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Line-up

1980-  D.D. Verni - bass, backing vocals
1980-  Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth - vocals
2000-  Derek Tailer - guitars, backing vocals
2000-  Dave Linsk - guitars
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1980-1981  Dan Spitz - guitars
1980-1983  Robert Pisarek - guitars
1980-1987  Rat Skates - drums
1981  Rich Conte - guitars
1981  Anthony Ammendolo - guitars
1981-1982  Mike Sherry - guitars
1981-1990  Bobby Gustafson - guitars
1987  Mark Archibole - drums
1987-1992  Sid Falck - drums
1990-1995  Merritt Gant - guitars
1990-1995  Rob Cannavino - guitars
1992-2005  Tim Mallare - drums
1995-1999  Joseph "Joe" Comeau - guitars
1995-2000  Sebastian Marino - guitars
2005-2017  Ron Lipnicki - drums
2017-2024  Jason Bittner - drums
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2004  Mike Portnoy - drums
2016-2017  Eddy Garcia - drums
2022  Phil Demmel - guitars
2024-  Jeramie Kling - drums
2024  David Ellefson - bass
2024  Christian Giesler - bass
2024  Christian Olde Wolbers - bass
2007  Randy Blythe - vocals
2014  Mark Alan Tornillo - backing vocals
2014  Michael James Romeo - orchestrations
2019  Ron Lipnicki - drums

Discography

1984 Overkill [EP] 8.3
1987 !!!Fuck You!!! [EP] 7.9
1992 Live To The Core [EP] 8.5
2012 6 Songs [EP] 8
1983 Power In Black [Demo] 7.9
1984 Feel The Fire [Demo] 8.7
1986 US Speed Metal Attack [Split] 9.5
1988 Hello From The Gutter [Single] 8
1990 Live 'Kill [Single] 7
1991 Deeper Into The Vault [VA] 8
1991 Videoscope [DVD] 8
1992 Infectious [Single] 7
1993 I Hear Black [Single] 6
1993 Spiritual Void [Single] 6
1994 Fast Junkie [Single] 6
1995 10 Years Of Pure Metal [Single] 8
1995 Wrecking Your Neck [Live] 8.5
1996 Fuck You And Then Some [Compilation] 7.5
1997 The Rip 'N Tear [Single] 7
1997 A Tribute To Judas Priest: Legends Of Metal [VA] 7.7
1999 Coverkill [Compilation] 7
2000 Promotional Radio Sampler [Split] 8
2001 Twisted Forever: A Tribute To The Legendary Twisted Sister [VA] 6
2001 Burner [VA]
2002 Wrecking Everything [DVD] 8.7
2002 Wrecking Everything [Live] 8.1
2002 Hello From The Gutter (The Best Of Overkill) [Compilation] 7.7
2002 Extended Versions [Live] 9
2002 Then And Now [Compilation] 8
2003 Creatures Of The Night - A Tribute To Kiss [VA] 7
2004 Unholy [Compilation]
2005 Devil By The Tail [Compilation] 9.5
2008 Live At Wacken Open Air 2007 [DVD] 8.6
2008 Gigantour 2 [DVD] 8.3
2008 Gigantour 2 [VA]
2010 Bring Me The Night [Single] 8
2010 Ironbound [Single] 8
2010 E1 Metal Face Off 2010 [VA]
2012 Electric Rattlesnake [Single] 7.6
2012 Wish You Were Dead [Single] 6.3
2013 Live From Oz [Live] 7.8
2014 Armorist [Single] 9
2015 Historikill: 1995-2007 [Boxset] 9
2017 Man In Black / Warrior Heart [Split]
2018 Live In Overhausen [Live] 8.4
2018 Live In Overhausen [DVD]
2018 Last Man Standing [Compilation] 5
2020 Elimination [Compilation]
2021 The Atlantic Years 1986-1994 [Boxset] 8.8

Latest reviews

Scorched
8.0
Releasing a metal album the same day as Metallica is brave. Releasing a thrash metal album the same day as Metallica is crazy.
Review by omne metallum ››
I can hardly believe that it's been exactly 30 years since I first listened to Overkill and their absolute masterpiece The Years Of Decay. What is even harder to believe is that these dirty old thrashers absolutely refuse to slow down and let up...
Review by nikarg ››
Overkill is back! In fact this is the 18th album in a career that is now nearing four decades, meaning that this band has been around for more years than most of the people reading this review have been walking on this planet. The New Jersey thrashers...
Review by nikarg ››
Pyromania is a serious condition and suffice to say, Overkill know their way around a thrash flint. Within the modern state of the genre where there's smoke, there's a bunch of seniors laying waste to their youthful contemporaries with ridiculous...
Review by R'Vannith ››
This is a year when old masters show us how it's done. First, in the death metal enclave, Asphyx showed us how real death metal is supposed to sound, and now it's time for the somehow stale thrash pond full of seemingly fresh fish who stink...
Review by Daniell ››
Ironbound
9.0
The driving force behind keeping a band going for thirty years is commendable, let alone when Ironbound is both album fifteen and arguably the most solid album the band has put to their name.

That's right, Overkill make their return with a whole...
Review by Baz Anderson ››

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