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The following is the discography of Overkill, an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in New Jersey.The band has released twenty studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, three EPs and one box set.
W.F.O. (Wide Fucking Open) is the seventh full-length studio album by thrash metal band Overkill, released on July 15, 1994, [2] on Atlantic Records. The album contains "hidden songs" on track 98 the songs start at 10:00, featuring the band warming up in the studio, playing "Heaven and Hell" by Black Sabbath, "The Ripper" by Judas Priest and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix.
In July 2011, Overkill began demoing six songs and were planning to begin recording their 16th album in October for an early 2012 release. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The resulting album, The Electric Age , was released on March 27, 2012, [ 43 ] and it was the band's first album to enter the top 100 on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 77; this was also ...
Scorched is the twentieth studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill, released on April 14, 2023. [9] It is the band's first studio album in four years, following The Wings of War (2019), the longest gap between studio albums for the band. This is also the last Overkill album to feature drummer Jason Bittner, who left the band in ...
The Years of Decay is the fourth studio album by thrash metal band Overkill, released on October 13, 1989 through Atlantic and Megaforce Records. [2] 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 "Blitz" Ellsworth (vocalist) and D. D. Verni (bassist).
White Devil Armory was Overkill's most successful album; it peaked at number 31 on the Billboard 200, making it Overkill's highest chart position in their career and it sold 8,600 copies in its first week in the U.S. [9] [10] In its second week, the album sold over 2,850 copies in the U.S., bringing the sales to over 11,000 copies and dropping ...
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.
AllMusic's Jason Anderson gave the album a positive review, awarding it three stars out of five and stating, "After releasing perhaps the finest, most musical recording of the band's already considerable thrash metal career in 1991, Overkill followed up Horrorscope in 1993 with I Hear Black, a slightly more dense, ambitious recording, and the band's first for Atlantic Records."