Metallican tulevan albumin ”Murder One” -niminen kappale omistettu Motörheadin Lemmy Kilmisterille
Metallica esiintyi 26. päivä SiriusXM:n lähetyksessä. Lähetyksen aikana tehdyssä haastattelussa yhtyeen jäsenet ovat paljastaneet, että marraskuun 18. päivä julkaistavan ”Hardwired.. to Self-Destruct” -albumin kappale ”Murder One” on omistettu Motörheadin legendaariselle Lemmy Kilmisterille. Kappaleen sanoituksissa kerrotaan olevan paljon Motörheadin kappaleiden nimiä. James Hetfield on kertonut RollingStonen haastattelussa Motörheadin olleen iso syy miksi yhtye on ylipäätänsä olemassa tänä päivänä. James kertoi aiheesta seuraavaa:
”MOTÖRHEAD had a lot to do with METALLICA sitting here right now. But just Lemmy as an entity, as kind of a father figure, he helped us a lot. He was unafraid. And he was a character. And he was himself. And we all respected that so much. He did his own thing to the last breath. No matter who you are, how could you not be inspired by that?”
Johon Lars Ulrich jatkoi:
”In the summer of 1981, I followed MOTÖRHEAD around on tour. That was what made me want to be in a band. When I came back to Southern California and called up James and said, ’Listen, we’ve got to give this a shot,’ … MOTÖRHEAD is the catalyst.”
Lars Ulrich julkaisi myös oman suruviestin Lemmyn menehdyttyä. Voit lukea sen tästä:
”I was down at [Lemmy’s] 70th party [on December 13, 2015 at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood], and I got a chance to sit with him for about ten minutes, just him and me. I told him that his obligation to the rock and roll community was to live forever because his birthday party was like a hard-rock class reunion,” he wrote in part. ”Everybody was there because Lemmy’s one of the few people we can all agree on who is just the coolest guy ever. We would all show up. I told him it was his obligation to live forever, because he was the reason we could all get together and celebrate hard rock and celebrate MOTÖRHEAD and see familiar faces because we’re all so scattered now. Obviously I could tell that he was in deteriorating health but we had a close bond, one that didn’t necessarily need to be reaffirmed or articulated. The less we said the more we knew the connection was there.”
”Whenever METALLICA played L.A., [Lemmy] would always come and watch us, and whenever MOTÖRHEAD was up here, we’d always go and see them play. We probably crossed paths 50 to 100 times in the last 20 years, and he came and played with us onstage multiple times. It was a bond that deep and it goes back to the crazy summer of 1981.
”I will always appreciate and forever cherish all the great times we had together, but especially those early days. We were so vulnerable, so moldable because a significant part of who we’ve become, both in the band and as people, is directly due to not just him but all the rest of the people who were inspired and drank from the same bottles and shared the same stories and same space. His spirit will always live in us.”
