The Lodge @ The Hellacopters' By the Grace of God Review

The Hellacopters
By the Grace of God

Are you into old Rock without compromises, yet served with an exquisite and striking production? Then this is certainly the thing for you. As understandable, By the Grace of God doesn’t offer anything new-fangled to its musical ground, as the central focus of the band is to assemble influences from good old shaped American Rock. On the other hand, they're not worried about collective or biased stigmas that would impinge on a band from Uncle Sam's soil; rather, by looking from the outside in, they've managed to craft a sound more bona fide than any American band in this new century, and that's where The Hellacopters really appeal to me.

Formed in 1994 by long-time childhood friends Nicke Royale (from Entombed's fame - who, to my own astonishment, has a terrific voice) and Kenny Hakansson, these two oddballs absorbed their early musical influences (Kiss, Ramones, Slayer and the list could go on) in the similar manner that Jagger and Richards did before them, something that's visibly noticed in each and every piece of their career. For this particular album, they recorded 20 songs, but even if we're only handed with 13, they'll be dubbing half a dozen of the others for extra b-sides.
Lyrically, I can't make a remark on this quarter, basically for the reason that the booklet doesn't contain the lyrics (even if I'm pretty much assured that you already know what to reckon by such an ensemble).
To wrap it up, this isn't just another replica of the aforementioned bands: this is a reinvention of what real Rock should sound in this day and age, devoid of the artificial and hasty approach of how the mainstream deals with it.

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