Overkill
Electro Violence...The Legendary Broadcasts And More - (Cal Vista ~ CVB24033CD)
Boston, Massachusetts January 18, 1990
L'Amour, Brooklyn, New York March 9, 1990
Zeche, Bochum, West Germany May 12, 1986
Broadcast/Soundboard Recordings
Flac 16bit/44,1khz & MP3 320kbps/48khz
Cover Art Included
01 Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
02 Fuck You (Subhumans)
03 I Hate
04 In Union We Stand
05 Rotten To The Core
06 Guitar Solo
07 E.vil N.ever D.ies
08 Time To Kill
09 Powersurge
10 Birth Of Tension
11 Hello From The Gutter/Wrecking Crew
12 Rotten To The Core
13 Second Son
14 Hammerhead
15 Overkill
Total Playing Time 1hr 19mn 25sc
Tracks 01-07 : Recorded live at The Channel, Boston, MA, USA, Jan 18, 1990
Tracks 08-11 : Recorded live at L'Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Mar 9, 1990
Tracks 12-15 : Recorded live at Zeche, Bochum, West Germany, on May 12, 1986
Overkill 1990
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
Carlo "D.D." Verni – bass, backing vocals
Bobby Gustafson – guitars, backing vocals
Sid Falck – drums
Overkill 1986
Bobby Blitz – lead vocals
D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals
Bobby Gustafson – guitars, backing vocals
Rat Skates – drums
I recently joined the MetalMadness ed2k link tracker. It hosts nothing but True Heavy Metal Music. Glam and Neo-Metal bands are not hosted there. Most of the stuff is commercially available material most of which is hard to find. I personally have been a fan of the Metal Underground since my teen years. Back when if you wanted a Motörhead, Iron Maiden or Venom record you had to order it from England at a record store or out of the back of a magazine. When I bought Iron Maiden's "Women In Uniform" E.P. I had to convert my American currency To English currency then mail it off to a company in England that advertised in the back of some Heavy Metal music magazine I read.
In the early days of Thrash Metal's surge from below of course I listened to Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax but another band that caught my ear early was Overkill. Named after the Motörhead song of course. I have been to quite a few Overkill concerts and they always are a killer live act. This collection I downloaded from the MetalMadness tracker is a collection of shows recorded for the radio. That includes a very early show from 1986 when Thrash Metal was as poison to radio as Hardcore Punk but Overkill made it onto the radio way back then in the long long ago before times....
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Wow! Thanks man. I grew up in Jersey and was totally into underground thrash back then. I even did a thrash radio show from '86 to sometime in '88. There was this little shop in Flemington, NJ called Ed's Records and Comics. He used to order all the thrash imports for me, then I would buy them from him. It was such an exciting time to discover such ground-breaking music!
ReplyDeleteI was just discussing the 1980s Metal scene with my son. I was discussing what it was like hearing Slayer's Hell Awaits then having them drop Reign In Blood. Just one of the "ohmygod" moments in Metal history. I remember my guitar player putting on Metal Massacre III saying check this song out..Znowhite's "Hell Bent" come ripping out the speakers. I told him real funny now play it on the right speed...He says "It is". To this day that song is in my near by my stereo. The N.W.O.B.H.M. stuff like Tyga Myra, Raven, Atomkraft, Venom and Warfare. I still remember who I was with when I first heard Celtic Frost's To Mega Therion. Look what you did now I have to pull out some old vinyl and imports. Enjoy the Overkill!!
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Hi Dave. I'm Bob. We've chatted on this blog before; mostly about your Philly radio concerts from the 80s. For me, the first thrash albums that really pulled me in were Possessed - Seven Churches, Exodus - Bonded by Blood and Voivod - Roooooooar (Or however you spell that.) :) I got to see Celtic Frost on a triple bill with Exodus and Anthrax up in Poughkeepsie, NY when I was in college. also caught tons of amazing Thrash shows at the old Airport Music/Bingo Hall in Allentown, PA. Lots and lots of stories from back then. I played drums and sang in a Thrash band in the Poughkeepsie area called Condemned back in '87 and '88 before I moved bacfk down to NJ.
ReplyDeleteOh man! When I brought home Rrröööaaarrr and put it on my turntable, the sound that came out of the speakers was yet another level in Heavy Metal. I loved the 1st album War And Pain. Rrröööaaarrr was so much heavier than War In Pain because Brian Slagel decided not to pursue a further relationship with Voivod after his disappointment in War And Pain. Snake said in an interview Slagel didn't want to release War And Pain because it was so heavy and when sales were slow he dumped them. He actually called him Mr. Brian "Pu##y" Slagel. I sang in a Thrash band called Psychosis back then and I will be sharing our independent album on the blog real soon.
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