Album review: The Hellacopters – Overdriver

It’s quite something that Nicke Andersson, a man who started his career drumming in Swedish death metal heroes Entombed while looking like he’d just climbed out of a skip, should find himself 30 years and change later as one of rock ​‘n’ rolls suavest and most effortlessly cool characters as frontman of legendary retro riffers The Hellacopters. One might say similar about The Hellacopters themselves – ultra-cool, swaggering rock that calls to mind prime ​‘70s Aerosmith or the Stones, cut through with the more grubby electrifying charge of the Ramones and The Stooges. After initially splitting in 2007, in 2022 the band returned with the killer Eyes Of Oblivion. Three years later on Overdriver, the sass, the riffs, the charm, the grease, the class and the volume are all as pre...

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