{"id":798051,"date":"2026-03-02T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798051\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:30:13","slug":"the-ultimate-motorhead-song-according-to-rob-halford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798051\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate Mot\u00f6rhead song, according to Rob Halford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rob<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Sun 1 March 2026 21:15, UK <\/p>\n

The lead vocalist for heavy metal band Judas Priest<\/a> knows a worthy adversary when it screams into his face. <\/p>\n

According to Rob Halford, Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s most memorable work is the fruit of its 20th studio album, Motorizer, with his favourite song by the band infuriatingly chosen by the World Wrestling Entertainment\u00a0as a theme song in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2008 \u2018Rock Out\u2019 is not as clich\u00e9 as its title might suggest but is an upbeat roar of energy that fits perfectly into the Mot\u00f6rhead formula, which innovates without steering away from what their fans love to hear. One of those fans is unapologetically also a Judas Priest, as he gushed to Metal Hammer, \u201cLemmy was such a brilliant songwriter. I\u2019m so glad we have songs like \u2018Rock Out<\/a>\u2018, where Lemmy can just growl \u2018Rock out with your cock out\u2019. It\u2019s pure genius! It says so much about who they are, about going to a show and just letting loose.\u201d<\/p>\n

He recalled nostalgically last year, \u201cIt seems like just yesterday we last saw them, it always feels like I\u2019m just going to bump into him at a festival somewhere. But their music will live forever, and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d <\/p>\n

Of course, his reference and songwriting admiration were pointing at the band\u2019s founder and lead vocalist, the ten-year deceased Lemmy Kilmister<\/a>. \u2018Rock Out\u2019 holds one of Lemmy\u2019s clearest vocal deliveries and is a loud signal of a singer really rocking out and having fun with his music. His mocking lyrics are childish in the best way, keeping stardom real in Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s sordid, metal language.<\/p>\n

It has to be said that the song wasn\u2019t anything groundbreaking for the band. It has a very similar main riff and drum pattern to many of their other songs, and in keeping with their usual music, it may also sound dated. Since I know any Mot\u00f6rhead fan would thus be encouraged to bang their head at me aggressively, I\u2019ll simply say that \u2018Rock Out\u2019 is a trip into their nostalgic early days of rebellious old school \u201980s metal rock. <\/p>\n

Judas Priest was similar in this style, as both bands bridged hard rock and heavy metal in the \u201970s, laying the foundation for the more aggressive speed and thrash metal genres celebrated today, as well as innovating the haggard, leather-clad style now widely associated with metal, and proudly pioneering a long-hair pirate aesthetic coming from almost all of their members. The two were also among the first to strip the loose, bluesy elements from the early heavy metal movement and bring the volume up. <\/p>\n

Halford wasn\u2019t alone in rocking out, as shortly after the album\u2019s release, a 50-year-old man developed a blood clot due to head-banging at a Mot\u00f6rhead concert, with researchers having already linked whiplash, artery dissection, and even neck fractures to head-banging before. <\/p>\n

The band that had broken The Who\u2019s previous world record for \u2018The Loudest Band in the World\u2019 in 1984 is able to rain plaster on their audience\u2019s heads, melt their faces, cause blood clots, and also call on them to rock out, so no matter what you think of their music, that\u2019s got to call for some respect.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Sun 1 March 2026 21:15, UK The lead vocalist for heavy metal band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,52885,123308,269,231597,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-798051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-judas-priest","10":"tag-motorhead","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-rob-halford","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116156997637767915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}