MOTORHEAD - stub review added 8th January 2008
Album Review: Motorizer (2008)
For fans of: heavy metal... and more of the same
If you like Motorhead you'll love this. If not, you won't... it's that simple.
Motorizer sounds very similar to all the other big Motorhead albums, which is both a good and bad thing. Bands who have been around this long can't really win when they release something new. If it sounds different everyone moans they've changed styles. If it sounds the same everyone moans that they should try something different.
Lemmy's voice sounds as God-awful yet characterful as ever, and the drum/bass/guitar combo is as simple yet colourful as you'd expect. If there were screaming guitar solos or Neal Peart style drum tricks, you'd probably faint anyway.
I have to say this is a solid release. It doesn't tread any new ground, but it does refine the Motorhead sound almost to the point of perfection. It isn't their best album, that credit for me still goes to 1916, but it's so close it'll give you crabs.
Check out... 'Rock Out'. One of, if not actually Motorhead's best song ever.
Track List:
1. Runaround Man
2. Teach You How To Sing The Blues
3. When The Eagle Screams
4. Rock Out
5. One Short Life
6. Buried Alive
7. English Rose
8. Back On The Chain
9. Heroes
10. Time Is Right
11. The Thousand Names Of God
Label: Steamhammer/SPV
Band websites: Motorhead , MySpace
