Motörhead – ‘Ace Of Spades’ 40th Anniversary Box Set (BMG)
In the entire annals of hard rock and heavy metal, there are but a handful of albums which truly deserve the description “iconic”. One of them, most undoubtedly, is ‘Ace Of Spades’. As the press release which accompanies this massive, and equally deservedly so, box set treatment to mark it’s 40th anniversary states, ‘Ace Of Spades’ was nothing short of a gamechanger for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk at the time, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour, pushing at every musical boundary. Just like its three creators, nothing was harder, nothing was faster – and certainly nothing was louder than Motörhead and the hand they dealt with this opus magnus, which still stands the test of time to this very day as one of THE defining moments in not just the history of heavy metal but that of rock ‘n’ roll as a whole…
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