Maybe Venom weren't so influential to black metal after all. Check out the rattling title cut on here and you'll see why bands such as Darkthrone exist, a punked up mentality makes this one of the better Motorhead records as so many others become stuck in a rut of predictable war tales and clanking, oily noise. Motorhead have always been defiant but sometimes change is a good thing and no-one ever asked the band to become alternative metal or glam-punk, but after a while too many Motorhead albums make me wheezy, so it's always best just to buy the finer moments. 'Iron Fist' rumbles under a black sky, lacking the consistent guffaw of 'Orgasmatron' it still shakes the ground, 'Heart Of Stone', 'Im The Doctor' and punk thrasher 'Speedfreak' always keep the headbangers banging, but for me, the fact that follow up 'Another Perfect Day' was such a disappointment proves frustrating. Motorhead are indeed a British institution but they are capable of far better, and thankfully 'Iron Fist' is one of those peaks.
7/10
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