Motörhead "Motörizer (Japanese Edition, Digipak)"

Motörizer is the 19th studio album by the band Motörhead, released on 26 August 2008, their eleventh and last on the Steamhammer label.

Recording for the album was completed over the northern hemisphere winter of 2007-08, when the band had finished up their last tour, at Lemmy's long-time home of Hollywood in Los Angeles. As with all their albums since 2004's Inferno, it was Produced, Mixed and Engineered by Cameron Webb in California. Though the bands spends most of the year somewhere on tour together anyway, Philip and Mikkey have mostly recorded in the US when doing Motörhead albums, as Lemmy doesn't really travel unless touring since relocating. His age and health eventually made this the norm for the band, and so this album was done the same as the last few, with a few weeks over a few months practising, then into the studio for recordings. The format has served the band well enough over the years, as they generally brush off comments about their sound, that doesn't alter much each album by this stage in their careers, a formula they have been happy with.

Lemmy appeared on BBC 6 Music's radio programme, Bruce Dickinson's Friday Rock Show  on 11 July, 2008, to promote the album, playing the tracks Runaround Man, which he described as:

"..nonsense set to an infectious beat.."

Rock Out and The Thousand Names of God, of which he mentioned:

"..It's completely extraneous, the title... It's about soldiers being conned into going into battle, for like, business men. It isn't even a cause anymore.."

The band's lead single Rock Out was featured as the official theme song to WWE Unforgiven and in the films Hesher and Nitro Circus: The Movie.

The album cover was revealed on the front page of the group's official website on 11 June 2008.  The cover artwork is by Mark De Vito and features a Motörhead-themed coat of arms, without Joe Petagno's hand this time though, as the shield is quartered into:

• The Royal Arms of England for Lemmy in the top left corner;
• The Y Ddraig Goch of Wales for Phil Campbell in the bottom right corner;
• The Tre Kronor of Sweden for Mikkey Dee in the bottom left corner;
• and Snaggletooth B. Motörhead in the top right corner for the band as a whole.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kilmister, Campbell, Dee.

1. "Runaround Man" 2:57
2. "Teach You How to Sing the Blues" 3:03
3. "When the Eagle Screams" 3:44
4. "Rock Out" 2:08
5. "One Short Life" 4:05
6. "Buried Alive" 3:12
7. "English Rose" 3:34
8. "Back on the Chain" 3:24
9. "Heroes" 4:59
10. "Time Is Right" 3:14
11. "The Thousand Names of God" 4:33

Total length: 38:55

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio 060 and Sage and Sound.

Mixed at Maple Studios.

Mastered at Capitol Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Cameron Webb – producer, mixing, engineer

Sergio Chavez – assistant engineer

John Lousteau – assistant engineer

Wesley Mischener – assistant engineer

Josh Bierly – assistant engineer

Kevin Bartley – mastering

Lemmy – cover concept and inside digipak art

Robert John – photography

Mark De Vito – illustration

Steffan Chirazi – creative direction

Mark Abramson – art direction, graphic design