Overkill
Overkill is one of the foundational American thrash metal bands, formed in New Jersey in 1980 and active for over four decades with an output of twenty studio albums. Signed to Atlantic Records in 1986, they scored their early commercial peak with Taking Over (1987), Under the Influence (1988), and The Years of Decay (1989), maintaining chart presence through the 1990s with albums including Horrorscope (1991) and W.F.O. (1994). Vocalist Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni have remained constant throughout the band's history, giving Overkill a longevity and consistency that few of their peers have matched.
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Overkill Discography
13 tracks
- 1 Necroshine (Live) 5:56
- 2 Thunderhead (Live) 6:22
- 3 Evil Never Dies (Live) 4:42
- 4 Deny The Cross (Live) 5:11
- 5 I Hate (Live) 3:54
- 6 Shred (Live) 3:55
- 7 Bleed Me (Live) 4:28
- 8 Long Time Dyin' (Live) 7:23
- 9 It Lives (Live) 4:26
- 10 Battle (Live) 5:28
- 11 The Years Of Decay (Live) 9:51
- 12 In Union We Stand (Live) 5:09
- 13 Overkill (Live) 4:02
9 tracks
- 1 Deny the Cross 4:42
- 2 Wrecking Crew 4:32
- 3 Fear His Name 5:24
- 4 Use Your Head 4:19
- 5 Fatal If Swallowed 6:45
- 6 Powersurge 4:36
- 7 In Union We Stand 4:25
- 8 Electro-Violence 3:45
- 9 Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues) 7:07
9 tracks
- 1 Shred 4:05
- 2 Never Say Never 4:58
- 3 Hello from the Gutter 4:13
- 4 Mad Gone World 4:31
- 5 Brainfade 4:09
- 6 Drunken Wisdom 6:17
- 7 End of the Line 7:03
- 8 Head First 6:02
- 9 Overkill II (Under the Influence) 6:31
9 tracks
- 1 Time to Kill 6:16
- 2 Elimination 4:35
- 3 I Hate 3:46
- 4 Nothing to Die For 4:22
- 5 Playing with Spiders / Skullkrusher 10:15
- 6 Birth of Tension 5:03
- 7 Who Tends the Fire 8:09
- 8 The Years of Decay 8:00
- 9 Evil Never Dies 5:47
11 tracks
- 1 Coma 5:22
- 2 Infectious 4:04
- 3 Blood Money 4:07
- 4 Thanx for Nothin' 4:06
- 5 Bare Bones 4:52
- 6 Horrorscope 5:49
- 7 New Machine 5:18
- 8 Frankenstein 3:28
- 9 Live Young, Die Free 4:11
- 10 Nice Day... For a Funeral 6:17
- 11 Soulitude 5:25
11 tracks
- 1 Dreaming in Columbia 4:00
- 2 I Hear Black 5:37
- 3 World of Hurt 5:19
- 4 Feed My Head 5:36
- 5 Shades of Grey 5:18
- 6 Spiritual Void 5:13
- 7 Ghost Dance 1:46
- 8 Weight of the World 4:07
- 9 Ignorance & Innocence 5:00
- 10 Undying 5:25
- 11 Just Like You 4:13
11 tracks
- 1 Where It Hurts 5:33
- 2 Fast Junkie 4:21
- 3 The Wait / A New High in Lows 5:46
- 4 They Eat Their Young 4:56
- 5 What's Your Problem 5:10
- 6 Under One 4:14
- 7 Supersonic Hate 4:15
- 8 R.I.P. (Undone) 1:41
- 9 Up to Zero 4:07
- 10 Bastard Nation 5:37
- 11 Gasoline Dream 6:49
22 tracks
- 1 Where It Hurts 7:25
- 2 Infectious 4:06
- 3 Coma 3:59
- 4 Supersonic Hate 4:43
