I LOOOOOVE From the Underground and Below. I feel like that's the album that they found a modern part of themselves. If you listen to the modern breakdowns they have, that's basically what FTUAB was.
From the Underground And Below is killer….they have some great songs and crushing riffs on that one. I was surprised to see it’s the last ranked album on this video. Immortalis for me is the least favorite Overkill album. My top 5 are 1. Years of Decay 2. Horroscope 3. Ironbound 4. Bloodletting 5. Under The Influence
@@trevertravis8963 Load and Reload are great. Try being more open-minded - just because something isn't thrash or traditional metal doesn't mean that it's not good.
@@thrashgod1189 I liked Load and Reload. They could have done another the next year and called it Overload but they didn't. Not one praises them for that. So unfair ;)
Overkill are one of my favorite bands ever! Very consistent and Blitz is a great vocalist. Here's my list with top 3 songs each. 1. Horrorscope- Soulitude, Coma, Thx For Nothing 2. Taking Over- Powersurge, Electro- Violence, Wrecking Crew 3. The Years of Decay- Elimination, Who Tends the Fire, Evil Never Dies 4. Feel the Fire- Feel the Fire, Rotten to the Core, Hammerhead 5. Ironbound- Bring me the Night, Ironbound, The Green and Black 6. The Electric Age- Electric Rattlesnake, Come and Get It, 21st Century Man 7. The Grinding Wheel- The Grinding Wheel, Mean, Green, Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble 8. White Devil Armory- Down to the Bone, King of the Rat Bastards, Bitter Pill 9. Under the Influence- Hello From the Gutter, End of the Line, Mad Gone World 10. Killbox 13- I Rise, Damned, Until I Die 11. The Wings of War- Last Man Standing, Believe in the Fight, Head of a Pin 12. W.F.O.- Where it Hurts, Gasoline Dream, Bastard Nation 13. I Hear Black- I Hear Black, Spiritual Void, World of Hurt 14. Necroshine- Necroshine, Revelation, My December 15. Immortalis- Skull and Bones, Devils in the Mist, Overkill V... The Brand 16. From the Underground and Below- The Rip n' Tear, It Lives, Long Time Dyin 17. The Killing Kind- Battle, The Cleansing, God-Like 18. Bloodletting- Thunderhead, I, Hurricane, Bleed Me 19. RelixIV- Play the Ace, Wheelz, Bats in the Belfry
1. The Years of Decay - Whole album is a masterpiece 2. Under The Influence - Hello From the Gutter, Shred, Overkill III (Under the Influence) 3. Taking Over - In Union We Stand, Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues), Wrecking Crew (also love Powersurge & Electro-Violence) 4. Feel The Fire - Rotten to the Core, Overkill, Hammerhead 5. Immortalis - Overkill V... The Brand, Devils In the Mist, Skull and Bones 6. I Hear Black - I Hear Black, World of Hurt, Dreaming In Columbia 7. Horrorscope - Coma, Frankenstein, Infectious (also love the title track Horrorscope) 8. Ironbound - Ironbound, Bring Me The Knight, Killing For a Living (also love The Green and Black) 9. From The Underground and Below - The Rip n' Tear, Little Bit o' Murder, Long Time Dyin' (also love It Lives) 10. The Wings of War - Batshitycrazy, Last Man Standing, Welcome to the Garden State (also love Head of a Pin) 11. The Electric Age - Electric Rattlesnake, Wish You Were Dead, Come and Get It (also love 21st Century Man) 12. The Grinding Wheel - Mean Green Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble, The Grinding Wheel 13. Necroshine - Necroshine, My December, Stone Cold Jesus 14. Bloodletting - Thunderhead, Bleed Me, I Hurricane 15. The Killing Kind - Battle, God-Like, The Morning After/Private Bleeding 16. W.F.O. - Where It Hurts, Fast Junkie, The Wait/A New High In Lows (also love Supersonic Hate, R.I.P. (Undone), Bastard Nation & Gasoline Dream) 17. White Devil Armory - The Armorist, Another Day to Die, King of the Rat Bastards 18. RelixIV - Old School, Within Your Eyes, A Pound of Flesh 19. Killbox 13 - Devil by the Tail, I Rise, Unholy Honorable Mentions: 1. F**k You and Then Some/Overkill EP - F**k You, Fatal If Swallowed, The Answer 2. Coverkill - Overkill (Live), Space Truckin', Deuce
1. Feel the Fire 2. The Years of Decay 3. Horrorscope 4. Taking Over 5. Under the Influence Overkill is a top 5 thrash band of all time imo with some of the coolest album covers I’ve ever seen
I can not say that im huge Overkill fan but my favorites are definit Horrorskop i The Years of Decay. Now can you please step away from American thrash and do a Kreator list. Destruction, Sodom and Annhilator are also desirable.
It is SO nice to hear a deep, well thought out perspective on all of these classic metal bands and their albums. I have VERY little Overkill exposure and appreciation and now I'm digging into their discography with a new passion and zeal! So thank you so much for making this happen and I'm excited to see what you rank next! See you on the next one :D *Edit* If I'm going to suggest an artist to rank, it would likely be Annihilator they're like Megadeth with only one true guiding vision and their material has varied WILDLY!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Deeply welcome! Was lurking for a couple weeks but I've been subscribed for a month now and look forward to every post. Keep it coming :D
@@thrashgod1189 I understand your point, but Jeff Waters was and is the driving vision behind the band and I think they've had some VERY exciting music as a result of all of the different members influences.
One day WFO will finally get it's due, but unfortunately it's not today. The three albums with Gant and Cannavino really brought the twin guitar attack to the fore in a modern way (after the single guitar output of the entire previous catalog from Gustafson) and this was the culmination of all that had been learned and worked on. WFO is simply bursting with riffs, of all varieties but it never skips a beat (except for the short breather on RIP). It's progressive, complex and melodic as well as relentless. In fact it's such a shock (and a shame in my view) on the following album (Killing Kind) with it's far more simple approach that I am lead to believe that Gant and Cannavino must have had more impact on the songwriting than the credits allow. Perhaps their employment was contingent on giving up writing rights. But the change from WFO to From The Underground is so drastic, I simply refuse to believe the same person that wrote something as harmonically dense as "The Wait A New High In Lows" is behind the basic approach of "From The Underground. I get that From The Underground dropped just as nu metal was getting going (therefore complex, fast and intricate guitar parts were on the outer) but for mine it's a shame they went with this totally different approach after all they achieved on the Horroscope / I Hear Black / WFO trilogy, especially WFO of course. WFO is their best in my opinion, which is really something because the never miss.
1. Horrorscope 2. The Killing Kind (I’m surprised this is usually low on people’s lists) 3. The Years of Decay 4. Under the Influence 5. From the Underground and Below 6. Killbox 13 7. Bloodletting 8. ReliXIV 9. The Grinding Wheel (was disappointing initially, but going back, it’s better than I remembered; still a bit long though) 10. White Devil Armory 11. Immortalis 12. Necroshine (the only Overkill record I don’t like) Overkill is my favorite thrash metal band. I've got to listen to their entire discography sometime, after all, I still haven't checked out Feel the Fire, Taking Over, I Hear Black, W.F.O., Ironbound, The Electric Age, or The Wings of War, but I heard great things about them.
Taking Over is fucking great - I didn't like the band that much until I heard that album. Big Metallica influence on this album, and a youthful kick-ass energy and attitude.
I agree with your rankings apart from the top 5. I'd personally have :- 1. Taking Over 2. Under the influence 3. Feel the fire 4. Years of decay 5. Horrorscope Classic era is definitely the best though.
Been waiting for this one! Whatever else you want to say, Overkill has incredible consistency. They've never had a truly "bad" album. There's no God Hates Us All here or Risk here. When you buy an Overkill album you know what you're getting before you even put it on, and you know that at minimum there's going to be a high standard of quality maintained there. Oh yeah, and Years of Decay is the best - the very variety that doesn't appeal to you is what makes that album great. Plus props to them for still killing it year after year. There's no 5 year waits between albums like you get with most veteran bands. They're still delivering the goods, year in, year out. Overkill > Your Favorite Band!
