need to show off (though he does play a highly impressive solo on “Heaven’s Descent”). Poulsen is a rare singer in hard rock who actually wants to, well, sing, rather than feeling the need to either scream or convince everyone that he could have done opera if he’d wanted to. On the subject of Poulsen, he and the band at least remain as strong and tight as ever. The ’50s influence returns momentarily on the aforementioned “The Devil Rages On”, with lead singer Michael Poulsen briefly doing an Elvis Presley impression. It’s a fairly standard radio-friendly rock track, but the two voices together make for a nice contrast. And then there’s “Dagen For” – Dutch for “The Day Before” (thanks, Google Translate!) a duet with Stine Bremsen, female lead singer from another Danish band, Alphabeat. “Say No More” opens as more of a hardcore track before revealing a surprisingly hooky chorus, while “Step into Light” brightens things up (relatively speaking) with some fine, atmospheric goth metal. However, most of Servant of the Mind doesn’t venture beyond hard rock. The presence of this track could reflect the diversity of sound which the band showed on their previous album, Replay, Rewind, Rebound (2019). On Dutch hard rock band Volbeat’s fifth studio album Servant of the Mind, far and away the standout track is “Wait a Minute My Girl.” The title alone sounds like something from the early Beach Boys, if not a ’90s boy band, and it certainly sticks out on a tracklisting that includes song names like “Temple of Ekur”, “The Sacred Stones”, and “The Devil Rages On.” In its scant two minutes and twenty seconds, “Wait a Minute My Girl” starts as emo punk before the musical curtain raises to reveal a very 1950’s-style piano and saxophone instrumental break (which turns up again by the end of the song). Volbeat – ‘Servant of the Mind’ Album Review

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