- 5 Wrecking Crew 1:09
- 6 Powersurge 4:12
- 7 The Wait / New High in Lows 6:12
- 8 Skullcrusher 6:22
- 9 Spiritual Void 4:53
- 10 Hello from the Gutter 2:35
- 11 Anxiety 1:50
- 12 Elimination 5:06
- 13 Fast Junkie 4:05
- 14 World of Hurt 4:59
- 15 Gasoline Dream 7:39
- 16 Rotten to the Core 5:38
- 17 Horrorscope 5:58
- 18 Under One 3:55
- 19 New Machine 4:21
- 20 Thanx for Nothin' 5:03
- 21 Bastard Nation 5:57
- 22 Fuck You 7:03
13 tracks
- 1 Battle 4:31
- 2 God-Like 4:11
- 3 Certifiable 3:25
- 4 Burn You Down - To Ashes 6:47
- 5 Let Me Shut That for You 5:19
- 6 Bold Face Pagan Stomp 5:42
- 7 Feeding Frenzy 4:13
- 8 The Cleansing 5:50
- 9 The Morning After / Private Bleeding 4:36
- 10 Cold, Hard Fact 5:19
- 11 Cornucopia 4:47
- 12 Tyrant 4:01
- 13 Killogy 3:10
10 tracks
- 1 It Lives 4:31
- 2 Save Me 4:55
- 3 Long Time Dyin' 4:53
- 4 Genocya 4:45
- 5 Half Past Dead 5:30
- 6 F.U.C.T. 4:55
- 7 I'm Alright 5:49
- 8 The Rip n' Tear 4:18
- 9 Promises 4:49
- 10 Little Bit o' Murder 4:09
12 tracks
- 1 Overkill - Live 4:16
- 2 No Feelings 2:36
- 3 Hymn 43 2:59
- 4 Changes 4:57
- 5 Space Truckin' 3:59
- 6 Deuce 3:05
- 7 Never Say Die 3:25
- 8 Death Tone 4:23
- 9 Cornucopia 4:46
- 10 Tyrant 4:00
- 11 Ain't Nothing to Do 2:13
- 12 I'm Against It 2:44
10 tracks
- 1 Necroshine 6:03
- 2 My December 5:01
- 3 Let Us Prey 6:40
- 4 80 Cycles 5:50
- 5 Revelation 4:39
- 6 Stone Cold Jesus 5:18
- 7 Forked Tongue Kiss 4:02
- 8 I Am Fear 4:30
- 9 Black Line 4:43
- 10 Dead Man 4:16
10 tracks
- 1 Thunderhead 5:39
- 2 Bleed Me 4:30
- 3 What I'm Missin' 4:36
- 4 Death Comes out to Play 5:02
- 5 Let It Burn 5:18
- 6 I, Hurricane 5:04
- 7 Left Hand Man 6:10
- 8 Blown Away 6:43
- 9 My Name Is Pain 4:17
- 10 Can't Kill a Dead Man 4:05
13 tracks
- 1 Necroshine - Live 5:56
- 2 Thunderhead - Live 6:22
- 3 Evil Never Dies - Live 4:42
- 4 Deny the Cross - Live 5:11
- 5 I Hate - Live 3:54
- 6 Shred - Live 3:55
- 7 Bleed Me - Live 4:28
- 8 Long Time Dyin' - Live 7:23
- 9 It Lives - Live 4:26
- 10 Battle - Live 5:28
- 11 The Years of Decay - Live 9:51
- 12 In Union We Stand - Live 5:09
- 13 Overkill - Live 4:02
10 tracks
- 1 Devil by the Tail 5:24
- 2 Damned 4:13
- 3 No Lights 5:52
- 4 The One 4:58
- 5 Crystal Clear 5:03
- 6 The Sound of Dying 4:56
- 7 Until I Die 5:20
- 8 Struck Down 4:42
- 9 Unholy 4:40
- 10 I Rise 5:08
10 tracks
- 1 Within Your Eyes 6:06
- 2 Love 5:40
- 3 Loaded Rack 4:43
- 4 Bats in the Belfry 4:47
- 5 A Pound of Flesh 3:37
- 6 Keeper 5:12
- 7 Wheelz 5:10
- 8 The Mark 5:54
- 9 Play the Ace 5:34
- 10 Old School 3:51
10 tracks
- 1 Devils in the Mist 4:34
- 2 What It Takes 4:28
- 3 Skull and Bones 5:54
- 4 Shadow of a Doubt 4:51
- 5 Hellish Pride 5:16
- 6 Walk Through Fire 4:08
- 7 Head On 5:21
- 8 Chalie Get Your Gun 4:28
- 9 Hell Is 4:40
