SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY Return to Beginning with Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover ‘Bang’, Out August 21st

Before there was Satan Takes A Holiday, there was Bang.

On August 21st, Swedish rock trio Satan Takes A Holiday release their blistering take on Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ early punk rock classic Bang via Icons Creating Evil Art. The single is the final taste of the band’s forthcoming covers album Covering Our Tracks – and fittingly, it takes them all the way back to where their own story began.

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Originally released as the opening track of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ self-titled debut EP in 2001, Bang captured the raw, dirty and confrontational energy of a band about to become one of the defining names of New York’s early-2000s rock scene. For Satan Takes A Holiday, however, the connection runs deeper than admiration from afar.

Bang was one of a handful of songs the members played together when they first started making music – a way of calibrating themselves as a band before they had even begun writing their own material.

“The final single before we release Covering Our Tracks takes us all the way back to the beginning.
‘Bang’ was one out of a handful of songs we first played together, as a calibrating measure, before starting to write songs as STAH.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – as important to the fabric of our band as The Sonics, Johnny Kidd and The Cramps.
The fuzz, the mess and the swaggering vocals.
We haven’t played it since those first shows and were delighted to rediscover it.”

More than two decades after those formative rehearsals, Satan Takes A Holiday have returned to the song with everything that has happened to the band since firmly under their belts. Their version embraces everything they originally loved about Bang – the fuzz, sexual tension, primitive groove and gloriously unruly attitude – while filtering it through Satan Takes A Holiday’s own explosive combination of garage rock, punk, dirty riffs and barely controlled chaos.

There is a natural kinship between the two bands. Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged from turn-of-the-millennium New York with a stripped-down collision of garage punk, art-school experimentation and raw charisma. Bang was there right at the beginning: abrasive, funny, provocative and swaggering, with Karen O’s vocal performance announcing a frontperson unlike almost anyone else around her. Those same qualities made an impression on the musicians who would become Satan Takes A Holiday.

For a band that has spent its career turning rock ’n’ roll into something physical, immediate and unpredictable, revisiting Bang feels less like covering someone else’s song and more like reopening an old family photo album – albeit one drenched in distortion, sweat and bad decisions.

The single follows the first installment of the Covering Our Tracks project and continues a collection built around songs that have played a genuine role in Satan Takes A Holiday’s musical DNA. Rather than approaching the record as an exercise in picking familiar classics, the band have dug into the music that shaped their own identity – revealing the influences, obsessions and unlikely discoveries hiding underneath the STAH sound. With Bang, that circle closes right where it started.

Satan Takes A Holiday – Bang is released August 21st via Icons Creating Evil Art. Covering Our Tracks follows September 18th and available to pre-order from here

Tracklist:
01. Gettin’ Away with Murder (Baby Grande)
02. State Trooper (Bruce Springsteen)
03. Good Ones (Charli XCX)
04. I Can’t Stop Thinking About It (The Dirtbombs)
05. You’re the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John)
06. Rumble! (2026) (Link Wray)
07. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (The Ramones)
08. Say No To Women (Henry Fiat’s Open Sore)
09. Bang (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
10. Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)