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Don't know why I'm still on this 80's heavy metal kick. I do this every so often but it doesn't usually last more than a day or two 'til I'm right back on the black and death metal.

 

Tyrant - Legions of the Dead - LA 1985, sounds like it was recorded live in an empty club. Would be an ok record if the dude would just lay off the silly high notes. But it was the 80's, they didn't know any better.

 

Sanctuary - Refuge Denied 1988. RIP fellow 1961-er Warrel Dane.

 

 

Refuge Denied is a fun one to throw on once in a while. The weird thing is that it's produced by Dave Mustaine. Even weirder is the production sounds as good if not better than Megadeth's albums around the same time. 

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23 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

When Death Comes Out to Play is possibly my favorite Overkill song not from the first 5 albums. Be not afraid!! Left Hand Man has always been a favorite too. At least you came to your senses and took it out of the bottom spot.

Very true!  I can't believe I ever ranked it in the bottom slot as I listen to it now.  These days, in my discography ranking for these legends, I have "The Killing Kind" in the bottom spot.  But as we all know, I enjoy every album these guys have put out to some degree!

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Very true!  I can't believe I ever ranked it in the bottom slot as I listen to it now.  These days, in my discography ranking for these legends, I have "The Killing Kind" in the bottom spot.  But as we all know, I enjoy every album these guys have put out to some degree!

I listened to KK last night and my first thought was I might be ranking it too high. I like Let Me Shut That For You, and Bold Face Pagan Stomp but that's about it, the rest was expendable. Don't even know what they were thinking with The Cleansing.

Immortalis will always be my bottom album though, and then I guess KK is next to last, and then Relix and then From the Underground and Below and then Ironbound. Those are my bottom 5, but even all of those have at least 2 or 3 good songs except Immortalis, that one was a waste of tape. The other 15 I would characterize as all good albums to some degree or another, with several of them being 10/10's. But take that fwiw because I am biased in their favor because they're my local boys from Jersey.

Listened to Scorched again last night too for the first time in months. I think I've finally gotten in tune with this album, I really enjoyed the hell out of it and I'll probably throw it on again later. Revisiting Ironbound right this minute, you know, the one everyone fellates undeservedly. I get that they ratcheted up the tempo a few clicks and headbangers really liked that. But the songs really weren't great. I give it a whirl probably twice a year to see if anything's changed. My usual story is that I only like the title track, The Green & Black and The SRC. Everything in between you can keep. I generally just skip Bring Me the Night altogether since I hate that song the most.

 

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AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

 

i’ve been given control of the household stereo for the night while we have guests around on the condition that I don’t play anything “too heavy“ and a night full of AC/DC, Thin Lizzie, deep purple, Led Zeppelin, rainbow, and the like is infinitely more appealing than whatever pop nonsense I’d normally have to put up with.

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8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I listened to KK last night and my first thought was I might be ranking it too high. I like Let Me Shut That For You, and Bold Face Pagan Stomp but that's about it, the rest was expendable. Don't even know what they were thinking with The Cleansing.

Immortalis will always be my bottom album though, and then I guess KK is next to last, and then Relix and then From the Underground and Below and then Ironbound. Those are my bottom 5, but even all of those have at least 2 or 3 good songs except Immortalis, that one was a waste of tape. The other 15 I would characterize as all good albums to some degree or another, with several of them being 10/10's. But take that fwiw because I am biased in their favor because they're my local boys from Jersey.

Listened to Scorched again last night too for the first time in months. I think I've finally gotten in tune with this album, I really enjoyed the hell out of it and I'll probably throw it on again later. Revisiting Ironbound right this minute, you know, the one everyone fellates undeservedly. I get that they ratcheted up the tempo a few clicks and headbangers really liked that. But the songs really weren't great. I give it a whirl probably twice a year to see if anything's changed. My usual story is that I only like the title track, The Green & Black and The SRC. Everything in between you can keep. I generally just skip Bring Me the Night altogether since I hate that song the most.

