Artist: Motorhead Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Metal
Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
The Essential Year: 2007
Tracks: 39
Kiss Of Death Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Inferno Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Stone Deaf Forever! (CD 5) - Live 1978-1999 Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Stone Deaf Forever! (CD 4) - 1996-2002 Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Stone Deaf Forever! (CD 3) - 1987-1996 Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Tear Ya Down: The Rarities (CD 2) Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Tear Ya Down: The Rarities (CD 1) Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Hammered (Bonus Disc) Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Hammered Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
25 and Alive Boneshaker Year: 2001
Tracks: 17
We are Motorhead Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else CD1 Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
On Parole (Remastered) Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Liar Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Overnight Sensation Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
No Remorse (CD 1) Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Sacrifice Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Bastards Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
All The Aces: The Best Of Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
March Or Die Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
1916 Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Rock'n'Roll Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Orgasmatron Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Another Perfect Day Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Iron Fist Year: 1982
Tracks: 12
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith CD2 Year: 1981
Tracks: 11
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith CD1 Year: 1981
Tracks: 18
Overkill Year: 1979
Tracks: 11
Bomber Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Motorhead Year: 1977
Tracks: 13
Ace of Spades Year:
Tracks: 15
Motörhead's overpoweringly forte and fast style of heavy alloy was one of the most groundbreaking ceremony styles the genre had to offer in the previous '70s. Though the group's loss leader, Lemmy Kilminster, had his roots in the hard-rocking distance rock band Hawkwind, Motörhead didn't bother with his old group's progressive tendencies, choosing to hyperbolise the heavy biker rock candy elements of Hawkwind with the velocity of punk rocker rock. Motörhead wasn't tough rock -- they formed ahead 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 tough -- only they were the first metal striation to rein that push and, in the process, they created speed alloy and flail metal. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Motörhead continued acting into the side by side century. Although the circle changed its lineup many, many multiplication -- Lemmy was its only reproducible member -- they never changed their hot good.
The word of a vicar, Lemmy Kilmister (born Ian Fraiser Kilmister; December 24, 1945) first began acting rock & roll in 1964, when he united deuce local Blackpool, England, R&B bands, the Rainmakers and the Motown Sect. Over the course of action of the '60s, he played with a number of bands -- including the Rockin' Vickers, Gopal's Dream, and Opal Butterfly -- as good as in brief working as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix. In 1971, he joined the heavy prog rock band Hawkwind as a bassist. Lemmy was originally slated to stay with the ring only 6 months, yet he stayed with the group for four years. During that time, he wrote and sung various songs with the band, including their signature birdsong, the issue three U.K. hit "Flatware Machine" (1972).
Lemmy was kicked out of Hawkwind in the spring of 1975, after he exhausted five years in a Canadian prison house for drug possession. Once he returned to England, Kilminster set some forming a new band. Originally, it was to have got been called "Bastard," but he before long decided to address the isthmus Motörhead, named afterwards the last song he wrote for Hawkwind. Lemmy drafted in Pink Fairies guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox to round of golf stunned the card. Motörhead made its debut encouraging Greenslade in July. Two months by and by, the grouping headed into the studio to make believe its debut album for United Artists with producer Dave Edmunds. Motörhead and Edmunds clashed over the way of recording, resulting in the chemical group ignition the producer and replacement him with Fritz Fryer. At the end of the year, Fox left the band and Lemmy replaced him with his acquaintance, Philthy Animal (born Philip Taylor), an amateur musician.
Motörhead delivered its debut album to UA early in 1976, but the label spurned the record album. Shortly afterwards, other Blue Goose and Continuous Performance guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke joined the band. Following one rehearsal as a four-piece, Wallis left the band, going away Motörhead as a trio; this is the lineup that would later be recalled as the group's classic period. However, the band spent virtually of 1976 struggling, playing without a concentrate or coach and generating little money. At the end of the year, they thin a single, "Elwyn Brooks White Line Fever"/"Leavin' Here," for Stiff Records which wasn't released until iI geezerhood later. By the summer of 1977, the grouping had signed a one-record contract with Chiswick Records, cathartic their eponymic debut in June; it under the weather at number 43 on the U.K. charts. A year later on, the band sign with Bronze Records.
