Hellacopters
Grande Rock Revisited NUCLEAR BLAST
Scandinavian sleaze rockers’ 1999 album gets touched up.
Whenever you hear of an artist going back to re-record their best-loved albums from back in the day, there’s a strong temptation to doubt the wisdom behind it. Sure, sometimes there’s a laudable motivation to ‘improve’ on the original, iron out all those glitches and creases that have been bugging them for decades. Sometimes there’s an unspoken but even more pressing spur at work: to release a version of the record to which they will own the rights and don’t have to share the royalties with that label/management they got tied into a dodgy deal with back when they were too young, too naive and too poor to hire a decent lawyer.