Overkill
Electro Violence...The Legendary Broadcasts And More - (Cal Vista ~ CVB24033CD)
Boston, Massachusetts January 18, 1990
L'Amour, Brooklyn, New York March 9, 1990
Zeche, Bochum, West Germany May 12, 1986
Broadcast/Soundboard Recordings
Flac 16bit/44,1khz & MP3 320kbps/48khz
Cover Art Included
01 Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
02 Fuck You (Subhumans)
03 I Hate
04 In Union We Stand
05 Rotten To The Core
06 Guitar Solo
07 E.vil N.ever D.ies
08 Time To Kill
09 Powersurge
10 Birth Of Tension
11 Hello From The Gutter/Wrecking Crew
12 Rotten To The Core
13 Second Son
14 Hammerhead
15 Overkill
Total Playing Time 1hr 19mn 25sc
Tracks 01-07 : Recorded live at The Channel, Boston, MA, USA, Jan 18, 1990
Tracks 08-11 : Recorded live at L'Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Mar 9, 1990
Tracks 12-15 : Recorded live at Zeche, Bochum, West Germany, on May 12, 1986
Overkill 1990
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
Carlo "D.D." Verni – bass, backing vocals
Bobby Gustafson – guitars, backing vocals
Sid Falck – drums
Overkill 1986
Bobby Blitz – lead vocals
D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals
Bobby Gustafson – guitars, backing vocals
Rat Skates – drums
I recently joined the MetalMadness ed2k link tracker. It hosts nothing but True Heavy Metal Music. Glam and Neo-Metal bands are not hosted there. Most of the stuff is commercially available material most of which is hard to find. I personally have been a fan of the Metal Underground since my teen years. Back when if you wanted a Motörhead, Iron Maiden or Venom record you had to order it from England at a record store or out of the back of a magazine. When I bought Iron Maiden's "Women In Uniform" E.P. I had to convert my American currency To English currency then mail it off to a company in England that advertised in the back of some Heavy Metal music magazine I read.
In the early days of Thrash Metal's surge from below of course I listened to Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax but another band that caught my ear early was Overkill. Named after the Motörhead song of course. I have been to quite a few Overkill concerts and they always are a killer live act. This collection I downloaded from the MetalMadness tracker is a collection of shows recorded for the radio. That includes a very early show from 1986 when Thrash Metal was as poison to radio as Hardcore Punk but Overkill made it onto the radio way back then in the long long ago before times....
Flac
MP3
Friday, January 30, 2026
Overkill - Electro Violence...The Legendary Broadcasts And More ~ Live Compilation (FM)
Friday, July 5, 2024
Overkill - Rock Al Parque ~ Plaza Stage: Bogota, Colombia November 11, 2023 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip
Overkill
Rock Al Parque
Parque Simón Bolívar
Plaza Stage
Bogota, Colombia
November 11, 2023
HDTV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included
Lineage: TV Broadcast > Unknown Process > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave 16bit/44,1khz > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps
01 - Scorched
02 - Bring Me the Night
03 - Electric Rattlesnake
04 - Hello From the Gutter
05 - Coma
06 - The Surgeon
07 - Ironbound
08 - Elimination
09 - Horrorscope
10 - Rotten to the Core
11 - Fuck You
Total Time: 58mn 03sc
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
Carlo "D.D." Verni – bass, backing vocals
Dave Linsk – lead guitar, backing vocals
Derek Tailer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Jason Bittner – drums
justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to re-edit some track marks and lower the volume to eliminate quite a bit of clipping. The DVD had lossy AC3 audio so I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper. All sector boundaries aligned.
Overkill remains one of my all time favorite bands. When the 1990s made Heavy Metal go back to the underground many bands changed their style drastically to stay on top (I'm looking at you Metallica & Megadeth) Overkill doubled down on the Hardcore element that gave New York City Thrash bands there unique sound. Critics called it Groove Metal but Overkill's so called Post-Thrash will still rip your face off.
