Inferno

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Fight", "The Terminal Show", "Killers" and "In The Name Of Tragedy" are especially ass-whomping tracks on a seriously murderous album. Indeed, the man who seemed to be blessed with the power to live a rockstar life eternally, died exactly six years ago. The first of many of the band’s albums to be produced by Cameron Webb, Inferno became Motorhead’s heaviest album in years, although the final song on the album, Whorehouse Blues was something of a departure with its country blues style and Lemmy on harmonica. The production is perfect, also, not as cloudy as it was on "Hammered" ( a great album regardless of popular opinion); the crunching guitar is perfectly balanced against the bass, which sounds like an amped-up Harley motorcycle as always, and Mikkey Dee's drums boom and crack with thunderous power under it all.

If Inferno isn’t the best album that Motorhead ever put out, then it’s a surprisingly powerful addition to their extensive discography at the very least. Dee explained his switch from drums: "I've been playing guitar all my life a little bit, because guitars have always been around, so it's nothing spectacular in my eyes. This created an issue during recording and when Webb complained to manager Todd Singerman, he said, "dude, your ears are different. In an interview for the bonus Inferno DVD, drummer Mikkey Dee states that Webb "pushed us a little more.Suicide's a six minute epic slow-burn, and then "Life's a Bitch" starts off with a blues-punk lick before going into - what's this, more fucking speed metal? they've been speed fucken metal, and now they're clean-picked acoustic guitar, sounding like a dark country song. Then, throw in Keys to the Kingdom, which is a midpaced blues-metal number that somehow reminds me of Saxon.

Liberal injections of punk and speed metal-influenced riffing plus a staggering Steve Vai solo on the opening track ("The Terminal Show", and since when does Vai never play less than brilliantly? If you listen closely, you can notice Lemmy drop references to other classic Motorhead tracks, including "Stay Clean", "Eat the Rich" and the immortal "Ace of Spades", and the acoustic "Whorehouse Blues" at the end is very reminiscent of the track "1916". This isn't the song that'll make your lawn die, but this is still completely as MOTORHEAD as it gets. But I wanted to take the original three chrome heads I had created two years earlier and show it in the process of being formed at the foundry. Albums like 1916 had attempted this sort of thing before but it’s never sounded as natural as it does here.There are these soldiers coming in from the sides, which is very much like Iraq or any other hotspots in the world.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Webb told Joel McIver of Classic Rock Presents Motörhead in 2010 that he had wanted to make an album with the band for years and met them for dinner at the Sunset Marquis Hotel to discuss the possibility of working together: "I talked about how I wanted to make a really heavy record with them.Of course, a blues song is neither great nor necessary, but if there is a band that has the right to perform such a number, than it’s Motörhead. This CD shows proof positive that he is not growing mellow with age--in fact, he is still spitting venom with fire blazing in his eyes and beating holy hell out of his bass. Lemmy sings like he has always sung and – only the best is good enough – he delivers the second voice as well.

A few times he also reflects on his own past (“Our badge the ace of spades”, “Eat the rich, life’s a bitch”, “Stay clean, be true”). Oh yeah, but the lyrics for "In the Name of Tragedy" are a little dumb (but hearing Lemmy rhyme "funky" and "monkey" is kind of funny). The album ends with “Whorehouse Blues”, a touching song about life and sex that would sound more fitting on a Johnny Cash CD. Already the voluminous up-tempo opener “Terminal Show” leaves no doubt that the album gives no reason for concern in terms of the mix.

not fucken Shania Twain, I mean real tr00 country, with shootin' men in Reno (just to watch them die).