The Hellacopters - 'By the Grace of God' Released 25/11/02

Welcome to the world of The Hellacopter's where the 1980's stadium ethic is still de rigueur and rock just ain't rock if it ain't bombastic anthems dripping in hook's purled from the loins of Gene Simmon's.

Overproduced and with both feet firmly in the past, by right's 'By The Grace of God' should be a cock-rock nightmare, but it ain't! Because packed into these thirteen tracks, is some of the best, completely un-ironic balls out, hair flapping in the wind rock n' roll this side of 'Stiff Upper Lip'. Ok, so this isn't gonna be your cooler than thou garage gliteratti's cup of tea, but I challenge all but the most hardened of musical snob's not to triumphantly punch the air or wield your air guitar once to 'Carry Me Home' which joins at the hip a gloriously fat sing-along chorus to a Blackmore riff, a 'Since You've Been Gone' for the new millennium if you will. Thin Lizzy, The Black Crowes, The MC5 and er... Europe, are all flirted with, nay shagged senseless on tracks like 'All New Low' and 'It's Good But It Ain't Just Right', but it's on 'Go Easy Now', a souped up Wildhearts romp, that The Hellacopters really hit their stride. Once again those pesky Swede's, like The Cardigan's, The Hives and Soundtrack of Our Lives before them, have injected a new lease of life into a tired old formula and come up trumps!

The Hellacopters are touring the UK at the moment!