Clean Your Clock Boxset

They were the Kings of the Road. They lived on it. They loved it. It loved them.And never was the spirit of Motrhead more alive than when they were on tour, shake, rattle and rolling audiences to within an inch of their lives thanks to that indomitable cocktail of power, purpose andheadcrunching volume. In fact, after four decades ofbonepulverizing duty, Motrhead were still enjoying soldout gigs worldwide.On November 20th and 21st 2015, at the Zenith in Munich, Germany, the decisionto record was made.The bands longtime studio producer Cameron Webb made sure the technical specs were as good as they could be, Motrhead proceeded to deliver two storming shows. Where there had once been almost toofast breakneck pace, there was measured yet still thunderous rock n roll served up only as they could, Phil Campbell playing better than he had in years, and Mikkey Dee elevating the art of drumming to the superlative heights which made him one of metals most coveted skinsmen.Lemmy sounds so dialed in, a little mean even in the best possible waysnarling here and there, cackling when appropriate, and singingin a way which will defy every single preconceived expectation you might have had. Yes, he was fighting ailments. Yes, he was fighting the sadness of losing PhilPhilthy Animal Taylor. But no, he was notflimsy or faded, in fact on Clean Your Clock he lays downthe marker for all near70 year olds in terms of wicked badassery.Those first strains of the mighty Bomber are like a salve to all heavy metal souls, the reverberant classic forcing you to turn it up, Lemmy snarling and roaring like a man in his 20s, Metropolis grooving like the day it was written, and Overkill as mighty a pulverizer as everlook, here is the unavoidable truth. There will be no more Motrhead tours because Lemmy is no longer here, and many, many people did not get a chance to hear them one more time on what proved to be their lastever piece of road work. Which makes Clean Your Clock a vitally important release. It is both a celebration and an epitaph, glorious yet not without melancholy. It had to sound right, as with all Motrhead releases, but this one was arguably more important than any of the others. Webb has done the show, and the band, proud by helping make sure the power of the band is not lost in some digital sinkhole, maintaining the warmth and curve of Motrheads unique live sound.Clean Your Clock is the natural sound of one of rock n rolls mightiest, rarest and most astoundingly excellent beasts Motrhead. There isnt a plaudit they havent received and there isnt a plaudit they dont deserve.So TURNTHISUP becauseas Lemmy himself said, the only way to feel the noise is when its good and loud...