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Overkill

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Thrash Metal

http://www.wreckingcrew.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/overkill
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OverkillWreckingCrew

1 ноя 2025 :	OVERKILL To Begin Recording New Album Before End Of 2025
21 сен 2025 :	OVERKILL Will 'Definitely' Release New Studio Album In 2026: 'We Are Demoing Stuff Right Now'
20 сен 2025 :	JASON BITTNER On His Decision To Leave OVERKILL: 'I Was Basically Giving More Of Myself Than I Was Getting In Return'
19 авг 2025 :	OVERKILL Is 'Writing' And 'Demoing' Material For Follow-Up To 'Scorched' Album
4 дек 2024 :	JASON BITTNER On His Decision To Leave OVERKILL: 'I'd Been Dissatisfied For A Long Time'
3 дек 2024 :	OVERKILL's BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH Explains D.D. VERNI's Absence From Recent Shows
11 ноя 2024 :	Watch: OVERKILL Performs Without Guitarist DEREK TAILER In Milwaukee
25 окт 2024 :	OVERKILL Recruits ex-FEAR FACTORY Bassist CHRISTIAN OLDE WOLBERS For North American Shows
12 окт 2024 :	D.D. VERNI: How OVERKILL Goes About Finding Replacement Musicians
17 сен 2024 :	OVERKILL's D.D. VERNI On JASON BITTNER's Departure: 'We Kind Of Knew It Was Coming'
13 сен 2024 :	OVERKILL Recruits Ex-KREATOR Bassist CHRISTIAN 'SPEESY' GIESLER For European Shows
12 сен 2024 :	BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH: No New OVERKILL Album Before 2026
4 сен 2024 :	OVERKILL Plays First Concert With New Drummer JERAMIE KLING (Video)
24 авг 2024 :	OVERKILL Recruits Ex-VENOM INC. Drummer JERAMIE KLING
5 авг 2024 :	Drummer JASON BITTNER Announces His Departure From OVERKILL
31 июл 2024 :	OVERKILL To Use Stand-In Bassist For Some Shows In September, Says BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH
4 июн 2024 :	See HD Video Of OVERKILL's Entire Concert In Lititz, Pennsylvania During Spring 2024 Tour
21 май 2024 :	OVERKILL Bassist D.D. VERNI Returns To Live Stage After Shoulder Surgery
22 апр 2024 :	Watch: OVERKILL Performs In Quito With Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON
15 апр 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Praises OVERKILL: 'They Don't Have A 'Risk' Or A 'St. Anger' Anywhere In Their Catalog'
14 апр 2024 :	Watch: Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON Performs With OVERKILL For First Time
11 апр 2024 :	Watch OVERKILL Rehearse With DAVID ELLEFSON For Upcoming South American Tour
31 мар 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says He Was Originally Approached In Late 2023 About Filling In For D.D. VERNI In OVERKILL
13 мар 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON To Play Bass For OVERKILL On 2024 Latin American Tour
29 янв 2024 :	BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH To People Who Say OVERKILL Is 'A One-Trick Pony': 'You're Not Listening'
28 дек 2023 :	Watch Pro-Shot Video Of OVERKILL's Performance At Colombia's ROCK AL PARQUE Festival

11 мар 2023

OVERKILL Singer On 'Scorched' Album: 'It's Eclectic', 'Diverse' And 'It's Got Different Dynamics And Characteristics'

OVERKILL singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth spoke to Canada's The Metal Voice about the band's upcoming twentieth studio album, "Scorched", which will be released on April 14 via Nuclear Blast Records. When interviewer Jimmy Kay suggested that the pandemic has been "good" to OVERKILL by giving the group a chance to focus on making a new LP without the distractions of being on the road, Bobby clarified (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It hasn't been good to us. We took advantage of the opportunity of the luxury of time. I think that that would probably be the best way to put it. It's directly responsible, I think, for the results, especially my results on it. I think the other guys, they tweaked and pushed and pulled and pinched and added things over that three-year period. But for me, I tore that record down a few times, just to make sure that it was a metal record worthy of the luxury of time, as opposed to a hit-and-run kind of a thing."

