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Demons, hair metal and Ozzy Osbourne playing a priest: Why Trick Or Treat is the 80s’ unsung metal horror classic

In 1986, director Charles Martin Smith made an underrated horror movie lambasting the PMRC – and he got Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead to help.

Metal Hammer

"I was still up at seven in the morning, howling away at the top of my voice" - How Lemmy wrote Motorhead by Motörhead

When Motörhead recorded the definitive version of Motorhead, it was third time lucky: this version would change Lemmy's life

Metal Hammer

Lemmy's golden rules of songwriting, and the three songs he loved the most

Late Motörhead mainman Lemmy on the genius of Abba, what he shares with Jimi Hendrix, the best lyric he ever wrote, and the greatest songs ever written

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"You can’t talk about distorted bass without mentioning Ace of Spades": Listen to Lemmy’s isolated bass on Motörhead’s born-to-lose anthem

"His tone was so huge!" The secrets behind Lemmy's distorted bass tone

Guitar World

The mind-boggling story of how former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson ended up in Motorhead

"Being in Motörhead was crazy 24 hours a day" says Brian Robertson – but the story of how he came to be part of Lemmy’s chaotic crew is even stranger

Louder

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's Insane Clown Posse collab The Lucid to nu metalcore newcomers Graphic Nature, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands

Metal Hammer

Algy Ward, bassist with The Saints and The Damned and founder of Tank, dies aged 63

The UK bass player played a role in several acclaimed punk and metal bands, yet refused to be pigeonholed by either camp

Guitar World

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Algy Ward, former bassist with Tank, The Damned and The Saints, dead at 63

Alasdair Mackie 'Algy' Ward passed away on May 17, it has been confirmed

Louder

You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video

Motörhead's cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman comes from from a digital EP that includes songs by Hawkwind, Bob Seger and the Sex Pistols

Metal Hammer

The unspoken truth about gardening? It is a relentless, unwinnable war

Peace is simply not possible in my garden. If I snooze, I lose. The green tide just keeps coming and I can never beat it back

The Guardian - UK

Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway

Lemmy didn't feel Motorhead needed a warm-up band for their LA show in 2011: "We were like, ‘Oh ****, Lemmy hates us."

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Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m probably the only person who’s ever cried at a Motörhead concert’

Curious, down-to-earth, satirical: Jeremy Deller is an artful master of the absurd, as Laura Antonia Jordan discovers ahead of the launch of his spirited new book

Evening Standard

Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson says Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are misappropriating umlauts: "it ought to make you either laugh or get angry"

Jethro Tull will be using the umlaut properly for new album RökFlöte - unlike some certain rock and metal legends

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12 obscure but excellent 80s rock and metal bands who should have been massive

The 80s were a golden time for rock and metal, but these 12 brilliant bands never got the mainstream success and recognition they so richly deserved

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Motorhead's Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Lemmy before he died: "I couldn't even go over to the funeral"

Lemmy's Motörhead bandmates Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee didn't get an opportunity for a final goodbye with Lemmy before his death

Wales Online

Tributes to Hawkwind singer Nik Turner who has died at the age of 82

Born in Oxford, he spent his latter years in his beloved Carmarthenshire

The Guardian - UK

Nik Turner, Hawkwind co-founder and saxophonist, dies aged 82

Member of influential British space-rock band also played in Sphynx, Inner City Unit and Space Ritual

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a secret Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles fan’: Nick Helm’s honest playlist

The comedian loves Kiss at karaoke and Motörhead in bed, but he’s strictly MOR in the back of an Uber – not that he would ever tell you

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'Scream for Me, Africa!': How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music

Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in Botswana known as "Vulture."

Wales Online

Top 10 best - and worst - road trip playlist songs to help calm dogs' car anxiety

Two-thirds of dog owners have noticed their pooch gets anxious while in a car - but a four-hour playlist including the Bee Gees and Bob Marley should help keep them calm

The Guardian - UK

Bodies by Ian Winwood review – rock and a hard place

Destruction and depravity is normalised in the transgressive world of rock’n’roll. Is it too late to reassess the human cost?

Louder

The 50 best rock bands of all time

A definitive guide to the very best rock bands to ever have bothered polite society

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