Idk..I really liked God Hates Us All. I THOUGHT I really liked Risk but then I gave a it a listen for the first time in years and I was like, “why did I like this album again?”
Our lists are very much different. I appreciate their groovier/heavier era since they had a tendency to delve back more into their punk roots along with thrash and more modern sounds. 1. The Years of Decay 2. Taking Over 3. Horrorscope 4. Necroshine 5. Feel the Fire 6. ReliXIV 7. White Devil Armory 8. Under the Influence 9. I Hear Black 10. Immortal15 11. From the Underground and Below 12. The Electric Age 13. Killbox13 14. The Wings of War 15. Bloodletting 16. The Grinding Wheel 17. Ironbound 18. The Killing Kind 19. WFO 20. Coverkill
My favorite album is From The Underground And Below. I think its because i got that album back when it came out while i was getting into Overkill. So i have a lot of nostalgia with it.
I'm of the mindset that whenever you get into a band that has been around for a while, you should always just go in order of album releases. It gives you the opportunity to hear the bands growth as musicians.
I think Overkill treats the covers album, Coverkill, as a regular studio album rather than their debut EP. That gets you to the numbering scheme of Killbox 13 and ReliXIV.
Awesome ranking. Ironbound is one of Overkill's best from their later years. I Hear Black was the first album i heard by them. Different, but quite good. Nice job with those ranking videos.
I'll admit, I really haven't listened to much Overkill after Under the Influence, so all I can say is that Feel the Fire is one of the best debut thrash albums ever, right up there with Kill'em All, Show No Mercy, Fistfull of Metal, The Ultra Violence, etc., and Taking Over is solid as hell. Two great albums that are still on regular rotation with me. Keep it up with these videos! I love'em! \m/
I only know the old stuff, but Horrorscope was always my favorite by far, solid all the way through. It seemed like most of their albums would have a few corny songs that dragged things down for me. I had no idea they had a renaissance after 2010, I'll have to check out some of their newer work.
Again you took the words right out of my mouth. Although I always see every thrash/speed/heavy band I can live when they come to town, for recorded albums, I had written off Overkill after WTO. Once again I see that I am not necessarily biased in favor of the illustrious Taking Over [With FTF right on its heels]. Thank you for giving me some pointers to check out some newer Overkill. I guess you could say I’m iron bound, lol [English pun,’ bound’ meaning that it is the target of my destination like Vienna bound or concert bound].
Yay! Overkill, Finally😀!!! Thank you! Taking Over will always be my no. 1 too! Everything just so came together on that record! Horrorscope is my second though! It is anthem driven like Taking Over!
Prior to late last year, I didn't own a single Overkill album. One night I got drunk and bought their entire discography (both box sets that span 1986-2007, the Feel The Fire/F You and Then Some comp, and the latest 2010-2019 albums, plus the latest live album). Working my way chronologically, I just finished the '90s. Holy shit, what a band. Kicking myself for waiting so long to get into them. Can't wait to hear the rest, I'll have a ranking after.
01 - Taking over 02 - Feel the fire 03 - The years of decay 04 - Iron bound 05 - I hear black 06 - The electric Age 07 - Horrorscope 08 - Under the influence 09 - killbox XIII 10 - White devil armory 11 - The grinding wheel 12 - wings of war 13 - W.F.O 14 - Necroshine 15 - Bloodletting 16 - From the underground and below 17 - The killing kind 18 - Relixiv 19 - Immortalis Probably, this order will change along the years, because there are some of this albums that I need to listen more times.
I serve at the army GR, 9 months, 275 days. Now I have 4 more months to serve (127 days). Every second day you post videos. Keep me company man. Those videos make me relax and avoid the pressure.
Once again I couldn’t agree more with your number 1. I recently started to dig into overkill’s discography and when I put on “taking over” it was just amazing. Such a perfect thrash record. I was listening to it at work and I was like “damn this album is just killing it”.
I felt a little pushy and off in the weeds when I commented a request for a Rank 'Em All for Carcass, but now I see I was addressing the exact man for the job.
I'm always interested in hearing what people think I should cover but i won't always give people what they want. I rarely listen to anything more extreme than thrash metal so I wouldnt be the right man to rank their catalogue. Cheers!
Hello again! Yes Overkill has been around for the better part of 40 years with a lengthy discography. Another one of those 2nd Big Four of US Thrash and kick ass as well! Here is my ranking for them. Also can you do some Canadian bands like Razor, Voivod, Annihilator, Sacrifice, etc next? Thanks Brother, you're doing a very good job with these rankings ever since they took off. 1. Feel the Fire 2. Taking Over 3. The Years of Decay 4. Horrorscope 5. Under The Influence 6. Ironbound 7. The Killing Kind 8. The Electric Age 9. White Devil Armory 10. The Grinding Wheel 11. I Hear Black 12. W.F.O. 13. The Wings of War 14. Killbox 13 15. RelixIV 16. Immortalis 17, From the Underground and Below 18. Bloodletting 19. Necroshine I always go back to the classics though when I listen to Overkill, with a few of the better modern day Overkill at times when listening to this band. I think they are one of the only bands beside Megadeth in the thrash genre that has more than 15, close to 20 albums in their discography.
Horrorscope is what got me into Overkill, but Ironbound is my go to when I need some thrash. That album IMO is up there with some of the best thrash albums of all time. I know Im in the minority but I prefer the middle years over the early stuff. I'm older (49) so maybe they sound dated to me. But I love them all. Oddly enough, your bottom of the list albums are all the ones I still need and are harder to find. I also read somewhere that Bobby Blitz said FTUAB was his favorite Overkill album. Great vid.
Had no idea they’ve released so many albums. I’ve got some listening to do. Years of Decay is my current favorite. I’m gonna listen to some of their newer stuff based on your list. Nice video, you consistently put out entertaining content.
Overkill are famously prolific. Not only do they release albums fairly frequently, but the quality of the material doesn't fall from album to album. One of the most underrated bands out there.
