Originally released in 2006, the new reissue of Motörhead‘s Kiss of Death is here for its 20th anniversary and includes a lot of great extras.
The album gets off to a fast start (of course) with “Sucker,” and Mikkey Dee getting you moving with his fast, sharp beats. The firearms pictured on the album’s cover fit right in with the hard and heavy “Trigger” (which has a great breakdown in it) and “Under the Gun.”
“Listen to the hundred million dead. They didn’t know it, but they died for you,” Lemmy Kilmister sings / roars on the excellent “Sword of Glory” (which features a soaring solo from Phil Campbell). “If all that slaughter doesn’t make you sad, you’ll just make the same mistake again and again,” Kilmister warns. It hits hard, like everything Motörhead does.
Speaking of hitting hard, Kilmister’s bass on “Be My Baby” sounds like an eighteen-wheeler coming at you with no brakes down a steep hill. The furious “Going Down” has a ripping outro that leaves you breathless. The album ends with the 2006 version of “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.”, a fun tribute to some of their punk contemporaries…unless you get the CD version of this reissue, because that includes the gritty, dangerous “Whiplash” and a live version of “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.”
The album (in both CD and LP versions) also includes a previously unreleased full live recording of a 2007 concert from the Netherlands Lowlands Festival. It includes live versions of Kiss of Death tracks “One Night Stand” and “Be My Baby,” as well as classics like “Stay Clean,” “Metropolis,” “I Got Mine,” “Killed by Death,” and, of course, “Ace of Spades.”
It’s another gem of a record for your Motörhead collection. The amount of unreleased material that’s come out in the last few years is astounding, and there seems to be no end in sight.
Keep your mind open.
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[Thanks to Maria at Adrenaline PR.]
