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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

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
24 авг 2023 :	OVERKILL's BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH Details His Latest Bout With COVID-19: 'It Wasn't Easy'
7 авг 2023 :	See OVERKILL Perform In Parking Lot Of MetLife Stadium Before METALLICA Concert
20 июл 2023 :	OVERKILL - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire Scorching The Earth US Tour Kick-Off Show In San Francisco Streaming
15 июл 2023 :	Watch: OVERKILL Kicks Off 'Scorching The Earth' U.S. Tour In San Francisco

10 июл 2023

OVERKILL's BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH: 'All The Rules Were Broken' On METALLICA's 'Kill 'Em All' Album

In a new interview with Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program "Wired In The Empire", OVERKILL frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth was asked which METALLICA album he thinks is better, "Ride The Lightning" or "Master Of Puppets". He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "You know, you have to first understand that the thing that changed everything, where all the rules were broken, was [METALLICA's debut album, 1983's] 'Kill 'Em All'. Others will say, 'Hey, listen, that's not the best METALLICA album.' I get that, but all the rules were broken from that point.

"If I had to make a pick of those two ['Ride The Lightning' or 'Master Of Puppets'], I would say 'Master Of Puppets' because I think that they had come into their own at that point. And the excitement level can only go so far before you have to be great songwriters, and I think by the time they got to 'Master Of Puppets', they became great songwriters."

Ellsworth went on to say that OVERKILL will come close to performing at the same event as METALLICA this summer. "They actually added us on the MetLife [Stadium] New Jersey show [during their 'M72' tour in early August]. We're gonna play outside the arena at the main gate; they're putting up a theater stage there as people are coming in. And they're doing those takeovers where it's two nights — it's a Friday and a Sunday — and they have stuff in between; a day off on Saturday and stuff in between. But PRONG is doing the Friday night and we're doing the Sunday night, on the way in. So I guess it's kind of cool still, after all these years, to still be connected to those guys."

Bobby added: "I always remember people telling me, 'That whole sound that came out of the [San Francisco] Bay Area was just unbelievable, that scene.' And I always say this: that may be true, but [METALLICA] had to travel three thousand fucking miles east to New Jersey to get signed [laughs] — by the label [Megaforce Records] that we were on [laughs] soon thereafter. [Laughs]"

Back in January 2017, Ellsworth was asked by Metal Shock Finland why he thinks OVERKILL wasn't included in the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX. He responded: "First and foremost, I think it's necessary to be concerned with your own house as opposed to what other people do.

"I think they're for sure a great compliment to the metal community, because I think it shows the power [those bands have within] the industry, being able to play the size venues that they did," he continued. "Obviously, METALLICA is worth the majority of those tickets, because they reinvented music on a heavy level by showing that a band out of San Francisco could make this happen at this large of a scale. And even the new record, the 'Hardwired' record, is, to me, back to, let's say, that angry, aggressive approach that was [present] on '…And Justice For All'."

Ellsworth added: "But when it comes to being selected and not selected, that's a simple accounting issue. When you talk numbers, numbers make the world go around, numbers put food on your table, and numbers put the 'Big Four' in arenas. And they sell enough records to do that.

"For me, it's not a concern. To even be asked the question from you is quite a compliment with regard to, let's say, our longevity or tenacity doing what we like doing. But this is quite simply an accounting issue. He who sells the most gets the pole positions."

Back in 2014, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett was asked by U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine if it's strange to him how much METALLICA has eclipsed the other "Big Four" bands in terms of commercial popularity.

"I try not to spend too much time thinking about stuff like that because whatever I think of is still not going to be a satisfying enough explanation," he replied. "It's just the way things are and how the chips fell.

"EXODUS in the '80s had some bona fide problems, but I think their first album [1985's 'Bonded By Blood'] is just as good as 'Kill 'Em All'," he added. "We were just playing the music we wanted to hear because no one else was playing it and it wasn't being played on the radio. It was only a small group of people who knew about it and it was almost elitist in that 'No posers allowed!' thing."

OVERKILL will embark on the "Scorching The Earth" U.S. tour with EXHORDER and HEATHEN this summer. The 16-date trek will kick off on July 13 in San Francisco and make stops in Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale and Silver Springs, among other cities, before ending in Huntington, New York on July 30.

OVERKILL's twentieth studio album, "Scorched", was released on April 14 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth photo by Frank White

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10 июл 2023

gravitgroove

Да задолбали эти однотипные вопросы журналистов. Будто бы других групп у них нет.

Хоть кто-нибудь у Хэтфилда спросили в лоб, нагло так, какой альбом Оверкилл лично он считает выдающимся.

10 июл 2023

Вашингтон Ирвинг

gravitgroove, Скажет "все выдающиеся, это ж мои братишки, мы в 84-м с Блитцем один хот-дог на двоих съели".

10 июл 2023

R0ck_N_R0lla

gravitgroove, интервью "голландский штурвал": представители bay area садятся в кружок и называют лучшие альбомы друг друга

10 июл 2023

Орион

Лидер Megadeth: "У меня полно идей для нового альбома Metallica"

10 июл 2023

grgr

В новом интервью его спросили о том же самом, что и в предыдущих 197 интервью, и он наконец-то просто послал их на хуй.

10 июл 2023

WahrandPhain

бля а чо нет вопроса что лучше - лулу или релоад? какие-то не каверзные журналисты пошли