Motörhead: the 1976 "Lost" album "The Manticore Tapes" comes out

As evidence of the First session in the studio Absolutely as Motörhead of Lemmy Kilmister, Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and “Fast” Eddie Clarke, who died respectively in 2015 and 2018, was announced An album with recordings from 1976 made by the classical training nicknamed “Three amigos“.

The album, the next arrival June 27thtakes the title “The Manticore Tapes” from the legendary Studios MANATICORE by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, located in Fulham, where the material was recorded. The recordings were restored thanks to the long -standing collaboration with Cameron Webb, at the Maple Studios in California, and burned by Andrew Alekel at Bolskine House in Los Angeles.

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The 11 unpublished recordings of “The Manticore Tapes” will be available on LP and CDand will include alternative take, instrumental versions and first versions of songs contained in their debut album “Motörhead” and in the 1979 album “On Word”.

A Deluxe version in extended book format will also include the live album “Blitzkrieg on Birmingham ’77”, as well as unpublished live recordings Taken from a 1977 concert to the club Barbarella’s by Birmingham.

The news was shared today, May 8, the day on which the “Motörhead day” falls. The anniversary was born for a word game linked to the famous song of the group “Ace of Spades”, which opens with the repetition of the sentence of the title, reminiscent of “The 8th of May”. In addition to this assonance, which gave birth to memes and a real celebration by the Fans who became viral online, on May 8, 1980 the first live recording of the group was published, “The Golden Years”. Since 2020, on May 8 he began to be officially considered as the “Motörhead day”, so special content or themed merchandise are shared every year.

Here are a tracklist and cover of “The Manticore Tapes”

LP & CD

‘Intro (Instrumental)’
‘Leavin’ Here ‘
‘Vibrator’
‘Help Keep us on the road’
‘The Watcher’
‘Motörhead’
‘Witch Doctor (Instrumental)’
‘Iron Horse / Born To Lose (Instrumental)’
‘Leavin’ here (alternating take) ‘
‘Vibrator (alternating take)’
‘The Watcher (alternating take)’

LP1 – Deluxe Expanded Bookpack

LP2 – Live: Blitzkrieg on Birmingham ’77

‘Motörhead’
‘Vibrator’
‘Keep us on the road’
‘The Watcher’
‘Iron Horse’
‘Leavin’ Here ‘
‘On words’
‘I’m your Witch Doctor’
‘Train Kept A-Rollin “
‘City Kids’
‘White Line Fever’

7 ″ – Live at Barbarella’s Birmingham ’77 (Previous UnreleasD)

‘Motörhead’
‘Keep us on the road’