Im 52 now and found this band when I was only 15 years old. I was fucking FLOORED when I first heard this on headbangers ball. The bass lines were something I had never heard before and I could actually hear the bass over the song..... It was life changing metal-wise in my young mind. I listened to this album constantly, until I wore out the cassette and then I bought another one.
I'm 50 and was TOTALLY blown away when I first heard this...and the bass lines is EXACTLY what turned me on to them. Met Bobby on the Horrorscope tour and they DESTROYED the sound system at a club! Thankfully they had 2 songs left on their set and they just played some acoustic songs for the rest of the show LOL
Will be 52 in a few days. exact same thing! This is the only metal band Ive followed through all my changes in my musical journey. Met these guys twice in the last 4 years. Awesome dudes!
@@thatonedudeoverhere I'll check it out. I had a friend who was friends with Bobby Blitz. Although I didn't get to meet them, they asked me to do security up front. I stood in front of DD Verni, singing as I threw mutha fuckas around, lol. "From the islands to the cities"
No contest - but only the first three. Influence is so jampacked with breaks and crazy ideas and Bobby's solos front to back. After they kicked Bobby out, they just didn't match. INfluence is an all-time classic!
All those dreams and broken glass Swept down the sewer With the rest of the trash Never to be seen again Now, you're making a home In a garbage can Here's a little story that I live to tell Hello from the gutter Hello from our little Hell Wasted days, wasted nights Hypnotised by the city lights Another king and another queen Living in the shadows So they can't be seen Remember all the world Lies at your feet And the big apple's rotten Rotten in the heat Hello, hello Hello from the gutter Hello, hello Hello from the gutter Hello, hello Hello from the gutter Hello, hello Hello from the gutter Gutter child, sweet sixteen Broadway stars that have never been All those dreams and broken glass Swept down the sewer With the rest of the trash Here's a little story that we live to tell Hello from the gutter Hello from our little Hell Hello from the gutter Hello from the gutter Hello from the gutter Hello from the gutter Hello from the gutter Hello from the gutter Welcome to the gutter We've been expecting you
1 of the first songs that turned me onto thrash/speedmetal back in the day. A coworker who was in a local alternative band in the early 90s in Seattle knew I was just discovering that style of metal (longtime 80s metal fan, Ozzy, Crue, etc.), and 1 day said "Hey you're finally getting into Metallica, right? I think you'll like this one, check it out" and handed me a cd. Phenomenal metal. Cool lyrics sung just right, a bass you can actually hear in a thrash song, a killer guitar solo that stands out in this style and makes you feel something, and of course that rhythm guitar 'solo' bridge right afterward...it doesn't get much better than this. Thanks for posting this!
@charliedillon1400 it's the mix not the fact of only 1 guitarist. For example iron maiden, multi guitarist and you can still hear bass. It's the way it's mixed...
Everytime I see this video, I think about Beavis and Butthead ripping on it. "That flying skull rules. Yeah. He ought to fly away and go into a video that doesn't suck." lol.
My band was opening for them at Mean Streak in Frederick County Maryland twenty years ago, but there was a dispute about pay between them and the owner so they ended up hanging out in their bus. After we went off, they invited us to hang and were the best bunch of guys to chill with despite wasting a trip to the boondocks. Best headliner we never got to close with!
Man Im from Cincinnati and Overkill used to come to Bogarts in Clifton a couple times a year...... never missed a show..... some of the funnest pits and definitely one of my all time favorite bands
Great band first heard them on WSOU college radio station in South Orange New Jersey back in the 80s the poster child for great 80s metal...never gets old!
Wtf? This video/song has been on YT for 10 years and has only got 184k views.. This is one of the greatest thrash songs to this day. Should be 184m views not 184k
I thought the same thing, cause I know I watched it at least a hundred times. Even their later shit fuckin’ rips. Seems it would’ve been cool to grow up a metal head in the early to late 80’s. But I was still getting growing teeth when this was a thing. Thank God for vinyl record stores….
@@jordanjackson6151 It was! I was13 in 1980 so I cut my teeth on NWOBHM plus all the other metal from around the world. Got to see many bands in their prime in the 80's beginning with Iron Maiden's Powerlave tour. But, what's cool about the internet is that I'm finding lots of older stuff that I never got into or was obscure. Another thing that i cool is that, if you keep an open mind, there has been great rock music in every decade! It's nice that quite a few members of the "old guard" continue to play even 40 or more years after. One band that I don't think gets the recognition they deserve is Saxon. They keep putting out quality records, even better than Priest or Maiden and have gotten a little heavier since the 90's. Kind of the way Priest did with Painkiller. Take a listen to Unleash The Beast, Inner Sanctum and their latest, Carpe Diem. Not bad for a band whose core group are all around 70!