My favorite Overkill Albums are Horrorscope and Tracks that i loved is Coma, Blood Money, Horrorscope, Bare Bones, New Machine, Solitude, Live Young, Die Free and Nice Day... For A Funeral. Feel The Fire and Tracks Raise The Dead, Rotten to The Core, Second Son, There's No Tomorrow. Taking Over and Tracks Deny The Cross, Wrecking Crew, Fatal If Swallowed, Fear His Name, Use your Head. The Years of Decay and tracks are Time To Kill, Elimination, Playing with Spiders/Skullkrusher, Birth of Tension, Who Tends The Fire, Evil Never Dies. I Hear Black and Tracks is Spiritual Void, I Hear Black, World of Hurt, Ignorance and Innocence, Undying. W.F.O. and Tracks Where it Hurts, They Eat Their Young, The Wait/ New High in Lows, What's Your Problem. Necroshine and Tracks Necroshine, My December, I am Fear, Let us Prey, Revelation, Forked Tongue Kiss, Dead Man. From Underground and Below and Tracks is Genocya, The Rip N' Tear, It Lives, Save Me, Long Time Dyin, Half Past Dead, I'm Alright. The Killing Kind and Tracks God - Like, Certifiable, Let Me Shut that for You, Burn you down/to ashes, The Cleansing, The Mourning after/ Private Bleeding. BloodLetting and Tracks Bleed Me, What I'm missin', Death Comes Out to Play, Let it Burn, my name is pain, can't kill a dead man, I, Hurricane, Left Hand Man. Killbox 13 and Tracks that i liked are Unholy, No Lights, Damned, Crystal Clear, The Sound of Dying, Until i Die. ReliXIV and Tracks within your eyes, love, Pound of Flesh, Keeper, play the Ace, the Mark 2:14. Immortalis and tracks Devils in the Mist, Walk through Fire, Hell is, Chaly get your gun, Hellish Pride, Shadow of a Doubt. IronBound and Tracks The Goal is Your Soul, The Head and Heart, Give a Little, Bring Me The Night, Killing for a living, Endless War, In Vain. The Electric Age and Tracks Come and Get it, Wish you’re Dead, Black Daze, Save yourself, All Over but the Shouting, Old Wounds, New Scars, Good Night. White Devil Armory and Tracks is Armorist, Pig, BItter Pill, where there's Smoke..., Another day to die, King of The Rat Bastards, In the name, It's all Yours. The GrindIng Wheel and Tracks are Mean Green, Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble, Our Finest Hour, Come Heavy, The Long Road, Let's all go to Hades. so i have a lot of overkill Vinyl and CDs but not in specific order but i'll try to get more of their discography and EPs. I remembered that i got my First 2002 Overkill Live Wrecking Everything An Evening in Asbury Park DVD I’ve watched it it was So Great! 😆 I Love Bobby Blitz he's Cool and Old School Vocalist that I really loved so Much and he's my favorite Thrash Metal Singer. 🤘🏻🤘🏻😍😘💚🖤
Under the Influence is super underrated by most people, glad to see it made your top 5 at least. Funnily enough, the most popular track from that album (Hello From the Gutter) is my least favorite and the only one I occasionally skip. Every other track is a total banger, and I definitely prefer Bobbie's voice in this one compared to the previous two albums. Also, Overkill makes great doom tracks. Skullkrusher, The Grinding Wheel, Horrorscope etc. are all amazing bangers. Also, can you please do a video on Manilla Road? They are my favorite band by far and it's criminal how unknown and underrated they are. Anything to raise their popularity would be a great plus.
The thing that I think some people have an issue with UTI over is the mix. It was recorded live off the floor with the solos added later. They did it old school.
Fortunately, we disagree. I'm not just searching for the classic oldschool tunes in the overkill catalog. I'm very glad that they did some of the great heavy stuff like 80 cycles, little bit o' murder, burn you down... Dig a lot!
Overkill were my first concert, on The Years Of Decay tour in 1990. The show was nothing short of awesome, the venue was packed and the floor was a giant mosh pit. I can see why they replaced Bobby Gustafson with two guitar players - he could really shred!
My Ranking of Overkill, My 2nd Favorite Thrash Metal Band. 19 - Bloodletting 18 - ReliXIV 17 - Immortalis 16 - Necroshine 15 - I hear Black 14 - The Killing Kind 13 - The Grinding Wheel 12 - From the Underground and Below 11 - W.F.O. 10 - The Wings of War 9 - Killbox 13 8 - White Devil Armory 7 - Ironbound 6 - The Electric Age 5 - Under the Influence 4 - Horrorscope 3 - The Years of Decay 2 - Taking Over 1 - Feel the Fire I don't really know where to put the EP at.
A few surprises here... To be honest, my opinions of FTUAB and the Killing Kind might be unfair because I rarely listen to them... maybe I should give them a spin or two and see if my memory is not wrong!!!
@@chrisconlan751 I can get with that. It's above on my ranking too. I've got a real soft spot for it. First off, the production is awesome on that one. It's one of Blitz's best performance too... he screams up a storm on that one. Devil by the Tail, Damned, Sound of Dying and Struck Down are all great fun!
1- Taking Over 2- Horrorscope 3- The Years of Decay 4- W.F.O. 5- From The Underground and Below 6- Under the Influence 7- Killbox 13 8- Ironbound 9- Necroshine 10- Feel the Fire 11- The Wings of War 12- White Devil Armory 13- I Hear Black 14- The Killing Kind 15- Bloodletting 16- The Grinding Wheel 17- The Eletric Age 18- ReliXIV 19- Immortalis The Best Thrash Metal band of all time!
Horrorscope is my favorite Overkill album, and one of my favorite albums of all time. If I hav to choose only one Thrash album I will choose Horrorscope, I like it more than any big four albums.
I personally didn't really like the first 2 albums as much, as D.D. hadn't gotten his signature clank bass tone, but I still think they're top 5 material. I also have an ENORMOUS soft spot for The Years of Decay, as it was the first metal album I ever bought with my own money, and my third ever album I ever bought (my first 2 albums were Love Pump and Kansas' Greatest Hits.)
So we completely disagree on Overkill and Anthrax, but that's just another reason why I like watching your videos so much. I like hearing those kinds of opinions on bands I love, different perspectives and opinions are refreshing, after all.
Also I’ve always considered Coverkill as a studio album personally. I think a covers album can be a studio album personally if it’s newly recorded, but I understand the alternative argument Maybe it’s just an excuse to listen to THE BEST cover album of all time
1. Horrorscope (1991) 2. The Years of Decay (1989) 3. Killbox 13 (2003) 4. Taking Over (1987) 5. The Electric Age (2012) 6. The Grinding Wheel (2017) 7. Ironbound (2010) 8. Feel The Fire (1985) 9. White Devil Armory (2014) 10. The Wings of War (2019) 11. I Hear Black (1993) 12. Under The Influence (1988) 13. W.F.O. (1994) 14. The Killing Kind (1996) 15. From The Underground and Below (1997) 16. Immortalis (2007) 17. Necroshine (1999) 18. ReliXIV (2005) 19. Bloodletting (2000)
Nice video, although I was kinda disappointed not to see The Years Of Decay in the #1 spot...but that's ok :) other albums I like from the band are Taking Over, Feel The Fire, Under The Influence, Horrorscope, Immortalis, Ironbound and White Devil Armory...I also liked the albums I didn't mention but not as much as the ones I mentioned...
I remember buying Under The Influence in the summer of 1988. I had no idea this was going to become such a favourite band of mine. I got each subsequent album upon release and Overkill was the only metal band I kept listening to for decades, having dropped off the scene completely to focus on classical. To me, these guys were the heirs of Black Sabbath. The Years of Decay and Horrorscope did that. I was disappointed with I Hear Black, too soft to my taste in spite of undeniable qualities. For two long years, the spirit seemed to have gone away, but W.F.O. fixed everything and pushed further. I was never disappointed again. Love them.
Gustafson's chugging (pun intended) on Drunken Wisdom blew my teenage mind and his guitar was just as brutal on Years of Decay. So I wasn't looking forward to Horrorscope. Then I hear Gant and Cannavino and holy shit they have two guitar gods. I've never been a big Pantera fan, although they were great live on Cowboy's and Vulgar tour, but I do like some tasteful Groove metal. I think "I Hear Black" smashed doom and groove together and made it work. Then they went the opposite direction with W.F.O. and I love that album too.
Yeah but losing Gustafson was rough or I should perhaps say that it probably would have gone down a bit in quality even if he would have remained. Cheers!
I agree on the list you have put together. My favorite is Taking over. But to hear them years later and reinvent themselves on Ironbound and sound better than ever was truly awesome. And keep going for the next releases was cool.Great band good times. No rest till Social Security for these Thrashers. Definetly looking forward to the new release. Thx RM🤘😎✌
I agree with this ranking in very large parts, especially with the raking of the 3 eras (1. Classic era, 2. Recent era, 3. middle era). And I guess most of us know that 1993-2007 was not exactly a glorious era of classic thrash, although I think that W.F.O. was surprisingly good, especially after I hear Black. My ranking is the following: 1.Feel The Fire (clearly and doubtlessly!!) 2.Taking Over 3.Horrorscope 4.The Electric Age 5.The years Of Decay 6.Ironbound 7.White Devil Armory 8.Under The Influence 9.W.F.O. 10.The Grinding Wheel 11.The Wings Of War The other albums I dont like and dont care about.
I'd Have to say 1.Horrorscope, 2.Under the Influence, 3.Years o Decay, 4. White Devil Armory, 5. I Hear Black Been listening to them since '86 & they're Still my fave band, Goin to see em live March 11th (5th time) can't wait...
