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Overkill (band) Albums
Overkill may refer to: * Overkill (term), the use of excessive force or action to achieve a goal * Surplus killing, when a predator kills more prey than it can eat * Overexploitation, depletion of a natural resource through overharvesting ** Overfishing ** Overkill hypothesis, a proposed cause of Quaternary extinction Characters * Overkill (''G.I. Joe''), a character in the G.I. Joe universe * Overkill (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe * Overkill, a character in the Marvel Comics O-Force team * Scarlet Overkill, main antagonist in '' Minions'' (2015 film) Literature * ''Overkill'' (comic book), a British comics anthology * ''Overkill'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Vanda Symon * ''Overkill'', a 1966 spy novel by William Garner * ''Overkill'', a 2001 true crime book by Lyn Riddle about the 1991 murder of Laurie Show Music * Overkill (band), an American thrash metal band from New Jersey ** ''Overkill'' (EP) an EP by the New Jersey band, or the title so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill (term)
Overkill is the use of excessive force or action that goes further than what is necessary to achieve its goal. It may be a literal term referring to physical damage, though it is also used in colloquial conversation as a metaphor. An example is killing an ant with a sledgehammer. Nuclear weapons ''Overkill'' is especially used to refer to a destructive nuclear capacity exceeding the amount needed to destroy an enemy.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/overkill>. The term is attested from 1946"overkill." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 31 March. 2009. . and was in common use during the Cold War era, referring to the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both nations possess more than enough nuclear weapons to destroy one another many times over – nuclear overkill. The term for this was "pounding the rubble" or, as military officers sometimes joked, "pounding the ruble". In video games Overkill is a common feature implemented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill (Motörhead Album)
''Overkill'' is the second studio album by British rock band Motörhead, released in March 1979. It was the band's first album with Bronze Records. ''Kerrang!'' magazine listed the album at number 46 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". American thrash metal band Overkill was named after this album. Background Bronze Records signed Motörhead in 1978 and booked them time in London's Wessex Studios to record a single consisting of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie" and a new song by the band called "Tear Ya Down". The band toured to promote the single "Louie Louie", which became a modest hit, while Chiswick released the ''Motörhead'' album in white vinyl, to keep the momentum going. In the ''Classic Albums'' documentary on the making of ''Ace of Spades'', Gerry Bron of Bronze Records admits: Sales of the single brought the band their first appearance on BBC Television's ''Top of the Pops'', which gave Bronze the confidence to get the band back into the studio to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkiller
''Killer'' is the sixth music VHS and first DVD by German rock band Die Ärzte. The 2009 DVD ''Overkiller'' is an expansion of that. The video is a video clip compilation. Content of ''Killer'' When the DVD starts, you fly through the following cities: * "Rio" * "New York City" * "Tokyo" Below the cities stands: Das ist nicht ... (This is not ...). At the end you fly to the stage (Main menu) then it says: Das ist ''Die Beste Band der Welt'' (This is the best band of the world). The menu is divided into two parts: * Backstage * Videography Backstage you'll be greeted by Bela B., in the videography by Farin Urlaub. The backstage is a spaceship, five buttons link: * A Televisor → Plays a video mix of: ** music-videos and making ofs with comments ** advertising affiliated by Bela B., Farin Urlaub and Rodrigo González ** six episodes of "Die Ärzte spielen Serienklassiker" * A star on the televisor → Plays the making of and the credits of the DVD * A cabinet und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eternal Champions
''Eternal Champions'' is a 1993 fighting game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was one of the few fighting games of its time developed from the ground up as a home console title, rather than being released in arcades first and later ported to home systems. Sega released ''Eternal Champions'' in hopes of capitalizing on the fighting game mania that the game industry was in the midst of following the massive success of '' Street Fighter II'' (1991) and '' Mortal Kombat'' (1992). The game tried to set itself apart with unique features such as a heavier emphasis on its story, characters pulled from different time periods, reflectable projectiles, force fields, fighters that carried weapons, a training mode where players had to defend themselves against robotic traps, a novel method of executing moves, and elaborate stage-specific finishing moves called " Overkills". Two years later, an enhanced version, '' Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill Software
Overkill Software is a Swedish video game developer based and founded in Stockholm in 2009 by Ulf Andersson, Bo Andersson, the founders and owners of defunct game developer Grin, along with Simon Viklund. In 2012, Swedish game studio Starbreeze Studios acquired Overkill. The company is known for their ''Payday'' series, consisting of Payday: The Heist, ''Payday 2, and Payday 3.'' History Brothers Bo and Ulf Andersson had founded Grin in 1997, which had some successful titles including ''Bionic Commando''. However, when a deal with Square Enix to make a ''Final Fantasy''-based game fell through, Grin went bankrupt and was shut down in 2009. The Anderssons launched Overkill Software that same year after Grin gets shut down due to bankruptcy, with their first project being '' Payday: The Heist'', released in 2011. ''Payday'' was a success for PC and PlayStation 3. Overkill desired to make a sequel to ''Payday'', but did not have extensive financial resources to complete this pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill
