BravePicks 2011: The 12 Days Of Metal - #2
December 31, 2011, 12 years ago
Yes, it's finally here! BravePicks 2011. Why so late? Cuz we're cutting to the chase. Normally we countdown throughout December, but this year we've filtered out the mediocre to give all the BraveWords.com faithful the cream of the crop - releases you may actually want to play more than once! So 'tis the season for BravePicks 2011 - The 12 Days Of Metal. We will be counting down until New Year's some of the finest slabs of metal this past year had to offer, voted by the devout scribes here at BraveWords.com! What does "slab" actually mean? We're talking studio albums. No compilations, rerecordings, live albums etc… Just pure metal, all killer no filler!
So let's rock … only two more to go!
2) MOTÖRHEAD – The Wörld Is Yours (Mötorhead Music/EMI)
The Wörld Is Yours was released in mid-January … many months back, but not forgotten!
In his feature, BraveWords.com's Aaron Small wrote: The Wörld Is Yours serves as a milestone in MOTÖRHEAD’s career as it’s the band’s 20th studio album, marking their 35th anniversary. “Not bad for being given six months to live in 1975,” quips iconic frontman / vocalist/bassist Lemmy Kilmister. Somewhat surprisingly, the special significance associated with The Wörld Is Yours didn’t faze Lemmy or his bandmates - guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee. “We don’t care about shit like that. It’s another album; they’re all as good as we can get them.”
During the recording of The Wörld Is Yours, Motörhead experienced an unexpected fork in the road when Campbell’s father got sick. As such, Phil flew from Los Angeles to Wales to attend to his Dad, who unfortunately passed away. According to Lemmy, “Phil wanted to go say goodbye; that’s fair. You couldn’t deny the guy that obviously for a bloody album. So that was okay. The Internet’s a great thing for that. Phil has a small studio in his house (in Wales). We sent him tracks and he put lead guitar on them over there and sent them back. He only had to do it once; he did pretty well.” Listening to The Wörld Is Yours, there isn’t the slightest inkling that the Atlantic Ocean separated the guitarist from the rest of his band. “Yeah right,” jokes Lemmy. “We couldn’t get a good screen in the studio so…”
Read the entire interview here.
BraveWords.com's Mark Gromen commented on his track-by-track overview: "Like long running contemporary AC/DC, in 2010 Motörhead is reliable, rudimentary, rarely spectacular, yet rocking. Overall, these ten selections offer variations of a theme, fairly consistent in tempo and intensity. I wasn’t really a fan of Motorizer (decent, but unspectacular) and while nothing here approaches ‘Burner’, ‘Rock Out’ or even ‘R.A.M.O.N.E.S’, nor the blatantly different styling of an ‘English Rose’, ‘Don’t Let Daddy Kiss Me’ or ‘1916’, find this World preferable. Probably more tuneful than One Track Mind!
Read more here.
12) VALLENFYRE – A Fragile King (Century Media)
11) MEGADETH – Th1rt3en (Roadrunner)
10) MELIAH RAGE - Dead To The World (Metal On Metal)
9) WORLD UNDER BLOOD – Tactical (Nuclear Blast)
8) DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - Deconstruction (InsideOut)
7) ICED EARTH - Dystopia (Century Media)
6) DEMONAZ - March Of The Norse (Nuclear Blast)
5) EXHUMED - All Guts, No Glory (Relapse)
4) OPETH – Heritage (Roadrunner)
3) MASTODON - The Hunter (Reprise)
2) MOTÖRHEAD – The Wörld Is Yours (Mötorhead Music/EMI)
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