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Kerrang!Aug 27, 2015Bad Magic is proof that Motorhead remain the greatest rock'n'roll band on God's scorched Earth. [29 Aug 2015, p.50]
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Aug 27, 2015While drummer Mikkey Dee shines on an unexpected cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.” That efficient if unspectacular borrowing aside, this potent record ranks among the year’s best.
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Aug 27, 2015For most of its duration, Bad Magic is indecently thrilling and imbued with a sense of vitality and danger that most bands of this--or, indeed, any--vintage can only dream about.
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UncutAug 19, 2015Bad Magic is gloriously genre-defying. [Sep 2015, p.78]
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Aug 27, 2015Bad Magic feels ancestral; you can feel it in your blood and in your bones. Even for those new to Motörhead, the album will have the power to recharge your love for all things rock ‘n’ roll.
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Sep 2, 2015If Lemmy croaks or wheezes more often on Bad Magic than he has before, it suits his tales of foul-minded bastards and their despicable deeds, and it's a fine fit with the bloody-minded attitude that has always been Motörhead's stock in trade.
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Sep 2, 2015All in all, there’s not much here that’s likely to blow your mind; if you’re already a Motörhead fan then you know exactly what you’re getting yourself in for, and even the most die-hard may find themselves wanting to skip a track or two, but there’s always something impressive about a band so dedicated and single-minded about fulfilling the simple goal of being the best rock band on the planet.
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Aug 19, 2015Occasionally, as on Fire Storm Hotel, with its shades of an 80s hair metal anthem, he sounds at once energised and enfeebled and you find yourself willing him to reach the velocity of yore. But most of the time, you could play these tracks to an alien and they would struggle to tell them apart from Motörhead’s 90s, or even 70s, work.
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MojoAug 19, 2015Lyrically, beating the odds and ultra-violence remain fecund topics for Lemmy. [Sep 2015, p.86]
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Aug 19, 2015The album isn’t radically different from the five other records Motörhead have made with Webb since Inferno, in 2004.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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