“In a week of total lunacy, we were on fire.” After 40 years, WARFARE’s ‘Lemmy Sessions’ now available on vinyl

TO celebrate the album’s fortieth anniversary, heavy metal punks WARFARE have released the ‘Lemmy Sessions’ on vinyl (via Cadiz Music) for the first time.

Following a spell with Angelic Upstarts, drummer and singer Evo formed Warfare, a band that found support among punks and metalheads, with only perhaps Motorhead before them bridging that divide, so it seems fitting that Lemmy would end up producing Warfare’s second album, ‘Metal Anarchy.’

“I found these recordings in my loft on a cassette which had never been played in over forty years,” recalled Evo, “And they are the songs which were put down through the desk and given to me for approval by Lemmy before he twiddled all the knobs and produced what has become a classic album in the rock genre, and certainly one of historic value.

“It was great working with the Motorhead frontman, and in a week of total lunacy we were on fire. Pour an ice-cold glass of the strongest tipple you can find, crank up the deck and play it as it was intended, and imagine what it was like for three guys from the North-East playing in a London studio at 135 decibels, overseen by the king of rock and roll, Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister.”

‘Lemmy Sessions’ were cut from the recently discovered ‘rough mix’ and presented from the original cassette for Evo to approve before the final mix down. Now available as a limited edition of 500 copies, the bonus 12” leads with a cover of The Saints ‘Do The Robot,’ and includes contributions from Fast Eddie Clarke, Tom Angelripper from Sodom, and Cronos from Venom.

(For further information, contact James Sherry [email protected] )