Wow, Rank Em All Overkill looks great. But we can't wait the metal bands we can rank probably outside US or probably more bands in US. Feel the Fire Ruthless Metal🔥🔥🔥🔥🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🔥🔥🔥🔥
19. Immortalis 18. The Killing Kind 17. Reli XIV 16. Bloodletting 15. Necroshine 14. From the Underground and Below 13. I Hear Black 12. White Devil Armory 11. The Wings of War 10. Under the Influence 9. W.F.O. 8. Ironbound 7. The Grinding Wheel 6. The Electric Age 5. Taking Over 4. Killbox 13 3. Horrorscope 2. Feel The FIre 1. The Years of Decay
1. Feel the Fire 2. Taking Over 3. The Years of Decay 4. Under the Influence 5. Horrorscope 6. Ironbound 7. The Electric Age 8. The Grinding Wheel 9. White Devil Armory 10. The Wings of War 11. W.F.O. 12. Killbox 13 13. I Hear Black 14. Coverkill 15. Immortalis 16. The Killing Kind 17. Reli XIV 18. Bloodletting 19. Necroshine 20. From the Underground and Below
OverKill for me was always just one of those bands that seemed to escape my attention. None of my friends would really say listen to "this" or strongly suggested them. I never got around to personally purchasing or owning any of their albums. Of course there was that one kid with that "Years of Decay" T- Shirt. One night while watching MTV's Headbangers Ball I got to see "Hello From the Gutter" I had one friend who used to lend me his cassettes and we would hang out at each others house listening to everything thrash and heavy Metal. One day I was going through his collection and there it was Overkill "Years of Decay" I was like, how is this, is this any Good? He was like, I like them, but go ahead give it a listen. Trying to remember today my memory is a little hazy, I mean I listened to the whole album, but sadly nothing caught my attention as far as any of the tracks like being anything close as a Masterpiece. "Time to Kill" and "Elimination" are Alright. The Songs could be better and the lyrics were always silly. However Bobby does have a great voice. I wouldn't give Overkill another try till "Horrorscope" Coma and definitely Horrorscope are the best tracks. Just thee other day though I watched the video for "Goddamn Trouble." Hey Perhaps Overkill did predict Covid-19 in their Song "Elimination." Thank you. Great video Ruthless Metal. Brings back a lot of Memories. 🤘
Under the Influence is my favorite, or Taking Over, both of which I got on vinyl along with Feel the Fire and Fuck You. I got The Years of Decay on Cassette too!
From the Underground and Below, a fucking masterpiece! My top 5, depending on the day and my mood. 1. Years of Decay 2. Horrorscope 3. Ironbound 4. From the Underground 5. Taking Over. Thanks for your list fellow Earthdog!
I LOOOOOVE From the Underground and Below. I feel like that's the album that they found a modern part of themselves. If you listen to the modern breakdowns they have, that's basically what FTUAB was.
it's kinda ass. :D
@@RuthlessMetalYT 😂 Well, if you some FTUAB merch being worn, that's me 😂😎
From the Underground And Below is killer….they have some great songs and crushing riffs on that one. I was surprised to see it’s the last ranked album on this video. Immortalis for me is the least favorite Overkill album.
My top 5 are
1. Years of Decay
2. Horroscope
3. Ironbound
4. Bloodletting
5. Under The Influence
FTUAB is in my top 5, although I've only heard 12 of their albums.
@@TheRealJoeNathan - can you name the others you haven’t heard yet? Just curious….
I don’t feel Overkill has any “garbage” albums. Some are certainly better than others, but they are all listenable to me.
there are some stinkers but they had an overall high standard I would say. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yeah, they don’t have a “Reload” album that’s for sure.
@@trevertravis8963 got that right
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Load and Reload are great. Try being more open-minded - just because something isn't thrash or traditional metal doesn't mean that it's not good.
@@thrashgod1189 I liked Load and Reload. They could have done another the next year and called it Overload but they didn't. Not one praises them for that. So unfair ;)
Overkill are one of my favorite bands ever! Very consistent and Blitz is a great vocalist. Here's my list with top 3 songs each.
1. Horrorscope- Soulitude, Coma, Thx For Nothing
2. Taking Over- Powersurge, Electro- Violence, Wrecking Crew
3. The Years of Decay- Elimination, Who Tends the Fire, Evil Never Dies
4. Feel the Fire- Feel the Fire, Rotten to the Core, Hammerhead
5. Ironbound- Bring me the Night, Ironbound, The Green and Black
6. The Electric Age- Electric Rattlesnake, Come and Get It, 21st Century Man
7. The Grinding Wheel- The Grinding Wheel, Mean, Green, Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble
8. White Devil Armory- Down to the Bone, King of the Rat Bastards, Bitter Pill
9. Under the Influence- Hello From the Gutter, End of the Line, Mad Gone World
10. Killbox 13- I Rise, Damned, Until I Die
11. The Wings of War- Last Man Standing, Believe in the Fight, Head of a Pin
12. W.F.O.- Where it Hurts, Gasoline Dream, Bastard Nation
13. I Hear Black- I Hear Black, Spiritual Void, World of Hurt
14. Necroshine- Necroshine, Revelation, My December
15. Immortalis- Skull and Bones, Devils in the Mist, Overkill V... The Brand
16. From the Underground and Below- The Rip n' Tear, It Lives, Long Time Dyin
17. The Killing Kind- Battle, The Cleansing, God-Like
18. Bloodletting- Thunderhead, I, Hurricane, Bleed Me
19. RelixIV- Play the Ace, Wheelz, Bats in the Belfry
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1. The Years of Decay - Whole album is a masterpiece
2. Under The Influence - Hello From the Gutter, Shred, Overkill III (Under the Influence)
3. Taking Over - In Union We Stand, Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues), Wrecking Crew (also love Powersurge & Electro-Violence)
4. Feel The Fire - Rotten to the Core, Overkill, Hammerhead
5. Immortalis - Overkill V... The Brand, Devils In the Mist, Skull and Bones
6. I Hear Black - I Hear Black, World of Hurt, Dreaming In Columbia
7. Horrorscope - Coma, Frankenstein, Infectious (also love the title track Horrorscope)
8. Ironbound - Ironbound, Bring Me The Knight, Killing For a Living (also love The Green and Black)
9. From The Underground and Below - The Rip n' Tear, Little Bit o' Murder, Long Time Dyin' (also love It Lives)
10. The Wings of War - Batshitycrazy, Last Man Standing, Welcome to the Garden State (also love Head of a Pin)
11. The Electric Age - Electric Rattlesnake, Wish You Were Dead, Come and Get It (also love 21st Century Man)
12. The Grinding Wheel - Mean Green Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble, The Grinding Wheel
13. Necroshine - Necroshine, My December, Stone Cold Jesus
14. Bloodletting - Thunderhead, Bleed Me, I Hurricane
15. The Killing Kind - Battle, God-Like, The Morning After/Private Bleeding
16. W.F.O. - Where It Hurts, Fast Junkie, The Wait/A New High In Lows (also love Supersonic Hate, R.I.P. (Undone), Bastard Nation & Gasoline Dream)
17. White Devil Armory - The Armorist, Another Day to Die, King of the Rat Bastards
18. RelixIV - Old School, Within Your Eyes, A Pound of Flesh
19. Killbox 13 - Devil by the Tail, I Rise, Unholy
Honorable Mentions:
1. F**k You and Then Some/Overkill EP - F**k You, Fatal If Swallowed, The Answer
2. Coverkill - Overkill (Live), Space Truckin', Deuce
1. Feel the Fire
2. The Years of Decay
3. Horrorscope
4. Taking Over
5. Under the Influence
Overkill is a top 5 thrash band of all time imo with some of the coolest album covers I’ve ever seen
Cheers!
