Label: Silver Lining Music
Release date: 4/23/2021
Album length: 69.13 min
Genre: Rock ‘N’ Roll
Rating: 8.0/10
What’s better than thirteen official Motörhead live albums? Well, fourteen. The world of rock’n’roll would be painfully dull and empty without a fourteenth. So, ladies and gentlemen, the late band of immortal musical feats and shenanigans is serving up yet another live album, “Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin”. This time with a slightly tweaked, freshened-up opening salute from the Chancellor: »Good Evening! We are Motorhead … And we salute you for being so kind!«
The recording comes from the band’s autumn/winter European tour, on which the dazzling punks, on their beastly crusade in support of the then-current album »The Wörld is Yöurs« (2010), stopped in Berlin, Germany on Dec. 5, 2012, at the Velodrom, where the infamous trio under the command of the Iron Chancellor Lemmy Kilmister drove a 12,000-strong crowd out of its mind. It was the last tour. The last one the band managed to get under its belt before serious health problems caught up with Lemmy. As we all know, from June 2013 right up to December 2015, when the band called it quits, Mötorhead played very few shows.
Worth adding that on this tour, called ‘Kings of the Road’, the band also paid a visit to Ljubljana’s Hala Tivoli on Dec. 10, 2012, so »Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin« is a nice keepsake for everyone who was at that historic Ljubljana show, too. In fact, the whole Balkans pretty much showed up in Tivoli that night, and after that gig the men’s bathroom in Hala Tivoli was never opened again. If nothing else, the devastation of the men’s toilets at least preserved that grateful feeling that we Balkan folks are, you know, real men.
Anyway, let’s get quickly to this Berlin show. The double CD comes with a full film, found on the bonus DVD. The concert film was directed by Herwig Meyszner, who has previously worked on similar recordings for bands like Saxon, Exodus and Kreator. Another classic, then. A Motorhead classic, when it comes to playing German stages. The trio kept their excellent onstage sharpness, and Lemmy handles things decently, too. Lemmy’s vocal grinder remains the main magnet of the recording, while Campbell and Dee remain incredible stage partners in crime when it comes to execution. Loud, louder, loudest. And if we keep escalating? Motörhead, of course.
Barely 70 minutes of live music is all this document holds, which shows that the trio had finally started saving their energy. After all, given his lifestyle, it’s a flat-out miracle Lemmy made it to 70. But even five and a half years after his death, it’s undeniable that no rock musician who has gone to the great gig in the sky is missed more. If anyone was ever a true rock’n’roll icon, it was, and remains, Lemmy Kilmister. And this document is one more proof. A glittering rock’n’roll document of unique rock’n’roll perversions, white-hot debauchery, and extremely hairy, devastating detonations, after which a fresh count of the dead and wounded (survivors) can begin!
Author: Aleš Podbrežnik
Track list:
1. I Know How To Die
2. Damage Case
3. Stay Clean
4. Metropolis
5. Over The Top
6. Doctor Rock
7. String Theory
8. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
9. Rock It
10. You Better Run
11. The One To Sing The Blues
12. Going To Brazil
13. Killed By Death
14. Ace Of Spades
15. Overkill
Line-up:
Lemmy – vocals, bass guitar
Phil Campbell – guitar
Mikkey Dee – drums
