Eight months before Motörhead’s classic lineup recorded their self-titled debut, the trio found its sea legs in the studio at an August 1976 session, where they recorded early versions of half of Motörhead’s track list. Now, a year shy of the recordings’ 50th anniversary, the session will come out as …
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Current Scorpions and former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee revealed that he’s recovering after spending most of the holiday season battling a “very serious blood infection (Sepsis).” In a post on Facebook, Dee said he spent three weeks in a hospital in his hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, during which he underwent …
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The affection that James Hetfield feels for Motörhead’s late frontman, Lemmy Kilmister, is well documented: Metallica have covered “Overkill” dozens of times, the whole band once performed as “The Lemmys” at Kilmister’s 50th birthday bash, and Hetfield’s lyrics to Metallica’s “Murder One” is basically a string of Kilmister references. Now …
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Two of Motörhead’s surviving members, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee, participated in enshrining the ashes of the band’s late frontman, Lemmy Kilmister, in a ceremony at the Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in Germany this week. Video from the event shows the two musicians holding what looks …
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Motörhead went out on a high note with their final studio album, Bad Magic. Shared in 2015, the record clocked in at just under 43 minutes with a 13-song tracklist. But everything that they created for the album didn’t make it out of the studio, including the newly-released “Greedy Bastards,” …
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