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  • Created by former LucasArts adventure vet Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango) and starring Jack Black alongside a league of metal legends (Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, and, of course, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne), the studio's open-world/driving/lite real-time-strategy opus is every medieval-apocalypse album cover brought to glorious life, finally fulfilling the wishes of two generations of disaffected patched-jean-jacketed and notebook-cover-doodling Hessians.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • When Dean calls Sam, the name Lars Ulrich shows up of course, Lars is from Metallica; Sam uses Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister as an alias.

    Supernatural Episode Recap: "The Girl Next Door" 2011

  • With NIN's drummer and Jane's Addiction's bassist in tow plus rock royalty the likes of Chris Cornell, Kid Rock, Dave Grohl, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmeister, The Cult's Ian Astbury, and many more soop-uh-stahs, Slash's first solo album amazingly shows continuity and showcases expert co-songwriting despite all of the musical influences involved.

    HuffPost Reviews: Slash, Madonna, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Plus A Conversation with Matt Hires, and More 2010

  • With NIN's drummer and Jane's Addiction's bassist in tow plus rock royalty the likes of Chris Cornell, Kid Rock, Dave Grohl, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmeister, The Cult's Ian Astbury, and many more soop-uh-stahs, Slash's first solo album amazingly shows continuity and showcases expert co-songwriting despite all of the musical influences involved.

    Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Slash, Madonna, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Plus A Conversation with Matt Hires, and More 2010

  • A far better way to driift off than Motorhead's No Sleep Till Hammersmith!

    [going to bed] with ludwig 2009

  • On Grindcore: "Signatures of grindcore include the crunching guitar sound, the 1000mph "blast beats" which derive presumably from hardcore punk, and a general tendency for drummers to throw mini temper tantrums in the middle of every song, and finally and perhaps most importantly, the vomiting "cookie monster" vocals, which in addition to sounding like that unforgettable Sesame Street character probably derive most from Motorhead's Lemmy's croaking voice."

    Cookie Monster: The Real Most Influential Musician of All Time 2005

  • Other Metal pundits have theorized that the Cookie Monster style is ultimately derived from Motorhead's Lemmy.

    Cookie Monster: The Real Most Influential Musician of All Time 2005

  • Motorhead's rebel stance is personified by its iconic frontman Lemmy Kilmister.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • In his introduction to the "absolutely legendary" act, radio personality Johnny Dare noted Motorhead's perseverance.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • As was the case during Motorhead's appearance in the same venue in 2009, the decibel level was excruciating.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

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