Οι VOLBEAT έδωσαν την πρώτη τους συναυλία με τον Lund στις 10 Ιουνίου στο φεστιβάλ Rockfest στο Hyvinkää της Φινλανδίας.

Μόλις πέντε ημέρες νωρίτερα, οι VOLBEAT ανακοίνωσαν ότι χώρισαν επίσημα οι δρόμοι τους με τον Caggiano. Δεν δόθηκε κανένας λόγος για τον χωρισμό, αλλά τα υπόλοιπα μέλη της μπάντας δήλωσαν ότι ευχήθηκαν στον “αδελφό τους Rob τα καλύτερα σε ό,τι κάνει στο μέλλον”. Συνέχισαν ευχαριστώντας τον Rob “για δέκα καταπληκτικά χρόνια”.

Στο βίντεο στην κιθάρα είναι ο Lung.

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In a new interview with Sonic Perspectives collaborator Rodrigo Altaf, VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen spoke about the band’s recent split with longtime guitarist Rob Caggiano. Rob‘s replacement for VOLBEAT‘s current tour is Flemming C. Lund of the Danish extreme metal outfit THE ARCANE ORDER. Michael said : “There’s a statement on the net [about the split with Rob], and I can’t go into too much details. But the thing was, three weeks before a tour, we suddenly became a three-piece. And, of course, for us, [we initially thought], ‘Let’s just go out as a three-piece. This is the situation we are in now.’ But at the end of the day, when we were sitting down and I was about to do the setlist, of course we became a little bit handicapped. So, there was different options to who we were going to give a call to help us out, but since I already worked with Flemming and I knew Flemming, I gave him a call, even though he said, ‘I have no idea how VOLBEAT sounds like.’ [Laughs] He’s only into death metal. So he said, ‘I just have to listen to a lot of VOLBEAT records, I guess.’ Of course he knew VOLBEAT — everybody knows VOLBEAT in Denmark — but he was not listening to VOLBEAT. So he said, ‘Give me a few days just to actually figure out what you guys are playing,’ beside the stuff that you hear on the radio. And he took up the challenge, and we made an agreement and he’s helping out VOLBEAT for this year.”

VOLBEAT played its first concert with Lund on June 10 at the Rockfest festival in Hyvinkää, Finland.

Just five days earlier, VOLBEAT announced that it had officially parted ways with Caggiano. No reason was given for the split, but the remaining bandmembers said that they wished their “brother Rob all the best with everything he does in the future.” They went on to thank Rob “for ten amazing years.”