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Date Posted: 09:58:10 05/28/04 Fri
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MOTORHEAD SET TO UNLEASH FIERY ALBUM 'INFERNO'
ON METAL-IS/SANCTUARY RECORDS ON JUNE 22, 2004
'INFERNO' WILL BE AN ENHANCED CD WHERE FANS
CAN SIGN UP FOR MOTORHEAD INTERNET SERVICE
The Motorhead legend roars on in 2004 with the release of the new studio
album 'Inferno' on June 22 on Metal-Is Records, a division of the Sanctuary
Records Group. It's the first album of new, skin-peeling material from
vocalist/bassist Lemmy, guitarist Philip Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee since 2002's
'Hammered' and it's the first Motorhead release since last year's critically
acclaimed, five-disc, career-spanning box set 'Stone Deaf Forever!'
Guitar legend Steve Vai makes a guest appearance on two tracks.
'Inferno' is an appropriate title for Motorhead's latest skull-grinding,
internal-organ-liquefying album. The 12 tracks are: "Terminal Show," "Killers,"
"In the Name of Tragedy," "Suicide," "Life's a Bitch," "Down on Me," "In the
Black," "Fight," "In the Year of the Wolf," "Keys to the Kingdom," "Smiling Like
a Killer" and "Whorehouse Blues."
"This album is real musicians playing real music. There were no rules," Lemmy
says.
It's not easy for the hard-living, fun-loving rock icon to pick out favorites
on 'Inferno.' Every song is special and important.
"Music is very personal. It's just like sex in that way," says Lemmy.
Vai's blazing guitar performances on "Terminal Show" and "Down on Me" were
the result of a casual social encounter with Lemmy at the famous Rainbow Bar &
Grill in Hollywood.
"I was going in and he was coming out and we ran into each other. I told him
we were recording and invited him down to sit in. He took me up on the offer,"
Lemmy says.
Motorhead has a distinctive musical style -- nobody grinds out a furious rock
'n' roll hybrid of heavy metal and punk like this band. But Lemmy always has
a few tricks up his sleeve, and Motorhead albums tend to have a song or two
that veer away from their trademark sound. On 'Inferno' the honor belongs to the
slinky "Whorehouse Blues," appropriately drenched in bluesy acoustic guitar
and harmonica.
"I like to surprise people," says Lemmy.
Motorhead's colorful history is well known. Lemmy -- born Ian Kilmister --
was a former roadie for Jimi Hendrix and eventually joined the space-rock band
Hawkwind. Lemmy wrote and sang Hawkwind's big 1972 U.K. hit "Silver Machine."
Upon exiting Hawkwind after four years, he formed Motorhead in 1975, naming the
group after the last song he wrote for Hawkwind. Motorhead's aggressive,
uncompromising, balls-out musical style (and personal lifestyle philosophy) shook
the music world. Let's be blunt here: Motorhead invented speed metal. But the
great thing about Motorhead is that they appealed to both punks and
head-banging metalheads.
"We sounded like punk but looked like metal. I always felt we were more punk
than metal anyway. I call it rock 'n' roll, but if I had to go down one side
or the other I'd say we had more in common with punk than we have in common
with heavy metal. We came out at the same time as the punks," Lemmy says.
The band's self-titled official debut album was released in 1977. Motorhead
quickly built a rabid following through killer live shows and albums that we
able to translate that power. 1981's legendary live album 'No Sleep 'til
Hammersmith' rocketed to # 1 on the U.K. album charts. Another notable album in
Motorhead's canon is 1991's critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated '1916,' which
was nominated for Best Metal Performance. Motorhead earned a second Grammy
nomination in 2000 for Best Metal Performance with a tribute to Metallica's "Enter
Sandman" on the 'ECW: Extreme Music' album.
As a live act, Motörhead is untouchable. Few scenes in heavy metal match
Lemmy on stage -- standing his ground, head tilted slightly upward as he growls
ferociously into his microphone and unleashes thunder from his Rickenbacker.
Campbell's screaming sonic overload guitar completes the roaring string section,
while Dee, surely one of the most inventive and brutal drummers you ever
heard, drives along like a locomotive. Live, and on CD and on video, there is no
one like them.
Motorhead will promote 'Inferno' with yet another world tour this year. Ashes
and rubble will be left in Lemmy, Cambell and Dee's wake.
'Inferno' is an enhanced CD. The enhancement will allow fans to sign up for
Motorhead Internet service at www.motorheadrules.com.
www.imotorhead.com
www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com
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