March ör Die
Occupation
- Lemmy Kilmister: bass, vocals
- Phil Campbell: Guitar
- Würzel: Guitar
- Mikkey Dee: drums
March ör This is the tenth studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. It was the last album for WTG / Epic Records and also the last, is to listen to the drummer Phil Taylor.
Formation
In early 1992, began Motörhead to work on the songs for the follow-up to 1916. This context, cooperation with drummer Phil Taylor turned out to be problematic, because he no longer played well enough in the opinion of Lemmy Kilmister and partly could keep time only with the help of a metronome. That's why he was fired during the recordings and can be heard with Is not No Nice Guy on only one piece. The remaining tracks up to Hellraiser played a Tommy Aldridge (ex - Whitesnake ), it was clear from the beginning that he would not be a member of the band as a studio musician. Shortly before the end of the studio recordings hired the band with drummer Mikkey Dee a new firm. With it took Motörhead Hellraiser and Hell on Earth on. The latter song was never previously been published (2012 ).
The album was produced by Pete Solley. The recordings took place in the Music Grinder Studios in Hollywood during the riots in Los Angeles in 1992, it was mixed at Sound Castle in Hollywood. At the insistence of the record company Motörhead coverte the play Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent. The piece was written by Hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde Lemmy Kilmister together with 1991's for Osbournes album No More Tears. The ballad Is not No Nice Guy sang Kilmister and Ozzy Osbourne a common, Slash from Guns N 'Roses played the guitar solos.
During the recordings, the bankruptcy of the label WTG apparent. Although published WTG both the album and the single from the album Is not No Nice Guy, but neither the album nor the single were being advertised. The new band manager Todd Singerman made sure that Is not No Nice Guy was played by the U.S. AOR stations and gave the band an appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Furthermore refused, the parent company of the label WTG to pay the cost of the music video for Is not No Nice Guy, which is why the band paid the approximately $ 8000 itself. The video, which had both Ozzy Osbourne and Slash guest appearances, received after being released by Sony airplay on MTV. Following the closure of WTG failed at the end 1992, the takeover of the record contract by the parent company Sony, which showed no further interest in the band.
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Reviews
Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic called the album as one in which everything went wrong. Although the band had already flirted with earlier eingängigerer music, with March ör The have the band but want to try to force to release radio-friendly music. This did not work, despite the participation of Ozzy Osbourne and Slash. Rivadavia holds ör The March for one of the weakest albums of the band. Götz Kühnemund from the magazine Rock Hard, however, is enthusiastic and says that the album's " most diverse MOTÖRHEAD disc to date at all " and that it referred to " definite [n ] successor, in 1916, '" as the.