Ellsworth also spoke about the overall sound of "Scorched" and OVERKILL's mindset going into the recording process. He said: "We used [producer] Colin Richardson again. This is his fourth project with us. He's a friend. We trust the guy. He did a record for us from soup to nuts called 'Killbox [13]' [2003], and that is a heavy piece of real estate. I think it was just released in 2004 when the popularity of the genre was not way up there; it wasn't at its healthiest state. But that's one of the best-sounding fucking records we've ever done, and he's directly responsible for that. So when he did this mix, we didn't give him a lot of guidance. I mean, we did the production and kind of guided him along with regard to what our ideas were, but not generalization in sound. But I do remember saying to him — or D.D. [Verni, OVERKILL bassist] saying to him, rather; we agreed on this — we wanted a record that you could play really loud but it doesn't tire you out. Sometimes you get one of those records, you put on four tracks, you've got it on at nine, and you go, 'I've gotta take a break. I need a nap. It's heavy as fuck, but I need a nap.' And I think he did that. And the way he did it was that he used, for instance, some of the natural drum resonance from the room that he mixed in with whatever was digital. He did a throwback guitar back to the kind of early '90s. So it's like capturing two eras — it's like capturing something in the past and exactly the present, and listening to those two eras simultaneously."

Bobby also touched upon the musical direction of "Scorched", saying: "It's eclectic. It's diverse. It's got different dynamics and characteristics. How do you make that in an OVERKILL record? It's traditional heavy metal. It's got mellow sections. It's got groove. It's got thrash. It's got rock and roll. It's got blues. It's, like, all over the fucking map. But you have to sew those pieces together and then take the whole thing and try to make it — you know, put your brand on it. And I think that that's what we succeeded in doing. And what's directly responsible is the amount of time that we had."

"Scorched" offered a new recording environment for OVERKILL as all members were able to record on their own. The mixing of the record was handled by Richardson and his assistant engineer Chris Clancy. Johnny Rodd helped with producing vocals, and finally, Maor Appelbaum took over mastering and adding finishing touches. The band returned to artist Travis Smith to create the album cover art.

The official the visualizer for the LP's first single, "The Surgeon", can be seen below.

OVERKILL played another of the album's songs, "Wicked Place", live during its December 9, 2022 concert at the Ruhrpott Metal Meeting in Oberhausen, Germany. Fan-filmed video of that performance can be seen below.

Last August, Ellsworth told Neuborn Open Air Festival about the way he and his OVERKILL bandmates approached the making of "Scorched": "Well, I wrote the record three times — my end of the record, I wrote it three times — and I destroyed the first two of them, because it was being influenced by the pandemic, and I don't think we've ever been those type of people. I started listening and I said… I'm not the most upbeat person when it comes to the presentation of music, but I think that if you compare OVERKILL to other bands in this scene, we don't always take the negative road; we try to take the positive road for things. And the pandemic led me to go on a different path, and I didn't wanna do that. So I tore the whole record down and rewrote it once I saw that stuff was opening… But it made me feel more comfortable with the fact that, okay, this is fresh, it's current. It's not something that was written in 2020. It was written in fucking '22, and it's gonna be recorded in '22. So it's a good feeling right now."

Richardson previously worked with OVERKILL on 1997's "From The Underground And Below", 2000's "Bloodletting" and the aforementioned "Killbox 13".

OVERKILL spent most of 2019 and early 2020 touring in support of its 19th studio LP, "The Wings Of War", which was released four years ago.

"The Wings Of War" marked OVERKILL's recording debut with drummer Jason Bittner (SHADOWS FALL, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM),who joined the band in 2017.

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11 мар 2023

грозакоммунистов

"Есть рок-н-ролл. Есть блюз." - это больше всего пугает.

11 мар 2023

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Нифига не понял - так пошло на пользу или нет?

11 мар 2023

WahrandPhain

"с элементами хард-рока, металики" (с)