Now, it should come as no surprise that Overkill’s working on their follow up to 2023’s Scorched, but Ellsworth said the band ...
Throughout their nearly four-decade career, Overkill's sound has been fairly consistent, always with a visceral thrash edge no matter where certain eras led them. "Head of a Pin" has a bit of it all, ...
Clocking in at just under six minutes, Overkill run through wild tempo changes, delivering a riffstorm that begs for windmill headbanging. The push and pull of the opening moments are guided by ...
As any thrash metal fan will tell you, the US West Coast thrash scene of the 1980s might have been legendary - it was, after all home to the likes of Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth - but it certainly ...
The post Heavy Song of the Week: Overkill Wield Razor Sharp Thrash on “The Surgeon” appeared first on Consequence. Thrash metal is an inherently physical style of music — athletic even. That would ...
"Wow, look how many Overkill songs came up," marvels Overkill guitarist Derek 'The Skull' Tailer, about his iPod random shuffle list. "Looks like I was cheating, huh? Nope, that's the list." OK, but ...
New Jersey’s Overkill have released “Last Man Standing,” the first single from their new album, The Wings of War. I can’t imagine any Overkill fans not enjoying this shredder of a song, but by all ...
Back in the early days of Feel the Fire, when tape-trading was the way to market yourself in a glam-metal dominated era, OVERKILL managed to make a name for themselves. Here on the east coast, if ...
If you're a fan of thrash metal, by now you've probably seen the legendary Overkill '!!!F--- You!!!' T-shirt. The original 1987 version depicted an upraised middle ...
In a span of about three years in the mid-’90s, Chicago rockers Urge Overkill dropped a hotly-tipped major label debut, 1993’s Saturation; released a wildly popular cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl ...
There are two points of consideration going into Scorched, the twentieth(!) album from these Old Bridge, NJ greybeards Overkill. The first is how the thrash metal veterans have sounded entirely ...