Can we call this a Holy Trinity? Volbeat is joining AC/DC and Korn as a band that has featured bagpipes on a rock record. That's just one revelation we were able to get from Michael Poulsen of Volbeat.

Volbeat's new album "Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie" drops in June, but we got the drop on details about the album and more from Poulsen.

I caught up with Poulsen backstage at Lubbock's Lonestar Amphitheater before the band rocked X-Fest 2016. It's worth noting he was sporting a Lemmy t-shirt. We covered a wide range of topics with the singer, including the deaths of Prince and Lemmy.

Poulsen feels like the band finally had enough time to make an album the way they wanted to make it. There are a number of guest stars, background vocalists and a strange instrument or two.

"We've got Danko Jones, we've got Harlem Gospel Choir, a girl doing some backing vocals on five tracks, one of my good friends on bagpipes," Poulsen said.

Volbeat live at X-Fest 2016
Photo courtesy: Gabriel Madrid
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But the singer was quick to clarify that fans shouldn't expect anything less than a great rock record. "It's a rock album, we're not flirting too much around with all the different styles that we normally do. But it's underneath the layers. This is more a complete Volbeat album. I'm very proud of it," he said.

Poulsen also discussed the death of Prince and Lemmy -- two musical icons both in the US and his home country of Denmark.

"I'm pretty sure that [Prince] means a lot for a lot of people in Denmark," Poulsen said. "I was never really a fan of Prince, but I had deep respect for him because I could see the talent and value...he was extremely talented. I do like a couple of his songs, but I don't have any of his albums. I know Rob, our guitar player, is a huge Prince fan, so it was a huge loss for him, and I believe too it's a big loss for the pop-rock music scene."

"Right now, everybody's dying around us," Poulsen said. "We don't have so many strong characters left."

Poulsen revealed he was hit pretty hard by the death of Motorhead frontman, Lemmy Kilmister.

"That was one of those really weird wake up calls," Poulsen said. "We've all been talking the last 30 years, 'oh, we think he's going now,' but...you always think he's like an immortal soldier. But when it happened, it got to me and it's still weird that we're not supposed to see him anymore at any festivals or tours. He will still be a very, very big inspiration for every band who continues soldiering on on the road and new bands coming up. He'll still be a huge inspiration for a lot of people."

You can watch FMX's full interview with Michael Poulsen in the video above.

Photos of Volbeat's performance at X-Fest 2016

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