Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Blabbermouth.net	8.5/10
The Boston Globe	favourable
Consequence of Sound	B
The Guardian
Loudwire	favourable
Metal Storm	9.2/10
Record Collector
AntiHero Magazine
RockRevolt Magazine

Bad Magic is the twenty-second and final studio album by the band Motörhead released on 28 August 2015, and is the fifth release under the UDR GmbH / Motörhead Music collaboration of the previous five years.

Due to the death of founder Lemmy Kilmister four months after the album's release, the band disbanded after 40 years on the road. Surviving members Mikkey Dee and Phil Campbell stated to numerous media that the band was finished.

"When the Sky Comes Looking for You" was the only song from this album to be played live.

Bad Magic was written and recorded in L.A., and Cameron Webb again produced the album. In an interview Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee told the press that the recording process was different than previously:

"..this time we were in a recording studio writing the album and all playing it together, actually. Before, we used to be in a rehearsal studio, write the songs and then we'd go in and record it one at a time, but here we kind of recorded it live, right away, as we had the song. We used to write very spontaneous, and this is probably even more spontaneous than any [previous] Motörhead [album]. But we really do enjoy the album. And it's a very live, very spontaneous record. I think that works best for us.."

Later Lemmy said the whole album was not recorded live, but they:

"..did about five tracks all together, so that much is true.."

Bad Magic received a Metacritic score of 80 out of 100, indicating generally positive reviews from critics. Chad Bowar of Loudwire wrote that the songs on the album had a timeless sound, meaning that listeners wouldn't know if they were written during the year the album was released or in the early '80s.

Ray Van Horn Jr from Blabbermouth.net, noted that with Bad Magic, given Lemmy's health problems:

"..[they're] on the verge of what might be [their] swan song...[Lemmy] exhibits the vocal wear and tear of a man whose long-beaten, gravelly pipes are betraying him due to a natural aging process.."

However, he continues that:

"..Lemmy is a freak of nature, and it's great to hear him ralph, croon and snarl with a give-a-damn will to live—you're a total piece of crap if you knock a guy who has given us his all for [over four] decades.."

Sean Barry of Consequence of Sound points to the song, "Till the End", and writes that:

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