LABEL:BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 5/5/2023
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1989
VARIANT:Red Marble Vinyl LP

Album No. 4 for these New Jersey tech-thrash stalwarts was the last to feature guitarist Bobby Gustafson, whose thick, doomy riffs on epics like the 10-minute “Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher” helped lend Overkill a somber earthiness less evident in the band’s West Coast competitors. No doubt having famed producer Terry Date (Pantera, Deftones) manning the board didn’t hurt either. Overkills 1989 opus sounds utterly enormous, from the pile-driving riffage to Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworths goblin shrieks. It sounds even bigger on vinyl.