1/31/2024 0 Comments Overkill under the influenceWith wider deals came a broader range of bands to the radio, but due to the lack of radio shows it was places like gigs and parties where those albums were heard. Our radio shows did play whatever they could but a big issue was range because not everything was available locally and buying stuff on import was for very pricey, sometimes $45 for a single album because labels like Noise and Road Runner etc didn't have local distribution deals. I didn't want the youngens to interpret it wrongly and be offended! Except for Immortalis, I can't find anything redeeming there, they phoned that one in and I'd rank it dead last. I'd put U the I even farther back than Years, but for me Overkill is such an integral part of my DNA that I find even most of their lower tier albums to be well worth listening to. Except our friend Jimmy-T of course, he's very young so he puts all the post Ironbound stuff at the top of his list. I'd put Years well behind killers like Taking Over and Horrorscope and even quite a few of their later 2000's albums which I'm head over heels for, but I've noticed over the years that most fans want to put Years in their top 2 or 3. I don't think even Years of Decay ever really 'broke' up here, the general love for that album developed some years after the fact and then only among metalheads. Unlike the big 4 who have some small amount of name recognition within certain segments of the broader mainstream, most Americans have never even heard of any other thrash bands and would likely be surprised to learn there are hundreds of them. I don't think I could even imagine what that might've felt like. I've never ever heard Overkill played on the radio, not in the 80's, not in the 90's, not ever. But I'm sure there are people here who really would rate it below 5 and that's fine. That's all us old farts do is piss takes on top of piss takes, and then you've already gone on the record as being a fan of the band. Horrorscope got heaps of attention but by the early 90's people weren't exactly rushing back to earlier albums they were buying what was on the shelf that was new.Īs much as I like the first three albums they aren't ones I go back to regularly or know well enough from memory like Years and Horroscope. Radio stations here (the few hours a week of metal we had) weren't giving Overkill that much time until about the time Years was released and even then they really didn't rate Overkill highly enough to play very often. Years Of Decay was the first Overkill album that really broke down here.
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