Genres: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, British Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1975 in London, England
Black Sabbath, The Ramones, MC5, The Damned, The Stooges, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, Steppenwolf, The Yardbirds, The Trashmen, The Sex Pistols, Blue Cheer, The Clash, The Kingsmen, Led Zeppelin Saxon, Diamond Head, Girlschool, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, UFO, Voivod, Slayer, Deliverance, Vardis, Anthrax, Queensr˙che, Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Killing Joke, Celtic Frost, Spartan Warrior Celtic Frost, Slayer, Anthrax, Warfare, Megadeth, Metallica, Cancer, Painted Willie, Nashville Pussy, Queens of the Stone Age, Puffball, Brand New Sin, Shorty, Furcas, Voivod, Circle Jerks, Sepultura, Dark Angel, Alice in Chains |  |
Motörhead's overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking styles the genre had to offer in the late '70s. Though the group's leader, Lemmy Kilminster, had his roots in the hard-rocking space rock band Hawkwind, Motörhead didn't bother with his old group's progressive tendencies, choosing to amplify the heavy biker rock elements of Hawkwind with the speed of punk rock. Motörhead wasn't punk rock -- they formed before the Sex Pistols and they loved the hell-for-leather imagery of bikers too much to conform with the safety-pinned, ripped T-shirts of punk -- but they were the first metal band to harness that energy and, in the process, they created speed metal and thrash metal. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Motörhead continued performing into the next century.
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Release: January 5, 2010
Label: Sanctuary Records
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Release: October 6, 2009
Label: IMV Blueline
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