@@briansauer6695 I’ve got some Saxon on cd and vinyl. I even have an authentic Saxon band shirt. I’m 36 now. I work in Database industry, but in my off hours, I riff the fuck out. Years before that I worked in fuse assembly. Apparently I came in one day with a vintage Pantera shirt and even Scorpions as well as some rare Deep Purple. Even older dudes were like, “Umm, I know the groups , but the shirt looks uncommon.” And I’m like, “Yeah, Only 500 of this print was made (the Pantera one in particular). Not a lot of thrashers there. To them it’s almost like, ‘the big four and nothing else matters’😒. For me Overkill was like this equally massive unit that further made itself unique with a more range expansive vocalist. NWOBHM knew what it wanted to be until it wasn’t cool to be anything other than top 40. Even early wave of 70’s Priest and Budgie kick ass. Classic 80’s Raven anyone?
The most under rated thrash band in the world. Bobby Gustafson could play the arse off , of any of what they call the big four thrash bands [anthrax, megadeth, metallica & slayer] . I mean these bands are good but PLEASE Overkill are up there with them.
Blitz is hot as hell 🔥 can't take my eyes off from him 😍 even more than glam metal bands. he still is though. Aside of that song is great too.❤ Gustafson looks like James Hetfield in here even his style of walk reminds me of him 1:06
Over Kill is one of my favorite bands, since I first heard this song I thought this is what it would sound like if Iron Maiden wrote a a thrash song, anyone agree?
Saw Overkill and Prong up here in Minneapolis and both bands were awesome. Blitz was impressed by Minnesotan s were lining up for the gig in T-shirts on March weather.
If youve never seen these dudes from jersey then you have no clue!!! Thier show is explosive !! Ive seen them..dd verni's bass after the show left my rib cage thumping for hrs after!!!❤🇺🇲🇬🇧🇩🇪💪👊👊👊😎
The unofficial anthem of New Jersey
vistited my family for the holidays, was bumping this on the train from newark
Im 52 now and found this band when I was only 15 years old. I was fucking FLOORED when I first heard this on headbangers ball. The bass lines were something I had never heard before and I could actually hear the bass over the song..... It was life changing metal-wise in my young mind. I listened to this album constantly, until I wore out the cassette and then I bought another one.
I'm 50 and was TOTALLY blown away when I first heard this...and the bass lines is EXACTLY what turned me on to them. Met Bobby on the Horrorscope tour and they DESTROYED the sound system at a club! Thankfully they had 2 songs left on their set and they just played some acoustic songs for the rest of the show LOL
Will be 52 in a few days. exact same thing! This is the only metal band Ive followed through all my changes in my musical journey. Met these guys twice in the last 4 years. Awesome dudes!
I remember watching this on the ball when I was around 13 years, still goes hard years later.
It’s a damn shame they are so underrated
Abso- muthafukin-lutely
@@alanomie they put out a fan fucking tastic album last year
@@thatonedudeoverhere I'll check it out. I had a friend who was friends with Bobby Blitz. Although I didn't get to meet them, they asked me to do security up front. I stood in front of DD Verni, singing as I threw mutha fuckas around, lol. "From the islands to the cities"
This and Testament’s “trial by fire” sold me on the thrash metal.
@@ronaldferrucci3756 what a great fucking song by Testament, they and overkill are still kicking ass
*-Who Listening OVERKILL In 2024.........Thrash Never Dies!!!!.*
Meee!
RIght fucking here! STRAIGHT FROM THE GUTTER!!!!
I...
Me
No contest - but only the first three. Influence is so jampacked with breaks and crazy ideas and Bobby's solos front to back. After they kicked Bobby out, they just didn't match. INfluence is an all-time classic!
For me ,Overkill deserves to be one of the best metal ever alongside Metallica,Megadeth,Slayer,Anthrax,Exodus
Can’t forget Testament too!
Thrash isn’t the only genre in metal lmao gojira is better than a few of those
Yes definitely I love OVERKILL
throw in Testament too
they kick poptallica's ass 👊🏽
Overkill has always been one of the best band on earth...feel the fireeeeeee
Tourniquet, Megadeth Metallica y Overkill. En ese orden son las mejores bandas de thrash metal.
