HIS NAME IS MICHAEL POULSON

“MY FATHER LIVED ON THE STREETS FOR A WHILE AND I WAS BROUGHT UP NOT TO MOAN”
MICHAEL POULSEN

Having your first child is undoubtedly right up at the top of the list of massive, life-changing, shit-your-pants-scary experiences. Imagine, though, that said seismic event clashed with a monumentally massive date in your professional calendar. Like, oh I don’t know… a fucking tour with Metallica.

That’s the situation that faced Michael Poulsen, Volbeat’s unshakable leader, back in 2017. Thankfully, his partner’s due date meant that the Danish psychobilly rockers would have enough time to wrap up opening duties for all of ’Tallica’s US run. Unfortunately, the memo didn’t reach Michael’s unborn offspring.

“It ended up that my girlfriend gave birth two months before she was supposed to, so I was still on tour,” he says, picking up the story with a sense of astonishment in his voice even two