2019 Record Store Day version on clear vinyl with gatefoldcover

On July 31 2009, Bullet’s drummer Gustav Hjortsjo was hangingaround backstage at the Savsjo Festival. Suddenly he noticed afamiliar face in the crowd: Saxon’s legendary singer Peter ‘Biff’Byford. Gustav was determined not to let this chance go missed. Heapproached Mr Byford and explained that the singer just had to makea guest appearance on Bullet’s next album. – Maybe, Byford replied.What’s the name of the album? Gustav had no idea. Bullet was stilltouring to support their ‘Bite the Bullet’ album, and hadn’t reallythought a whole lot about the next album. – But which song do youwant me to appear on then, Biff continued. In a state of panicGustav mumbled the first reasonably rock’n’roll orientated title hecould come up with: – ‘Highway Pirates’. A month later they metagain, at the Skogsrojet Festival in Reijmyre. About 40 secondsinto the brilliant hard hitting title track you can now hear BiffByford’s contribution: a wolf whistle. Bullet is up for a newexperience upon the release of their third album. It is the firsttime they have to live up to peoples highly set expectations. Itis, though, a natural consequence of the success that came with thebands previous album, ‘Bite the Bullet’. The album went up toposition 3 in the Swedish charts, and made Bullet one of the mostfrequently booked bands the following year. The success culminatedwhen they did an acclaimed appearance as support act for AC/DC onthe sold out Ullevi Stadium show in Gothenburg. The enormoussuccess seems to have inspired rather than put pressure on theheavy metal heroes from Smaland though – ‘Highway Pirates’ isdefinitely their strongest album to date. ‘Highway Pirates’ ismixed by Tobias Lindell, who has worked with Swedish rock bandslike Europe, Mustasch and Hardcore Superstar. Together with Bullethe has succeeded in creating a sound that is retro and modern atthe same time. Hampus Klang’s and Erik Ahlstrom’s guitar sound isincredibly pure. Bullet is, and always will be, a band which is tobe experienced live – but ‘Highway Pirates’ is an album thatcompletely captures the intense feeling of their live performances.‘Bite the Bullet’ gave the group their breakthrough and put them onthe rock’n’roll map. Biff Byfords screamish wolf whistle on‘Highway Pirates’ marks the start of a new chapter in Bullet’ssuccess story.

Track list:
1. Highway Pirates
2. Back On The Road
3. Stay Wild
4. Blood Run Hot
5. Fire And Dynamite
6. Down And Out
7. Knuckleduster
8. Heavy Metal Dynamite
9. Citylights
10. Into The Night

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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