SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY Revisit the Songs That Shaped Them on New Album “Covering Our Tracks”, Out This Week

Swedish rock powerhouse Satan Takes A Holiday release their new album Covering Our Tracks on September 18 via Icons Creating Evil Art – the culmination of a year-long project exploring the songs, artists and scenes that helped shape one of Sweden’s most distinctive rock bands.

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What began with the release of Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 has unfolded in real time over the past year, revealing a series of carefully chosen interpretations spanning generations and genres. More than a collection of covers, the album is a bold reimagining of rock history itself. By reshaping influential songs with their signature blend of garage rock, punk attitude and modern edge, Satan Takes A Holiday treat the past and present alike as raw material: something to challenge, energize and make entirely their own.

The result is an album that moves effortlessly between Bruce Springsteen, The Ramones, Suicide, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dirtbombs, Link Wray and Charli XCX, while somehow sounding unmistakably like Satan Takes A Holiday throughout.

From the stark tension of Springsteen‘s State Trooper to the euphoric indie-rock sweep of Suicide‘s Dream Baby Dream, the band continuously push each song into new territory without losing sight of what made it special in the first place.

Their version of Charli XCX‘s Good Ones transformed a sleek, hook-driven pop track into a raw and driving indie rock cut with a sharp punk edge. Retaining the irresistible melody and emotional tension of the original, the band amplified the grit, distortion and urgency, creating one of the album’s most immediate moments.

“Charli first came onto my radar in 2011 with her debut EP Stay Away, possibly via our mutual collaborator, producer Patrik Berger,” Fred explains. “However it happened, I’ve been hooked ever since. And when Good Ones dropped a few years ago, it went straight into my STAH folder of potential covers.”

Elsewhere, the band tackle one of alternative music’s most revered songs with Dream Baby Dream.

“Dream Baby Dream, the greatest song in the world. It just is. A mad undertaking, but we couldn’t help ourselves. And with the greatest song in the world, the result could only be something different. Even for us.”

Rather than recreating Suicide‘s minimalist masterpiece, Satan Takes A Holiday expanded its dreamlike atmosphere into something larger, louder and more cinematic, building towards soaring indie-rock crescendos while preserving the hypnotic pulse that made the original so enduring.

The album’s focus track, Say No To Women, occupies a particularly important place within the band’s musical history. Originally recorded by Swedish punk legends Henry Fiat’s Open Sore and never widely available on streaming services, the song comes from a band that all three members of Satan Takes A Holiday considered among their absolute favourites long before forming STAH themselves. Its inclusion serves as both tribute and acknowledgment of a crucial influence on the band’s DNA (Stefan from HFOS has produced three of STAH’s albums).

The album also revisits songs that have accompanied Satan Takes A Holiday since the very beginning. Discussing their version of Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Bang, the band reflected on the song’s role in their earliest days together:

“BANG was one out of a handful of songs we first played together, as 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.”

That sense of rediscovery runs throughout Covering Our Tracks. The album is not simply a celebration of favourite songs, but a map of the influences, obsessions and unexpected connections that helped form Satan Takes A Holiday‘s musical identity. From punk and proto-punk to indie rock, garage rock and pop, the band reveal a shared spirit running through every track: energy, attitude and the transformative power of a great song.

As Covering Our Tracks reaches its conclusion, Satan Takes A Holiday reinforce their position as one of Sweden’s most dynamic and adventurous rock acts – honoring the lineage of rock and pop while carving out their own path forward.

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)

Over the years, Satan Takes A Holiday have built a strong international following through extensive touring across Europe and high-profile support slots with acts such as KISS, The Sonics, Juliette Lewis, Backyard Babies and Imperial State Electric. Their releases have earned praise from Classic Rock, Louder Sound and Rock Hard, alongside radio support from BBC 6 Music — including spins from Iggy Pop — as well as Sweden’s P3 and Bandit Rock.