Overkill, Motörhead's first album for Bronze, was released in the springiness of 1979. The album peaked at number 24, piece its claim running became the band's low gear Top 40 strike. Motörhead continued to gain momentum, as their concerts were marketing advantageously and
Bomber, the reexamination to
Overkill, reached number 12 upon its fall button. The band was doing so well that UA released the spurned album at the end of the year as
On Parole.
Allied Command Europe of Spades, released in the fall of 1980, became a number foursome hit, piece the single of the same name reached number 15.
I of Spades became Motörhead's first American album, in time the group was making small head in the U.S., where they only registered as a cultus act. Back in England, the situation could scarcely get been more different. Motörhead was at the peak of its popularity in 1981, cathartic a hit coaction with the all-female grouping Girlschool entitled Headgirl and entrance the charts at number i with their live record album,
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith. Though the chemical group was rising commercially, on that point was stress within the ring, particularly betwixt Clarke and Lemmy. Clarke left the band during the encouraging spell for 1982's
Branding iron Fist, reportedly maddened by Kilmister's planned quislingism with Wendy O. Williams. Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson replaced Clarke.
The new lineup released
Another Perfect Day in the summer of 1983.
Some other Perfect Day was a disappointment, only reaching number 20 in the U.K. Robertson left two months later, being replaced by 2 guitarists: former Persian Risk member Phillip Campbell and Wurzel (innate Michael Burston). Shortly afterwards, Taylor left to join Robertson's band Operator, and was replaced by quondam Saxon drummer Pete Gill. This lineup released a single, "Killed by Death," in September of 1984, just short subsequently the group left hand Bronze and the label filed an injunction against the dance band. As a result, Motörhead was prevented from cathartic whatever recordings -- including a outlandish collaboration betwixt Lemmy and page-three girl Samantha Fox -- for deuce years.
Motörhead in conclusion returned to legal action in 1986, first-class honours degree with a track on the charity compilation
Hear 'n Aid and later with the Bill Laswell-produced
Orgasmatron, which was released on their new label, GWR.
Orgasmatron was successful with the band's still-dedicated cult consultation in England and America, and received some of the group's best reviews to date. The following twelvemonth, they released
Rock 'n' roll 'N' Roll, which was evenly successful. In 1988, the live
No Sleep at All appeared, and Lemmy made his playing debut in the drollery
Wipe out the Rich. Two days later, the dance band gestural to WTG and released
The Birthday Party. Taylor shortly rejoined the band in 1991, appearance on that year's
1916, ahead Mikkey Dee, at one time of King Diamond, took all over on drums. Dee's first gear record album with the dance band was 1992's
March or Die, which didn't graph in the U.S. withal played to their U.K. religious cult undermentioned. WTG dropped the band later the album's release and the band started their possess label, appropriately called Motörhead, which was distributed through ZYX. Their first gear record album for the pronounce was 1994's
Bastards.
For the remainder of the '90s, Motörhead saturated on touring more than than recording. Outside of the band, Lemmy appeared in indemnity commercials in Britain. He also acted in
Hellraiser 3 and had a cameo in the erotica picture
Saint John Wayne Bobbit Uncut. In 1997, the group affected to the metal-oriented indie pronounce Receiver and released
Isidor Feinstein Stone Dead Forever; the live
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else followed in 1999, and a year later they returned with
We Are Motörhead.
Hammered appeared in 2002 and was followed by 2004's
Perdition. In 2005 the Sanctuary label reissued some of the band's graeco-Roman albums (
Overkill,
ACE of Spades, and
Iron Fist) in two-CD luxe editions. A collection of all-new material,
Kiss of Death, arrived in 2006.
