No NWOBHM thread is going to be complete without a Motorhead album, so this album is the fifth essential to have.
Motorhead Ace of Spades 1980
If you like to gamble, I tell you I`m your man, you win some, lose some it`s all the same to me, The Ace of Spades.
Like Iron Maiden Motorhead need no introduction and this group were the dirtiest, meanest and toughest hard rock, heavy metal, revved up rock n roll or whatever you want to call them band around. "Los Tres Hombres" Lemmy Kilmister, Philthy Animal Taylor and Fast Eddie Clarke just didn`t give a f*uck, they`d step up, plug in and play away. The Ace of Spades was one of a number of shiiiiiit kicking albums they put out in the 79-82 time period and it came off the back of the
Overkill and
Bomber albums of 1979. The album is loud, fast and furious and helped to lay down the foundations of the future thrash sound, but it was Lemmy who was the beast`s engine with his high octane vocals and that dirty sounding bass and he was f*ucking horrible!