While I'm not necessarily a huge fan of The Hellacopters you can't deny them there place a one of Sweden's biggest rock bands in the last 15 years (even going as far as to having songs on Guitar Hero III and their own pinball machine!). Along with The Hives they really set a bench-mark for other Swedish rock n roll bands and it will be interesting to see who will come after them as, from this Sunday, the band will be no more.
They will however be playing their last two gigs ever via their myspace page on Saturday (25/10) and Sunday (26/10) at 9pm CET.
In the meantime here is one of their most famous songs "(Gotta Get Some Action) Now!" (which Pelle Almqvist declared as 'the greatest Swedish song ever written'):