Bastards (Motörhead album)

Occupation

• Lemmy Kilmister: bass, vocals
• Phil Campbell: Guitar
• Würzel: Guitar
• Mikkey Dee: drums

Bastards is the eleventh studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. It was the only album on the German label ZYX Music.

Formation

In early 1993, the band decided to sign a recording contract with the German label ZYX Music. The reasons for this Lemmy Kilmister calls that Germany was one of the best markets for Motörhead and that ZYX had offered 500,000 U.S. dollars the highest advance. For the first time the new drummer Mikkey Dee involved in the songwriting. It was recorded with producer Howard Benson in the A & M Studios in Hollywood, California. With Do not Let Daddy Kiss Me is a title is present, the text of which is directed against child abuse. Kilmister had written him a few years ago Bastards and offered him without success artists like Lita Ford and Joan Jett, because he found that it was a woman sing.

In promotion of the album, initial problems with ZYX stood out because Bastards was widely available only in Germany. A little later, the company set for Japan to be found in the U.S., the album had not yet been officially released at the time. Similarly, the label refused to pay the cost for 200 promo CDs that should be sent for promotional purposes to the press.

Title list

Reviews

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic praised the album as a return of the band to a more familiar sound: " extremely loud and fast". Songs like On Your Feet or on Your Knees and Death or Glory set the pace and Born to Raise Hell is undoubtedly the greatest classics of the late phase of the band. He says that this often overlooked album is one of the strongest releases of the band in the 1990s. The situation is similar Götz Kühnemund of music magazine Rock Hard Bastards and classified as " brutal uptempo rock and roll ," it was a " round, convincing MOTÖRHEAD album".