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Overkill Tour Dates

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Dessel Boertang Dessel Fri Jun 28 / 13 Find Tickets
Dessel Graspop Metal Meeting 2012 Sat Jun 29 / 13 Find Tickets
San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheater Fri Sep 13 / 13 Find Tickets
Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage Wed Oct 30 / 13 Find Tickets
Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Thu Oct 31 / 13 Find Tickets
Worcester, MA The Palladium Fri Nov 01 / 13 Find Tickets
Toronto The Opera House Sun Nov 03 / 13 Find Tickets
Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar Mon Nov 04 / 13 Find Tickets
Columbus, OH Alrosa Villa Tue Nov 05 / 13 Find Tickets
Columbus, OH Alrosa Villa Tue Nov 05 / 13 Find Tickets
Joliet, IL Mojoes Wed Nov 06 / 13 Find Tickets
Lawrence, KS Granada Thu Nov 07 / 13 Find Tickets
Lawrence, KS Granada Thu Nov 07 / 13 Find Tickets
Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue Sat Nov 09 / 13 Find Tickets
Vancouver Rickshaw Theatre Mon Nov 11 / 13 Find Tickets
Seattle, WA El Corazon Tue Nov 12 / 13 Find Tickets
Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre Wed Nov 13 / 13 Find Tickets
San Francisco, CA The Fillmore Thu Nov 14 / 13 Find Tickets
Anaheim, CA City National Grove of Anaheim Fri Nov 15 / 13 Find Tickets
Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre Sat Nov 16 / 13 Find Tickets
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Overkill Biography

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Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many line-up changes, with singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni remaining from the original lineup. Along with Anthrax's one-time lead guitarist, Dan Spitz, was also an early member of Overkill, the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal bands. The band has a notable mascot named "Chaly", a skeletal bat with a skull-like face, horns, bony wings, and green eyes. Chaly has appeared on most of their album covers. To date, Overkill has released 16 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and an album of cover songs. They were one of the early thrash metal bands to sign to a major label (Atlantic Records, in 1986), though Overkill would not achieve commercial success until they popularized "thrash" in the late 1980s with their contemporaries Anthrax, Exodus, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Testament. The band's most successful records are ''Under the Influence'' (1988), ''The Years of Decay'' (1989) and ''I Hear Black'' (1993), which debuted at No. 142, No. 155 and No. 122 respectively on the ''Billboard'' 200 charts. Their latest studio album, ''The Electric Age'' (2012), debuted at No. 77 on ''Billboard'' 200, making it Overkill's highest ever chart position in the United States. As of 2006, Overkill had sold over 625,000 copies in the U.S since the beginning of the SoundScan era and as of May 2013, they sold more than 25 million records worldwide, that making them one of the best selling thrash metal bands of all time.

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Overkill Albums

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Live From OZ EP 2013-04-19 itunes amazon
6 Songs EP 2012-03-28 itunes amazon
The Electric Age Album 2012-03-27 itunes amazon
Ironbound Album 2010-01-29 itunes amazon
Live at Wacken Open Air Live 2008-02-05 itunes amazon
Immortalis Album 2007-10-08 itunes amazon
ReliXIV Album 2005-03-22 itunes amazon
Fuck You and Then Some / Feel the Fire Compilation 2005-02-22 itunes amazon
Killbox 13 Album 2003-03-25 itunes amazon
Then and Now Compilation 2002-10-08 itunes amazon
Extended Versions Live 2002-07-23 itunes amazon
Wrecking Everything Live 2002-06-18 itunes amazon
Hello From the Gutter Compilation 2002 itunes amazon
Bloodletting Album 2000-10-23 itunes amazon
Coverkill Album 1999-10-01 itunes amazon
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