Overkill may refer to: * Overkill (term), the use of excessive force or action to achieve a goal * Surplus killing, when a predator kills more prey than it can eat * Overexploitation, depletion of a natural resource through overharvesting ** Overfishing ** Overkill hypothesis, a proposed cause of Quaternary extinction Characters * Overkill (''G.I. Joe''), a character in the G.I. Joe universe * Overkill (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe * Overkill, a character in the Marvel Comics O-Force team * Scarlet Overkill, main antagonist in '' Minions'' (2015 film) Literature * ''Overkill'' (comic book), a British comics anthology * ''Overkill'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Vanda Symon * ''Overkill'', a 1966 spy novel by William Garner * ''Overkill'', a 2001 true crime book by Lyn Riddle about the 1991 murder of Laurie Show Music * Overkill (band), an American thrash metal band from New Jersey ** ''Overkill'' (EP) an EP by the New Jersey band, or the title so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OverKill (video Game)
''OverKill'' also known as ''OverKill: The Six-Planet Mega Blast'' is a vertical scrolling shooter that was developed by Tech-Noir and published by Epic MegaGames in 1992. The game was designed by Ste Cork with assistance from Martin Holland. Ste Cork declared the registered version freeware Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ... on July 23, 2008. Ste Cork released Overkill under the Creative Commons NoDerivs license. Plot A pilot who has been handed a very difficult assignment to destroy the menacing alien forces that have captu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill (Flying Buffalo)
''Overkill'' is a role-playing game adventure for ''Tunnels & Trolls'' published by Flying Buffalo. Plot summary ''Overkill'' is an adventure for ''Tunnels & Trolls''. Unusually for solo adventures it allows for a party of characters to be used. The party has a maximum combined level of 12, so the player can choose a higher solo character or multiple lower level characters. Any character can only navigate this adventure once, and on completion has conditions placed on taking other adventures. In some circumstances, the character is compelled to start other adventures (e.g. as punishment following court-martial). Publication history ''Overkill'' was written in 1977 by Mike Brines and was redesigned in 1980 by Michael Stackpole. Reception Gerald E. Giannattasio reviewed the Stackpole version of ''Overkill'' in ''The Space Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel (21 December 1944 – 2 December 2017) was a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. Lommel spent time at The Factory and was a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. He moved to the United States in 1977, where he wrote, directed and starred in over 50 films. Early life Born in Zielenzig in 1944, a few weeks before the arrival of the Red Army, Lommel's family fled the city, wrapping the infant Ulli in a roll of carpet. His father, Ludwig, was a popular radio personality. His mother was the actress Karla van Cleef. While living in Bad Nauheim as a teenager, Lommel performed with Elvis Presley. Career Lommel started his cinematic career as an actor in the early 1960s. One of his first film roles was in Russ Meyer's ''Fanny Hill'', in which he starred alongside Italian actress Letícia Román. In 1969, he appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overkill (Murder Most Horrid)
''Murder Most Horrid'' is a British black comedy anthology series starring Dawn French. It was broadcast on BBC Two for four series runs, in 1991, 1994, 1996 and 1999. Created by Paul Smith, who also co-created ''Colin's Sandwich'' (with Terry Kyan, as noted below) and has written for ''The Brittas Empire'', among other programmes, the series starred French as a different character in each episode. Many episodes were directed by Bob Spiers, who also worked with French on '' The Comic Strip Presents...'' and ''French and Saunders''. Format Most episodes parodied the thriller and murder mystery genres with one episode lampooning the trials and tribulations of being a children's presenter in general, and '' Blue Peter'' in particular. In 1998, this episode ("Murder at Tea Time") was repeated to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ''Blue Peter'', as part of a section entitled "Spoof Peter", which also featured (among others) the ''Python'' skit "How to Do It". Each episode was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damage (Kosheen Album)
''Damage'' is Kosheen's third studio album, released on 23 March 2007. The album was originally due to be released in 2006, however it was pushed back to 2007. The first single released was "Overkill". Track listing European edition Released on 23 March 2007 (All songs by Sian Evans, Darren Beale, Mark Morrison) #"Damage" – 6:30 #"Overkill" – 3:38 #"Like a Book" – 3:35 #"Same Ground Again" – 4:40 #"Guilty" – 3:30 #"Chances" – 3:35 #"Out of This World" – 4:51 #"Wish You Were Here" – 4:57 #"Thief" – 4:36 #"Under Fire" – 3:58 #"Not Enough Love" – 5:17 #"Cruel Heart" – 4:14 #"Marching Orders" – 5:01 #"Your Life" – 4:03 UK edition Released on 10 September 2007 (All songs by Sian Evans Sian Evans is a Welsh singer. Throughout the 2000s, she was front woman and singer-songwriter of the band Kosheen, a trip-hop/drum & bass group that, during that decade, placed two albums within the Top Ten of the UK Albums Chart. She has also ..., Darren Beale, Mark M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Humberstone
Holly Ffion Humberstone (born 17 December 1999) is an English singer-songwriter from Grantham, England. In 2021, she signed a recording contract with Interscope and Polydor Records. Her first EP following the signings, ''The Walls Are Way Too Thin'', was released on 12 November 2021. Humberstone won the Brit Award for Rising Star at the 2022 Brit Awards. Early life Humberstone is from Grantham and is one of four sisters. Both her parents are medics. She studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Humberstone started writing songs at a young age. She has discussed growing up in a small town, stating there was "no music scene growing up in rural Lincolnshire, so I just really did my own thing" in an interview with ''The Telegraph''. Humberstone was formerly a violinist for the Lincolnshire Youth Symphony Orchestra and was first spotted by a manager whilst performing on her local ''BBC Music Introducing'' radio show. Career Humberstone performed at Glastonbury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
