Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

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Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
File:Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by Volbeat
Released 5 April 2013
Recorded Late 2012–early 2013;
Puk Studios and Baby Factory, Denmark
Genre Heavy metal, hard rock, groove metal, rockabilly
Length 58:29
Label Vertigo, Republic, Universal
Producer Robert Caggiano, Volbeat, Jacob Hansen
Volbeat chronology
Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
(2010)Beyond Hell/Above Heaven2010		 Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
(2013)		 Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie
(2016)Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie2016
Singles from Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
  1. "Cape of Our Hero"
    Released: 11 March 2013[1]
  2. "The Hangman's Body Count"
    Released: 5 April 2013
  3. "Lola Montez"
    Released: 14 June 2013[2]
  4. "Lonesome Rider"
    Released: 31 October 2013[3]
  5. "Dead but Rising"
    Released: January 11, 2014
  6. "The Sinner is You"
    Released: April 3, 2014
  7. "Doc Holliday"
    Released: September 2014
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 4.5/5 stars[4]
Aesthetic Magazine Toronto 4/5 stars[5]
Allmusic 4/5 stars[6]
Loudwire 4/5 stars[7]

Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies is the fifth studio album by the Danish metal band Volbeat. The album was released on 5 April 2013. The title refers to the outlaws and gunslingers of the 19th century. This is the band's first album with guitarist Rob Caggiano and their final album with bassist Anders Kjølholm. The track "Room 24", with vocalist King Diamond, was made available for the fans as a free download on 5 April 2013, and was later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.[8]

Background

In January 2013, Volbeat revealed that they had been working on a new album which was named Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and that it was set for a spring 2013 release

It was later announced that the former Anthrax lead guitarist, Rob Caggiano, would be producing the album as well as recording guest solos. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Caggiano had officially joined the band as its second guitarist, after being asked to do so by the other band members. Singer and guitarist Michael Poulsen said of the chemistry between Caggiano and the rest of the band, "The collaboration with Rob in the studio was so inspiring and in good spirit that we the decided to keep him. Basically we went into the studio as a three piece and came out as a whole band!" [9] At the same time, it was announced that the album would be released on April 8, 2013 (GSA on April 5 and USA on April 9).

In an interview on February 11, 2013, Poulsen told Metal Hammer magazine, "One of the things I’m most happy about this time is the contrast in the material, the range of the music; on the one side, you have the western motifs, the rockabilly / country songs, and the real emotional melodies, and on the other, some of the heaviest – actually, THE heaviest – songs we have ever recorded. There was a record company guy in the studio the other day, and he was absolutely blown away by the ultra-heavy stuff. He said he wasn’t even sure he was listening to Volbeat!".[10]

Commercial performance

The album entered the Billboard 200 in the United States at number nine.[11] The album sold 39,000 in its first week.[11] It is the first time a Danish act has charted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 since Aquarium by Aqua charted at number seven in 1997.[12] As of April 2016, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies had sold 308,000 copies in the US.[13]

The album entered the Media Control Charts in Germany at number one and received immediate gold status. The album sold more than 100,000 in its first week.[14]

Track listing

Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies – Standard edition
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Let's Shake Some Dust"   Michael Schøn Poulsen Robert Caggiano, Poulsen 1:28
2. "Pearl Hart"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 3:27
3. "The Nameless One"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 3:53
4. "Dead but Rising"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 3:35
5. "Cape of Our Hero"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 3:49
6. "Room 24" (featuring King Diamond) Poulsen, King Diamond Poulsen, Volbeat 5:07
7. "The Hangman's Body Count"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 5:15
8. "My Body"   Sameer Gadhia Sameer Gadhia, Jacob Tilley, Eric Cannata, Francois Comtois, Payam Doostzadeh 3:42
9. "Lola Montez"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 4:28
10. "Black Bart"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 4:48
11. "Lonesome Rider" (featuring Sarah Blackwood) Poulsen Poulsen, Caggiano 4:05
12. "The Sinner Is You"   Poulsen Poulsen, Caggiano 4:15
13. "Doc Holliday"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 5:46
14. "Our Loved Ones"   Poulsen Poulsen, Volbeat 4:51
Total length:
 58:29
Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies – Limited edition bonus disc
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Ecotone"   Poulsen Poulsen 3:47
2. "Lola Montez" (Harp version) Poulsen Poulsen 4:28
3. "7 Shots" (featuring Mille Petrozza and Michael Denner) (Live Wacken 2012) Poulsen Poulsen 5:12
4. "Evelyn" (featuring Mark "Barney" Greenway) (Live Wacken 2012) Poulsen, Mark "Barney" Greenway Poulsen, Volbeat 3:46
5. "Evelyn" (2010 demo) Poulsen, Greenway Poulsen, Volbeat 3:29

Tour Edition

Personnel

Volbeat
Guest musicians

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart[15] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[16] 10
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[17] 46
Canadian Albums Chart[18] 1
Danish Albums Chart[19] 1
Dutch Albums Chart[20] 4
Finnish Albums Chart[21] 2
French Albums Chart[22] 112
German Albums Chart[23] 1
Hungarian Albums Chart[24] 28
Norwegian Albums Chart[25] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[26] 4
Swiss Albums Chart[27] 1
UK Albums Chart[28] 78
US Billboard 200[11] 9
US Billboard Hard Rock Albums[29] 1
US Billboard Top Rock Albums[30] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2013) Position
Austrian Albums Chart[31] 11
Danish Albums Chart[32] 5
German Albums Chart[33] 8
US Billboard 200 195
US Hard Rock Albums[34] 13
US Rock Albums[35] 55
Chart (2014) Position
US Hard Rock Albums[36] 18

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[37] Gold 40,000
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[38] 2× Platinum 40,000
Germany (BVMI)[39] 3× Gold 300,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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