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Bloodletting (Overkill Album)
''Bloodletting'' is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill, released on October 24, 2000, by Metal-Is. It is the first after the departure of guitarists Joe Comeau and Sebastian Marino and the addition of Dave Linsk. ''Bloodletting'' also marked the first and only time since 1989's ''The Years of Decay'' that Overkill had recorded together as a four-piece. Reception The album sold around 2,450 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. Track listing Personnel * Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals * D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals *Dave Linsk – guitars *Tim Mallare – drums Additional personnel * Produced by Overkill * Engineered by John Shyloski and John Montegnese * Assistant engineered by Chris Jones * Mixed by Colin Richardson at Sonalyst Studios * Mastered by Roger Lian at Masterdisk, New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2 ...
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Overkill (band)
Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many lineup changes, leaving bassist D.D. Verni and lead vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth as the only constant members. In addition to Verni and Ellsworth, Overkill's current lineup includes Dave Linsk on lead guitar, Derek Tailer on rhythm guitar and Jason Bittner on drums. Along with Nuclear Assault and Anthrax, whose one-time lead guitarist Dan Spitz was also an early member of Overkill, the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal bands, and they are often called "the Motörhead of thrash metal", based on their unique playing style, which was influenced by punk rock and the new wave of British heavy metal. The band has a notable mascot named "Chaly", a skeletal bat with a skull-like face, horns, bony wings and green eyes, who has appeared on most of their album covers. To date, Overkill has released nineteen studio albums, an album of cover songs, two EPs, o ...
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Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford () is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut, outside of Manhattan. It is Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport. With a population of 135,470, Stamford passed Hartford and New Haven in population as of the 2020 census. It is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the New York City metropolitan area (specifically, the New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area). As of 2019, Stamford is home to nine Fortune 500 companies and numerous divisions of large corporations. This gives it the largest financial district in the New York metropolitan region outside New York City and one of the nation's largest concentrations of corporations. Dominant sectors of Stamford's economy include financial services, tourism, information technology, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and retail. Its metropolitan division is home to colleges and universities including UConn Stamford ...
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Thrash Metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The lyrical subject matter often includes criticism of The Establishment and concern over environmental destruction, and at times shares a disdain for Christian dogma with that of black metal. The language is typically direct and denunciatory, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre emerged in the early 1980s as musicians began fusing the double bass drumming and complex guitar stylings of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk. Philosophically, thrash metal developed as a backlash against both the conservatism of the Reagan Era and the much more moder ...
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Groove Metal
Groove metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that began in the early 1990s. The genre achieved success in the 1990s and continued having success in the 2000s. Inspired by thrash metal and traditional heavy metal, groove metal features raspy singing and screaming, down-tuned guitars, heavy guitar riffs, and syncopated rhythms. Unlike thrash metal, groove metal is usually slower and also uses elements of traditional heavy metal. Pantera are often considered the pioneers of groove metal, and groove metal expanded in the 1990s with bands like White Zombie, Machine Head, and Sepultura. The genre continued in the 2000s with bands like Lamb of God, DevilDriver, and Five Finger Death Punch. Characteristics Groove metal is heavily influenced by thrash metal, but is focused more on heaviness as opposed to speed, even though fast songs are still common within the genre. Emphasis lies in heavy guitar riffs, often accompanied by syncopated rhythms, and guitar solos are commonplace. ...
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Coverkill
''Coverkill'' is a cover album released by thrash metal band Overkill in 1999. The album consists of cover songs by artists that influenced the band, including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Kiss, Judas Priest, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Sex Pistols, the Dead Boys, and Manowar. This was Overkill's first release with guitarist Dave Linsk. Track listing Personnel *Bobby Ellsworth – lead vocals *D. D. Verni – bass, backing vocals *Dave Linsk – lead guitar *Joe Comeau – rhythm guitar *Tim Mallare – drums *Sid Falck - drums Additional personnel *Andy Katz – producer, engineer *Alex Perialas – mixing *Colin Richardson Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He has worked on over 100 albums and is most frequently associated with heavy metal and its subgenres. Career Some of the bands he has worked for include: * 3 In ... – mixing References External links Official OVERKILL Site Overkill (band) albums Covers ...
