By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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The best rock bands create their greatest work with their backs against the wall — witness the Rolling Stones — and the legendary British hard-rock powerhouse Motorhead was no exception.
Forty years ago, the band had seen the dissolution of its classic “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith” lineup accompanied by a pair of sub-par studio albums, and had been largely given up for dead. But the band’s leader, Lemmy Kilmister, was nothing if not a survivor. He regrouped with a pair of blazing guitarists and thunderous ex-Saxon drummer Pete Gill and, for this album, joined forces with the unexpected choice of producer Bill Laswell, who was well known in experimental-leaning New York rock/jazz circles — and producer Herbie Hancock’s left-field 1983 hit “Rockit” — but seemed an odd fit for Motorhead.
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