WARFARE PRESENTS ‘LEMMY SESSIONS’ FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL
28th May 2025Released in 1984, Warfare’s debut album ‘Pure Filth’ was a monumental earthquake of noise and disgust. Abusive, violent, seething with anger, it arrived in a barrage of scuffed-up leather jackets and chipped bullet belts and was without doubt a perfect melting pot of both punk and metal. Formed by drummer and singer Evo, he’d earned his punk stripes in the droog band Major Accident. he then moved to London to join The Blood, with a spell drumming for the legendary Angelic Upstarts, before forming Warfare.
Only really Motorhead before them had summoned up such a raw and rebellious racket, so it was only right that by the time Warfare got to record their second album ‘Metal Anarchy’ in 1985, Lemmy would produce. Like Motorhead, Warfare was a band that was equally revered by the punks and the metalheads alike, so it was the perfect fit.
As drummer & vocalist Evo remembers: ‘I found these recordings in my loft on a cassette which had never been played in over 40 years, they are the songs which were put down through the desk and given to me for approval by Lemmy before he twiddled all the knobs and produced what has become a classic album in the rock genre and certainly one of historic value. It was great working with the Motorhead frontman and in a week of total lunacy, we were on fire… Pour an ice-cold glass of the strongest tipple you can find crank up the deck and play it as it was intended, and imagine what it was like for 3 guys from the North-East playing in a London studio at 135 decibels, overseen by the king of rock ‘n’ roll Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister.’
‘Lemmy Sessions’ sees these recordings released on vinyl for the first time, cut from the recently discovered “rough mix” and presented from the original cassette for Evo to approve before the final mix down (Dropouts and all). As the only band that Lemmy produced (outside of Motörhead and The Ramones), this is indeed a historical find.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary the full album is released on deluxe collector’s edition Metallic Gold vinyl with bonus 4-track Robot 12″ on Black vinyl. A strictly limited edition of just 500 copies, the bonus 12” leads with a ferocious cover of The Saints ‘Do The Robot’ alongside three other tracks and includes contributions from Fast Eddie Clarke, Tom Angelripper from Sodom and Cronos from Venom.
Disc one features the following tracks:
Disc 1 – Side 1:
1. Psycho Express (2:34)
2. Disgrace (2:46)
3. Death Vigilance (3:08)
4. Metal Anarchy (2:54)
5. Living For The Last Days (3:42)
Side 2:
1. Electric Mayhem (2:31)
2. Warfare (4:17)
3. Military Shadow (3:20)
4. Wrecked Society (6:35)
Bonus 12” tracks:
Disc 2-The Robot EP-
Side 1: 1. Do The Robot (2:34)
2. Dance For Tomorrow We Die (2:21)
Side 2:
1. Cemetery Dirt (3:14)
2. Murder On Melrose (4:47)
LP line-up: Unproduced desk set-up – Lemmy; Evo – lead vocals & drums; Gunner – guitars; Falken – bass; Wurzel – guitar (Metal Anarchy).
EP line-up: Evo – drums & lead vocals; Ian Glasper, Hugh Gilmour, Tom Angelripper, Cronos – bass guitar; Jack Lyttle, Fast Eddie Clarke, Fred Purser – lead guitars.
