Week 4: Motörhead - When the Eagle Screams

The artist: Motörhead are yet another band that should be easily recognised to anyone. The majority of metalheads will know Lemmy right away and if they're real fans of Motörhead, they'll know the names of other band members both past and present. Lemmy may be the centre of Motörhead but that doesn't mean his bandmates Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee can't be acknowledged. Lemmy and his band have been going on since 1975 and nothing seems to be stopping them.

The album: Motörizer is one of the most recent Motörhead albums and follows the louder and heavier style of Motörhead they went with since Inferno. For the new direction Motörhead took with Inferno and the success for that album, the band has stuck to the same sound production since and rightly so. Kiss of Death and Motörizer also sound great and as crazy as this sounds, I find myself to enjoy the last few Motörhead albums more than the classics (i.e. Overkill, Bomber and Ace of Spades).

The song: Starting with a strange voice clip but shortly followed by a killer intro. Infact, killer is the word that describes the song all around both musically and lyrically. Phil Campbell slays the listeners with the intro, riffs and solos. All of it is a facemelter and to contribute to the greatness, Lemmy puts in 100% to make this song very aggressive with his powerful voice and bass guitar and Mikkey Dee does his job to give the song a really good rhythm. The song is about war and how soldiers are ordered to fight, kill their enemies and earn rewards mindlessly to show how war isn't easy and the cost of killing others. Definitely a great song from the later Motörhead works and there's plenty more to check out from the recent era.