UMUR "Overnight Sensation" is the 14th full-length studio album by heavy rock/metal act Motörhead. The album was released through Steamhammer in October 1996. It´s the successor to "Sacrifice" from 1995 and features the trio lineup of Mikkey Dee (drums), Lemmy (lead vocals, bass, harmonica, acoustic guitar), and Phil Campbell (guitars). While Mick "Wurzel" Burston´s contributions to "Sacrifice (1995)" were limited, "Overnight Sensation" marks the first album release to officially feature the trio lineup, which would stay together for the duration of the band´s career (until the passing of Lemmy in December 2015).

Stylistically there are no surprises as this is unmistakably the sound of Motörhead. Rumbling bass, heavy blues and rock´n´roll oriented guitar riffs (and the rare more heavy metal oriented riff), powerful and energetic drumming, and the raw vocals by Lemmy in front. "Overnight Sensation" opens pretty strong with "Civil War" (probably THE highlight of the album) and "Crazy Like a Fox", but soon goes into more standard quality Motörhead mode. I´d mention the title track and the heavy and dark "Shake the World" as two other standout tracks ("I Don´t Believe a Word" could be mentioned too, but that´s mostly because it´s a bit of a different sounding Motörhead track), but it´s generally not an album featuring many highlights.

"Overnight Sensation" features a powerful and detailed sound production, which suits the material well and paired with the high level musicianship and overall decent songwriting, it´s yet another quality release by Motörhead in a long line of quality releases. It´s more in the solid end of the spectrum rather than the excellent end, but a 3.5 star (70%) rating is still deserved.

Kingcrimsonprog Thirteen is an unlucky number for some; but not for Lemmy and co, on 1996’s ironically titled Overnight Sensation record. The record was released on Steamhammer and sees the band returning to a trio line-up after 2nd guitarist Wurzel left the group.

It was produced by Howard Benson, who also did the previous two records and sounds top notch, crunchy, metallic, but still rock n’ roll enough for the band’s claims not to be a metal band to sort of be understandable (that’s a whole other can of worms though).

Tracks like the speedy opening 1-2 punch of ‘Civil War’ and ‘Crazy Like A Fox’ really slam, and the catchy ‘Love Can’t Buy You Money’ is very memorable. ‘Them Not Me’ features some brilliant drum work and ‘Listen To Your Heart’ finishes the album out with some acoustic guitar work. At 41 minutes it doesn’t overstay its welcome, and there are no real weak link tracks or filler.

As with almost all Motorhead albums (with the exception of maybe On Parole and March Or Die) it is fast, hard, blunt and greasy. They know what the audience want and how to give it to them. Some people will tell you only Motorhead with Fast Eddie and Philthy’ Phil are worth listening to, but this is an album that blows that viewpoint out of the water.