Hammered (album)

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Hammered
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

April 9, 2002

Label (s) Metal-Is / Sanctuary Records

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

11

running time

45:46

occupation

production

Motörhead, Thom Panunzio, Chuck Reed

Studio (s)

Henson Studios, Interscope Studios and Chuck Reed's house

chronology
We Are Motorhead
(2000) 		Hammered Inferno
(2004)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Hammered
  DE 39 04/22/2002 (4 weeks)

Hammered is the 16th studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . The title of the album means being completely under the influence of alcohol.

backgrounds

After Lemmy Kilmister suffered a physical breakdown after completing the over a year tour of the previous album We Are Motorhead , the band took a month off to begin recording in mid-September 2001 in producer Chuck Reed's home studio in Hollywood . The songwriting was under the influence of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , which is why the album was described by the band as dark and lame. In addition, Chuck Reed was not the best choice as a producer. With Red Raw one of the fastest pieces of the tape included on the album. The unusual serial killer is more of a poem spoken by Lemmy with a sound background and in which the wrestler Triple H also participates. In retrospect, Kilmister was dissatisfied with the production of the album.

The album was released in April 2002 and sold as often as the two previous albums Snake Bite Love (1998) and We Are Motörhead (2000) together in the first four weeks after its release . For Brave New World , the band shot a music video in a former bunker .

Track list

  1. Walk a Crooked Mile - 5:53
  2. Down the Line - 4:25
  3. Brave New World - 4:05
  4. Voices From the War - 4:30
  5. Mine All Mine - 4:14
  6. Shut Your Mouth - 4:08
  7. Kill the World - 3:41
  8. Dr. Love - 3:51
  9. No Remorse - 5:19
  10. Red Raw - 4:05
  11. Serial Killer - 1:57

Reviews

Martin Mengele from the online magazine laut.de remarks that the album gives the impression of being something special and calls the catchy Walk a Crooked Mile one of the best tracks of the band in the last ten years. In the lyrics he criticizes the ridiculousness of the "strange splatter heroic legends of blood and honor", but says that there is always a good rock song left over. Adam Bregman from Allmusic writes in his review that Motörhead on Hammered, unlike other veterans of the metal scene such as Iron Maiden or AC / DC, managed to add another title to its long list of classics with Walk a Crooked Mile . Incidentally, the album comes up with the typical Motörhead style and would undoubtedly find favor with the fans of the band. Jan Jaedike from the music magazine Rock Hard particularly criticizes Lemmy Kilmister's sometimes not particularly successful vocal performance, you can hear that he sometimes runs out of breath. In return, he praises the versatile guitar work of Phil Campbell .

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 , p. 257-258 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund: Motörhead: Kissed by death . In: Rock Hard . No. 231 , August 2006.
  3. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Motörhead: Hitler is gone . In: Rock Hard . No. 180 , May 2002.
  4. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Rock Hard . No. 179 , April 2002.

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