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Ace of Spades (album)
''Ace of Spades'' is the fourth album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. Released on 8 November 1980, it peaked at No. 4 on the UK album charts and reached Gold status by March 1981.〔Burridge, Alan ''Illustrated Collector's Guide to Motörhead'' Published: 1995, Collector's Guide Publishing p70. ISBN 0-9695736-2-6.〕 It was preceded by the release of the title track as a single on 27 October, which peaked in the UK singles chart at No. 15 in early November. It was the debut release of the band in North America, with Mercury Records handling distribution in the region.
==Background==
By 1979, Motörhead released two successful albums, ''Overkill'' and ''Bomber'', and had gained a loyal fan following by constant touring and television appearances. Their ferocious, loud proto-thrash playing style appealed equally to punks and heavy metal fans, but in 1979 ''Sounds'' writer Geoff Barton coined the term New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) to classify a slew of newer bands such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and Saxon. Motörhead — a band that resented being labeled anything other than rock 'n' roll — was placed in this new genre, which would go on to influence the emerging thrash metal movement that would include bands like Metallica and Megadeth. In the 2011 book ''Overkill: The Untold Story of Motörhead'', Joel McIver quotes vocalist and bassist Lemmy: "I like Iron Maiden and Saxon out of the new mob, and that's about it, really...We were too late for the first metal movement and early for the next one...Motörhead don't fit into any category, really. We're not straight heavy metal, because we're a rock 'n' roll band, which no-one knows how to market anymore". Regardless, the association with NWOBHM would be another positive element in the gathering momentum that would lead to the band's most successful commercial period at the dawn of the new decade. In fact, United Artists decided to finally released the band's "lost" first album at this time under the title ''On Parole'', which had originally been recorded in 1975 but shelved because it was deemed commercially unviable. Next, the Big Beat label, which had taken over Chiswick's catalogue, released ''Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (EP)'', packaging four extra tracks that the band had laid down for their debut album. Further evidence of Motörhead's nascent mainstream success was the release of the EP ''The Golden Years'' in May 1980 on Bronze Records, which became their highest charting release to date, peaking at #8.
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