Another Perfect Day (1996, Castle, ESM CD 438, UK)ġ983. Motorhead (2001, Ace Records, CDWIKM 2, UK)ġ977.
Although they changed their lineup many, many times - Lemmy was their only consistent member - they never changed their raging sound. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Motörhead continued performing into the next century. Motörhead wasn’t punk rock - they formed before the Sex Pistols and they loved the hell-for-leather imagery of bikers too much to conform with the safety-pinned, ripped T-shirts of punk - but they were the first metal band to harness that energy and, in the process, they created speed metal and thrash metal. Though the group’s leader, Lemmy Kilminster, had his roots in the hard-rocking space rock band Hawkwind, Motörhead didn’t bother with his old group’s progressive tendencies, choosing to amplify the heavy biker rock elements of Hawkwind with the speed of punk rock. Motörhead’s overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking styles the genre had to offer in the late ’70s. STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUMS | COMPILATIONS ALBUMS | BOX SETS
0 kommentar(er)
