Motorhead’s breakthrough Overkill now stands as a widely praised, towering achievement in heavy-rock history. That's wonderfully ironic since the album should, by all rights, have never even happened.

Motörhead’s Ace of Spades, Overkill, and Bomber return to four U.K. charts each as fans celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary. (MANDATORY CREDIT Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images) British hard ...

During the course of 365 days, the group put out 'Overkill' and 'Bomber,' two albums that inspired everybody from Metallica to Mudhoney to play over the top Although Overkill was the band’s second ...