Bad Magic

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Bad Magic
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

August 28, 2015

Label (s) Motorhead Music

Format (s)

CD , record

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

13

running time

42 min 57 sec

occupation

Furthermore:

production

Cameron Webb

Studio (s)

NRG North Hollywood, Maple Studios

chronology
Aftershock
(2013) 		Bad Magic -

Bad magic is the twenty-second and final studio album of British heavy metal - band Motorhead . It was released on August 28, 2015 on the band's own label Motörhead Music and distributed by UDR Music. It is the band's first album to reach number 1 in the German album charts the week after its release.

Emergence

In autumn 2014, singer and bassist Lemmy Kilmister announced that Motörhead would start work on the next studio album at the end of the year and that the recordings were scheduled for March 2015. While on the previous albums the compositions were mostly by guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee , the pieces on the album are joint compositions of all band members. Most of the pieces on the album are three minutes long, which for Kilmister is the expression of the "essence of rock 'n' roll", two and a half minutes are sufficient and the guitarist has ten seconds in the middle part to prove his skills in a solo.

The recordings took place at NRG Studios in Hollywood , Bad Magic was produced by Cameron Webb . Brian May can be heard as a guest musician with a guitar solo on The Devil . The piano passages in the Rolling Stones - Cover Sympathy for the Devil played a Phil Campbell. In addition, Motörhead recorded another cover with “Heroes” by David Bowie , which was later released on the album Under Cöver . In addition, one song from the recording sessions was not taken into account, as otherwise the album would have become too long to be released as a record.

The album was released on August 28, 2015 via the band's own label Motörhead Music / UDR.

On December 28, 2015, front man Lemmy Kilmister died , which led to the breakup of the band.

Track list

Bad Magic 
No. title Composition and text length
1. Victory or Die Motorhead 3:09
2. Thunder & Lightning Motorhead 3:06
3. Fire Storm Hotel Motorhead 3:35
4th Shoot Out All of Your Lights Motorhead 3:15
5. The Devil Motorhead 2:54
6th Electricity Motorhead 2:17
7th Evil Eye Motorhead 2:20
8th. Teach Them How to Bleed Motorhead 3:13
9. Till the end Motorhead 4:05
10. Tell Me Who to Kill Motorhead 2:57
11. Choking on Your Screams Motorhead 3:33
12. When the Sky Comes Looking for You Motorhead 2:58
13. Sympathy for the Devil Mick Jagger, Keith Richards 5:35
Overall length: 42:57

reception

Reviews

The album received mostly positive reviews. Boston Globe's Steve Morse named Bad Magic one of the best albums of the year. Dom Lawson of The Guardian newspaper praised Bad Magic as lively and engaging. Mark Deming from AllMusic wrote that the album offers little new musically, but the instrument playing has the usual high quality. Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard described Bad Magic as the best Motörhead album since Bastards (1993). Jörg Scheller counts it among the "darker Motörhead albums", but in the overall work it "does not set any new accents for Motörhead conditions".

Sales figures

After its publication, the album was the first Motörhead work to take first place in the German album charts. It also topped the charts in Finland and Austria. It came in second in Switzerland and fourth in Sweden and the Czech Republic.

In the United States, Bad Magic sold 10,325 copies in its first two weeks of sales.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Exclusive interview with Lemmy . In: Rock Hard . No. 330 , November 2014, p. 35, 37 .
  2. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: Those who rehearse cannot do anything . In: Rock Hard . No. 340 , September 2015, p. 34 f .
  3. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: Heaven can wait . In: Rock Hard . No. 339 , August 2015, p. 17 .
  4. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: Heaven can wait . In: Rock Hard . No. 339 , August 2015, p. 15 .
  5. ↑ Alexandra Michels: Motörhead publish "Bad Magic" prelistening and interview clip. In: Rock Hard . August 27, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ After Lemmy's death: "Motorhead is over". In: Expressen . December 29, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Steve Morse: Motorhead, 'Bad Magic'. In: Boston Globe . August 27, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  8. ^ Dom Lawson: Motörhead: Bad Magic review - indecently thrilling and vital. In: The Guardian . August 27, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Mark Deming: Bad Magic. In: AllMusic . Retrieved September 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motorhead - Bad Magic . In: Rock Hard . No. 339 , September 2015, p. 97 .
  11. ↑ Jörg Scheller: Motörhead: Bad Magic as musealized resistance and resistant musealization, along with some remarks on transcultural aspects in the overall work of the band. October 17, 2015, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Martin Tege: Motörhead landed at number one in the German charts for the first time with their 22nd album "Bad Magic", and "Aktion Arschloch!" Was also enjoying success. In: Rolling Stone . September 7, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  13. ↑ MOTÖRHEAD: 'Bad Magic' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed. In: Blabbermouth . September 11, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  14. ^ Matt Brown: Metal By Numbers 9/9: Motörhead work their bad magic. In: Metalinsider . September 9, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .