Swedish high-energy rockers The Hellacopters have been celebrating their 30th anniversary recently and after releasing their much-lauded new album “Overdriver” on January 31st, 2025, which reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts and a solid top 10 position in the German charts for the second time in the group’s career, it is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic.
“Cream of the Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3” (out on February 13th, 2026) is the newest, long-overdue entry in a series of rarities collections that started in 2002, combining rare and lesser-known material from a myriad of The Hellacopters singles, EPs, and compilation songs. The 24 tracks featured in this set have originally been released between 1998 and 2005, most of them only on vinyl and out-of-print CDs, and include originals like “Disappointment Blues”, “Freeway to Hell”, “Doggone Your Bad-Luck Soul”, “Ferrytale” and “Long Gone Losers” as well as cover versions of songs by Motörhead, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Smokey Robinson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alice Cooper, The Ramones, The Nomads, Adam West – whose singer Jake Starr penned liner notes for this release – and many, many more. Furthermore, a lot of these songs have never been released digitally.
Meticulously compiled by Robert Eriksson, transferred from master tapes and vinyl by Henke Jonsson, and remastered for maximum audio fidelity by Magnus Lindberg, with “Cream of the Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3” The Hellacopters present a stunning collection of incredible, high-octane rock‘n’roll on this more than 75 minutes long double vinyl, CD and digital release. Scroll down for the full track list and release formats.
You can now stream the remastered version of “Long Gone Losers”, which originally appeared on the 1998 EP “Disappointment Blues”, here.
Available Formats:
• Gatefold 2LP (Blue, White, Dark Green, Black Marbled) w/ poster & logo stencil (only available via Nuclear Blast Mailorder & the band’s shop)
• Gatefold 2LP (Black) w/ poster
• Gatefold 2LP (Transparent Green) w/ poster
• CD Jewelcase
• Digital Album
Pre-order or pre-save “Cream of the Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3” here.
Tracklist:
1. Long Gone Losers
2. Pack of Lies (The Nomads cover)
3. Her Strut (Bob Seger cover)
4. Little Miss Sweetness (The Temptations cover)
5. Oh Yeah Allright!
6. I Get a Sensation (Adam West cover)
7. Disappointment Blues
8. American Ruse (MC5 cover)
9. Ferrytale (1998 version)
10. Whole Lot of Shakin’ in My Heart (Since I Met You) (Smokey Robinson cover)
11. I’m Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
12. Sent En Lördagkväll (Nationalteatern cover) *
13. Working For MCA (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
14. Boney Maronie (Larry Williams cover)
15. A Man and A Half (Wilson Pickett cover)
16. 455 SD (Radio Birdman cover)
17. Freeway to Hell
18. Get Ready (Smokey Robinson cover)
19. Doggone Your Badluck Soul
20. Stab Your Back (Damned cover)
21. Heaven (Scott Morgan cover)
22. What’d Ya Do? (Ramones cover)
23. Speedfreak (Motörhead cover)
24. Ungrounded Confusion (The Flaming Sideburns cover)
* (only available on physical editions)
Less than three years after their triumphant, chart-storming comeback record, “Eyes of Oblivion”, which entered on #1 in their home country, on #3 in Germany, and on #6 in Finland, Sweden’s most consistently great rock outfit is back with another banger of an album called “Overdriver”, due out on January 31st, 2025.
In the meantime, The Hellacopters have celebrated their triumphant return by playing a show with the mighty Iron Maiden in Gothenburg in July 2022, and gigs with Ghost in Germany in June 2023, apart from their own string of headline shows throughout Europe. Eager to keep the rock flowing, February 16th, 2024 saw The Hellacopters release not one, but two stunning versions of their classic “Grande Rock” album, which was originally released in 1999. “Grande Rock Revisited” included a remastered original version and a remixed and partially re-recorded version as a companion piece, showing how the album could have sounded in a parallel universe with guitarist Dregen being in the band at the time. After making rock grande again, the group set sights on new material, debuting the phenomenal single “Stay With You” in May 2024 and releasing it as limited 7inch via Lightning Records.
Their ninth full-length “Overdriver” was recorded at Strawberry Studio & The Honk Palace and is the first Hellacopters album entirely produced by Nicke Andersson. As you might expect from a Hellacopters album it’s filled to the brim with roaring guitars and earth-shattering grooves, fist-raising energy and anthemic choruses, while keeping the variety richer than ever before. “Overdriver” was hailed by many as a career highlight and it was a huge success, entering the Swedish charts on #1 and the German charts on #6 upon release.