35 years on and it never lost its finesse still a very fresh sound . Great band
Overkill deserve to be in some kind of genre of their own. Completely their own style of thrash metal. bit of everything. so unique!
A lot like Anthrax
They are from the same area so yeah
You got the BIG 4.....these guys are in the NEXT 4...Overkill, Testament, Death Angel, Exodus.
@@jrharris9681 We have our favs, mine: Sodom, Overkill, Slayer, Kreator
Each and every band are their own brightest stars of thrash metal!
East Coast thrash was more about fun and party. A bit more tongue and cheek and not quite as dark.
Gustafson is a criminally underrated guitar player
I'd say he is Overkill's best guitar player, ever.
He certainly was the fuckin man!
Totally agree but whatever happened to him??!?!???
@@sethnicholls7861 he's just joined Violence. Check out Zetros recently uploaded interview on UA-cam with him.
*he's fat and ugly.*
Overkill is the most consistently awesome thrash band ever! Jersey rules!
Under the Influence of Overkill!! Metal!!! my drug of choice. 🤘💪
Gustafson looking like hetfields twin in the video .
always appreciated the sum of four parts presented in stealth fashion, songs offer catchy parts in select succession...
First time I saw Overkill was when they opened for Slayer (Reign in Blood Tour) 1986 in NYC. Forever one of my favorite bands...
😮❤
That mix is perfect!!!!!
The bass just jumps out and punches you in the dome!!!!!
yeh i have no clue why pepole dont like the mix
@@Shpektrometer because they dumb!
Buahahahahahaha
Anyone who hates the mix is automatically Lars Ulrich
Tourniquet, Megadeth Metallica y Overkill. En ese orden son las mejores bandas de thrash metal.
All those dreams and broken glass
Swept down the sewer
With the rest of the trash
Never to be seen again
Now, you're making a home
In a garbage can
Here's a little story that I live to tell
Hello from the gutter
Hello from our little Hell
Wasted days, wasted nights
Hypnotised by the city lights
Another king and another queen
Living in the shadows
So they can't be seen
Remember all the world
Lies at your feet
And the big apple's rotten
Rotten in the heat
Hello, hello
Hello from the gutter
Hello, hello
Hello from the gutter
Hello, hello
Hello from the gutter
Hello, hello
Hello from the gutter
Gutter child, sweet sixteen
Broadway stars that have never been
All those dreams and broken glass
Swept down the sewer
With the rest of the trash
Here's a little story that we live to tell
Hello from the gutter
Hello from our little Hell
Hello from the gutter
Hello from the gutter
Hello from the gutter
Hello from the gutter
Hello from the gutter
Hello from the gutter
Welcome to the gutter
We've been expecting you
1 of the first songs that turned me onto thrash/speedmetal back in the day. A coworker who was in a local alternative band in the early 90s in Seattle knew I was just discovering that style of metal (longtime 80s metal fan, Ozzy, Crue, etc.), and 1 day said "Hey you're finally getting into Metallica, right? I think you'll like this one, check it out" and handed me a cd. Phenomenal metal. Cool lyrics sung just right, a bass you can actually hear in a thrash song, a killer guitar solo that stands out in this style and makes you feel something, and of course that rhythm guitar 'solo' bridge right afterward...it doesn't get much better than this. Thanks for posting this!
OVERKILL IS MY FAVORITE BAND. OF ALL TIME. YOU HATE THEM? I HATE YOU!!!!!!
That bass tone is crazy. Great song!
Tourniquet, Megadeth Metallica y Overkill. En ese orden son las mejores bandas de thrash metal.
Fucking love the Bass Tone Bro
DD is such a a badass
You can hear the bass because there's only one guitar player.
@charliedillon1400
it's the mix not the fact of only 1 guitarist. For example iron maiden, multi guitarist and you can still hear bass. It's the way it's mixed...
OVERKILL, OVERDOSE, OVERTHINKING, OVERLAP THAT'S MY BUSINESS.
I love how happy and energetic this album is!
53 years young. 80s metal drummer. 80s metal/trash will NEVER die!
❤
HI Bernie! 56 years old, Overkill-Fan since 1988. And for few days ago live @
Omfg!!! Just the sheer rawness... Ahhh! Like listening to Beethoven for the first time.. original metal 🖤
The song that introduced me to Overkill, way back in '88.
4:01 Best laugh in Metal
Everytime I see this video, I think about Beavis and Butthead ripping on it. "That flying skull rules. Yeah. He ought to fly away and go into a video that doesn't suck." lol.
