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Lemmy was never really much of a singer but his vocal style was so unlike any other and the way he used his voice fit the music of Motorhead perfectly. The wild and fast drumming by Philthy Animal Taylor and Fast Eddy Clarke's slicing guitar attack propel this one into heavy metal infamy. This album absolutely smokes from beginning to end with the hard-hitting speediness of the title track Ace Of Spades getting you set for a painfully sore neck by the end of it all. Their self-titled debut, Overkill and Bomber albums had really generated a huge buzz amongst the metal community in Europe but Ace Of Spades broke the band in big way and literally silenced the critics who had either ignored them in the past or felt that they would never amount to anything more than the cult status that they had achieved thus far.
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Interestingly, for the tour in support of Ace Of Spades, Ozzy opened for them on parts of the European leg whereas they opened for Ozzy when the tour swung through North America. By the time this album came out, they had a huge following in many parts of Europe and it was time for the rest of the world to get onboard. Like them or not, everyone seemed to know about Motorhead as the videos for The Chase Is Better Than The Catch and Ace Of Spades were regular features on many music shows.Īlthough it was their fourth album, Ace Of Spades was the first album to get world wide release and was the first one released in North America. Released later that same year, Motorhead's Ace Of Spades set the entire music world on its ear with their brand of rough and ready rock and roll that borrowed from the blues as well as punk music to fuel the machine that churned out some of the nastiest and fastest heavy metal that we'd ever heard. It was the start of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) that fuelled the resurgence of heavy metal music throughout the early 80's. 1980 was a huge year for metal music and saw the release of such classics as AC/DC's Back In Black as well as British Steel by Judas Priest, Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell, Ozzy's Blizzard Of Ozz, Saxon's Strong Arm Of The Law and the debut albums by Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. The torch was then carried throughout the mid to later part of the decade by bands like Judas Priest, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Rainbow and U.F.O. The roots of heavy metal music were planted in the 70's by such greats as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.