Album Review: Motorhead The World Is Yours

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Rating: 4/5
Verdict: More blues. Less metal. Just as heavy.

While it's no Overkill or Ace of Spades the 20th studio album from Lemmy and his motley blues metal warriors is a rip-snorting cracker.

Non-believers and sceptics will say it sounds exactly the same as every other Motorhead album, but The World Is Yours is their best since - well, actually not that long ago - Kiss of Death in 2006.

It sure beats 2008's Motorizer for sheer unbridled fun and grunt and is driven by a far bluesier and more straightforward rock approach than they've had in years. In saying that, with its doomed grooves and Lemmy's dark overlord vocals, Brotherhood of Man is one of the darkest, and, at risk of committing Motorhead blasphemy, heaviest songs they've come up with in their 35-year reign.

You have to wonder when Motorhead's leader will run out of things to say, although you also have to give it to the gruff, whiskey-toting growler, he knows how to recycle all the best topics and this time round touches on religion ("If you think that Jesus saves, get back in line."), getting wasted ("get out tonight as high as a kite") and smoking guns ("That gun slinger, evil dude").

The only flimsy track here is centrepiece Rock'n'Roll Music, which is a case of nice sentiment ("rock'n'roll music is a true religion ... ") shame about the lethargic, porch rock delivery. Still, it will get your motor running.

-TimeOut