Feel the fire has to be one of the best thrash metal debut albums ever imo.
Sepultura as next? I’m curious to see how you rank the non cavalera stuff
bad? ;) Cheers!
There's great stuff on Derrick era, Against and Dante XXI are the best Imo
@@themechanix8804 to be honest I like the last ones with the new drummer… the guy is a beast
I can not say that im huge Overkill fan but my favorites are definit Horrorskop i The Years of Decay.
Now can you please step away from American thrash and do a Kreator list. Destruction, Sodom and Annhilator are also desirable.
@@themechanix8804 against over Quadra? 🤯
It is SO nice to hear a deep, well thought out perspective on all of these classic metal bands and their albums. I have VERY little Overkill exposure and appreciation and now I'm digging into their discography with a new passion and zeal! So thank you so much for making this happen and I'm excited to see what you rank next! See you on the next one :D
*Edit*
If I'm going to suggest an artist to rank, it would likely be Annihilator they're like Megadeth with only one true guiding vision and their material has varied WILDLY!
Thank you Sir. I appreciate it. 💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤
@@RuthlessMetalYT Deeply welcome! Was lurking for a couple weeks but I've been subscribed for a month now and look forward to every post. Keep it coming :D
I second that, an Annihilator ranking would be cool! I’m only familiar with their first couple of albums.
Annihilator changed singers and other band members too often - they never had a consistent sound. Can't get into them.
@@thrashgod1189 I understand your point, but Jeff Waters was and is the driving vision behind the band and I think they've had some VERY exciting music as a result of all of the different members influences.
Feel the Fire, Taking Over, Under the Influence, The Years of Decay and Horrorscope are classics
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Definitely, but the Gustafson-era albums are the best.
One day WFO will finally get it's due, but unfortunately it's not today. The three albums with Gant and Cannavino really brought the twin guitar attack to the fore in a modern way (after the single guitar output of the entire previous catalog from Gustafson) and this was the culmination of all that had been learned and worked on.
WFO is simply bursting with riffs, of all varieties but it never skips a beat (except for the short breather on RIP). It's progressive, complex and melodic as well as relentless. In fact it's such a shock (and a shame in my view) on the following album (Killing Kind) with it's far more simple approach that I am lead to believe that Gant and Cannavino must have had more impact on the songwriting than the credits allow. Perhaps their employment was contingent on giving up writing rights. But the change from WFO to From The Underground is so drastic, I simply refuse to believe the same person that wrote something as harmonically dense as "The Wait A New High In Lows" is behind the basic approach of "From The Underground.
I get that From The Underground dropped just as nu metal was getting going (therefore complex, fast and intricate guitar parts were on the outer) but for mine it's a shame they went with this totally different approach after all they achieved on the Horroscope / I Hear Black / WFO trilogy, especially WFO of course.
WFO is their best in my opinion, which is really something because the never miss.
WFO had a strange production, the bass is just insane.
From their '90s albums, I have to go Horrorscope, but for me WFO is a close second. Really strong album.
After W.F.O both guitarists got replaced thats why late 90's albums were terrible
If it make you feel any better it’s in my top 5 lmao
1. Horrorscope
2. The Killing Kind (I’m surprised this is usually low on people’s lists)
3. The Years of Decay
4. Under the Influence
5. From the Underground and Below
6. Killbox 13
7. Bloodletting
8. ReliXIV
9. The Grinding Wheel (was disappointing initially, but going back, it’s better than I remembered; still a bit long though)
10. White Devil Armory
11. Immortalis
12. Necroshine (the only Overkill record I don’t like)
Overkill is my favorite thrash metal band. I've got to listen to their entire discography sometime, after all, I still haven't checked out Feel the Fire, Taking Over, I Hear Black, W.F.O., Ironbound, The Electric Age, or The Wings of War, but I heard great things about them.
I thought it was the worst for a long time, but maybe it's not their worst album. haha Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Your first impression was right, it's their worst. ;-)
Overkill wrecking your neck live deserves a mention.
Taking Over is fucking great - I didn't like the band that much until I heard that album. Big Metallica influence on this album, and a youthful kick-ass energy and attitude.
Horroscope definitely number 1
I agree with your rankings apart from the top 5. I'd personally have :-
1. Taking Over
2. Under the influence
3. Feel the fire
4. Years of decay
5. Horrorscope
Classic era is definitely the best though.
Cheers!
Been waiting for this one! Whatever else you want to say, Overkill has incredible consistency. They've never had a truly "bad" album. There's no God Hates Us All here or Risk here. When you buy an Overkill album you know what you're getting before you even put it on, and you know that at minimum there's going to be a high standard of quality maintained there. Oh yeah, and Years of Decay is the best - the very variety that doesn't appeal to you is what makes that album great. Plus props to them for still killing it year after year. There's no 5 year waits between albums like you get with most veteran bands. They're still delivering the goods, year in, year out.
Overkill > Your Favorite Band!
necroshine and from the underground and below is almost on that god hates us all level. ;)
Completely agree. Overkill is the most consistent reliable thrash metal band of all time, if not the best....
The Years Of Decay is the closest they came to Metallica Master Of Puppets level greatness, which very few thrash metal bands reach.
Idk..I really liked God Hates Us All. I THOUGHT I really liked Risk but then I gave a it a listen for the first time in years and I was like, “why did I like this album again?”
I've been waiting for this one 🤘🤘
Love the explanation for each album in all these videos 🤘
thank you, Cheers!
Our lists are very much different. I appreciate their groovier/heavier era since they had a tendency to delve back more into their punk roots along with thrash and more modern sounds.
1. The Years of Decay
2. Taking Over
3. Horrorscope
4. Necroshine
5. Feel the Fire
6. ReliXIV
7. White Devil Armory
8. Under the Influence
9. I Hear Black
10. Immortal15
11. From the Underground and Below
12. The Electric Age
13. Killbox13
14. The Wings of War
15. Bloodletting
16. The Grinding Wheel
17. Ironbound
18. The Killing Kind
19. WFO
20. Coverkill
My favorite album is From The Underground And Below. I think its because i got that album back when it came out while i was getting into Overkill. So i have a lot of nostalgia with it.
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For me it's definitely in the top 5, great stuff.
I've been trying to get into Overkill since some days ago and I think this video will be very helpful to start with their best records
I'm of the mindset that whenever you get into a band that has been around for a while, you should always just go in order of album releases. It gives you the opportunity to hear the bands growth as musicians.
The next rank will be Kreator, Sodom, Death Angel...
Kreator and Sodom is coming up at least.
i love the "hello from the gutter" in the intro, made me smile
Hello
1. Under the Influence
2. Years of Decay
3. Horrorscope
4. Taking Over
5. Bloodletting
You got good ears
Thanks for doing this!! Overkill is so underrated, I think. One of my faves.
underrated? I thought everyone loved Overkill. ;)
@@RuthlessMetalYT thanks for keeping metal alive
I think Overkill treats the covers album, Coverkill, as a regular studio album rather than their debut EP. That gets you to the numbering scheme of Killbox 13 and ReliXIV.
Cheers!
Powersurge, Rotten to the Core and Hello from the Gutter are probably my fav Overkill songs.
Awesome ranking. Ironbound is one of Overkill's best from their later years. I Hear Black was the first album i heard by them. Different, but quite good. Nice job with those ranking videos.
thanks boss
Taking over is highly underated!!! Between TO and TYOD are my favorites. My mood will change #1 daily. Bro, your killing it on these videos 🤘
thanks boss, Cheers!
I'll admit, I really haven't listened to much Overkill after Under the Influence, so all I can say is that Feel the Fire is one of the best debut thrash albums ever, right up there with Kill'em All, Show No Mercy, Fistfull of Metal, The Ultra Violence, etc., and Taking Over is solid as hell. Two great albums that are still on regular rotation with me.
Keep it up with these videos! I love'em! \m/
Thanks boss, I'll do my best. Cheers!
wow, I thoguht from the Underground and Below is the 2nd best OK album. To each his own.
