Motorizer

永遠に暴走し続ける爆走ロックンロール! トップ・スピードでロック街道を爆走し続けた、故レミー・キルミスターを中心としたハード・ロックンロールの帝王:モーターヘッド。彼らが95年～2008年の間に発表したスタジオ・アルバム/ライヴ・アルバムを2回に分けて一挙BMGよりリリース決定! 3作連続でキャメロン・ウェブをプロデューサーに起用、その強靱なヘヴィ&ファスト・サウンドで全米チャートにも食い込んだ、2008年発表の通算19作目となるアルバム『MOTORIZER』のアナログ盤!

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "MOTORIZERis a solid Motorhead album, one which places its faith in the one thing Lemmy is still willing to believe in -- rock'n'roll." Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is an utterly unbridled outing....They deliver thunderously within parameters ranging from Ramonesy punk/thrash to Ted Nugenty riffola..." Record Collector (magazine) (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's much vitality about the trio's latest LP....When Lemmy, Phil Campbell and the monstrously-good drummer Mikkey Dee are on form, they pack one hell of a punch."

Even if Motorhead had broken up around 1983 or 1984, they still would have gone down in history as one of the most influential metal outfits of all time. Motorhead, after all, was the first metal band to seriously incorporate punk; they wrote the book on thrash metal and speed metal in the late '70s and early '80s, paving the way for Slayer, Metallica, Venom, Megadeth, Testament, Anthrax, Death, Exodus, and countless others. But Motorhead, of course, didn't break up in 1983 or 1984, and they were still cranking out quality albums in the late 2000s. Lemmy Kilmister (who turned 62 in 2007) shows no signs of slowing down on 2008's Motorizer, which Cameron Webb produced at Dave Grohl's 606 Studios in Los Angeles. Despite the fact that Webb has worked with a lot of alt rock and alt metal artists (including Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Godsmack, Buckcherry, Lit, Ben Folds, and Monster Magnet) and produced this 39-minute CD in a studio that is owned by a member of the Foo Fighters and ex-member of Nirvana, Motorizer makes no effort to be alternative-sounding. Instead, the classic Motorhead sound prevails, and forceful, in-your-face tracks such as "Buried Alive," "Runaround Man," "When the Eagle Screams," and "Time Is Right" sound like they could have been recorded 25 years earlier. Motorizer never pretends to be groundbreaking, but if the material is predictable, it is engagingly predictable; Kilmister sounds inspired and focused throughout the album, and at 62, he has yet to overstay his welcome. Motorizer falls short of essential and isn't quite in a class with Motorhead's best late-'70s/early-'80s output, but this album is definitely respectable -- and it is good to see this seminal thrash/speed trio still plugging away after so many years in metal's trenches. ~ Alex Henderson