Orgasmatron by Motorhead

Orgasmatron, Motörhead's seventh studio album and their first for GWR Records, came out in 1986 with a new shape to the band. Instead of the usual trio, Lemmy Kilmister's bass and bellow now had two guitarists alongside, Phil Campbell and Würzel, with Pete Gill on drums on the only full Motörhead studio album he played. Bill Laswell produced it, and he and Jason Corsaro mixed it, giving the racket a dense, heavy, slightly alien sheen.

The title track is the big beast, a slow, grinding march with Lemmy growling over it like a prophet of doom, and the rest of the record rams along at the band's usual full throttle. Forty years on it's getting the deluxe treatment: in September 2026 the band announced an anniversary reissue with a fresh remix by Cameron Webb, their producer from 2004 to 2015, a remaster of the original mix and newly found outtakes.

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