In Chapter 9, Magnus Nilsson analyses Motörhead’s lyrics as an attempt to handle a dominant discourse about the working class within the framework of a ‘heavy metal sub-culture’, and to investigate the political implications of this attempt. Song statements such as ‘We are Motörhead’ can be seen as an attempt to change class value in the public sphere. But, as nilsson shows, such songs have to be seen as an investment in a capital that, regardless of its value in a larger public sphere, already has a relatively high value in the heavy metal sub-culture where signs connoting working-class identity are used to create a strong sense of collective identity. However, this construction of identity is seldom politicized in Motörhead songs. What is constructed instead is a ‘cultural otherness’ that has almost no links whatsoever to questions concerning oppression, material injustice and so on. Even in songs that explicitly deal with class issues, the argument is limited to questions of identity. What is at stake is social class, but this is articulated as bearing a mark of cultural distinction.