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Album of the week: Motorhead's 'Aftershock'

Jerry Shriver
USA TODAY
Motorhead, from left, Mikkey Dee, Lemmy Kilmister and Phil Campbell has released "Aftershock," its 21st studio album.

"I don't know what I did last night, but I sure did it good!" croaks Lemmy Kilmister on Do You Believe, one of the stronger ingots on Aftershock (* * * out of four), the 21st studio album of a band celebrating 38 years.

Well, to refresh: You, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee done jackbooted it up a notch by offering rhythmic variety, an arsenal of killer guitar riffs and some pretty decent (for the genre) writing.

Guitarist Campbell excels throughout, particularly on two less-urgent songs: Lost Woman Blues revisits a ton of lyric clichés, but it's an honest-to-god blues done well, a salve to those who feel that heavy metal gets more boring the further it drifts from its blues-rock roots. The same could be said for Dust and Glass, which sounds like it was written with The Doors in mind.

Download:Heartbreaker, Queen of the Damned, Do You Believe, Lost Woman Blues

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