Louder than Noise: the eye twinkling title of the live document is another promise of quality. The last one of this kind was released with “Everything Louder Than Everyone Else” where Motörhead proclaimed to be louder than any other band. But the loudness was never the right benchmark to talk about the phenomenon of Motörhead. Over decades the band reached the status of an untouchable institution able to combine fans of every genre of music and also extreme rock music. And this is to be credited to Lemmy, who founded Motörhead in 1975 and was the leader of the band all the way to his passing in December 2015.
Even 5 years after his passing Lemmy is as present as always. Young fellow musicians like Airbourne pay homage to him and uncountable bands celebrate him as a role model and testimonial and the fans never forgot their hero anyway. Rock’n’Roll was not only his profession it was his life. Lemmy’s music, his critical lyrics and also his distinctive, plain outfit was an expression of his personality. With his essential Rickenbacker bass where he didn’t pluck the notes, he basically threshed the chords, he fostered his own style and together with his hoarse voice it was the unique sound of Motörhead – up to the end.
In Germany the band could always count on their loyal fans, especially back in the 80’s when Motörhead owed the survival as a band to the German fans. The musicians always returned the favor with many concerts, which were always a demonstration of accumulated positive energy.
Only the last German tour, only a few weeks before his passing, showed signs of the clearly weak front man – a shadow of his former self.
Louder Than Noise – Live in Berlin is a previous unreleased CD & DVD, filmed and recorded in Berlin, 3 years before his untimely passing. On December 5th, 2012 Lemmy greeted 12.000 enthusiastic fans in the sold out Veldodrom with his ‘’Guten Abend Berlin” and stormed the stage with “ I Know How To Die” together with Phil and Mikkey – taken from their then latest album “The Wörld is yours (2010)”. Celebrating 75 minutes of powerful full throttle rock’n’roll.
No experiments, no surprises, everyone knows what to expect and got exactly that! Due to the longevity of the band the concerts were almost a ‘Best of’ presentation.The huge, simple stage was only decorated with the Motörhead backdrop behind the drums. The more static performance is compensated with raw, unfiltered energy and early classics like “Damage Case”, “Stay Clean”, “Metropolis” and “Over The Top”. After some excursions to their “1916” release comes “Ace Of Spades” approximately after one hour – unfortunately already the last song.
“You know we are deaf”, Lemmy is demanding the cheering audience who are going crazy for minutes with their calls for encore. Together with their tour support Anthrax, Motörhead are dashing through “Overkill”. Now the stage is filled – Charlie Benante is drumming together with Mikkey on the same drum kit, a jolly Scott Ian is on guitar and himself a huge Motörhead fan. 1980, when he listened to “Ace Of Spades” the first time, looking at the cover, he was asking himself, “who are these Mexicans?’ And how do they manage to play that fast?”
Country of origin:United Kingdom
Location:London, England
Status:Split-up
Formed in:1975
Genre:Speed Metal, Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Lyrical themes:Gambling, Rock 'n' Roll, Drugs, War, Life, Sex, Humour
Last label:Motörhead Music
Years active:1975 (as Bastard), 1975-2015
Lemmy Kilmister-Bass, Vocals (1975-2015)
(R.I.P. 2015) See also: ex-Bastard, ex-Hawkwind, ex-Headcat, ex-Opal Butterfly, ex-Sam Gopal, ex-The Damned, ex-The Motown Sect, ex-The Rainmakers, ex-The Rockin' Vickers
Phil Campbell-Guitars (1983-2015)
See also: Panda Party, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, ex-Persian Risk, ex-Contrast, ex-Phil Campbell's All Starr Band, ex-Roktopus, ex-Stoned Soul Party
Mikkey Dee-Drums (1992-2015)
See also: Scorpions, Nordic Beast, ex-King Diamond, ex-Thin Lizzy, ex-WWIII, ex-Dokken (live), ex-Geisha, ex-Don Dokken, ex-Nadir, ex-E-Type (live)
Motörhead - Louder Than Noise… Live In Berlin (2021)
Recorded on December 5th, 2012 at the Velodrom in Berlin, Germany during the band's "Kings of the Road" tour.
1. I Know How to Die
2. Damage Case
3. Stay Clean
4. Metropolis
5. Over the Top
6. Doctor Rock
7. String Theory
8. The Chase Is Better than the Catch
9. Rock It
10. You Better Run
11. The One to Sing the Blues
12. Going to Brazil
13. Killed by Death
14. Ace of Spades
15. Overkill
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
/ XBTT (1) by Dejavu