- 10 Overkill V...The Brand 5:36
10 tracks
- 1 The Green and Black 8:11
- 2 Ironbound 6:33
- 3 Bring Me the Night 4:15
- 4 The Goal Is Your Soul 6:40
- 5 Give a Little 4:41
- 6 Endless War 5:40
- 7 The Head and Heart 5:10
- 8 In Vain 5:12
- 9 Killing for a Living 6:14
- 10 The SRC 5:07
14 tracks
- 1 Come and Get It 6:17
- 2 Electric Rattlesnake 6:19
- 3 Wish You Were Dead 4:19
- 4 Black Daze 3:55
- 5 Save Yourself 3:43
- 6 Drop the Hammer Down 6:25
- 7 21st Century Man 4:12
- 8 Old Wounds, New Scars 4:11
- 9 All over but the Shouting 5:30
- 10 Good Night 5:36
- 11 Horrorscope - Live from Oz 5:25
- 12 Long Time Dyin' - Live from Oz 4:06
- 13 Necroshine - Live from Oz 7:29
- 14 Walk Through Fire - Live from Oz 4:48
13 tracks
- 1 XDM 0:49
- 2 Armorist 3:53
- 3 Down to the Bone 4:04
- 4 Pig 5:21
- 5 Bitter Pill 5:48
- 6 Where There's Smoke 4:20
- 7 Freedom Rings 6:52
- 8 Another Day to Die 4:56
- 9 King of the Rat Bastards 4:09
- 10 It's All Yours 4:26
- 11 In the Name 6:03
- 12 The Fight Song 5:13
- 13 Miss Misery 4:31
11 tracks
- 1 Mean, Green, Killing Machine 7:29
- 2 Goddamn Trouble 6:21
- 3 Our Finest Hour 5:49
- 4 Shine On 6:03
- 5 The Long Road 6:45
- 6 Let's All Go to Hades 4:55
- 7 Come Heavy 4:59
- 8 Red White and Blue 5:05
- 9 The Wheel 4:51
- 10 The Grinding Wheel 7:55
- 11 Emerald 3:52
21 tracks
- 1 Coma - Live 5:36
- 2 Infectious - Live 4:09
- 3 Blood Money - Live 5:15
- 4 Thanx for Nothin' - Live 4:21
- 5 Bare Bones - Live 5:44
- 6 Horrorscope - Live 7:34
- 7 New Machine - Live 4:24
- 8 Frankenstein - Live 5:03
- 9 Live Young, Die Free - Live 4:46
- 10 Nice Day... For a Funeral - Live 6:26
- 11 Soulitude - Live 6:22
- 12 Raise the Dead - Live 4:12
- 13 Rotten to the Core - Live 6:57
- 14 There's No Tomorrow - Live 3:45
- 15 Second Son - Live 4:58
- 16 Hammerhead - Live 3:55
- 17 Feel the Fire - Live 7:20
- 18 Blood and Iron - Live 4:11
- 19 Kill at Command - Live 5:07
- 20 Overkill - Live 6:00
- 21 Fuck You - Live 5:11
10 tracks
- 1 Last Man Standing 5:49
- 2 Believe in the Fight 5:03
- 3 Head of a Pin 5:56
- 4 Batshitcrazy 4:33
- 5 Distortion 6:09
- 6 A Mother's Prayer 3:58
- 7 Welcome to the Garden State 4:42
- 8 Where Few Dare to Walk 5:25
- 9 Out on the Road-Kill 4:41
- 10 Hole in My Soul 4:47
20 tracks
- 1 Elimination 4:35
- 2 Hello from the Gutter 4:13
- 3 The Years of Decay 8:00
- 4 I Hate 3:46
- 5 Coma 5:22
- 6 Time to Kill 6:16
- 7 Frankenstein 3:28
- 8 Wrecking Crew 4:32
- 9 In Union We Stand 4:25
- 10 Fatal If Swallowed 6:45
- 11 World of Hurt 5:19
- 12 Horrorscope 5:49
- 13 Powersurge 4:36
- 14 Thanx for Nothin' 4:06
- 15 Evil Never Dies 5:47
- 16 Use Your Head 4:19
- 17 Gasoline Dream 6:49
- 18 Deny the Cross 4:42
- 19 Spiritual Void 5:13
- 20 Head First 6:02
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