Raise your horns

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW

ROCKEFELLER / JOHN DEE, OSLO

There are gig venues, and then there’s York Minster, where symphonic metal band Plague Of Angels are playing a show backed by an enormous pipe organ. Unless a bunch of irate Christians get their way

With a two-guitar line-up instead of the usual trio, and on their own label after the split from Bronze, the Orgasmatron album signalled a decibel-driven new start for Motörhead . We turn back the clock to 1986 with this classic interview.

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