Motorhead - Motorizer
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Free Music Review: sweet!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a long time Motorhead fan. I was pleased to hear that Motorhead is still Motorhead and didn't try to change their sound or turn soft.They still bring it.Free Music Review: Motörhead ROCKS OUT !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Another sizzling CD by Lemmy, Mickey and Phil. Lots of new songs ... My favorite is Rock Out !!!Free Music Review: best album
Hit: 5 Stars
this album rocks. one of their best ever, if you like the last two albums you'll love this one.Free Music Review: Solid Motorhead album! Excellent!
Hit: 5 Stars
Great solid album packed with hard rock. The band sounds great on this one. Buy it!Free Music Review: Motorhead strike again!
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the coolest things about being one of the best and most original, seminal, untrendy, and influential things to happen to the world of heavy music is having the right to play it safe. And having a free pass to make the same album again and again? That's okay, too. Nobody illustrates this point better than Motorhead. Ever since the date of their inception way back in 1977, this band's sound (which is first and foremost rooted in fast and heavy metal - including thrash, speed, groove, and traditional metal -- yet is also poised with enough restraint and memorable melodies to add dynamic and keep things from getting out of control - and is tinged with punk, hard rock, and even some blues and Southern rock elements) has essentially remained the same. Nonetheless, it is a very potent, catchy, hard rocking, strongly grooving, and contagiously fun sound...so, all is forgiven. Plus, all of their releases come with a stamp of guaranteed quality. In other words, for a long time now, Motorhead have had a fairly high level of excellence looming overhead. And they have always met or exceeded that standard by, time-after-time, kicking out one undeniably good record after another. (This has been the case for so long that it has become almost like clockwork.) Hence, this Birmingham-based trio may not try overly hard or do much in the way of converting non-fans, but one would be exceedingly hard-pressed to find a more consistent band, or one with a more epic discography.
And even after all these years, full-length release number 500 (okay, okay, 19), 2008's "Motorizer," finds vocalist/bassist Lemmy Kilmeister, guitarist Phil Campbell, and drummer Mikkey Dee still sticking with their guns (i.e. the tried and true formula that has gotten them this far). And as usual, no time is wasted in getting right into the thick of things, thanks to a vintage ripper (and probably soon-to-be concert staple) like "Runaround Man." It is an excellent opening blast of all the usual good stuff, including: An energetic snare drum intro, corrosive thrash grooves, punk-flavored rhythms, and yet another all around top-notch performance from the frontman (it is filled with lots of terrifically infectious singing and lyrics.) Meanwhile, the guitars blaze and shred throughout, with a dazzling showcase of blistering riffage and a wild solo. However, once "Runaround Man" draws to a close, things suddenly settle way down. "(Teach You How To) Sing The Blues" has concertedly restrained chugging anchored by thunderous and commanding bass grooves. The tune is also of note because (as if its name weren't a dead give away), it finds Motorhead's non-metal influences shifting to the forefront - as evidenced by its fluid and positively bluesy guitar soloing. Later on, "One Short Life," works similarly, with its tasty guitar crunch and industrial-strength, churning rhythms, opts for a mid-tempo, groove-oriented approach complete with ample tasty guitar crunch, industrial-strength, churning rhythms, and really thick, driving, dirty/downtuned/grungy-sounding bass lines.
On that note, there is only one other slow moment to be found here. Track nine, "Heroes," blurs the line between being a near-balladry and leather-clad hard rock. A bit of blues also enters the fray during a superb bit of nicely clean soloing near the end. But no matter what genre the song falls under, it is easy to like, thanks to Lemmy's classic phlegm-flecked sing-speak vocals intertwined with borderline-clean singing, a funky bass bottom, AC-DC-esque rock `n' roll beat, and the aforementioned solo section. Back on more familiar ground, it is on the fairly thunderous "When The Jungle Screams" (which boasts crunchy, deft, machine-gun riffing, bouncy drumming, and a great chorus and wailing solo to boot), "Buried Alive," the rhythmically stomping "Back On The Chain," and "Heroes" that Motorhead unabashedly let their fiery, full-blast, mosh-pit-friendly tempos rip. And elsewhere, the aptly titled "Rock Out" (which has an excellent, hulking -- if familiar -- bass intro in the same vein as prior classics like, say, "Ace Of Spades"), "Time Is Right," and the album-closing "The Thousand Names Of God" all play like 100% pure, groovy, hard-rocking (and distinctly old-fashioned) speed punk.
The bottom line is that "Motorizer" never pretends to be groundbreaking, but, to bastardize an old cliché, if it ain't broken, why fix it?! This is definitely an impeccably solid and extremely enjoyable affair. But hey, any metalhead worth their salt should have figured-out long ago that it seems physically impossible for Lemmy and the Gang to make anything less!