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Overkill

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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LPs
Scorched
2023

3.4
105 Votes
The Wings of War
2019

3.4
131 Votes
The Grinding Wheel
2017

3.5
189 Votes
White Devil Armory
2014

3.7
296 Votes
The Electric Age
03/27/2012

3.9
456 Votes
Ironbound
2010

4.1
624 Votes
Immortalis
2007

3.2
234 Votes
ReliXIV
2005

2.9
190 Votes
Killbox 13
2003

3.2
184 Votes
Bloodletting
2000

3
188 Votes
Necroshine
1999

3.1
213 Votes
From the Underground and Below
1997

3.2
188 Votes
The Killing Kind
1996

3.1
182 Votes
W.F.O.
1994

3.4
245 Votes
I Hear Black
1993

3
258 Votes
Horrorscope
1991

4.2
621 Votes
The Years of Decay
1989

4.3
809 Votes
Under the Influence
1988

3.8
428 Votes
Taking Over
1987

4
450 Votes
Feel the Fire
1985

4.1
501 Votes
EPs
6 Songs
03/28/2012

2.9
7 Votes
!!!Fuck You!!!
1987

3.9
66 Votes
Overkill
1984

3.6
26 Votes
Power in Black
1983

3.8
31 Votes
Live Albums
Live In Overhausen
2018

4.1
11 Votes
Extended Versions
2002

3.7
6 Votes
Wrecking Everything
2002

3.9
33 Votes
Wrecking Your Neck
1995

4.2
21 Votes
Compilations
The Atlantic Years 1986-1994
2021

Elimination
2020

4.5
1 Votes
Historikill: 1995 - 2007
2015

4.5
3 Votes
Devil by the Tail
2005

3.8
2 Votes
Unholy
2004

3.6
4 Votes
Hello from the Gutter
2002

3.6
7 Votes
Then and Now
2002

2.6
6 Votes
Coverkill
1999

3
44 Votes
!!!Fuck You!!! And Then Some
1996

3.6
23 Votes

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