Rancid have dropped their cover of Motörhead ‘s “Sex and Death,” a final preview of Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute to Motörhead prior to the album’s October 31st release.

The cover choice is an apt one, as “Sex and Death” — from the 1995 album Sacrifice — sounds like it could have been written by a punk band like Rancid. It clocks in at two minutes, and you can transpose the respective barks of Lemmy Kilmister and Lars Frederiksen to either version of the song. Frederiksen and company punk it up even more, though it really isn’t too far off from the recording Motörhead laid down in the mid-’90s.

“It’s like, it’s the perfect Motörhead song for me,” said Frederiksen of “Sex and Death,” via a press release. “You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it so

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