There’s a new tribute record coming out at the end of the month, paying tribute to the great Motörhead. One of the tracks has been released, from Rancid.
They are offering up their cover of the 1995 song “Sex & Death” from Motörhead’s Sacrifice album. In a press release for the album, Rancid guitarist/singer Lars Frederiksen said, “It’s like it’s the perfect Motörhead song for me. You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Motörhead doing The Ramones. But there’s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid-style song that Motörhead did that I thought it’s close enough to like a song we would write.”
The cover is a nice, straight-up version, with Frederiksen even slipping a little bit into Lemmy‘s accent for at least one line. And there’s definitely enough Rancid in there to make it sound like one of their songs.
The album, titled Killed by Deaf: A Punk Rock Tribute to Motörhead, will be available October 31st. It will feature songs by Pennywise, Fear and Murphy’s Law among others.
