MOTORHEAD
Kiss of Death
Sanctuary
· Show Lemmy some respect!
Even if you don't like Motörhead, you have to respect Lemmy Kilmister. Where his rock ’n' roll contemporaries are content to wallow in their own irrelevance, forming supergroup after supergroup when they're not adjudicating televised talent contests, Kilmister soldiers on. With a full touring schedule and two albums of new material in just under two years, Motörhead show no signs of slowing down, and what's more, the band’s new records are actually worth listening to.
Kiss of Death hits hard right from the start, tracks like "Sucker," "One Night Stand," "Devil I Know" and "Trigger" hearkening back to the Motörhead of yore. Admittedly, it's pretty well the same old schtick – uptempo blood-surging beats, classic metal riffing and Lemmy's coarse harmonies and hard-knocks lyrics, but that's to be expected, isn't it? After all, unlike a lot of newer bands, they'll never be accused of being a Motörhead clone.
That said, when they do switch things up, as on the soapbox acoustic ballad "God Was Never on Your Side," the results are still surprisingly good. The only real weak points on the album are when Motörhead trade in their freeway tempo for something a little more brooding, as on "Under the Gun" and "Living in the Past," which sound just a little too nu-metally for my taste. Nineteen albums in and Kilmister and company remain a bunch of hungry youngsters with something to prove.
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