Overkill: Under The Influence - CD

Overkill is a thrash metal band founded in 1980 in New Jersey. From the beginning, they played songs taken over from bands like Motörhead, Kiss or Twisted Sister.

yli without a singer. Then Bobby “Blitz“ Ellsworth joined them. The first line-up was D. D. Verni on bass, Bobby Gustaffson on guitar, Rat Skates on drums and Bobby Blitz vocals. In their music you can find different shades of other styles, for example in The Killing Kind .

Overkill also went through a period when thrash metal bands played more slowly; the result of I Hear Black . From the album W. F. O. keeps the standard of typical thrash metal. Among the most successful albums are Under The Influence , The Years of Decay , Horrorscope , Ironbound , The Electric Age , White Devil Armory . Overkill have released many albums that are both experimental and progressive. Typical features are bass guitar D. D. Verni and the voice of Bobby Blitz.

Overkill underwent many personnel changes, only D. D. Verni and Bobby Blitz have been members since the beginning.
Their mascot is the Chaly bat, which is on almost every album. Overkill writes about him in five versions of the song Overkill . It is best described in Overkill III. The overkill were probably inspired by a mysterious creature from New Jersey, the so-called New Jersey Devil.

Playlist

CD
Shred (LP Version) / Never Say Never (LP Version) / Hello From The Gutter (LP Version) / Mad Gone World (LP Version) / Brainfade (LP Version) / Drunken Wisdom (LP Version) / End Of The Line (LP Version) / Head First (LP Version) / Overkill III (Under The Influence) (LP Version)