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Album Review: Motorhead ‘The World Is Yours’

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Motorhead is in many ways the runt of the Metallica/Megadeth/Anthrax litter. Though not thrash metal by any means, Motorhead still had the raw energy and attitude of aforementioned bands and was, at least back in the day, as recognizable a name. However, aside from a few big hits, they fell to the wayside as the rest of the pack went on to bigger and better things. But that doesn’t mean that Motorhead has lost any of its tenacity or drive to keep on keeping on. So with that, they have released their latest album, ‘The World Is Yours’. How does it fare? Check after the jump for all the details.

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The album kicks off with ‘Born To Lose’, which starts off heavy and awesome, in a man-I-wish-I-knew-where-my-jeans-jacket-is kind of way. It’s identifiably Motorhead and hearing Lemmy belt it out is pretty nostalgic in its own way. The issue I have with this track is that many of the riffs and progressions are so overused that I found myself getting distracted trying to remember how many songs I’d heard them in. Still, it’s a fun track.
The rest of the album, however, doesn’t know which direction it wants to go in. Is it classic heavy metal? Is it hard rock? Is it country/southern heavy rock? That’s the major issue with ‘The World Is Yours’: It shoots up high but doesn’t know where to land. It makes for a somewhat frustrating listening experience because I would get into a musical style only to have it switched on me with the next track. 
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The production is overall really solid. The guitars have a great overdrive/distortion tone going on that’s really articulate and Lemmy’s bass sounds thick, clear and round-bottomed (Just how I like my women. Wait, clear?). Lemmy’s voice hasn’t changed at all and if you dug his snarling intense delivery before, you’ll love it here. The only complaint I have with the production is that the drums, while really well mixed and engineered, just don’t have any ‘oomph’ behind them. Basically put, they sound kinda wimpy. 
The Final Word: A mix of classic heavy metal, hard rock and southern rock, ‘The World Is Yours’ suffers from not knowing which genre to focus on the hardest. Meandering here and there, the best I can say of ‘The World Is Yours’ is that it sounds great and a couple of the songs will get you pumped. But definitely not the whole album. 
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‘The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live’ Concert Event to Make Streaming Debut Next Month

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The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live

AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.

Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24. 

Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”

Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.

The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.

Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.

The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.

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