2026 Anniversary Series 093: Motörhead – Orgasmatron

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 9th August 1986 They are Motörhead and they play rock and roll. The only real introduction you’d ever need to one of metal’s most famous and influential bands, and all I’m going to give to be honest because if you’re here reading this, you know everything you need to know. But I am going to take the opportunity to wax lyrical about my favourite Motörhead record, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, ‘Orgasmatron’. The first to feature Phil Campbell, who would remain as the band’s guitarist until Lemmy and Motörhead’s demise in 2015, I ironically first heard the title track on ‘Arise’ when Sepultura covered it and have been a fan of it ever since. The album, it turns out, was just as good! At this point in the course of the world, we all know what a Motörhead record sounds like. Never a band to reinvent the wheel, since they perfected it in the previous decade, Motörhead decided in 1986 to create what I feel is one of their heaviest…