MOTÖRHEAD — Ace of Spades (review)

MOTÖRHEAD — Ace of Spades album cover Album · 1980 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Stephen
The fourth album that was released by the British heavy metal trio in 1980 was cited as the blueprint of early breeding of power and thrash metal. While it was a breakthrough innovation back then, this album is clearly obsolete in my ears and after couple of listens, I think the excitement is gone and you will find it's hard to look for many standout tracks. Don't get me wrong, this is surely not a bad album, in fact, it's pretty good, but labeling it more than 3.5 stars is just too much in my opinion.

If you take a good listen to each of the tracks presented here, you will find a very close similarity with one another, so we came to an early conclusion that "Ace of Spades" lacks of variety and tends to be a bit monotonous. The title track is one hell of a song which also a classic Motörhead anthem but "Jailbait" is surprisingly better than that one. Other couple of cool songs they made here are "Love Me Like A Reptile" and "Dance", but the rest are mostly generic, average, and forgettable. To sum up, "Ace of Spades" is a decent buy with no horrible tracks inside and a nice reflection of the band's early career.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Rot Stink Rip Death Metal
TOMBSTONER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Human Rosin Melodic Metalcore
HATE BREEDER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Through The Hell Hardcore Punk
ENEMY 906
Buy this album from MMA partners
Lightmatter: Rebirth Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Eye Of Horus (Lightmatter EP Pt. 2) Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Agremorta - Adrocitas (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 4 days ago
Agremorta - Ploratus Umbra (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 4 days ago
Agremorta - Vertex Membrana (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 4 days ago
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR - The Temple Of Curved Space (Official Track Stream)
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR
adg211288· 5 days ago
In Sulfur - The Gate (OFFICIAL VIDEO) 2022
IN SULFUR
Bosh66· 5 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed