Mary Jane Kelly was Jack the Ripper’s last victim and her death was really brutal, but what’s interesting about this song is that Michael’s not singing about the murder or how she was killed he’s singing about her as a person. “We’ve talked about the whole voodoo thing already, and that theme runs throughout this record, but this song could also perhaps be related to that, depending on how you look at it. So we learnt the song and recorded it as a tribute to those guys. We got the news while we were in the studio that their drummer had died, and that really hit us hard. We’d talked about covering it in the past but for whatever reason we never got around to it.
The lyrics are great, and it’s really funny and really catchy. They very much have the spirit of the Ramones in their music and we love that vibe. We took them out on one of our European tours on the last album cycle and they’re a really awesome band. It’s originally by a band called Teenage Bottlerocket, who are also good friends of ours. When we approached him about doing it he was totally psyched, and he completely nailed it.” Rebound
It sounds like something that he would do.’ And it totally does! We could almost hear it before it even happened. So we were working on this song Black Rose, and Michael was singing the verse part, and he was like, ‘Maybe Danko Jones could sing on this one. He’s such a cool dude, and he’s a huge music nerd like we are. We took him on tour on the last album cycle and it was great. “This song features Danko Jones and he’s a good friend of the band we love what he does and he loves what Volbeat do. I’m very proud of the solo, too.” Black Rose That’s kind of what happened with this song. That’s one of my favourite things to do as a guitar player, in addition to obviously playing solos and all that stuff I like to come up with parts that take the song to a different place and spin the mood a little bit. There’s a guitar part that’s happening in the chorus that I think is really cool, and it really complements the vocal melody and takes the song to another level. “Personally, I’m really proud of the guitar stuff that’s happening on this song. That’s also a very interesting story.” Let It Burn It’s got an almost oriental flavour to it that perfectly complements the lyrics and what the song is about – which is the story of Babylon. “This particular song goes down a road that Volbeat have never been down before, with the mood and the note choices.
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