Biography

New York thrash quartet Overkill was formed in 1984 by vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and guitarist Bobby Gustafson, also including bassist D.D. Verni and drummer Sid Falck. The band garnered a reputation for brutal, pounding speed and technique, but lacked the musical diversity to compete with heavy hitters like Metallica; still, they built up a strong following in the metal underground with albums like 1985's Taking Over and 1988's Under the Influence. ~ Steve Huey

Top Tracks

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• Coma

• Damned

• End Of The Line

• Fuck You

• Give A Little

• Head On

• Hellish Pride

• Hello From The Gutter

• Horrorscope

• I Hate

• In Vain

• Ironbound

• It Lives

• Necroshine

• New Machine

• Overkill

• Powersurge

• Rotten To The Core

• Shred

• Spiritual Void

• The One

• Thunderhead

• Tyrant

• Until I Die

• What It Takes

• World Of Hurt

• Wrecking Crew

Discography

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• Ironbound

  E1 Music / Koch Records

  2010

• Immortalis

  Bodog Music

  2007

• Relix IV

  Spitfire Records

  2005

• Unholy

  Snapper

  2004

• Killbox 13

  Dynamo Records / Spitfire Records

  2003

• Wrecking Everything: Live

  Spitfire Records

  2002

• Bloodletting

  Metal-Is

  2000

• Coverkill

  International Music

  1999

• Necroshine

  CMC International

  1999

• From the Underground and Below

  CMC International

  1997

• Fuck You and Then Some

  Megaforce

  1996

• The Killing Kind

  CMC Records

  1996

• W.F.O.

  Atlantic

  1994

• I Hear Black

  Atlantic

  1993

• Horrorscope

  Megaforce

  1991

• The Years of Decay

  Megaforce

  1989

• Under the Influence

  Megaforce

  1988

• Taking Over

  Megaforce

  1987

• Feel the Fire

  Megaforce

  1985