Overkill - Wrecking Everything
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| Genre | Thrash Metal |
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 23 |
Dave Linsk
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Guitar
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| Runningtime | 120/99 Min. |
Derek Tailer
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Guitar
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| Label | Spitfire Records |
D.D. Verni
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Bass
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| Release | 27 Jan. 2003 |
Tim Mallare
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Drums
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| Country | USA |
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Keyboards
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| Similar artists | Testament, Exodus, Anthrax | ||
Thrash legends Overkill releases a DVD with what might be the strongest line-up in the long history of the band. Wrecking Everything is recorded in their home of New Jersey and that seems to have sparked the guys to do some serious thrashing providing a selection of songs that spans from their entire career.
It starts with the heavy pounding from the track Necroshine and the lightning comes very effect fully from behind the band as smoke fills the stage. It soon continues with a real classic triple thrash treat (anyone but me that remember those sweet moments on Headbanger's Ball?) with Deny The Cross, Wrecking Crew and Powersurge. With these songs you get one of the occasions when you reach for the remote to crank up the volume even higher. You get some great moments like with the crowd interaction with In Union We Stand, perhaps not a typical Overkill track but a pure adrenaline riser. The weak spots are very few in this concert and it holds a really high quality straight through with only some exceptions. The highlights on the other hand is many, from their anthem in Wrecking Crew, the heaviness in Gasoline Dream and Long Time Dyin', the fury in Hello From The Gutter and Elimination. Overkill gives you a dose of massive thrashing straight through to the ending with the inevitable Fuck You that of course is one the highlights as well.
Overkill is band that got metal pouring out of them, like
this is what they was born to do. Vocalist Blitz performs with a great
authority and dedication on stage. And his voice, you just got to love
it, a screaming kind of voice perfect for thrash metal that contains
both anger and passion. And D.D. Verni that is one of the better bass
players in my opinion has got a great and heavy sound coming out of
his bass and he sure knows how to play it as well. And he got that cool
look and have that don't fuck with me attitude. Overkill seems to be
a cheerful bunch of guys doing what they love the most, delivering thrash
metal and having fun at the same time, and I like to see that the band
nevertheless the anger of which their music contains has fun on stage,
and you can tell that these guys are having a blast.
Wrecking Everything is a good retrospective on the bands long past but I find some obvious misses and too many of their newer tracks, I would like to have heard more from the albums W.F.O. and I Hear Black instead of some of the later material from Overkill. But most of the classics are featured in great versions so I don't really know why I bother to complain about the selection of songs. At some times the cameras and the crew filming can be seen, and that is something that I find a bit negative since it pulls down the overall feeling. With some shots you get somewhat of a home-made feeling with cameras that shake and not always perfect picture, but as the sound goes there is nothing wrong. In the end Wrecking Everything makes me want to see Overkill live again and feel that energy they have when they kick ass on stage.
The bonus material was a positive surprise, an hour and a half documentary about the band. It is great to get to hear the history about Overkill and their past, in my opinion they are a very much underrated band that hasn't got the attention deserved, not least in my part of the world. Wrecking Everything is a highly enjoyable DVD that is also released as a thirteen track live-CD, but in that case I would choose their earlier live-album 10 Years Of Wrecking Your Neck-Live (1995) that has a better selection of songs instead.
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also review of: Killbox
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7 chalices of 10 - Thomas |
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