Motörhead

I’m not a fan of heavy metal rock music – not since the days of Iron Butterfly and the original Steppenwolf: two bands that, while not heavy metal, paved the way for it. But when I read that Lemmy Kilmister (Ian Fraser Kilmister), founder and frontman of English heavy metal band Motörhead, had died on December 28, 2015, from an “extremely aggressive cancer” that had been diagnosed only two days earlier, I thought I should post a song of the day that features him performing.

The song of the day is Overkill, an extended version of the song from Motörhead’s 1979 album Overkill. The song has been covered by several bands including Overkill, a band who took their name from the Overkill album by Motörhead.