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From the October issue of AVRev.com...

Motorhead - Overkill and Ace of Spades

Performance: Overkill - 8, Ace of Spades - 8.5
Sound: Overkill - 3, Ace of Spades - 8.5

Look, it¹s Motorhead. I don¹t have to tell you about Motorhead. Let¹s just
get right to the 5.1 sound Š Uh, yes Š I see a hand raised out there Š Holy
Jailbait, what a reptile. No class.

Okay, to begin with, they are gods * well, Lemmy¹s a god, Lemmy Kilmister,
the bass player to end all bass players, the throat from Hell; he was, is
and remains Motorhead, but he/they are not heavy metal gods, though they
begat the entire movement of the Œ80s. No, like AC/DC and MC5, they arose
from the rock tradition, the hard, loud, hard, faster louder hard rockin¹
tradition, and took it over the edge. Motorhead is in your face. Lemmy is
screaming into the microphone and poppin¹ veins. While his guitar player
wails like a wounded banshee and his drummer knocks the walls down, he
treats his bass like a Thompson submachine gun. He¹s a force of nature no
one has even thought about stopping for 30 years.

So be forewarned, those of you who through some oversight, some gap in your
education, do not worship the Lemster and have every Motorhead album ever
made. This is intense. It doesn¹t take a breath. No ballads here. No change
of pace what * so * ever. And we wouldn¹t have it any other way. These two
albums, their second and fourth or third and fifth, depending on how you
look at On Patrol, are probably their best two, though some would substitute
their following release, No Sleep Til Hammersmith, probably for Overkill. No
matter. The fact that these two benchmarks of raunch and roll have now been
mixed for 5.1 is an absolute mind-boggling Event. So if you think this might
not be your cuppa tea, see ya, not be ya, and let the faithful march on.

Read the full review at
http://www.audiorevolution.com/music...otorhead.shtml