“It’s the perfect Motörhead song for me”: Hear Rancid cover Sex & Death

Rancid have just unleashed a cover of Motörhead’s Sex & Death.

The track is taken from soon-to-be-released Halloween record Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead, which also features tributes by the likes of Pennywise, The Bronx, GBH and Fear.

Speaking about his band’s effort, guitarist/vocalist Lars Frederiksen says that Sex & Death is “the perfect Motörhead song for me. You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Motörhead doing the Ramones. But there’s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid style song that Motörhead did that I thought it’s close enough to a song we would write.”

Check it out below:

And see Lars talking more about Motörhead:

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