Heavy steel or punk rock? For Motörhead, the road by no means actually existed. Lemmy and his wrecking crew stood because the one band each tribes may declare as their very own, a unifying drive at a time when fists flew extra typically than pints had been shared. As Lemmy himself as soon as put it: “The punks beloved us. The one purpose we weren’t in that lot was as a result of we had lengthy hair, so clearly we should be heavy steel.”
That crossover spirit is now being honored on Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead, out October thirty first through BMG. Throughout fourteen tracks, punk legends and new blood alike tear by way of Motörhead classics with the ferocity they impressed within the first place.
Pennywise rev up “Ace of Spades,” Rancid dive into “Intercourse & Dying,” The Bronx rip “Over The High,” Lagwagon deal with “Rock ’N’ Roll,” FEAR snarl by way of “The Chase Is Higher Than The Catch,” and GBH detonate “Bomber.” Upstarts like Slaughterhouse, Love Canal, and Troopers Of Destruction sit comfortably alongside the veterans, a reminder that Motörhead all the time championed the underdog.
The file closes on a historic rarity: a beforehand unheard 2002 model of The Damned‘s “Neat Neat Neat,” with Lemmy himself becoming a member of the punk pioneers for a blistering run-through that blurs the traces between the 2 camps as soon as extra. The total tracklist is:
- Pennywise “Ace of Spades”
- Rancid “Intercourse & Dying”
- The Bronx “Over The High”
- Lagwagon “Rock ‘N’ Roll”
- FEAR “The Chase Is Higher Than The Catch”
- GBH “Bomber”
- Murphy’s Legislation “Keep Clear”
- Slaughterhouse “Love Me Like A Reptile”
- The Casualties “The Hammer”
- Anti-Nowhere League “Born To Elevate Hell”
- Love Canal “Voices In The Sky”
- Troopers Of Destruction “Overkill”
- Knowledge In Chains “Iron Fist”
- Motörhead & The Damned “Neat Neat Neat”
Motörhead’s connection to punk runs deep — from their shared payments with The Damned within the late ’70s to penning “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” in honor of New York’s most interesting, to Lemmy’s transient stint taking part in bass in The Doomed. It’s solely becoming, then, that a few of punk’s most revered voices return the favor right here.
Killed By Deaf can be obtainable on vinyl, CD, and digital codecs, with pre-orders live now here.
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