Nah, it's kinda ass tbh. :)
I agree. Ruthless doesn't like the groove element, but we do....
@@kathydukakis1663 I like all elements of OK!!
Underground is a great record!!
it's their worst album, but still kinda ok, in my opinion.
I only know the old stuff, but Horrorscope was always my favorite by far, solid all the way through. It seemed like most of their albums would have a few corny songs that dragged things down for me. I had no idea they had a renaissance after 2010, I'll have to check out some of their newer work.
Interesting ranking. Horrorscope and Years of Decay are my favorites from Overkill
great albums for sure. any of the classic era albums could win really.
The Years of Decay number 1 for me personally...
Me too. I was probably 15 or so when I bought it on cassette. Was instantly hooked. “Elimination” is such a great song. E!limination!
E, limanation!
@@cl7510 yup it was the standard for heaviness back in the day
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A lemon nation
Love to see Kreator
Again you took the words right out of my mouth. Although I always see every thrash/speed/heavy band I can live when they come to town, for recorded albums, I had written off Overkill after WTO. Once again I see that I am not necessarily biased in favor of the illustrious Taking Over [With FTF right on its heels]. Thank you for giving me some pointers to check out some newer Overkill. I guess you could say I’m iron bound, lol [English pun,’ bound’ meaning that it is the target of my destination like Vienna bound or concert bound].
Hehe nice. Yeah iron bound is a popular one
Horrorscope takes the number 1 for me hands down.
Yay! Overkill, Finally😀!!! Thank you! Taking Over will always be my no. 1 too! Everything just so came together on that record! Horrorscope is my second though! It is anthem driven like Taking Over!
Cheers!
Prior to late last year, I didn't own a single Overkill album. One night I got drunk and bought their entire discography (both box sets that span 1986-2007, the Feel The Fire/F You and Then Some comp, and the latest 2010-2019 albums, plus the latest live album). Working my way chronologically, I just finished the '90s. Holy shit, what a band. Kicking myself for waiting so long to get into them. Can't wait to hear the rest, I'll have a ranking after.
The 90's was their worst period, the 80's stuff is legendary!
01 - Taking over
02 - Feel the fire
03 - The years of decay
04 - Iron bound
05 - I hear black
06 - The electric Age
07 - Horrorscope
08 - Under the influence
09 - killbox XIII
10 - White devil armory
11 - The grinding wheel
12 - wings of war
13 - W.F.O
14 - Necroshine
15 - Bloodletting
16 - From the underground and below
17 - The killing kind
18 - Relixiv
19 - Immortalis
Probably, this order will change along the years, because there are some of this albums that I need to listen more times.
good stuff!
I serve at the army GR, 9 months, 275 days. Now I have 4 more months to serve (127 days). Every second day you post videos. Keep me company man. Those videos make me relax and avoid the pressure.
Damn, thank you. I hope you're ok there.
Thanx' for Somethin' 🤟
We're all ok, they are 9 lost months 😅
Once again I couldn’t agree more with your number 1. I recently started to dig into overkill’s discography and when I put on “taking over” it was just amazing. Such a perfect thrash record. I was listening to it at work and I was like “damn this album is just killing it”.
yeah, it's awesome. Cheers!
I felt a little pushy and off in the weeds when I commented a request for a Rank 'Em All for Carcass, but now I see I was addressing the exact man for the job.
I'm always interested in hearing what people think I should cover but i won't always give people what they want. I rarely listen to anything more extreme than thrash metal so I wouldnt be the right man to rank their catalogue. Cheers!
Under the Influence is my favorite Overkill album. It's hard to believe they've released 19 albums and not a single bad one!!
Cheers!
at 100% influence is the best horroscope is close to me but !!!!
Hello again! Yes Overkill has been around for the better part of 40 years with a lengthy discography. Another one of those 2nd Big Four of US Thrash and kick ass as well! Here is my ranking for them. Also can you do some Canadian bands like Razor, Voivod, Annihilator, Sacrifice, etc next? Thanks Brother, you're doing a very good job with these rankings ever since they took off.
1. Feel the Fire
2. Taking Over
3. The Years of Decay
4. Horrorscope
5. Under The Influence
6. Ironbound
7. The Killing Kind
8. The Electric Age
9. White Devil Armory
10. The Grinding Wheel
11. I Hear Black
12. W.F.O.
13. The Wings of War
14. Killbox 13
15. RelixIV
16. Immortalis
17, From the Underground and Below
18. Bloodletting
19. Necroshine
I always go back to the classics though when I listen to Overkill, with a few of the better modern day Overkill at times when listening to this band. I think they are one of the only bands beside Megadeth in the thrash genre that has more than 15, close to 20 albums in their discography.
yeah I'll probably do some Canadian stuff in the future as well. :)
Voivod. Next...
Voi Vod would be cool.
Horrorscope is what got me into Overkill, but Ironbound is my go to when I need some thrash. That album IMO is up there with some of the best thrash albums of all time. I know Im in the minority but I prefer the middle years over the early stuff. I'm older (49) so maybe they sound dated to me. But I love them all. Oddly enough, your bottom of the list albums are all the ones I still need and are harder to find. I also read somewhere that Bobby Blitz said FTUAB was his favorite Overkill album. Great vid.
51 and same Horrorscope was my first also.
"Taking Over" is on my top 10 list of all time favorite albums from any band. It was such a distinct sound and feel when it came out.
Cheers!
it's definitely one of the top albums of the genre
Agreed....I remember hearing "Wrecking Crew" and "Powersurge" on Z-Rock. I bought the cassette with money from my paper route the same week.
I love Taking Over as well but blitz's operatic vocals on that album bug me a little. But still in their top 5
Taking Over is my favorite as well! Followed by Horrorscope, which was one of the greatest Thrash Metal albums of the terrible 90s!
good stuff!
I actually think Horrorscope is their best album of all time. Overall, I agree with this list, though... mostly my tastes too.
Horrorscope was Overkill's apotheosis.
Thank you!! I like how you gave higher rankings to some of Overkill's more recent albums.
yeah, some are pretty good.
Had no idea they’ve released so many albums. I’ve got some listening to do. Years of Decay is my current favorite. I’m gonna listen to some of their newer stuff based on your list. Nice video, you consistently put out entertaining content.
Overkill are famously prolific. Not only do they release albums fairly frequently, but the quality of the material doesn't fall from album to album. One of the most underrated bands out there.
Yup, I expected a 30 minute rank here 😥... Love 💚 OverKill 💚!!!
I am pleasantly surprised to see how many people put YoD as their favorite. I'm not alone!
@@metal_helm You're definitely not alone in that mindset.
@@Repugnantone back in the day, YoD was the barometer for heavy (until Vulgar Dispaly of Power)
My favorite Overkill Albums are
Horrorscope and Tracks that i loved is Coma, Blood Money, Horrorscope, Bare Bones, New Machine, Solitude, Live Young, Die Free and Nice Day... For A Funeral.
Feel The Fire and Tracks Raise The Dead, Rotten to The Core, Second Son, There's No Tomorrow.
Taking Over and Tracks Deny The Cross, Wrecking Crew, Fatal If Swallowed, Fear His Name, Use your Head.
The Years of Decay and tracks are Time To Kill, Elimination, Playing with Spiders/Skullkrusher, Birth of Tension, Who Tends The Fire, Evil Never Dies.
I Hear Black and Tracks is Spiritual Void, I Hear Black, World of Hurt, Ignorance and Innocence, Undying.
W.F.O. and Tracks Where it Hurts, They Eat Their Young, The Wait/ New High in Lows, What's Your Problem.
Necroshine and Tracks Necroshine, My December, I am Fear, Let us Prey, Revelation, Forked Tongue Kiss, Dead Man.
From Underground and Below and Tracks is Genocya, The Rip N' Tear, It Lives, Save Me, Long Time Dyin, Half Past Dead, I'm Alright.