 

Ironbound 2010

 

Baphomet's Blood - In Satan We Trust, Italy 2016

 

Yes, I can totally understand the sentiment about "The Killing Kind".  I have it ranked in my bottom spot, mainly because I don't find the songs as memorable.  I can enjoy the listen well enough as I'm playing through the album, but I don't find that too many of the songs stick with me.  Still a solid effort, though.  

Glad to hear you're enjoying "Scorched" even more as time goes on!  "Know Her Name" is the underrated gem on the album for me, mainly because I enjoy the drum work from Bitner quite a bit on that one.  

Ah, "Ironbound"!  My #2 ranked album in the discography - I love everything about it.  I'm in that category of "those who fellate it undeservedly" haha.  "Bring Me the Night" is one of my favorite Overkill songs overall, and "Endless War" is such a crushing tune.  It's cool to hear that you at least dig a few tracks on it.  We all hear these albums differently, and it's always a blast to discuss these legends!  I don't want to live in a world without an active Overkill output, but I suppose the guitar strings stop being plucked for everyone at some point, as time is unforgiving.  Based on their rate of output, though, I think we'll at least get another 2-3 albums from them.  Bring them on!

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Checking out some new stuff:

The Obsessed/Gilded Sorrow-par for the course...generally like Wino's output but not much has changed since the 80's-haha. Spirit Caravan is probably my favorite era/Wino band. Hard for me to object to mid paced, bluesy, whisky soaked 70's hard biker rock, tho.

Madder Mortem/Old Eyes/New Heart-somehow, never listened to this rather interesting band

In queue: Ihsahn, Farsot, Eternal Storm, Sun of Nothing..

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Yes, I can totally understand the sentiment about "The Killing Kind".  I have it ranked in my bottom spot, mainly because I don't find the songs as memorable.  I can enjoy the listen well enough as I'm playing through the album, but I don't find that too many of the songs stick with me.  Still a solid effort, though.  

Glad to hear you're enjoying "Scorched" even more as time goes on!  "Know Her Name" is the underrated gem on the album for me, mainly because I enjoy the drum work from Bitner quite a bit on that one.  

Ah, "Ironbound"!  My #2 ranked album in the discography - I love everything about it.  I'm in that category of "those who fellate it undeservedly" haha.  "Bring Me the Night" is one of my favorite Overkill songs overall, and "Endless War" is such a crushing tune.  It's cool to hear that you at least dig a few tracks on it.  We all hear these albums differently, and it's always a blast to discuss these legends!  I don't want to live in a world without an active Overkill output, but I suppose the guitar strings stop being plucked for everyone at some point, as time is unforgiving.  Based on their rate of output, though, I think we'll at least get another 2-3 albums from them. Bring them on!

I suppose it really comes down to Bobby and how long his voice holds out. He'll be 65 in May, a couple years older than me even, but on last year's Scorched he still sounds like he's 32 (Horrorscope era). Maybe even a bit better now that he's apparently living clean and abstaining from alcohol and drugs. I'm the first one to speak up and admit when my metal warriors start losing their edge, and I can't imagine anyone could sing like that forever. I really don't want to see 80 year olds onstage trying to thrash it up. So sooner or later the time will come when they'll decide it's time to pack it in. I'm not worried about how many more albums they might release, they've given us 20 already, 15 of them good ones by my estimation and several of those are all-time genre classics. So that's already a lot more than most bands will ever give us. They still bring it live (as of March 2022) they've unquestionably given us hardcore fans our money's worth. Their body of work speaks for itself, they really don't owe us anything more. Whatever else we get from them will just be gravy.

 

Killbox 13, 2003. This was the album that really renewed my interest in Overkill. I remember I stopped looking forward to their new albums at some point in the 90's after FTUAB and KK. But this one's in their top 5 afaic. Wall to wall bangers, the only song I don't care about on here is track 4, The One.

 

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