Ελληνικά
Well, I think it wasn’t such a sunny day if you think that we are talking about Sweden. It was during 1996’s February that four guys entered the studio to record their first full length album, in order to record “Supershitty to the Max”; before that Hellacopters had already released their first single “Killing Allan’ in 1995. These four guys had a tight connection before the band was created. Nicke Andersson (guitars-vocals) was the drummer for the death metal band Entombed. The other guys, Dregen (guitars – additional vox), Kenny Hakansson (bass – additional vox) and Robert Eriksson (drums – additional vox) used to be Entombed’s roadies by the time Nicke was in the band.
So, “Supershitty to the Max” was born in 1996. We should say that the album was recorded within 25 hours (wtf!!!) . The result was a great r’n’r album and a Swedish band which is here to scream to the MAX! The composition of the album are so “free” and rock n roll that make you wanna dance from the first song till the last… Garage solos from both guitars are scattered within all tracks of the album. Speaking of Nicke and his part in this album and generally in this band, there’s nothing more we can say excepe for the fact that he is a Titan. If you think that he was Entombed’s drummer but also a songwritter and a singer too, you can scream HELL NO! His contribution in Swedish rock-metal scene and metal scene in general is so big. His vocals in this album have that rock n roll feeling in combination with the other members’ backing vocals. As I said before both guitars are overflowing with double solos, since Dregen and Andersson started a couple of years ago (1994) The Hellacopters as a project and ended up as a band. Supershitty sound with nice distortion over all! The bass in this album is doing it’s work perfectly with Kenny behind it, following the rhythm of drumming. As for me (being a drummer) Robert’s drumming might not be super cool for someone, but I have a feeling that he is behind that kit and he wanted to bring out a feeling both of hate and rapture. Listening to this album, someone chould clearly see this. We should mention that in the Japan edition there is a MISFITS cover song, as well. The song? Bullet! Really nicely played! If you listen to some other songs The Hellacopters have covered, you are gonna respect them even more… This was the beginning for a great band which counted seven studio releases untill they broke up in 2008… Thank you for what you have done within all these years…
