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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

3 апр 2015

OVERKILL's BLITZ Shoots Down Rumors That He Was 'Near Death' When He Suffered Stroke

Ante Turić of the Croatian metal web zine Perun.hr conducted an inteview with vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of New Jersey thrashers OVERKILL prior to the band's March 11 concert in Zagreb, Croatia. You can now watch the chat below.

Speaking about the rumors that he was "near death" when he suffered a stroke on stage in Germany in June 2002, Ellsworth said: "It wasn't near death. It's what's called the TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack]; it's a small stroke. My mother gets it. It wasn't [caused by my] lifestyle. I was sober. I was sober for ten years on the road — 1995 to 2005. Not one drink, ain't no drugs… Nothing! It was just tobacco and coffee. And this is genetic, so it was something I could never see coming. It just happened then."

He continued: "The most damage that was done from it [was] I fell down a flight of stairs. I didn't just fall where the stroke happened. I knew something was wrong and I went to the side of the stage and I held and I lost my grip and I went down the stairs and knocked myself out. That's where the damage was; not the stroke. So [I] wasn't really near death."

Ellsworth added: "I read some great rumors afterwards — that I'd blown my brains out on a stage in Germany. This was some Brazilian magazine. [They] said that I'd pulled out a gun in the middle of this [venue] and [there was] like a 'Boom!'

"[After I had the stroke] I was up walking around. My son was on the road with me at the time. He was 18. I had a good friend in Nürnberg, and she took him to her apartment so that he had a place to go. So that was comfortable. I was going to meet my girlfriend in The Netherlands two days later. She was okay with it. I mean, it was no problem. I was on a train two days after that with my son going to The Netherlands. I was tired, but I wasn't… If I'd had a near-death experience, I [wouldn't have been released from] the hospital in two days."

Ellsworth also talked about the fact that he has been regularly receiving oxygen backstage during OVERKILL's current European tour. He said: "It's really simple. The [reason for the] oxygen treatment is that age happens. And if you watch the shows that we do, if you look at the guy who's singing up there, you say, 'This guy's not on an oxygen treatment. That's a fucking lie.' Well, the oxygen is something that instantly clears your head, clears your lungs, and gives you that super energy. So I take real high doses of it in real short periods. I don't need it all day; I don't need to have it. I need to just…"

He continued: "I'm 55. [Laughs] I'm 55, [and] I wanna play like I'm 25. I use everything I can that is healthy for me to do that: vitamins, oxygen… And it just helps. I started using it in very high elevations in South America. Bogota, Colombia is two kilometers in the mountains. You could walk with your suitcase up the stairs of a hotel, and you [start having difficulty breathing and you] go, 'What the fuck is that?' Well, you're two kilometers high. I talked to [our tour manager], and she goes, 'How about oxygen?' I said, 'Get oxygen. That'll be perfect.' So no doctor, no nothing. It's my trick."

As previously reported, OVERKILL has inked a new worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. Previously signed to the label for Europe only, OVERKILL's first worldwide release on Nuclear Blast will be a special box set comprised of the band's entire back catalog, due out this fall.

OVERKILL and SYMPHONY X will join forces for a North American tour in September/October. The 24-date co-headlining trek launches at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 18, hits four Canadian cities, then wraps up with a very special night at Terminal 5 in New York City on October 17 — the first time in the bands’ combined histories that they'll play a show together in their own backyard.

Advanced tickets for the confirmed tour dates are on sale exclusively at EnterTheVault.com until April 15, when they go on sale everywhere. VIP packages include a meet-and-greet session with both bands and an exclusive poster.

OVERKILL's BLITZ Shoots Down Rumors That He Was 'Near Death' When He Suffered Stroke

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3 апр 2015

Mister

Про бразильский журнал посмеялся

3 апр 2015

Toney Moon

Ещё бы и курить бросил, это тоже сильно вредит сердечно-сосудистой системе и лёгким.

3 апр 2015

Arseniy

«я не выпил ни капли спиртного», — при том, что алкоголь НИКАК не влияет на ишемию сосудов, у алкашей артерии чистые, как у младенцев. А вот курение — как раз один из факторов риска атеросклероза, который и вызывает ТИА и другие ИБС.

Ну, удачи ему, короче, чего уж. Главное ведь не пьёт.

Не дови.

И курить бросил. Здоровья и долгих лет жизни Блитцу!

4 апр 2015

Acallabeth

Arseniy, алкоголь не отягощает течение атеросклероза, но ухудшает реологию крови.
Но курить в самом деле надо бросать.