Sacrifice (Motörhead album)
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| Studio album by Motörhead | ||||
| Released | 11 July 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Studio | Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 36:11 | |||
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SPV GmbH CMC |
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| Producer | Howard Benson & Ryan Dorn | |||
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| Rock Hard |   |
Sacrifice is the twelfth studio album by the band Motörhead, released on 11 July 1995, on Steamhammer (a subsidiary of SPV GmbH) their first for the label. It was also the start of the distribution collaboration with CMC International in North America and certain territories.
It is the second, and last, album to feature the four-man lineup of Lemmy, Phil "Zööm" Campbell, Würzel, and Mikkey Dee, as Würzel left the band after the recording of this album.
Motörhead reunited with producer Howard Benson for Sacrifice. ".This is a very good album", vocalist and bassist Lemmy wrote in the sleeve notes, "Put it in your system and your girlfriend's clothes fall off.." Lemmy views Sacrifice as one of his favourite records the band has made, despite the difficulties involved, which he explained as:
"..Howard was producing us again, but he'd also just got an A&R gig with a label called Giant. So his mind was in at least two or three different places, and half the time the engineer, Ryan Dorn, was holding it all together, following the direction Howard gave him. And it was becoming clearer every day that Würzel was on his way out of the band. He wouldn't extend himself at all, and usually just sat there while we were writing songs, with his guitar across his knee. When we stopped playing, he stopped playing and when we started again, he would too.."
In the documentary The Guts and the Glory, all three band members express regret over Würzel's departure, but insist it was inevitable, with drummer Mikkey Dee commenting:
"..I remember when it happened, it was both panic and satisfaction at the same time because Würzel was also very tired of us and we were very tired of him. It was a mutual thing. I miss him tremendously as a guy, but not as a guitar player. He was no good in the end.."
Campbell, who joined Motörhead with Würzel in 1984, recalls:
"..It took him six hours to try and do a solo on this one song on Sacrifice and in the end he just fuckin' slammed the guitar down and legged it – took the guitar with him and that was basically it.."
In the same film, Lemmy reveals that Würzel began to suspect that he was being ripped off financially:
"..He only played one solo on the whole album. He was gone already before we started that album. His input was, like, very minimal. It's a shame about Würzel; he started to believe the wrong people. 'Cause I was his best friend in the band and offstage – I was his best friend – and he didn't believe that; he started accusing me of stealin' his money and shit, like I need Würzel's money. I mean, I've got all that money coming from Hawkwind before him and the Motörhead before him – I didn't need his fuckin' money, and I wouldn't have stolen it even if I did. That's not like me. But there he goes – you make your choices and suffer the consequences.."
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