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The Hellacopters has announced the release of their first rarities collection next year

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Photo courtesy of Nuclear Blast Records



Swedish high-energy rockers THE HELLACOPTERS celebrate their 30th anniversary with the announcement of their first rarities collection entitled Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3 is a series of rarities collections that started in 2002, combining rare and lesser-known material from a myriad of HELLACOPTERS singles, EPs, and compilation songs. 

 They started their celebrations by releasing their much-lauded new album Overdriver on January 31, 2025, which reached No. 1 on the Swedish charts and a solid top-10 position on the German charts for the second time in the group’s career. It is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic.

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 more than 75 minutes of 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:

Pre-order or pre-save Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3:



CREAM OF THE CRAP! VOLUME 3 - TRACKLIST
RELEASE DATE: 13 February 2026


Long Gone Losers
Pack Of Lies (The Nomads cover)
Her Strut (Bob Seger cover)
Little Miss Sweetness (The Temptations cover)
Oh Yeah Allright!
I Get A Sensation (Adam West cover)
Disappointment Blues
American Ruse (MC5 cover)
Ferrytale (1998 version)
Whole Lot Of Shakin´ In My Heart (Since I Met You) (Smokey Robinson cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
Sent En Lördagkväll (Nationalteatern cover) *
Working For MCA (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
Boney Maronie (Larry Williams cover)
A Man And A Half (Wilson Pickett cover)
455 SD (Radio Birdman cover)
Freeway To Hell
Get Ready (Smokey Robinson cover)
Doggone Your Badluck Soul
Stab Your Back (Damned cover)
Heaven (Scott Morgan cover)
What´d Ya Do? (Ramones cover)
Speedfreak (Motörhead cover)
Ungrounded Confusion (The Flaming Sideburns cover)* only available on physical editions




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









THE HELLACOPTERS ONLINE:

Click below to read the full review for their Ninth record, Overdriver


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