TEAM RNS PRESENTS

LABEL: Sanctuary Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

244kbps avg - Metal
0hr 48min total- 88.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-06-22
RIP DATE: 2004-05-28

03 In The Name Of Tragedy         3:03

06 Down On Me                     4:12
07 In The Black                   4:31

09 In The Year Of The Wolf        4:17
10 Keys To The Kingdom            4:46
11 Smiling Like A Killer          2:44

The Motorhead legend roars on in 2004
with the release of the new studio album
'Inferno' on June 22 on Metal-Is Records,
a division of the Sanctuary Records
Group. It's the first album of new,
skin-peeling material from
vocalist/bassist Lemmy, guitarist
Philip Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee
since 2002's 'Hammered' and it's the
first Motorhead release since last
year's critically acclaimed, five-disc,
career-spanning box set 'Stone Deaf

Guitar legend Steve Vai makes a guest
appearance on two tracks.

'Inferno' is an appropriate title for
Motorhead's latest skull-grinding,
internal-organ-liquefying album. The 12
tracks are: "Terminal Show," "Killers,"
"In the Name of Tragedy," "Suicide,"
"Life's a Bitch," "Down on Me," "In the
Black," "Fight," "In the Year of the
Wolf," "Keys to the Kingdom," "Smiling
Like a Killer" and "Whorehouse Blues."

"This album is real musicians playing
real music. There were no rules," Lemmy

It's not easy for the hard-living,
fun-loving rock icon to pick out favorites
on 'Inferno.' Every song is special and

"Music is very personal. It's just like
sex in that way," says Lemmy.

Vai's blazing guitar performances on
"Terminal Show" and "Down on Me" were
the result of a casual social encounter
with Lemmy at the famous Rainbow Bar &
Grill in Hollywood.

"I was going in and he was coming out
and we ran into each other. I told him
we were recording and invited him down
to sit in. He took me up on the offer,"

Motorhead has a distinctive musical
style -- nobody grinds out a furious rock
'n' roll hybrid of heavy metal and punk
like this band. But Lemmy always has a
few tricks up his sleeve, and
Motorhead albums tend to have a song or
two that veer away from their trademark
sound. On 'Inferno' the honor belongs to
the slinky "Whorehouse Blues,"
appropriately drenched in bluesy
acoustic guitar and harmonica.

"I like to surprise people," says Lemmy.

Motorhead's colorful history is well
known. Lemmy -- born Ian Kilmister --
was a former roadie for Jimi Hendrix and
eventually joined the space-rock band
Hawkwind. Lemmy wrote and sang
Hawkwind's big 1972 U.K. hit "Silver
Machine." Upon exiting Hawkwind after
four years, he formed Motorhead in 1975,
naming the group after the last song he
wrote for Hawkwind. Motorhead's
aggressive, uncompromising, balls-out
musical style (and personal lifestyle
philosophy) shook the music world. Let's
be blunt here: Motorhead invented speed
metal. But the great thing about
Motorhead is that they appealed to both
punks and head-banging metalheads.

"We sounded like punk but looked like
metal. I always felt we were more punk
than metal anyway. I call it rock 'n'
roll, but if I had to go down one side
or the other I'd say we had more in
common with punk than we have in common
with heavy metal. We came out at the
same time as the punks," Lemmy says.

The band's self-titled official debut
album was released in 1977. Motorhead
quickly built a rabid following through
killer live shows and albums that we
able to translate that power. 1981's
legendary live album 'No Sleep 'til
Hammersmith' rocketed to # 1 on the U.K.
album charts. Another notable album in
Motorhead's canon is 1991's critically
acclaimed, Grammy-nominated '1916,'
which was nominated for Best Metal
Performance. Motorhead earned a second
Grammy nomination in 2000 for Best
Metal Performance with a tribute to
Metallica's "Enter Sandman" on the
'ECW: Extreme Music' album.

As a live act, Motrhead is untouchable.
Few scenes in heavy metal match Lemmy
on stage -- standing his ground, head
tilted slightly upward as he growls
ferociously into his microphone and
unleashes thunder from his
Rickenbacker. Campbell's screaming
sonic overload guitar completes the
roaring string section, while Dee,
surely one of the most inventive and
brutal drummers you ever heard, drives
along like a locomotive. Live, and on
CD and on video, there is no one like

Motorhead will promote 'Inferno' with
yet another world tour this year.
Ashes and rubble will be left in Lemmy,
Cambell and Dee's wake.

'Inferno' is an enhanced CD. The
enhancement will allow fans to sign up
for Motorhead Internet service at
www.motorheadrules.com.