{"id":83415,"date":"2025-10-17T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83415\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:11:06","slug":"rancid-unleash-cover-of-motorheads-sex-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83415\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancid Unleash Cover of Mot\u00f6rhead’s “Sex and Death”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rancid<\/a> have dropped their cover of Mot\u00f6rhead<\/a>\u2018s \u201cSex and Death,\u201d a final preview of Killed By Deaf \u2013 A Punk Tribute to Mot\u00f6rhead<\/a> prior to the album\u2019s October 31st release.<\/p>\n

The cover choice is an apt one, as \u201cSex and Death\u201d \u2014 from the 1995 album Sacrifice \u2014 sounds like it could have been written by a punk band like Rancid. It clocks in at two minutes, and you can transpose the respective barks of Lemmy Kilmister and Lars Frederiksen to either version of the song. Frederiksen and company punk it up even more, though it really isn\u2019t too far off from the recording Mot\u00f6rhead laid down in the mid-\u201990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, it\u2019s the perfect Mot\u00f6rhead song for me,\u201d said Frederiksen of \u201cSex and Death,\u201d via a press release. \u201cYou know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Mot\u00f6rhead doing the Ramones. But there\u2019s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid style song that Mot\u00f6rhead did that I thought it\u2019s close enough to like a song we would write.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That makes two covers we\u2019ve heard from the tribute album, the other being Pennywise\u2019s take on \u201cAce of Spades.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The rest of the tribute comp features covers by The Bronx, Lagwagon, FEAR, GBH, and more. The closing track, an unearthed collab between Lemmy and The Damned playing the latter\u2019s \u201cNeat Neat Neat,\u201d was released when the album was announced back in September.<\/p>\n

Pre-order Killed By Deaf \u2013 A Punk Tribute to Mot\u00f6rhead via this location<\/a>, and stream Rancid\u2019s cover of \u201cSex and Death\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rancid have dropped their cover of Mot\u00f6rhead\u2018s \u201cSex and Death,\u201d a final preview of Killed By Deaf \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-83415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}