Vinyl Record

Motörhead - Snake Bite Love

Buy Motörhead’s Snake Bite Love vinyl LP reissue from Kilmorna in Listowel—a hard-driving heavy metal album packed with grit and attitude.

LP · Metal · 1998

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1998 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Motörhead’s Snake Bite Love is a hard, dirty and direct set built from the trio’s inseparable mix of heavy metal force and amplified rock ’n’ roll. “Love for Sale” opens with a blunt statement of intent, while “Dogs of War,” the title track and “Assassin” keep the pressure high through serrated riffs, Lemmy’s unmistakable rasp and a rhythm section that drives rather than decorates. This is Motörhead operating in its natural habitat: loud, lean and entirely uninterested in polish for its own sake. The album also has more shape than its bruising reputation might suggest. “Dead and Gone” and “Desperate for You” bring darker, more reflective shades, while “Don’t Lie to Me” and “Joy of Labour” restore the bar-room swagger. Closing cut “Better Off Dead” provides a characteristically unsentimental finish. This 2019 European LP reissue presents an often-overlooked chapter of the band’s catalogue as a focused eleven-track listen, ideal for hearing how consistently Motörhead turned economy, volume and attitude into a language of their own.

Snake Bite Love captures Motörhead’s late-1990s identity without compromise: part heavy metal, part hard rock and always rooted in ferocious rock ’n’ roll. Its combination of blunt-force riffing, road-tested momentum and unexpectedly sombre turns makes it more than a footnote between better-known records.

This is the 2019 European single-LP reissue issued by Murder One and BMG under catalogue number BMGCAT365LP. It offers all eleven album tracks in the original running order, with five cuts on side A and six on side B—a practical modern pressing for collectors filling a gap in the Motörhead studio catalogue.

Gravel-throated vocals, overdriven bass, slashing guitar and hard-charging drums, with a dry, muscular attack softened only by occasional darker passages.

Is Snake Bite Love a studio album or a compilation? It is a full Motörhead studio album, presented here as an eleven-track vinyl LP rather than a compilation. What edition is this vinyl release? This is a 2019 European LP reissue on Murder One and BMG, catalogue number BMGCAT365LP. What style of music is on Snake Bite Love? Expect Motörhead’s characteristic collision of heavy metal, hard rock and rough-edged rock ’n’ roll, led by Lemmy’s rasp and heavily overdriven bass.