Drummer Mikkey Dee is very proud of the upcoming Motörhead collection, Under Cöver, and thinks fans will enjoy it, especially because the album was meant to be. Speaking to Billboard from his home in Sweden, he says, “We usually released an album pretty much every other year. Many, many moons ago, we were sitting around a table and talking about how it would be fun to make a covers record. Lemmy would choose four songs, [guitarist] Phil [Campbell] would choose four songs and I would choose four songs. Just songs that everybody liked over the years, but we never went into the studio to make a complete covers album.”

Dee adds, “We have done some great cover songs over all the years. We gathered all the stuff we’d done and said, ‘Let’s just put ’em all on one record and give the fans a cool booklet with some history.’ We’d done a few more things, but this collection was perfect, I thought.”

Asked if Motörhead has more unreleased material that might see the light of day, Dee is confident that it will. “There is some stuff around, but I don’t know exactly what. I know we have a lot of live [material], but there’s nothing in the plans as of now and we haven’t talked about it, but I’m sure there is plenty, both video and audio.”

Read more at Billboard.com.

One thing Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee liked to do throughout their years together in Motörhead was grab a favorite song by another artist and give it a good old fashioned 'Motörheading'. To run them through the Motörizer, if you will. To rock them, roll them and even give them an extra twist and edge.

In celebration of some of those finest moments, the band will release Under Cöver tomorrow (September 1st), a collection of some of their best covers, and a collection which will include the previously unreleased version of David Bowie's timeless classic "Heroes". Recorded during the Bad Magic sessions in 2015 by Cameron Webb, and was one of the last songs the band recorded together.

Under Cöver will be available in 1CD (digipack), 1x 180g black vinyl in gatefold, Super Deluxe boxset (1CD digipack, 1x 180g black vinyl and VIP guest pass), digital audio and MFiT audio. A video trailer can be found below.

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"It's such a great Bowie song, one of his best, and I could only see great things coming out of it from us, and so it proved to be," says Phil Campbell, "and Lemmy ended up loving our version."

"He was very, very proud of it," says Mikkey Dee, "not only because it turned out so well but because it was fun! Which is what projects like this should be - fun!"

To that ethic, the rest of the album contains loud and proud, raucous and raging rock 'n' roll takes on the likes of "God Save The Queen" (Sex Pistols), "Cat Scratch Fever" (Ted Nugent), "Rockaway Beach" (The Ramones), “Breaking The Law" (Judas Priest) and "Whiplash" (Metallica) which earned the band a Grammy in 2005 for Best Metal Performance.

"We were happy with them at the time and we're happy with them now!" affirms Campbell, whilst Dee says, "We should remember that it's about having some fun with songs that we all loved."

If that doesn't have you scrambling for your music delivery device, then check your pulse pronto. Or just start scrambling for a copy of Under Cöver immediately. You won't be sorry.

Under Cöver tracklisting:

“Breaking The Law” (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2008
“God Save The Queen” (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2000
“Heroes” (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
“Starstruck” (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2014
“Cat Scratch Fever” (Produced by Peter Solley) 1992
“Jumpin' Jack Flash” (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
“Sympathy For The Devil” (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
“Hellraiser” (Produced by Billy Sherwood) 1992
“Rockaway Beach” (Mixed by Cameron Webb) 2002
“Shoot 'Em Down” (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
“Whiplash” (Produced by Bruce Bouillet and Bob Kulick) 2005

Trailer: