Heavy Metallurgy Presents: Episode #165: OVERKILL All 20 Albums Reviewed w/ Darcy 6 Strings 9 Lives

My Favorite Overkill Album Is Horrorscope. I Also Love I Hear Black, The Years Decay And The UnderGround And Below. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Ah nice one. Ever since totally underrated and overseen band in my opinion. Will watch later but for me "The years of decay" is No.1 by far.

" I Hear Black" immediately went straight to number one after hearing Alan´s rant, hahaha... Great show guys, thank you!

Feel The Fire No. 1! Saw them live opening for Helloween. I was blown away by them, everybody was, they were exactly what you wanted them to be.

Great show guys. Years is my number one and was my introduction to the band, bought it on cassette back in the day, those 90s album was rough but they survived it, had the pleasure to finally see them Live in 2022 for the first time. 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥

A heavy metallurgy deep dive always makes the weekend that much better really enjoyed this one I have about half the catalogue including quite of few of those recent ones on nuclear blast will keep filling the holes in the collection for sure!

1. Horrorscope 2. Feel The Fire 3. Under The Influence 4. Years of Decay 5. Ironbound 6. The Electric Age 7. White Devil Armory 8. The Grinding Wheel 9. The Wings of War 10. Scorched 11. Taking Over 12. W.F.O. 13. Necroshine 14. Bloodletting 15. Immortalis 16. Killbox 13 17. ReliXIV 18. From The Underground and Below 19. The Killing Kind 20. I Hear Black

I know everyone rides the jock of Years of Decay, but Horrorscope is one of the best thrash albums ever. It’s all killer, no filler.

Really enjoyed this show! Great discussions. I feel like I got kind of caught up and may have rushed my thoughts on a few albums so I thought I would share my ranking based on what I’ve heard. 1. Years of Decay 2. Horrorscope 3. From the Underground and Below 4. Wrecking Your Neck Live 5. WFO 6. Feel the Fire 7. Taking Over 8. Under the Influence 9. Necroshine 10. Ironbound 11. Scorched 12. Electric Age 13. Bloodletting 14. I Hear Black Thank you again guys!!

Great choice here, both Overkill and, of course, Darcy. Anyways, prompted by this video, I decided to blow the dust off I Hear Black and listen to it again after god knows how many years since. And, you know, I just don't think it's THAT bad, Granted, it's a major drop from the previous records, and hoo boy, is there a major Pantera influence on this thing, but maybe it'd be better to say that it's a better record on its own than an Overall album. Granted, it's fucking flawed, too. Admittedly! And it really does seem like the Sabbath accusation is largely coming from "Spiritual Void," which was a single from this album (and have from my old college radio days on CD single somewhere). But, I'm not feeling it's a total loss -- which is to say that I might drag it out in another... say... 20 years? LOL. Anyways, great episode.

Great shows guys. Always a pleasure to watch. For rage it might be better to do just a top 10, instead of all catalogue

1.Horrorscope 2. Taking over 3 Feel the fire 4 Under the Influence 5 Years of decay the rest whatever

Years of decay might have been the first metal I heard, around 15 yrs old. Liked it but didn't really keep up with them after. Something didn't click with horrorscope. Cool episode. I know which albums to avoid if I get back into them...

Always wondered why they keep dismissing the track “The Answer, never putting it on an album or compilation or playing it live. It’s got a different vibe and pretty long, but it still deserves to be heard by the fans. Unless you can get that cd version of “Fuck You” or you’re one of those special individuals who own the original EP, you cannot hear that song. Great episode guys, very enjoyable with Darcy, thank you! Possibly the greatest thrash band ever; Feel the Fire and The Years of Decay are absolute all-time favourites of mine. Cheers!

Bought Taking Over on Record on release, because of this Video, I finally picked it up on CD and scored Live in Overhausen on BluRay at the same time, can't fucking wait for that one, Hails from Australia 💀

They go by the fans 4 the most part damm

This was fun. As I knew it was going to happen, I do think you all were a bit harsh on their material from WFO through Immortalis. When comparing to what their peers were putting out during that period, except for Sodom nobody was putting out as good material. (I’m not talking about the underground extreme stuff of the time) At least consistently. Some of their peers went away and came back. That doesn’t count in my book. Overkill never left. Overkill went “screw you alternative rock!” “We’re here and not going away! Nor are we putting a grunge album out either”. Did they adopt more groove? Yes, but it was always there. What true metal doesn’t have groove? Except for caustic black metal, or war metal groove is there, now how much groove? Yes, they amped it up during that time. I won’t argue that. But they never came close to Roots era Sep or Soulfly territory. THAT’S groove! I knew it! If anyone was going to be critical on Ironbound it was going to be Alan. 🤣 you are one picky son of a….! 😂😆. They literally did what you would want from Overkill in spades and the songs seem too long?!? Haha. I also learned from his grading system his students must really have to impress him to get an A in his class😅. If Ironbound had come out in 89? It definitely be an A in his book. It was a good episode. It pretty much went down as I expected. Your criticisms and praises on point with your particular tastes. At the end of the end of the day for me? Overkill’s worst is still decent if not good when comparing to a lot of other metal out there. But that’s just me. Thanks again for the content.

I'm the same as you Mr Worm, own em' all, still yet to pick up the last one 😂 and being said like Mr Worm, Feel the Fire is Number 1 , what a Chunk of Gold 👌

Years Of Decay is way way better than UTI. Top 5? Perhaps...

Great show! Man, how to write a short comment about the Overkill discography? Let me do it in parts because I have other things to do today. By the way, I saw Megadeth on monday in Oberhausen and they are insanely good on this european tour and they change setlists every day. And Bruce Dickinson on tuesday in munich was fantastic. I cannot believe how good he sings compared to his boring vocal performances in Maiden. Now Overkill. Feel the fire is a very good debut album. Hammerhead, Rotten to the core and Feel the fire are fantastic. Other songs are good. Taking over is my number one. A perfect 10. One of the best concerts took place here in Würzburg on that tour. Opening act was Paradox supporting their great album Product of imagination. Second band Overkill with Skates and Gustavson and headliner Helloween, the first time with Kiske. What an evening.... .