Danish/American rockers Volbeat have revived their long-running “Official Bootleg” series with the release of a live video for “Leviathan.” The track is the latest single off the band's seventh studio album, Rewind, Replay, Rebound. The clip was recorded last year at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany.
Frontman Michael Poulsen told us a while back that he always likes playing new songs live: “We've always done that, you know. We like the idea of trying certain new stuff out live just to have the full production on it, to hear the sound of it, and also, you know, to see and hear the reaction from the fans. So it is something that we always do, and I really like the idea, you know, trying new stuff out live and in soundchecks. That's where I get an idea if it's gonna work.”
Poulsen told Billboard that in composing the lyrics for “Leviathan,” he was writing from the imagination of a young boy looking out of his bedroom window.
He explained, “He already has a feeling that the world can be an evil place, full of bad people. He wants as a youngster to try to clean up the whole world, but he knows that he can't do that. But he believes that he can contact Leviathan, the sea monster, and together they could clean up all the bad things.”
Volbeat announced in March that it was rescheduling its spring U.S. tour, which was scheduled to start earlier this month, to September and October. Dates and details are still being finalized.
