‘Historikill 1995-2007’ – Ranking Overkill’s Albums From Their Forthcoming Retrospective Release
Overkill? There's no such thing when it comes to these Thrash legends!
4. The Killing Kind (1996)
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The first Overkill album to feature Joe Comeau (Liege Lord/ex-Annihilator) and Sebastian Marino (ex-Anvil) on vocals/guitar and guitar respectively, 1996’s The Killing Kind may have proved a considerable shock to those who had enjoyed the return to all-out Thrash on 1994’s W.F.O! Adopting the mid-paced sonic onslaught and steam-rolling Groove-Metal that would serve them well for the following 4 years, the stoically solid likes of “Battle” and “God-Like“, the classic Iron Maiden-esque opening of “The Cleansing” and the Thrash-frenzy of overall highlight “Feeding Frenzy” proving pretty irresistible if ears are open to this abrupt change in Overkill’s style!
The Killing Kind‘s lofty position in this feature may provoke ire as this appears to be the one Overkill album to truly divide opinion. Regardless, Overkill’s 8th album deserves to be lauded for it’s brave attempt to evolve and many of it’s facets can be heard in Overkill’s material to this day.
The songs may be fairly straight-forward in construct, lacking the dynamite dynamics of earlier ‘Thrashier’ work but The Killing Kind has aged fairly well and should appeal to those Overkill fans accustomed to the groovier elements of their back catalogue. 7/10
Need to get my hands on some of these albums. Sort of lost track of them after I Hear Black and started getting back into them the last few years
The most consistent band in Thrash…..more controversy 😉 \m/
You can write that one
Ha! Yeah, I’ll give that a crack…keep ’em peeled \m/