MOTORHEAD – Iron Fist [Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition] (1982/2022)

MOTORHEAD 1982’s album ”Iron Fist” is receiving a 40th-anniversary remastered reissue, with a lot of bonus tracks, studio demos and unreleased live takes included among its various new deluxe editions.
The band’s fifth LP will be re-released on Sept. 23 in two-CD and three-LP featuring a remaster of the original album, previously unreleased demos and a full concert from the Glasgow Apollo on March 18, 1982.
Originally issued on April 17, 1982, ”Iron Fist” marked the final album by Motorhead’s classic “Three Amigos” line-up of singer and bassist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke (who also produced the record) and drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor. It followed the band’s landmark Ace Of Spades album and blistering No Sleep ’til Hammersmith live LP.

”Iron Fist” is re-positioned as a vital snapshot of Motörhead at a crucial period when they found themselves caught in the tornado ignited by success and, in true Motörhead style, careered into their next phase at such velocity it transcended logic or reason to become this trio’s final kamikaze joyride.

Forty years later, with fall-out long dissipated and a proper mastering job that avoided it at the time, ”Iron Fist” sounds like prime Motörhead with the gloves and seat-belts off.
For sheer velocity, it could be fastest of them all, the ferocious title track earning such an accolade in Kerrang! in its tribute spread to Lemmy after he passed away.

By 1982, punk had been and gone, the new wave of heavy metal started to sound more commercial and, while still trouncing all opposition, Motörhead retained that essential ability to laugh at everything, including themselves as they made lightning raids on every sense and orifice with everything cranked to overload.

While some fans and journalists at the time criticized “Fast” Eddie Clarke production of the album for being ‘sterile’, Iron Fist is a blast of rock n’ roll – at least this fresh remaster really punches. There’s a really good full live show from Glasgow Apollo released for the first time, plus previously unreleased album pre-production demos.
Highly Recommended

Disc 1: Iron Fist remastered + unreleased
01 – Iron Fist (40th Anniversary Master)
02 – Heart of Stone (40th Anniversary Master)
03 – I’m the Doctor (40th Anniversary Master)
04 – Go to Hell (40th Anniversary Master)
05 – Loser (40th Anniversary Master)
06 – Sex and Outrage (40th Anniversary Master)
07 – America (40th Anniversary Master)
08 – Shut It Down (40th Anniversary Master)
09 – Speedfreak (40th Anniversary Master)
10 – (Don’t Let ‘Em) Grind Ya Down (40th Anniversary Master)
11 – (Don’t Need) Religion (40th Anniversary Master)
12 – Bang to Rights (40th Anniversary Master)
13 – Remember Me, I’m Gone
14 – The Doctor (Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
15 – Young & Crazy (Alternative version of Sex and Outrage Demo1981)
16 – Loser (Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
17 – Iron Fist (Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
18 – Go to Hell (Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
19 – Lemmy Goes to the Pub (Alternate Version of ‘Heart of Stone’)
20 – Same Old Song, I’m Gone (Alternate Version of ‘Remember Me, I’m Gone’)
21 – (Don’t Let ‘Em) Grind You Down (Alternate Version)
22 – Shut It Down (Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
23 – Sponge Cake (Instrumental;Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
24 – Ripsaw Teardown (Instrumental;Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)
25 – Peter Gunn (Instrumental;Jacksons Studio Demos – October 1981)

Disc 2: Live at Glasgow Apollo 18/3/82 (Previously unreleased)
01 – Iron Fist (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
02 – Heart of Stone (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
03 – Shoot You in the Back (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
04 – The Hammer (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
05 – Loser (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
06 – Jailbait (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
07 – America (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
08 – White Line Fever (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
09 – (Don’t Need) Religion (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
10 – Go to Hell (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
11 – Capricorn (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
12 – (Don’t Let ‘Em) Grind Ya Down (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
13 – (We Are The) Road Crew (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
14 – Ace of Spades (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
15 – Bite the Bullet (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
16 – The Chase Is Better Than the Catch (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
17 – Overkill (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
18 – Bomber (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)
19 – Motörhead (Live at Glasgow Apollo, 18th March 1982)

Lemmy Kilmister – vocals, bass
“Fast” Eddie Clarke – guitars
Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor – drum

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