Motorhead’s breakthrough Overkill now stands as a widely praised, towering achievement in heavy-rock history. That's wonderfully ironic since the album should, by all rights, have never even happened.

Happy anniversary to Motorhead's Overkill album. With their 1977 self-titled debut, Motörhead opened the floodgates for a new style of bluesy, bombastic biker metal, but two years later, on March 24, ...

Each LP will be available in expanded, deluxe hardback book CD and vinyl formats, while a box set titled 1979 will bring both together. They're being released on Oct. 25. You can see its full contents ...

During the course of 365 days, the group put out 'Overkill' and 'Bomber,' two albums that inspired everybody from Metallica to Mudhoney to play over the top Although Overkill was the band’s second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Clarke. Or ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke, I should say. It’s easy to immediately think of Lemmy whenever Motörhead’s name is mentioned ...

Whereas Motörhead had been hammered out double-quick in a desperate bid to clinch an LP release with Chiswick Records, the album that became Overkill had a bigger budget and meant ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke ...

Anyone who was fortunate to have seen Motorhead knows that "Overkill' is one of the most energetic songs any rock and metal fan can experience live. With the Clean Your Clock live CD/DVD arriving soon ...

On Dec. 24, 1945, the world welcomed the iconic Ian Fraser Kilmister. Sixty-eight years later, Lemmy Kilmister has become a legend, fronting both Hawkwind and Motorhead. It's the latter band where ...

Bombs once again rained down on London on Oct. 27, 1979. Thankfully, these weren't dropped by the fearsome Luftwaffe of WWII nightmares, but by the three, long-haired and wild-eyed hooligans behind ...

The group's first album features songs built on a formula of unabashedly fun rock and roll inspired by the New York City punk rock scene, notably the Ramones. Indeed, "Motorhead" could have been a ...