Motorhead To Release “The Manticore Tapes”

In 1976 the seminal line-up of Motörhead was solidified a year after the band’s initial inception, known as the ‘Three Amigos’ era of Motörhead when Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor joined forces. In August 1976 the band set up at Emerson, Lake & Palmer‘s Manticore Studio in Fulham to rehearse and showcase the new lineup. While they were there they recorded together for the very first time and now, forty nine years later, this long lost tape has surfaced, been dusted off and restored in all its raw glory, to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary.

These aging tapes were brought to life with restoration duties dutifully handled by longtime Motörhead collaborator Cameron Webb at Maple Studios in California and mastered by Andrew Alekel at Bolskine House in Los Angeles. The result is a truly historical moment in the evolution of Motörhead, restoring and bringing to the public eye for the first time ever a vital part of the band’s history. The Manticore Tapes will be released on the 27th June and are available for pre-order on vinyl, CD and digital formats and as a deluxe expanded bookpack containing a double LP and 7″ single.