Rancid – cover Motörhead’s ‘Sex & Death’ new single out now

Heavy metal and punk rock! It’s fair to say that these two noisy tribes now have a great deal in common—often melding together, almost indistinguishable, to produce bastard offspring of their own. But it wasn’t always this way. Indeed, there was a time when fists were more likely to be thrown than bumped, and beers more likely to be hurled than shared—except when it came to Motörhead. That was the one band we could all agree on. The one band that was truly ours!

Across the fourteen tracks on this album, cunningly titled Killed By Deaf, you’ll hear a loving tribute to Motörhead from some of punk rocks’ biggest and most respected bands. The latest of which to be revealed is ‘Sex & Death’ covered by punk legends Rancid out now.

Lars Frederiksen (guitar/vocals) from the band says of their cover:

“It’s like, it’s the perfect Motorhead 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 like a song we would write.”

Watch Lars talk about their cover, along with discussing Motorhead’s influence on heavy music and why the band were both a punk AND a metal band.

Joining Rancid on this tribute are luminaries like Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx and FEAR all contributing raucous versions of their favourite Motörhead tracks… along with up-and-coming upstarts like Slaughterhouse, because, let’s face it, Motörhead always loved and championed the underdogs.  The only non-Motörhead song on this album is from a previously unheard and blistering version of The Damned’s classic, ‘Neat Neat Neat’, featuring the great man, Lemmy, himself and The Damned.

Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead will be released on LP, CD and digital on 31^st October 2025. See below for the full track listing and be sure to visit www.iMotorhead.com for news and updates!