Classic Rock

Leader Of Down

AFTER 11 YEARS cranking out riffs at Lemmy’s side, Michael ‘Würzel’ Burston kept an uncharacteristically low profile after leaving Motörhead in 1995. In 2008, though, he formed Leader Of Down with bassist Tim Atkinson and began work on an album, Cascade Into Chaos, that was completed with cameos from Motörhead alumni after Würzel’s death in 2011.

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