Vinyl Record

Motörhead - Bomber

Motörhead - Bomber on LP vinyl. A 1979 Metal record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Metal · 1979

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1979 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Bomber is the second Motörhead album of 1979, made in the white-hot stretch after Overkill had pushed Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor out of the margins and into the centre of British heavy music. Recorded with Jimmy Miller, it keeps the trio's rock and roll foundation exposed while tightening the attack around songs that feel like machinery built from speed, spite and road fatigue. Dead Men Tell No Tales opens with moral disgust rather than cartoon menace; Stone Dead Forever turns betrayal into a chant; Sweet Revenge and Talking Head show how much swing still lived inside the noise; the title track became a signature because it made the band's whole identity feel airborne. The 50th-anniversary title context points back to a band whose myth was never just volume: it was momentum, humour, working-class pressure and the sense that 1979 had no room left for polite hard rock.

Bomber matters because it proves Motörhead's breakthrough was not a one-album accident. Released only months after Overkill, it helped lock the classic trio's language in place: punk velocity, metal weight, rock and roll simplicity and a stage mythology large enough to follow the songs into legend.

For collectors, Bomber is the necessary companion to Overkill and Ace of Spades, especially when the shelf is tracing Motörhead's imperial 1979-1980 run. Its pull is not just the title track; it is the sound of a band learning how to turn touring exhaustion and outlaw humour into a repeatable, unmistakable charge.

Greasy late-1970s hard rock and early metal with overdriven bass, clipped guitar violence, galloping drums, rasped vocals, bar-room swing and relentless forward motion.

Recommended for: Motörhead listeners building the classic Lemmy, Clarke and Taylor run; Collectors focused on 1979 heavy music turning faster and meaner; Fans of hard rock with punk speed and no decorative polish.

When was Bomber originally released? Bomber was released in 1979, the same year Motörhead issued Overkill. Which lineup made Bomber? The album features the classic trio of Lemmy on bass and vocals, Fast Eddie Clarke on guitar and Philthy Animal Taylor on drums. Why is the title track so closely tied to Motörhead's image? Bomber gave the band a blunt, airborne anthem and became linked with the dramatic bomber-shaped lighting rig used on the era's tours.