![]() ![]() “Evelyn,” which features Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway on growls, shows Volbeat dabbling with death metal. Thought that sounded really disjointed? It gets even better. Suddenly “Who They Are” opens with Metallica riffs, before giving way to the album’s weakest track, the pop-grunge “Fallen.” But then the next track, “Heaven or Hell,” switches the album’s sound to that of 80s hard-rock. Just to sample: “The Mirror and Ripper” opens the album with a combination of country rock and blast beats. Then suddenly they sound like Metallica before surprising us again by copying The Strokes. ![]() For Volbeat, one moment, they’re a heavier version of Lynyrd Skynyrd or Johnny Cash. While I realize bands such as Opeth regularly branch their sounds into some surprising territory, at least you know it’s still Opeth playing. If it wasn’t for Michael Poulsen’s baritone, James Hetfield-like voice and the double basses being the only constants on all the tracks, I wouldn’t have known that Beyond Hell/Above Heaven was the work of only one band. ![]() I never reviewed a mixtape before, but Volbeat’s Beyond Hell/Above Heaven might as well be the first one I review.
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