Heavy Metal and Punk Rock, t’s fair to say that these two noisy tribes now have a great deal in common, often melding together, almost indistinguishable, to produce bastard offspring of their own. But it wasn’t always this way. Indeed, there was a time when fists were more likely to be thrown than bumped, and beers more likely to be hurled than shared, except when it came to Motörhead. That was the one band we could all agree on. The one band that was truly ours! Across the fourteen tracks on the upcoming tribute album, cunningly titled Killed By Deaf, you’ll hear a loving tribute to Motörhead from some of Punk Rocks’ biggest and most respected bands, the latest of which to be revealed is Rancid‘s take on Sex & Death. Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead will be released on vinyl, CD and digital formats on Halloween.

“It’s like, it’s the perfect Motorhead song for me. You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Motörhead doing the Ramones. But there’s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid style song that Motörhead did that I thought it’s close enough to like a song we would write.” (Rancid‘s Lars Frederiksen)

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