Rancid Unleash Cover of Motorhead's "Sex and Death"

""The cover choice is an apt one, as "Sex and Death" - from the 1995 album Sacrifice - sounds like it could have been written by a punk band like Rancid. It clocks in at two minutes, and you can transpose the respective barks of Lemmy Kilmister and Lars Frederiksen to either version of the song. Frederiksen and company punk it up even more, though it really isn't too far off from the recording Motörhead laid down in the mid-'90s.""

""It's like, it's the perfect Motörhead song for me," said Frederiksen of "Sex and Death," via a press release. "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.""

Rancid released a cover of Motörhead's "Sex and Death" as the final preview for the tribute album Killed By Deaf, due October 31. The cover runs two minutes and preserves Motörhead's mid-'90s energy while emphasizing a punk edge. The original song appears on Motörhead's 1995 album Sacrifice and sonically aligns with Ramones-style punk, allowing vocal parallels between Lemmy Kilmister and Lars Frederiksen. Frederiksen called the song the perfect Motörhead track and noted Lemmy's Ramones fandom and the song's fit with Rancid's style. The tribute also features Pennywise, The Bronx, Lagwagon, FEAR, GBH, and a Lemmy collaboration with The Damned on "Neat Neat Neat." Pre-orders and streaming are available.

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