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The Angry Scotsman wrote: What do yall think of Overkill? I only have Ironbound.

Oh man!  You need an "Education" on Overkill 101

In order of Appearance:
With original Line-up and the "1" Guitarist Bobby Gustafson-
2. Not their debut but a great place to start- "Taking Over".
3. Under the Influence
4. Years of Decay
Gustafson starts off as an excellent Riff Master, but a "Noodler" when it came to Solos.
Then by the time "Under the Influence" came out (I think at-least 2 years later) He seemed
to have attended Guitar Tech University and Graduated with Honours! What a difference
those years made for him!  Really solid albums those 3.
But apparently he was at odds with Bassist D.D. Verni over the direction of the Band (???).
So came the years of various "Dual" Guitarists:
5. Horrorscope
7. W.F.O.
I skipped their "6th" album "I Hear Black", it has a few good tracks but they were trying to see
if they'd find success with the "new" sound gaining ground-The "Aggro" type Metal, a bit
slower and even a bit "Doomy" and it failed miserably, for a few Years you could find it used
at just about any outlit that sold CD's.
Both Horrorscope and WFO feature Guitarists Rob Cannavino who had been Gustafson's
guitar technician and Merritt Gant from Thrash Metal Band "Faith or Fear".
Excellent Riffs and Solos between them.  After WFO, the only 2 left of the original Line-up
would be Vocalist Extraordinare (but on some of the later albums a bit too much-but then
comes back down to earth) Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and Bassist Verni and many line-up
changes.

I thought these were the strongest releases, these are the core of what Overkill was but I
have not had a chance to listen to their last 4 albums .
Many tracks can be found on YOUtube as well as my Faves at Time Signatures Post that I
"Linked" earlier (on other page) on "80's/90's Thrash".
Oh what the 'ell, here ya' go (My post on page 1):
http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=586
(Thot shed git ya' sum blasts ta' git yer Kilt Blewn Oaf! Ya Mod Scutsmun!)

. . . I think you'll discover some cool stuff .


Edited by MAVIIIVAM - 20 Aug 2010 at 2:22am