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Wrecking Everything
''Wrecking Everything'' is a 2002 live album by thrash metal band Overkill (band), Overkill which is the counterpart to Wrecking Everything – An Evening in Asbury Park VHS/DVD. Recorded at The Paramount, Asbury Park, New Jersey on March 23, 2002. As of 2006, the album had sold over 5,300 copies and according to Bobby Ellsworth, Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, the VHS/DVD has sold around 15,000–20,000 copies in the U.S. Track listing Credits Personnel *Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals *D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals *Dave Linsk – lead guitar, backing vocals *Derek Tailer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals *Tim Mallare – drums Production * Produced by Overkill (band), Overkill References External links Official OVERKILL Site
Overkill (band) albums 2002 live albums Live thrash metal albums Albums with cover art by Travis Smith (artist) {{2000s-thrash-metal-album-stub ...
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Thrash Metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The lyrical subject matter often includes criticism of The Establishment and concern over environmental destruction, and at times shares a disdain for Christian dogma with that of black metal. The language is typically direct and denunciatory, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre emerged in the early 1980s as musicians began fusing the double bass drumming and complex guitar stylings of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk. Philosophically, thrash metal developed as a backlash against both the conservatism of the Reagan Era and the much more moder ...
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Joe Comeau
Joe Comeau is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Rochester, New York. He is best known for his work with Annihilator, Liege Lord and Overkill. He is currently the lead singer for the band DuskMachine and the recently reunited Liege Lord. Discography ; With Duskmachine * ''Duskmachine'' (2013) ; With Liege Lord * ''Master Control'' (1988) ; With Overkill * '' The Killing Kind'' (1996) * '' From The Underground And Below'' (1997) * ''Necroshine'' (1999) * ''Coverkill ''Coverkill'' is a cover album released by thrash metal band Overkill in 1999. The album consists of cover songs by artists that influenced the band, including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Kiss, Judas Priest, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Se ...'' (1999) ; With Annihilator * '' Carnival Diablos'' (2001) * '' Waking the Fury'' (2002) * '' Double Live Annihilation'' (2003) References Singer-songwriters from New York (state) American male singer-songwriters Living people 1964 b ...
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The Years Of Decay
''The Years of Decay'' is the fourth studio album by thrash metal band Overkill (band), Overkill, released on October 13, 1989 through Atlantic Records, Atlantic and Megaforce Records."Over Kill;"
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It is the last Overkill album to feature guitarist Bobby Gustafson, who either left or was fired by the band amid a feud between himself and its founding members Bobby Ellsworth, Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth (vocalist) and D. D. Verni (bassist). ''The Years of Decay'' was also the first of two Overkill albums produced by Terry Date, who took on the same role for their follow-up album ''Horrorscope (Overkill album), Horrorscope'' (1991).


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Musically, ''The Years of Decay'' features Overkill's most progressive metal, progressive and diverse work compared to their prev ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ...
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Bobby Ellsworth
Robert Ellsworth (born May 3, 1959), best known as Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of New Jersey thrash metal band Overkill. He has been the vocalist of Overkill since its inception in 1980, and he and bassist D. D. Verni are the band's only constant members. Ellsworth is a member of the supergroup cover band BPMD. He also previously fronted The Cursed, a now defunct band featuring guitarist Dan Lorenzo, which released the ''Room Full of Sinners'' LP in 2007. Personal life In 1998, Ellsworth was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of nose cancer and underwent immediate surgery, which successfully removed the tumor. Ellsworth had a focal seizure in Germany in June 2002, right in the middle of the song "Necroshine". He commented: "The beauty of a stroke is that you don't remember. I don't know what it changed, because I forget how it used to be (laughs). Occasionally I piss my pants when somebody turns a microwave on (laughs). ...
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Colin Richardson
Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He has worked on over 100 albums and is most frequently associated with heavy metal and its subgenres. Career Some of the bands he has worked for include: * 3 Inches of Blood *Anathema *Anonymus *As I Lay Dying * Behemoth *Bolt Thrower * Bullet for My Valentine *Cannibal Corpse *Carcass *The Chameleons * The Change *Chimaira * Cradle of Filth *Crash *Crash * CRUSHER france * DÅÅTH *Dearly Beheaded *DevilDriver *Disincarnate *Eluveitie *Fear Factory *Fightstar *Five Pointe O *Funeral for a Friend * GBH *Godflesh *God Forbid *Gorefest *Gorguts *Hamlet *Heaven Shall Burn *InMe *Kataklysm *Kreator *Liberty 37 *Machine Head *Massacre *Mass Hysteria * Mercyless *Membranes *Murderdolls * Napalm Death *One Minute Silence * Overkill *Rise to Remain *Roadrunner United *Rodrigo y Gabriela *Sanctity *Sepultura * SikTh *Sinister * Slipknot * S.O.B. * SugarComa * Sydonia *The Exploited *Those Damn Crows *Tarja ...
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