Probably one of the best thrash metal masterpiece in the world !!!
If that’s not one of the best solos I’ve ever heard
Power, emotion, flare- Love it.
Tourniquet, Megadeth Metallica y Overkill. En ese orden son las mejores bandas de thrash metal.
My band was opening for them at Mean Streak in Frederick County Maryland twenty years ago, but there was a dispute about pay between them and the owner so they ended up hanging out in their bus. After we went off, they invited us to hang and were the best bunch of guys to chill with despite wasting a trip to the boondocks. Best headliner we never got to close with!
Now that's how drums are supposed to sound!
can u imagine with double bass drums this album
It is simply impossible to not love this song.
Agreed
Sadly 8 ppl disagreed with you :(
@@svftkookie9476 Lars voted 8 times....
logaanross 🤘
simply impossible not to love the '80...
Takes me back to my Headbangers Ball days. Incredible vocals. Always liked the neon green too.
I saw them on this tour. They killed it.
The perfect 80's feeling!
Saw them in 1987 supporting Helloween at Hammersmith Odeon (proper name!), London. Incredible. Taking Over is one of my favourite albums from the 80s.
Best Powerthrashers ever
Legendary snare and bass guitar tones.
One of the top 3 loudest bands Ive ever saw live. OVERKILL KICKS ASS!
Tourniquet, Megadeth Metallica y Overkill. En ese orden son las mejores bandas de thrash metal.
This Song Is so frickin' energetic!
I love overkill
Man Im from Cincinnati and Overkill used to come to Bogarts in Clifton a couple times a year...... never missed a show..... some of the funnest pits and definitely one of my all time favorite bands
bobby blitz is metal's most insane screamer,after this album he just got crazier
@2000jago Who else though? besides the obvious ones
@@outis439-A Stace McLaren, Mike Patton. There's some more for sure. Don't get me wrong, Bobby Blitz is really good. Just not the "most insane".
No, he got pussier, horroscope and years decay started pussy albums and garbage albums
@@MasaM-c2c Your on what label?
Under The influence is Overkill's 80's best album !
Dominique FARAUT I’d rank it 4th of their 80s records.
My fav. too!
Wrecking crew is better in my opinion
@@RVsoloman5000 you mean taking over?
"Wasted days, wasted nights, hypnotized by the city lights"
BEAVIS.. we've been expecting you!!!!
Great band first heard them on WSOU college radio station in South Orange New Jersey back in the 80s the poster child for great 80s metal...never gets old!
IM 13 AND I LOVE OVERKILL AND THIS SONG OVERKILL FOR ALL \m/ !!
is this account still active?
@@Bloody_Antichrist238 yes
i am still cringing about my old comments :D
@@ichqici1999 Just got into the band I don't recall writing that comment 5 months ago
@@Bloody_Antichrist238 really??
0:12 That extra downpicked note before the final 3 notes in the main riff is huge
I think one of their greatest songs.
Honestly this is the first time I've heard Overkill to my knowledge and I was a metalhead in the 80's.
Love that flying Skull! Innovative and ahead of its time.
That’s chaly man 😌
I’ve never seen another logo that looks cool as that
@@obamasmama8366 yess
Avenged sevenfold pretty much ripped them off
Wtf? This video/song has been on YT for 10 years and has only got 184k views.. This is one of the greatest thrash songs to this day. Should be 184m views not 184k
I thought the same thing, cause I know I watched it at least a hundred times. Even their later shit fuckin’ rips. Seems it would’ve been cool to grow up a metal head in the early to late 80’s. But I was still getting growing teeth when this was a thing. Thank God for vinyl record stores….
Now it suddenly has 450k views
@@jordanjackson6151 It was! I was13 in 1980 so I cut my teeth on NWOBHM plus all the other metal from around the world. Got to see many bands in their prime in the 80's beginning with Iron Maiden's Powerlave tour. But, what's cool about the internet is that I'm finding lots of older stuff that I never got into or was obscure. Another thing that i cool is that, if you keep an open mind, there has been great rock music in every decade! It's nice that quite a few members of the "old guard" continue to play even 40 or more years after. One band that I don't think gets the recognition they deserve is Saxon. They keep putting out quality records, even better than Priest or Maiden and have gotten a little heavier since the 90's. Kind of the way Priest did with Painkiller. Take a listen to Unleash The Beast, Inner Sanctum and their latest, Carpe Diem. Not bad for a band whose core group are all around 70!
