But what it did was prove we were a real band.” For us, it was a stepping stone, which led to Bomber – although I think Overkill’s a better record – and then on to Ace Of Spades. When talking about the album being a ‘Classic’ with Metal Hammer Lemmy said “Is it? I really don’t know! What I hear is a record that’s… well, too slow! We play those songs much faster now. It wasn’t until 1981 with their album ‘Til Hammersmith’ that Motörhead started to grab the attention of U.S. Mick was a British journalist and a singer from a proto-punk band The Deviants. Lemmy wrote most of the lyrics except for “Damage Case” that was co-written by Lemmy and his mate Mick Farren. For instance, Lemmy described the time as “pure joy”. The band recorded the album at Roundhouse Studios with producer Jimmy Miller. In addition, On the recording of the album Lemmy wrote “We only had a fortnight (two weeks) to record Overkill,” as noted from Lemmy in his biography, White Line Fever, “ considering our checkered recording history it was a world of time for us, and besides, being quick in the studio has always been natural for us.” At the time, there was nothing else like them.” We were listening to them nonstop when we worked on our first album. “There’s no way to overestimate the influence of Motörhead. Scott Ian of Anthrax talks of the influence that Motorhead had on him. Smack bang from the first minute of the album you could hear Motörhead were on the road to something huge. After around two years of their 1977 self-titled debut Motörhead album the band smashed out their legendary second album – Overkill. Motorhead’s ‘Overkill’ album is now 43 years old.
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