Lemmy solo album featuring Dave Grohl set for release later this year

An album of solo material recorded by late Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister is tentatively set for release in late 2017.

Producer Jim Voxx, who is also guitarist with Motörhead touring buddies Skew Siskin, said he started work on the long-term project with Lemmy some 14 years ago.

Lemmy himself made no secret of the fact he was working on solo material, telling Punk News in 2012: "I've been doing the thing for seven years, when I have time between other projects. But, it'll get released eventually. Probably posthumously. Ha!"

In a separate interview with SF Weekly that year, Lemmy said: “I’m three quarters of the way though a solo album right now.

"I’ve got two tracks with the Damned, two tracks with Skew Siskin, one with Joan Jett, one with Grohl and two with the Reverend Horton Heat. So I’ve got quite a mixed bag on there. I’m trying to get one with Skin from Skunk Anansie.”

Now, in a fresh chat with Metal Talk, Voxx said the record will see the light of day very soon: “We are in the very last stages of the Lemmy solo album.

“I still don't know when it will be released because this is in the hands of the Motörhead management and it took a while. Lemmy had so many things left – there are so many other recordings and they all had to sort out how to proceed.

“There is no real time rush to release this album so I can imagine it will be towards the end of this year."

Explaining that work commenced back in 2003, Voxx continued: "The songs are composed by Lemmy and when he started with me doing this, that was back in 2003, he didn't have a real idea what would be on it so he came to me and asked me if I would work with him on this because I was able to provide him the studio time he needed because as you know, always during summer Motörhead was doing festivals here in Europe and he used Berlin as a springboard so he had the time in the summer to be here and work on further tracks.

“He also recorded some tracks in America with Dave Grohl or Reverend Horton Heat and in London he was working with The Damned. All these tracks came to me in Berlin.

"We started out with two Skew Siskin songs. It was the total opposite of working with Motörhead because he had to do it in his free time between the Motörhead work.

"But I gave him the possibility to come here and work in the studio whenever he needed and step-by-step we got the songs together. We have 10 songs, and we thought it would have been released a long time ago but when Lemmy got ill, we stopped working on it but the recordings were all done.”

Motörhead last night confirmed the solo album is coming out soon by writing “Exciting things in the works” on their social channels.

Lemmy died four days after his 70th birthday and just two days after being diagnosed with cancer, on 28th December 2015.