PLAYED AN ACE OF SPADES MEANING HOW TO
We're not straight heavy metal, because we're a rock 'n' roll band, which no-one knows how to market anymore."
Motörhead don't fit into any category, really. We were too late for the first metal movement and early for the next one. "I like Iron Maiden and Saxon out of the new mob, and that's about it, really. In the 2011 book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motörhead, Joel McIver quotes vocalist and bassist Lemmy: Motörhead – a band that resented being labeled anything other than rock 'n' roll – was placed in this new genre, which would go on to influence the emerging thrash metal movement that would include bands like Metallica and Megadeth. Their ferocious, loud proto- thrash playing style appealed equally to punks and heavy metal fans, but in 1979 Sounds writer Geoff Barton coined the term " New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (NWOBHM) to classify a slew of newer bands such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and Saxon. Background īy 1979, Motörhead had released two extremely successful classic albums, Overkill and Bomber, and had gained a loyal fan following by constant touring and television appearances.
In 2020, the album was ranked at 408 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. It was the band's debut release in the United States, with Mercury Records handling distribution in North America. It was preceded by the release of the title track as a single on 27 October, which peaked in the UK Singles Chart at No. It is the band's most commercially successful album, peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart and reaching gold status in the UK by March 1981. Ace of Spades is the fourth studio album by British rock band Motörhead, released in October 1980 via Bronze Records.
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