The Killing Kind and Tracks God - Like, Certifiable, Let Me Shut that for You, Burn you down/to ashes, The Cleansing, The Mourning after/ Private Bleeding.
BloodLetting and Tracks Bleed Me, What I'm missin', Death Comes Out to Play, Let it Burn, my name is pain, can't kill a dead man, I, Hurricane, Left Hand Man.
Killbox 13 and Tracks that i liked are Unholy, No Lights, Damned, Crystal Clear, The Sound of Dying, Until i Die.
ReliXIV and Tracks within your eyes, love, Pound of Flesh, Keeper, play the Ace, the Mark 2:14.
Immortalis and tracks Devils in the Mist, Walk through Fire, Hell is, Chaly get your gun, Hellish Pride, Shadow of a Doubt.
IronBound and Tracks The Goal is Your Soul, The Head and Heart, Give a Little, Bring Me The Night, Killing for a living, Endless War, In Vain.
The Electric Age and Tracks Come and Get it, Wish you’re Dead, Black Daze, Save yourself, All Over but the Shouting, Old Wounds, New Scars, Good Night.
White Devil Armory and Tracks is Armorist, Pig, BItter Pill, where there's Smoke..., Another day to die, King of The Rat Bastards, In the name, It's all Yours.
The GrindIng Wheel and Tracks are Mean Green, Killing Machine, Goddamn Trouble, Our Finest Hour, Come Heavy, The Long Road, Let's all go to Hades.
so i have a lot of overkill Vinyl and CDs but not in specific order but i'll try to get more of their discography and EPs. I remembered that i got my First 2002 Overkill Live Wrecking Everything An Evening in Asbury Park DVD I’ve watched it it was So Great! 😆
I Love Bobby Blitz he's Cool and Old School Vocalist that I really loved so Much and he's my favorite Thrash Metal Singer. 🤘🏻🤘🏻😍😘💚🖤
Yeah, Bobby Blitz is definitely thrash metal royalty. One of the best voices in metal.
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that's is Awesome. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Under the Influence is super underrated by most people, glad to see it made your top 5 at least. Funnily enough, the most popular track from that album (Hello From the Gutter) is my least favorite and the only one I occasionally skip. Every other track is a total banger, and I definitely prefer Bobbie's voice in this one compared to the previous two albums. Also, Overkill makes great doom tracks. Skullkrusher, The Grinding Wheel, Horrorscope etc. are all amazing bangers. Also, can you please do a video on Manilla Road? They are my favorite band by far and it's criminal how unknown and underrated they are. Anything to raise their popularity would be a great plus.
I probably will some day.
The thing that I think some people have an issue with UTI over is the mix. It was recorded live off the floor with the solos added later. They did it old school.
Fortunately, we disagree. I'm not just searching for the classic oldschool tunes in the overkill catalog. I'm very glad that they did some of the great heavy stuff like 80 cycles, little bit o' murder, burn you down... Dig a lot!
Overkill were my first concert, on The Years Of Decay tour in 1990. The show was nothing short of awesome, the venue was packed and the floor was a giant mosh pit. I can see why they replaced Bobby Gustafson with two guitar players - he could really shred!
Nice, They are so good live! such energy. Cheers!
Feel the Fire always has been, and always will be, their best album.
Horoscope would b my favourite Over Kill album, horoscope the title track has 1 of the best intro's ive ever heard 🤘
Yeah. Sounds evil as fuck dosen't it?
@@lynchie137 hell yeh
My Ranking of Overkill, My 2nd Favorite Thrash Metal Band.
19 - Bloodletting
18 - ReliXIV
17 - Immortalis
16 - Necroshine
15 - I hear Black
14 - The Killing Kind
13 - The Grinding Wheel
12 - From the Underground and Below
11 - W.F.O.
10 - The Wings of War
9 - Killbox 13
8 - White Devil Armory
7 - Ironbound
6 - The Electric Age
5 - Under the Influence
4 - Horrorscope
3 - The Years of Decay
2 - Taking Over
1 - Feel the Fire
I don't really know where to put the EP at.
Cheers!
A few surprises here...
To be honest, my opinions of FTUAB and the Killing Kind might be unfair because I rarely listen to them... maybe I should give them a spin or two and see if my memory is not wrong!!!
Killbox above Wings of War and Grinding Wheel???
@@chrisconlan751 I can get with that. It's above on my ranking too. I've got a real soft spot for it. First off, the production is awesome on that one. It's one of Blitz's best performance too... he screams up a storm on that one.
Devil by the Tail, Damned, Sound of Dying and Struck Down are all great fun!
@@fredlaroche6969 oh yeah I like Killbox a lot. I just like first 5 and last 5 the best. Killbox may be my #11
AWESOME ALBUM RANKING AGREED !!!
you've been watching all of 'em lately. ;)
🤘Overkill better of better Thrash Metal🤘Power list🤘💚🖤Rules💚🖤
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@@RuthlessMetalYT 🤘Thrash🤘Rules🤘fuckin🤘world🤘Overkill🤘
Seen Over Kill live in Columbus, Oh at The Newport on the W.F.O tour great show!! Got the window poster!
1- Taking Over
2- Horrorscope
3- The Years of Decay
4- W.F.O.
5- From The Underground and Below
6- Under the Influence
7- Killbox 13
8- Ironbound
9- Necroshine
10- Feel the Fire
11- The Wings of War
12- White Devil Armory
13- I Hear Black
14- The Killing Kind
15- Bloodletting
16- The Grinding Wheel
17- The Eletric Age
18- ReliXIV
19- Immortalis
The Best Thrash Metal band of all time!
My best 5: 1.Taking Over 2.Horrorscope 3.Feel The Fire 4. Under The Influence 5. Scorched
cheers
The Years Of Decay is my favorite. I saw them on that tour and they were incredible.
Horrorscope is my favorite Overkill album, and one of my favorite albums of all time. If I hav to choose only one Thrash album I will choose Horrorscope, I like it more than any big four albums.
I personally didn't really like the first 2 albums as much, as D.D. hadn't gotten his signature clank bass tone, but I still think they're top 5 material. I also have an ENORMOUS soft spot for The Years of Decay, as it was the first metal album I ever bought with my own money, and my third ever album I ever bought (my first 2 albums were Love Pump and Kansas' Greatest Hits.)
hehe, I think the first two are their best. ;) but I love the early days of thrash when the rules werent written yet.
Horrorscope is such a great album. Awesome songs throughout, great playing, great production
for sure. Cheers!
Great stuff Ruthless! These rankings are so hard to make, many of these bands kick lots of ass!
true, cheers!
Yes i fuuuuuuuucking love over kill
Overkill meet your fate
Great, great, great...cheers! 🍻
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Yes!!!! Taking Over rules.
Over Kill fan since 1987🤘
So we completely disagree on Overkill and Anthrax, but that's just another reason why I like watching your videos so much. I like hearing those kinds of opinions on bands I love, different perspectives and opinions are refreshing, after all.
Thank you, Cheers!
Taking Over got me through my senior year of high school. Will always be in my top 5 Metal records.
The Electric Age is easily my favourite Overkill album. So many fantastic tracks that will always be on my rotation!
Also I’ve always considered Coverkill as a studio album personally. I think a covers album can be a studio album personally if it’s newly recorded, but I understand the alternative argument
Maybe it’s just an excuse to listen to THE BEST cover album of all time
nah, covers are just covers, they don't matter. ;)
Completely agree! "The Electric Age" is my #1 as well. It's the album that got me into the band and will always hold a special place.
