Alan Sculley at DailyRecord.com recently caught up with legendary MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy. An excerpt from the story is available below.

Motörhead has never had a hit album in the United States. In fact, its previous release, "Motorizer," was the group's first CD to crack the Top 100 on the Billboard magazine album chart.

Yet the group's bassist/singer, Lemmy Kilmister, has become one of the most familiar figures in heavy metal — if not all of rock 'n' roll. He's been a writing contributor to hard rock magazines, and his quick wit, gravelly voice and his rugged look — usually dressed in black with his mutton chop sideburns and mustache and his famous pair of warts on his left cheek — have made him familiar to generations of hard rock fans.

Now he's even had a new documentary movie done on him by filmmakers Wes Orshoski and Greg Olliver that is receiving considerable acclaim. For his part, Kilmister can't explain why he has become something of an icon in hard rock circles.

"I think it's really been like dumb luck," he said in a mid-January phone interview. "I haven't changed how I am at all. I'm just like banging against the furniture on my way through life, and people seem to have picked up on it a bit more. I mean, it becomes fashionable to like Motorhead again about every seven years, so maybe we're going through our own phases."

Kilmister and Motorhead have been around long enough now to have seen several of those cycles of popularity.

Ian Fraser Kilmister formed Motörhead in 1975 after he had been in the legendary cult band, HAWKWIND. His intent from the start was for Motörhead to be a British version of Detroit's seminal garage/punk/metal band, the MC-5 - although he didn't expect the group to take on its famous power trio format.

"It's become like the MC-3, hasn't it?" Kilmister said. "At the start we were going to have three guitar players and a singer. Then I got stuck with the singing because the singer left. I was only one that could sing, or I was the only one that would. Eddie (Clarke) could sing very well, but he wouldn't do it. I got stuck with that. I like it now. I couldn't be on stage and not sing now."

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Motörhead's new album, The Wörld Is Yours, was released in North America on February 8th.

The Wörld Is Yours sold 7,000 copies in the US in its first week, landing at #94 on The Billboard 200 chart. In Canada, the album enters the Top 200 at #24.

The Wörld Is Yours tracklisting:

'Born To Lose'

'I Know How To Die'

'Get Back In Line'

'Devil's In My Head'

'Rock 'N' Roll Music'

'Waiting For The Snake'

'Brotherhood Of Man'

'Outlaw'

'I Know What You Need'

'Bye Bye Bitch Bye Bye'

BraveWords.com has heard The Wörld Is Yours - check out scribe Mark Gromen's overview of the album here.