Following the disappointing Snake Bite Love and We Are Motörhead, the guys came back in a big way on 2002’s Hammered. A dark and moody album recorded in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it features some of Lemmy’s harshest social criticism, particularly on “Brave New World,” where he asserts, “If Jesus came back now he’d be in jail by next week,” and “Voices From The War.” Guns N’ Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed guests on “Mine All Mine,” which sounds similar to the excellent “Rock It,” from 1983’s Another Perfect Day, and the album proper concludes with “Serial Killer,” a spoken monologue from Lemmy at his most gravelly.

The CD included two bonus tracks — a live version of “Overnight Sensation,” and “The Game.” The latter track was written by WWE in-house composer Jim Johnston, as theme music for the wrestler Triple H, who insisted that the band record it. “Years ago I was making a transition to becoming this bad guy, and they wanted me to change my music. We had our music guy Jim Johnston working on it, and it wasn’t the sound I wanted,” Triple H told MTV News. “I kept saying, ‘I want it more raw, more gritty,’ and I kept saying, ‘Think Motörhead, think Motörhead.’ So finally Jim was like, ‘Why don’t we just get Motörhead to do it?’ They were into it, and they did the song for me, and they came to one of the shows, and Lem and I just hit it off. They’ve played me to the ring a few times.”