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03-14 Overkill unveil Wicked Place
01-27 New Overkill LP, April 14th
12-15 New Overkill Single and Album
10-19 Overkill stream new lyric vide
08-13 Overkill stream White Devil Ar
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Although everybody seems to have a different account of who came first in the world of East-Coast thrash metal, it seemscertain thatNewJersey’sOverkill have stayed around the longest, and have never let their fans down by remaining musicallyconsistent and true totheirroots for over twentyyears.With a career that launched in 1980 that produced 15 studio albums, Overkill celebrates its 25th anniversary with the releaseof Ironbound,anew album,on E1 Music and a North American tour with support from Vader, God Dethroned, Wabringer, Evileand Woe of Tyrants.Ironboundis a thrash metalmasterpiece tha ...read more
Although everybody seems to have a different account of who came first in the world of East-Coast thrash metal, it seemscertain thatNewJersey’sOverkill have stayed around the longest, and have never let their fans down by remaining musicallyconsistent and true totheirroots for over twentyyears.With a career that launched in 1980 that produced 15 studio albums, Overkill celebrates its 25th anniversary with the releaseof Ironbound,anew album,on E1 Music and a North American tour with support from Vader, God Dethroned, Wabringer, Evileand Woe of Tyrants.Ironboundis a thrash metalmasterpiece that features Overkill’s latest lineup, which, along with foundersBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D.Verni, includesguitarists Derek “The Skull”Tailer and Dave Linsk, as well as the newestmember to join the band, drummer Ron Lipnicki.There are few names as well respected as Overkill, and with the resurgence of metal in the music world, this band is poisedto return tothetop. Overkillare ready to show mature metal heads they still have it and are geared up to teach the newschoolers exactly how it’s done.The band gained their first major label deal with 1987’s Taking Over. They signed to Atlantic and remained with the label for 7years, basedonthe strengthand consistency of their music. Under The Influence (1988) and The Years of Decay (1989)brought Overkill to newheights intheir career. Sid Falck wouldreplace founding drummer Rat Skates on drums to bring his ownbrutal percussive assault to Verni’salreadypowerful rhythm section. The band hadalready established a rabid fan base withsongs like “Rotten ToThe Core” and “Hammerhead”(as wellas their infamous cover of D.O.A.’s “Fuck You”), andnew songslike “Evil Never Dies” and “Hello From The Gutter” would becomeOverkillmainstays as well. A video for “Hello From the Gutter”was garneringmuch fan response when it received play on MTV’sHeadbangers Ball.The band’s W.F.O. album (1994) would be Overkill’s final album with Atlantic, as they would release their first official full-length liveassault,WreckingYour Neck on CMC in 1995. Overkill released 3 more full length albums (Killing Kind, From TheUnderground and Below,andNecroshine) by 2000.Bloodletting (2000) was released on Metal-Is, and the band added guitarist Dave Linsk to the fray. The current Overkill lineupwouldbecompleted with therelease of the live album Wrecking Everything, recorded in Asbury Park, NJ, and the addition ofsecond guitaristDerekTailer in 2002.Overkill released Killbox 13, one of their most well-received albums to date, on Spitfire Records in 2003. ReliXIV andImmortalisfollowed,continuing theOverkill legacy. « hide |
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