Motorhead: No Remorse (Bronze/Island)
Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, 8 January 1985
IF THE HEAVY-METAL aesthetic boils down to regular Joes recasting themselves in larger-than-life molds, ring up a sterling success for Motorhead, who play the nightriding outlaw to the hilt without succumbing to the lure of stylized pretension.
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