Inferno (Motörhead album)

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inferno
Motörhead studio album

Publication
(s)

June 22, 2004

Label (s) SPV

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

12

running time

48:26

occupation

production

Cameron Webb

Studio (s)

NRG, Paramount, Maple Studios

chronology
Hammered
(2002) 		inferno Kiss of Death
(2006)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
inferno
  DE 10 07/05/2004 (9 weeks)
  AT 44 07/04/2004 (4 weeks)
  CH 36 07/04/2004 (5 weeks)

Inferno is the 17th studio album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was the first album since March ör Die that could also be placed in the album charts outside of Germany and is therefore regarded by fans and critics as the band's comeback album.

Emergence

Music producer Cameron Webb was considered one of the hottest metal producers at the time the album was made . After an inquiry with Motörhead's band manager Tony Secunda, Webb and the band met in London , which led to Webb being hired as the producer for the upcoming album. Guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee had worked out the skeleton of the songs and the band went to Los Angeles in early 2004 to start pre-production with Cameron Webb . While Campbell and Dee were working on the arrangements, Lemmy Kilmister wrote the lyrics.

After a few weeks, the actual recordings began in the NRG Recording Studios in Hollywood . First, Mikkey Dee recorded his drum tracks within three days and then left the studio to get back to the final mix . The guitar tracks were to be recorded at Maple Studios in Orange County . However, there was a dispute between producer Webb and guitarist Campbell because he did not want to record with Webb. After being mediated by the band management, Campbell did his part of the recording together with a friend in another studio, while Webb recorded the bass tracks with Kilmister. The finished guitar tracks did not meet Webb's quality standards, so Phil Campbell had to re-record some of the recordings. Guitarist Steve Vai contributed a solo to each of the titles Terminal Show and Down on Me . The final mix took place at Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood. The mix turned out to be difficult because the entire band was present and every musician wanted his instrument to be in the foreground. Overall, the recording process took around two months and the album was released in June 2004. The first single was Whorehouse Blues .

Track list

  1. Terminal Show - 3:45
  2. Killers - 4:14
  3. In the Name of Tragedy - 3:03
  4. Suicide - 5:07
  5. Life's a Bitch - 4:13
  6. Down on Me - 4:12
  7. In the Black - 4:31
  8. Fight - 3:42
  9. In the Year of the Wolf - 4:17
  10. Keys to the Kingdom - 4:46
  11. Smiling Like a Killer - 2:44
  12. Whorehouse Blues - 3:52

Reviews

Rolling Stone magazine celebrated the album as a triumphant return to the band's roots, comparing the guitar riffs to a rocket-powered version of Chuck Berry . The Billboard Magazine noted that the same punk-metal template with which the band started in 1977, still functioning, albeit with some variations. The trio “burn their way through twelve noisy, blues-rocky” pieces, and Lemmy's singing is timeless. Giuliano Benassi from laut.de notes that the album sounds fresh and convincing compared to its predecessors. He sees parallels to Metallica , ZZ Top and compares the piece Suicide with Accept . The Rock Hard chose Inferno "Album of the Month" in June 2004, Frank Albrecht praised in particular the alignment of the harder music and the album is called a "classic MOTÖRHEAD modern times".

literature

  • Jake Brown with Lemmy Kilmister: Motörhead: In The Studio . John Blake Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84454-978-8 , pp. 205-222 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  2. ↑ Brown / Kilmister, p. 220
  3. ↑ Brown / Kilmister, p. 221
  4. ^ Frank Albrecht: Motörhead - Inferno . In: Rock Hard . No. 206 , June 2004.

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