### Motörhead: Aftershock

#### 25/10/13 || Habakuk

It feels so good to write a review without an intro. Yes, we all know what’s up here. They’re back and their only sign of slowing down is the first three-year break between albums since …well, actually since nineteen-ninety-fucken-one, when it took them four years to dish out “1916”. I guess that’s okay when your bandleader’s health is compromised and he’s 135 years old.

The thing is, you don’t hear it for shit. It’s not like this album is a straight up revelation, but who expects that of a Motörhead album these days? The band know what they’re good at, and they provide a nice barrage of what they do best: double-bass driven high speed numbers, stomping mid-tempo smashers, rock’n roll inspired grooves, three-chord/d-beating and to top it off a song that wouldn’t be out of place on an AC/DC album (“Keep your powder dry”). Actually, they don’t showcase much they’re not good at.

Admittedly, I guess one could say that 14 songs are stretching it a bit. Especially if all of your tricks have been heard before, like the off-time drum intro to “Over your Shoul…”, excuse me, “Death Machine”, but fuck it, if the bar is as high as with the good part of Motörhead’s post-2000 output, I don’t mind the odd default tune or recycled idea. If you like the band, you’ll like this album. The production is great and chunky, everyone sounds like they should, bodies are set in motion. And if you don’t like what they do, most likely they don’t give a shit. Which truly is a very comforting thought, again and again.

A Motörhead album is like a case of beer: it’s retarded to complain about a lack of variety, you know what to expect and it always does the job. And you certainly don’t ask “what has changed since the last one”? Well, if you still wanna hear it: NOTHING. Nothing at all. Cheers.

- Information
- Released: 2013
- Label: UDR Records
- Website: imotorhead.com
- Band
- Lemmy: bass, vocals
- Phil Campbell: guitars
- Mikkey Dee: drums

- Tracklist
- 1. Heartbreaker
- 2. Coup de Grace
- 3. Lost woman blues
- 4. End of time
- 5. Do you believe
- 6. Death machine
- 7. Dust and glass
- 8. Going to Mexico
- 9. Silence when you speak to me
- 10. Crying shame
- 11. Queen of the damned
- 12. Knife
- 13. Keep your powder dry
- 14. Paralyzed