Overkill (Album)

Occupation

  • Lemmy Kilmister: bass, vocals
  • Eddie Clarke: guitar
  • Phil Taylor: drums

Overkill is the second studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released on March 24, 1979 and received in the UK 1981 Silver status for 60,000 units sold. It was the commercial breakthrough of the band dar.

Recordings, tour

After the band Chiswick Records had left them helped band manager Doug Smith to a recording contract with Bronze Records for a single. In the summer of 1978 Motörhead took the Wessex Studios in London a cover of Louie Louie and his own piece Tear Ya Down on. Published on 25 August 1978 single reached number 68 on the charts, so Bronze extended the contract for a studio album. The end of 1978 the band went for a fortnight in the Roundhouse studio in London to record the album. It was produced by Jimmy Miller, who had already produced Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup for The Rolling Stones. The title Damage Case, No Class, I Will not Pay Your Price and Tear Ya Down had already played the band live before, the rest of the pieces created during the studio recordings. The guitar solo to Capricorn originated by chance when Jimmy Miller was run with the tape recording, while Eddie Clarke tuned his guitar. Metropolis wrote Kilmister within five minutes after he had viewed the film of the same name, the text makes no sense. The 1978 recorded for the B- side of the single Louie Louie Tear Ya Down was not re-recorded, but got into the single version on the album.

In March 1979, he began the tour in Edinburgh for the album with Girlschool as support. After an appearance at Punkaharju Festival in June 1979 in Finland the band out of anger destroyed over the failed appearance stage technology, lit a caravan and buried him in a lake. Then the musicians and their touring crew were arrested and banished to a four-day stay in prison in the country.

Title list

Reviews

Jason Birch Meier of Allmusic considers the album for the first of a number of great Motörhead albums, maybe it was even the best. The band- typical sound had fully emerged with the album, it contained the title track, Stay Clean and No Class some of the classics of Motörhead. The magazine Rock Hard chose it at number 340 of the 500 best albums of all time, Götz Kühnemund writes that the band Overkill breakthrough in the UK had succeeded as the " hardest, dirtiest and ugliest band". He points out that the title song of the album was called because of the double bass drums as " speed metal ". Falk Kollmannsperger by the online magazine The Metal Observer declared the album to the " ultimate classic ... 10 songs, each one a hit ," the guitar riffs, the drums and bass line each träfen " full pipe to the Twelve ".

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