In 1998 singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth actually had to have part of his face lifted off. He had an aggressive nasal cancer. Doctors removed part of Blitz's face so they could remove the front of his skull, scrape the cancer off the inside of his sinuses, remove a huge tumor and put the whole thing back together again. This actually lowered Blitz's vocal range since the resonating chambers of his sinuses change size and shape. Four years later Blitz suffered a stroke on stage in Germany. He jokes about it only made him stronger and helped him forget some of his younger bad decisions.
MP3
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Overkill - Rock Hard Festival ~ Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 05-19-2018 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip
Overkill
Rock Hard Festival
Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
May 19, 2018
WDR TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art & Screen Shots Included
Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Goldwave v 6.31 (editing) > Traders Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps
01 Coma*
02 Infectious*
03 Blood Money*
04 Thanx for Nothin’*
05 Raise the Dead#
06 Rotten to the Core#
07 There’s No Tomorrow#
08 Feel the Fire#
09 Horrorscope*
10 Hammerhead#
11 Nice Day… For a Funeral*
12 Overkill#
13 In Union We Stand+
Encore:
14 Elimination^
15 Fuck You%
16 Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys)
17 Fuck You (Reprise)%
total playing time: 1hr 22mn 26sc
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
D. D. Verni – bass, backing vocals
Dave Linsk – lead guitar, backing vocals
Derek Tailer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Jason Bittner – drums
*from Horrorscope 1991
#from Feel The Fire 1985
+from Taking Over 1987
^from The Years Of Decay 1989
%from Fuck You EP 1996
justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to re-edit some track marks and raise the volume. No EQ or noise reduction was used. The DVD had lossy audio so I used Traders Little Helper to encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps.
Overkill play what I would call an Old School Set dipping back as far as their 1985 Debut Feel The Fire but going no farther than the 1996 Classic Fuck You EP. Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth stills sounds great after all these years. The man has defeated sinus cancer (having his face removed to scrape the inside of his sinus), and an onstage stroke. Blitz and his long time Partner in Thrash D.D. Verni have such a connection they can crank out Classic Thrash albums in their sleep. The band has evolved over the years from their Classic Thrash Sound to a more Groove Metal/Thrash Metal Hybrid yet still retaining their loyal fan base.
MP3
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Overkill - Westwood One High Voltage ~ The Ritz, New York City, NY 01-27-1990 (FM)
Westwood One High Voltage
The Ritz
New York City, NY
January 27, 1990
FM Broadcast Recording
MP3 192kbps
No Cover Art
01 Hello From The Gutter
02 Wrecking Crew
03 E.vil N.ever D.ies
04 I Hate
05 Elimination
06 Overkill
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals
Sid Falck – drums
Bobby Gustafson – guitar
Roots Of Heavy Metal Post #2
New York Thrash Metal pioneers Overkill were included on Metal Blade Record's Metal Massacre Vol.V. From there the band released a self recorded EP which got the attention of Megaforce Records. Megaforce signed the band and released their Feel The Fire full length debut. Atlantic Records took notice of the Underground Heavy Metal scene and inked a deal with Megaforce Records to release Megaforce LPs as joint releases. The first album to be released by Megaforce/Atlantic was Overkill's second full length Taking Over. Overkill did not reach the commercial success of other first wave Thrash Metal bands such as Metallica, Slayer, & Anthrax but have had a long career with a very loyal following (one of my favorite f@#king bands JD). The band continues to this day having released their 17th album White Devil Armory, in 2015. A recording from the bands 2015 Rock Hard Festival appearance can be downloaded here.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Overkill - Rock Hard Festival ~ Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 05-24-2015 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip
Rock Hard Festival
Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
May 24, 2015
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover INcluded
01 Armorist
14 Interview With Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth
justdave notes:
I raised the volume on the audio but no EQ or re-mastering of the sound was done.