Live in overhausen

Armed with pioneering pure metal proposals like “Death Rider,” “The Beast Within,” and “Raise The Dead” already in 1982, New Jersey’s Overkill were a rock-solid part of the first clutch of bands forging in fire this music known as thrash metal. Along with Metallica, Exodus, Slayer and cross-town doppelgangers Anthrax, D.D. Verni and Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth were helping to create a new form of metal that is still as vibrant today as when the band’s first album, Feel the Fire was issued by Jonny Zazula’s Megaforce Records back in the spring of ’85.
Witness Overkill’s most recent 18th (2017) album of blistering yet precise and thought-provoking thrash magic, The Grinding Wheel, is a record on which thrash’s ultimate team of five machined parts shows up and executes to perfection... with a little punk thrown in for bad measure.As Verni elaborates:“People ask, ‘How is it that your records get better after 25 years?’ And I think part of it is that everybody has a role in the band, everybody is comfortable with their role, and they’re really good at the part they have”
“For sure,” asserts Blitz. “With regard to four decades of Overkill, it’s good to be here, but it’s obviously earned, not just by us but by the people that support this in general. But a proven people’s band like OVERKILL - a more personable bunch you’ll never meet - fully recognizes that part of the band’s success in being able to survive and thrive with the grind is due to the allegiance of the band’s considerable worldwide fan base.

No where is that fan base more loyal than in Germany, where Overkill have packed out clubs and decorated festival stages since they first toured Europe in the late ‘80’s. Recorded in Oberhausen (re-christened “Over-hausen), this live release catches Blitz and Co in blistering form churning out ‘Kill classics alongside performances of the ‘Horrorscope’ (1991) and ‘Feel The Fire’ (1985) albums in their entirety.Metal Hammer once described Overkill’s live performance as “an unrelenting 90-minute rampage”. Well…here’s your proof.