Today both Motörhead and Crowbar release new albums.

I had both on pre-order through the iTunes Music Store (never did that before, that’s nice). So I’ve now downloaded and listened to both albums.

The Motörhead album, “The Wörld Is Yours” sounds like a lot of the recent-days Motörhead albums. Some heavy, some “boogie”, and just a lot of rock-and-roll (’cause they are Motörhead, and they play rock-and-roll). A few songs had some riffs that made me look up and say “hey, that sounds cool”. But really, the album didn’t feel all that hot to me. It’s not bad, but it didn’t feel like anything special.

But the Crowbar album, “Sever the Wicked Hand”. This is an album that feels inspired.

Watch this:

It gives a lot of background, especially what Kirk was going through in his personal life. You can tell how it drove the content of the album. There’s pain, struggle, but interestingly… it is a rather positive album. There’s a lot of finding strength. It’s pretty cool. And of course, the music is just heavy and brutal. Awesome riffage.

I’ll listen to the Motörhead album more for sure, but I’m setting iTunes on “repeat” for the Crowbar album. Going to keep listening to that one today.