“The Manticore Tapes,” a “lost” Motörhead album from 1976, will be released for the first time ever on June 27, 2025. The album features 11 previously unreleased recordings from the first-ever studio session of the classic lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, Fast Eddie Clarke and Phil Taylor.
Pre-orders are available here, and a new video for the song “Motörhead” can be seen below.
In 1976, the seminal lineup of Motörhead was solidified a year after the band’s initial inception. Known as the “Three Amigos” era of Motörhead, Lemmy (bass/vocals), Fast Eddie Clarke (guitar) and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor (drums) joined forces and began their journey to the top of the hard rock elite.
In August 1976, the band set up at Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s legendary Manticore Studio in Fulham to rehearse and showcase the new lineup. While they were there, they recorded together for the first time, and now, 49 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.
“The Manticore Tapes” will be available as a deluxe expanded bookpack containing a double LP and 7” single, a single LP, CD and digital.
Track l;stings:
Deluxe Expanded Bookpack
LP1
1 Intro (Instrumental)
2 Leavin’ Here
3 Vibrator
4 Help Keep Us on the Road
5 The Watcher
6 Motörhead
7 Witch Doctor (Instrumental)
8 Iron Horse / Born to Lose (Instrumental)
9 Leavin’ Here (Alternate Take)
10 Vibrator (Alternate Take)
11 The Watcher (Alternate Take)
LP2 Live: Blitzkreig on Birmingham ’77
1 Motörhead
2 Vibrator
3 Keep Us on the Road
4 The Watcher
5 Iron Horse
6 Leavin’ Here
7 On Parole
8 I’m Your Witch Doctor
9 Train Kept a-Rollin’
10 City Kids
11 White Line Fever
7″ Live at Barbarella’s Birmingham ’77 (previously unreleased)
1 Motörhead
2 Keep Us on the Road
LP and CD
1 Intro (Instrumental)
2 Leavin’ Here
3 Vibrator
4 Help Keep Us on the Road
5 The Watcher
6 Motörhead
7 Witch Doctor (Instrumental)
8 Iron Horse / Born to Lose (Instrumental)
9 Leavin’ Here (Alternate Take)
10 Vibrator (Alternate Take)
11 The Watcher (Alternate Take)