1. Horrorscope (1991)
2. The Years of Decay (1989)
3. Killbox 13 (2003)
4. Taking Over (1987)
5. The Electric Age (2012)
6. The Grinding Wheel (2017)
7. Ironbound (2010)
8. Feel The Fire (1985)
9. White Devil Armory (2014)
10. The Wings of War (2019)
11. I Hear Black (1993)
12. Under The Influence (1988)
13. W.F.O. (1994)
14. The Killing Kind (1996)
15. From The Underground and Below (1997)
16. Immortalis (2007)
17. Necroshine (1999)
18. ReliXIV (2005)
19. Bloodletting (2000)
Cheers
Nice video, although I was kinda disappointed not to see The Years Of Decay in the #1 spot...but that's ok :) other albums I like from the band are Taking Over, Feel The Fire, Under The Influence, Horrorscope, Immortalis, Ironbound and White Devil Armory...I also liked the albums I didn't mention but not as much as the ones I mentioned...
I think the early material is a bit more straight forward than the years of decay.
I remember buying Under The Influence in the summer of 1988. I had no idea this was going to become such a favourite band of mine. I got each subsequent album upon release and Overkill was the only metal band I kept listening to for decades, having dropped off the scene completely to focus on classical. To me, these guys were the heirs of Black Sabbath. The Years of Decay and Horrorscope did that.
I was disappointed with I Hear Black, too soft to my taste in spite of undeniable qualities. For two long years, the spirit seemed to have gone away, but W.F.O. fixed everything and pushed further. I was never disappointed again. Love them.
I love your list! And how many bands do you know that still rock in the 2000's!!! Ok so kreator and carcass are amazing as well!
Gustafson's chugging (pun intended) on Drunken Wisdom blew my teenage mind and his guitar was just as brutal on Years of Decay. So I wasn't looking forward to Horrorscope. Then I hear Gant and Cannavino and holy shit they have two guitar gods. I've never been a big Pantera fan, although they were great live on Cowboy's and Vulgar tour, but I do like some tasteful Groove metal. I think "I Hear Black" smashed doom and groove together and made it work. Then they went the opposite direction with W.F.O. and I love that album too.
Yeah but losing Gustafson was rough or I should perhaps say that it probably would have gone down a bit in quality even if he would have remained. Cheers!
Love your videos - keep up the great work!!! Can you do Death Angel next (if you haven’t already)?
I might some day even if I'm not much of a fan of their disco.
Your last 2 albums are my two favorite. Lol. I just liked those 90s sounding albums.
no they were crap. ;)
My top 5 for Overkill would be
5)Ironbound
4)Taking Over
3)Feel the Fire
2)Years of Decay
1)Under the Influence
Horrorscope needs to be number three. BUT FINALLY SOMEBODY BESIDES ME WHO THINKS UNDER THE INFLUENCE IS A MASTERPIECE!
Yes! Overkill, next state over! Absolutely Taking Over!
I love the early stuff of Overkill including Horrorscope.
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I agree on the list you have put together. My favorite is Taking over. But to hear them years later and reinvent themselves on Ironbound and sound better than ever was truly awesome. And keep going for the next releases was cool.Great band good times. No rest till Social Security for these Thrashers. Definetly looking forward to the new release. Thx RM🤘😎✌
Alright you DID overkill awesome!
thanks boss
Taking Over, un disco que disfruté bastante en su momento, bestial. Un saludo.
saludos
I agree with this ranking in very large parts, especially with the raking of the 3 eras (1. Classic era, 2. Recent era, 3. middle era). And I guess most of us know that 1993-2007 was not exactly a glorious era of classic thrash, although I think that W.F.O. was surprisingly good, especially after I hear Black.
My ranking is the following:
1.Feel The Fire (clearly and doubtlessly!!)
2.Taking Over
3.Horrorscope
4.The Electric Age
5.The years Of Decay
6.Ironbound
7.White Devil Armory
8.Under The Influence
9.W.F.O.
10.The Grinding Wheel
11.The Wings Of War
The other albums I dont like and dont care about.
Love their 80's album. Horrorscope is Cool
I'd Have to say 1.Horrorscope, 2.Under the Influence, 3.Years o Decay, 4. White Devil Armory, 5. I Hear Black Been listening to them since '86 & they're Still my fave band, Goin to see em live March 11th (5th time) can't wait...
Yes, definitely one of the top thrash acts. Have fun! Cheers!
From the Underground and Below is one of Blitz's favorite
cheers
Wow, Rank Em All Overkill looks great. But we can't wait the metal bands we can rank probably outside US or probably more bands in US. Feel the Fire Ruthless Metal🔥🔥🔥🔥🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🔥🔥🔥🔥
Higher higher!
My top 3 Overkill is identical as yours. Taking Over is the best! Cheers!
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I'd love to see a Death Angel ranking. They've put out some killer stuff in their later years as well. I fucking love The Dream Calls for Blood.
I think they only put out one great album. Cheers!
19. Immortalis
18. The Killing Kind
17. Reli XIV
16. Bloodletting
15. Necroshine
14. From the Underground and Below
13. I Hear Black
12. White Devil Armory
11. The Wings of War
10. Under the Influence
9. W.F.O.
8. Ironbound
7. The Grinding Wheel
6. The Electric Age
5. Taking Over
4. Killbox 13
3. Horrorscope
2. Feel The FIre
1. The Years of Decay
Cheers!
1. Feel the Fire
2. Taking Over
3. The Years of Decay
4. Under the Influence
5. Horrorscope
6. Ironbound
7. The Electric Age
8. The Grinding Wheel
9. White Devil Armory
10. The Wings of War
11. W.F.O.
12. Killbox 13
13. I Hear Black
14. Coverkill
15. Immortalis
16. The Killing Kind
17. Reli XIV
18. Bloodletting
19. Necroshine
20. From the Underground and Below
Cheers
"Taking over" is the perfect thrash album. All killer no filler.
Agreed!
OverKill for me was always just one of those bands that seemed to escape my attention. None of my friends would really say listen to "this" or strongly suggested them.
I never got around to personally purchasing or owning any of their albums.
Of course there was that one kid with that "Years of Decay" T- Shirt.
One night while watching MTV's Headbangers Ball I got to see "Hello From the Gutter"
I had one friend who used to lend me his cassettes and we would hang out at each others house listening to everything thrash and heavy Metal. One day I was going through his collection and there it was Overkill "Years of Decay" I was like, how is this, is this any Good? He was like, I like them, but go ahead give it a listen. Trying to remember today my memory is a little hazy, I mean I listened to the whole album, but sadly nothing caught my attention as far as any of the tracks like being anything close as a Masterpiece. "Time to Kill" and "Elimination" are Alright. The Songs could be better and the lyrics were always silly.
However Bobby does have a great voice.
I wouldn't give Overkill another try till "Horrorscope" Coma and definitely Horrorscope are the best tracks. Just thee other day though I watched the video for "Goddamn Trouble." Hey Perhaps Overkill did predict Covid-19 in their Song "Elimination."
Thank you.
Great video Ruthless Metal. Brings back a lot of Memories. 🤘
Nice essay 👍
@@entertherealmofchaos What can I say. I'm still stupid/ passionate about Metal. Hopefully more passionate than stupid.
Cheers!
The Years of Decay is my number one for sure!
Under the Influence is my favorite, or Taking Over, both of which I got on vinyl along with Feel the Fire and Fuck You. I got The Years of Decay on Cassette too!
under the influence is a bit wobbly, my least favourite of their 80's catalogue. Cheers! 🍻
From the Underground and Below, a fucking masterpiece! My top 5, depending on the day and my mood.
1. Years of Decay
2. Horrorscope
3. Ironbound
4. From the Underground
5. Taking Over.
Thanks for your list fellow Earthdog!
not really. rather mediocre. :)
@@RuthlessMetalYT Defend the Faith, always!🤘
I have to agree with your ranking of overkill! Taking over is one killer album!
it is, but perhaps feel the fire is better. I'm not sure. :D haha
@@RuthlessMetalYT yes it is a hard choice! 🤘
Definately! Taking Over is absolutely their best! The Vocal Performance from Blitz is just awesome ! Followed by Feel the fire.
yes, good stuff!