Motorizer - Dark Publications

Location: Home » music » British Metal » Motorizer

Similar Items:

•	Death Magnetic
•	Along Came A Spider
•	All Hope Is Gone (Special Edition CD/DVD)
•	The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked Part II)
•	Nostradamus

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
True pop culture icons. Unquestioned household name recognition. Purveyors of some of the finest hard rock and heavy metal on the planet. This is Motoerhead! Motoerizer is Motoerhead s 24th album and gives listeners the feeling that they have not yet reached the peak of their musical output. Like the band themselves have stated: A kick ass motherf#cking record definitely one of the wider ranged Motoerhead records ever released . The album was produced by Cameron Webb and the recording took place at Sage & Sound and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl s 606 studios in Los Angeles. Motoerhead is embarking on a full-scale US tour together with Heaven & Hell and Judas Priest, already being hailed as the tour of the year`.

Album Description
Mot"rhead! Mot"rizer is Mot"rhead's 24th album and gives listeners the feeling that they have not yet reached the peak of their musical output. Like the band themselves have stated: `A kick ass motherfucking record definitely one of the wider ranged Mot"rhead records ever released'. The album was produced by Cameron Webb and the recording took place at Foo Fighter Dave Grohl's 606 studios in Los Angeles. Mot"rhead is embarking on a full-scale US tour together with Heaven & Hell and Judas Priest, already being hailed as the `tour of the year'.

Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

"1, 2, 3, 4...." August 29, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Lemmy must have been into heavy doses of the Ramones while recording this album, because his love for the band is quite evident throughout "Motorizer". In fact there is a fast paced, "punk" rock vibe to many of the songs here in the "Goin' To Brazil" & "R.A.M.O.N.E.S" vein. "Rock Out" does exactly what it promises and then some. Mickey Dee's drumming propels the album from start to finish without pause (no slowed down ballads here). Dee is arguably the best drummer in rock/metal and he proves it here. And friggin' Phil, the man never ceases to amaze me; his playing just keeps getting better. Phil takes his own chops, blends in a wee-wee bit of Chuck Berry, a heavy dose of Thin Lizzy era Brian Robertson (Phil's wah wah pedal tone is killer on this album) and consequently churns out guitar solos and fills that are short, sweet and very wicked. Then you have Lemmy.....'nuff said. I am a longtime fan dating back to the vinyl days. I would hesitate to put "Motorizer" up there with classics like "Overkill" and "Ace Of Spades", but it is darn close.
A great place to start for a newcomer to the band and a definite "add to cart" for current Motorhead fans.

4 out of 5 stars

Another great Motorhead album August 26, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

It is just amazing, that after a 30+ year career, Lemmy & co. would release their 24th album, with no signs of slowing down or watering down their sound, with the same energy as if it was 1977!
At this point Motorhead have become an institution!

Motorheads' success is due to the fact that unlike most metal bands who have survived this long (and very few have), the band has NEVER sold out to current musical trends.. Motorhead has seen punk, NWOBHM, hair metal, grunge, nu-metal and punk come and go back again, and they have always sounded the same: as loud and heavy as ever.

Motorhead are as uncompromising as always, which is why they have everyone's respect and this is why they keep on touring and releasing new music!

The new album, Motorizer is not a groundbreaking by any manner, but this is not the reason why you listen to Motorhead in the first place.. what you get is what you expect: 11 pounding proto-metal Motorhead tracks loud enough to leave you deaf, with the always genial lyrics Lemmy has always written (hey, Ozzy wouldn't hire just anyone to write songs for him.. there is a reason why he hired Lemmy!)

Overall, Motorizer may not be as good a Motorhead's surprisingly successful 2004 album "Inferno", but it doesn't matter.. it is still good enough to enjoy, because nobody writes songs like Lemmy and nobody sounds like Motorhead!

This band re-invented and re-defined the way metal sounds forever (just ask Metallica!) and this album will be a great addition to any Motorhead fan's CD collection!

4 out of 5 stars

Excellent addition to the canon August 26, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Yep, its the best Motorhead album since the last best Motorhead album!
The production, to my ears, sounds more stripped down than the last few records with Lemmy's bass pushed to the fore once again. Hallelujah! Also, the overall sounds is more "punky" than it is "metal". Think OVERKILL era 'Head. In fact, the band even reference the relentless bass damaged groove of "Damage Case" on one track ("Back on the Chain"), and Mickey Dee cops the drum intro from 'White Line Fever' for another . Nice! Cheers to you if you know what I'm talkin' about.
I was lucky enough to see 'em at a teeny club in SF on the Ace of Spades tour when I was just 13! And even saw the great Robo lineup, capezios and all. Kind of lost track of 'em in the mostly forgetable late 80's and 90's but am glad to see Lemmy back in such good fighting shape after all these years. Sure makes ME feel young! Cant wait to see the band again for the first time in 25 years...you should all pay homage to the man before its too late (too late). He turns 65 in 2010!!

5 out of 5 stars

The best since Overnight Sensation September 4, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I just picked up this album, after hearing song clips; I think this is the strongest Motorhead album since Overnight Sensation (and it's probably a lot better than that album). Great production and sound engineer work; tight musicianship, and a whole lot of swagger--plus some interesting musings about aging and what gives one's life meaning.

Consider some of these songs--like "One Short Life," "Buried Alive"--against Lemmy's old western 'bad guy' fixation (as in "Shoot You in the Back"); what was once "To live outside the law/ You've got to give a damn" has now become "Living outside the law is so lonely."

And "English Rose" is worth the price on its own.

4 out of 5 stars

They never stop... August 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

There's a lot of rock and roll and metal bands out there that have had rather long careers. The Ramones, AC/DC, Metallica, Cheap Trick, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. The list goes on.

As these bands age a few things always happen.

Either they slow down, their music gets softer, their music gets worse, and/or they just don't release as many albums as they did in their earlier days.

Motorhead, however, has fallen prey to NONE of these problems. It seems that no matter how old they get (the collective age of this fine trio as of Motorizers release: 153 years old) Motorhead continues to be the same band we've always loved. They play some very heavy punky bluesy rock, and they play it as fast and loud as always, and they give us a new album at least every three years, if not sooner.

Motorizer, like the 18 studio albums before it, continues this fine tradition, and it does it well. Lemmy's lyrics are still from the gut, the music still hits hard, and the melodies are still tough and surprisingly hooky.

Fans will have plenty to like on this one (lets face it, if you've heard anything this bands done since 1993 you know EXACTLY what this album sounds like), and while (at least to me) its not quite as good as the magnificent "Inferno" or "Kiss Of Death," it IS just as good as anything else they've done since "Ace Of Spades."

And that amazing level of prolific consistency is something truly amazing. We should all be happy that there's a band like Motorhead in the world.

Powered by Associate-O-Matic

T-shirts, Posters

Pentagram T-shirts, bags, etc...

Gothic Posters