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http://www.volbeat.dk
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28 окт 2025 :	VOLBEAT Scores Record-Setting Twelfth No. 1 On Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart With 'Time Will Heal'
30 июл 2025 :
28 июл 2025 :	Watch: VOLBEAT Covers BLACK SABBATH's 'Children Of The Grave' In Honor Of OZZY OSBOURNE
17 июл 2025 :	VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN On Making Of 'God Of Angels Trust' Album: We Tried 'Not To Overthink Anything'
9 июн 2025 :	Watch: VOLBEAT Kicks Off 'Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide' In Vancouver
7 июн 2025 :
6 июн 2025 :	VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN: 'BLACK SABBATH Was The Main Reason Why I Started Playing Guitar'
2 июн 2025 :	VOLBEAT's JON LARSEN Says ROB CAGGIANO's Departure Hasn't Affected Band's Musical Direction And Personal Dynamics
19 май 2025 :	VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN Unboxes Upcoming 'God Of Angels Trust' Album (Video)
16 май 2025 :	VOLBEAT Shares New Single 'Time Will Heal' From Upcoming 'God Of Angels Trust' Album
8 апр 2025 :	VOLBEAT Shares New Single 'In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan's Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom'
21 мар 2025 :	Ex-VOLBEAT/ANTHRAX Guitarist ROB CAGGIANO Is 'Excited' About His Future
7 мар 2025 :	VOLBEAT Announces New Album 'God Of Angels Trust', Shares 'By A Monster's Hand' Single
8 янв 2025 :	VOLBEAT's Ninth Album Is 'Done'; 'A Lot Of Shows' Coming Up In 2025
9 дек 2024 :	Watch: VOLBEAT Returns To Live Stage After 16 Months
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6 апр 2024 :	VOLBEAT - Pro-Shot Video Of Entire 2017 Copenhagen Show Featuring Guest Appearances By MILLE PETROZZA, BARNEY GREENWAY, LARS ULRICH, DANKO JONES And More Streaming
17 фев 2024 :	VOLBEAT Is Working On Fourth Song For Upcoming Studio Album
14 окт 2023 :	VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN Says DEATH's 'Spiritual Healing' Album Was A Turning Point For Death Metal Genre
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16 июл 2023 :	Watch: VOLBEAT Headlines Ontario, Canada's ROCK THE PARK Festival
20 июн 2023 :	Watch: VOLBEAT Performs At Gothenburg, Sweden's Ullevi Stadium As Support Act For METALLICA

29 окт 2014

VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN: I Don't Really Believe That GENE SIMMONS Thinks Rock And Roll Is Dead

Guitarist/vocalist Michael Poulsen of Danish/American metal rock 'n' rollers VOLBEAT is the latest musician to respond to KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons' recent comment that "rock is dead."

Simmons told Esquire magazine last month — in an interview conducted by his son Nick — that "rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won't because it's that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it."

Simmons went on to elaborate that as a result of file-sharing and other issues, record label support for rock music was not available like it was when KISS was coming up, concluding, "It's finally dead. Rock is finally dead."

Asked to weigh in on Gene's comments, Poulsen told Terrie Carr of the WDHA-FM 105.5 FM radio station: "If you ask me, rock and roll and heavy metal music are the kind of genres that will always survive, because it's played by human beings.

"I believe Gene is just… he just sees the difference now.

"I don't really, honestly believe that he thinks rock and roll is dead. He's still doing really, really good, so I can't see how it can be dead.

"Rock and roll is not about money, rock and roll is a feeling, and since there have been living creatures, human beings on earth with feelings, [there's been] rock and roll.

"[Fans of rock music are like] one huge family. We share one thing and we take good care of it.

"You also have to understand that when Gene was starting his whole rock and roll thing, it was so much different. So I just guess sometimes you can wake up and ask yourself, 'So this is how it works today?'

"I totally get the frustration.

"I don't take his comment that serious. I don't think he really means it. He's just seeing a huge change with technology and the way people are recording and releasing albums, and stuff like that. Some of it I'm not a fan of either. I still miss the tape-trading days, and stuff like that. Jumping on the bike to get to the record store and find that vinyl that you wanna have, I miss that too and the simplicity of it all.

"But it is what it is today, and honestly, some of it I'm not a fan of. And the other way around, [social media is] a quick way of promoting yourself. So it is what it is."

VOLBEAT's latest effort, 2013's "Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies", has sold 250,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set features the No. 1 singles "The Hangman's Body Count" and "Lola Montez", as well as the Top 5 track "Dead But Rising" and new single "Doc Holliday".

VOLBEAT's co-headlining tour with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH kicked off on September 16 in Salt Lake City.

VOLBEAT's MICHAEL POULSEN: I Don't Really Believe That GENE SIMMONS Thinks Rock And Roll Is Dead

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29 окт 2014

Rrobb

Мда, "одна большая семья", которая иступленно срется по любому поводу и видит друг друга в могиле. И не только в рунете.

29 окт 2014

Mortebello

А ведь это неправильно.

29 окт 2014

BananaSmashedFace

Вот это было действительно приятно читать