@@briansauer6695 I’ve got some Saxon on cd and vinyl. I even have an authentic Saxon band shirt. I’m 36 now. I work in Database industry, but in my off hours, I riff the fuck out. Years before that I worked in fuse assembly. Apparently I came in one day with a vintage Pantera shirt and even Scorpions as well as some rare Deep Purple. Even older dudes were like, “Umm, I know the groups , but the shirt looks uncommon.” And I’m like, “Yeah, Only 500 of this print was made (the Pantera one in particular). Not a lot of thrashers there. To them it’s almost like, ‘the big four and nothing else matters’😒. For me Overkill was like this equally massive unit that further made itself unique with a more range expansive vocalist. NWOBHM knew what it wanted to be until it wasn’t cool to be anything other than top 40. Even early wave of 70’s Priest and Budgie kick ass. Classic 80’s Raven anyone?
The most under rated thrash band in the world. Bobby Gustafson could play the arse off , of any of what they call the big four thrash bands [anthrax, megadeth, metallica & slayer] . I mean these bands are good but PLEASE Overkill are up there with them.
I love Blitz’s voice, truly impressive
this line up was devistaying
I can't stop thinking this is like a mix of Poison, AC/DC and Sepultura
Poison? What the hell?
Never gets old.
Saw these guys in Buffalo years ago. Kicked ass!!
New album kicks ass
Blitz is hot as hell 🔥 can't take my eyes off from him 😍 even more than glam metal bands. he still is though.
Aside of that song is great too.❤ Gustafson looks like James Hetfield in here even his style of walk reminds me of him 1:06
Classic thrash metal band
Agnaldo ramos de souza gracias informatico
Yes, but i think it's still close to NWOBHM
Over Kill is one of my favorite bands, since I first heard this song I thought this is what it would sound like if Iron Maiden wrote a a thrash song, anyone agree?
I think the vocals sound kinda like poison
A good analysis as any out there, yes sir.
I agree
@@obamasmama8366 Poison?!! Never. Accept or AC/DC perhaps, but not Poison!
@@munyansebastien7127 AC/DC and Accept can sing not always but sometimes, Blitz just can barking in high tone.
The song that turned me into a fan of Overkill.
Hell, they were there before either one broke ground. Haha. The name speaks for itself. 😎
Overkill was so underrated.
Was?!
Saw Overkill and Prong up here in Minneapolis and both bands were awesome. Blitz was impressed by Minnesotan s were lining up for the gig in T-shirts on March weather.
Mozart, Beethoven.... Uncle Floyd, Tiny Tim.... OVERKILL RULEZ THEM ALL!!
If youve never seen these dudes from jersey then you have no clue!!! Thier show is explosive !! Ive seen them..dd verni's bass after the show left my rib cage thumping for hrs after!!!❤🇺🇲🇬🇧🇩🇪💪👊👊👊😎
The song that got me into Overkill, haven’t looked back since!!!
Discovered Overkill not that long ago. I have no regrets🤘🤘🤘🤘
Overkill , One of best bands in the world
They still One of my favorites bands from the beggining...
YEAH!
Bobby Blitz performance even ranks the top conductors down the gutter. Blitz is #1
The bass guitar killing 🤘
proper arrangement, Accepted with proud German bravado...
Wow that evil/manic laughter in the end is so cool!!
The video was done in L'amore, 1546 62nd St..I was there... yeah !!!!! L'Amour: Rock Capital of Brooklyn
I love overkill
I love this band
One of the greatest metal bands and still going
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE
So many great memories of seeing these guys every time they came to Cleveland back in the day!
Feel the fire greatest album ever
The best line up from overkill
Bobby Gustafson deserve a place beside of Skolnick, Mustaine and Holt
I have this CD and still blast it regularly!
Incredible band 🤘🤘🤘
loved this song way back on the day.still sounds good
I wish this Overkill lineup would reunite
This is the real rock'n'roll thrash metal. GREAT!
i can't be the only one who doesn't care about the inventors of thrash but who is glad there is this thnig called thrash metal..
Kult ...einfach nur Kult
めっちゃカッケー。自分のテーマソングにしたいくらい好き！
Saw them on that tour with Motorhead and Slayer.
Saw them on that same tour in McAllen, Texas...
Badass fuckin show 🤘🤘.
Motorhead was the headliner and they were the loudest
Haillll Bobby !!!
Great classic!!! thanks for sharing!!!
Loved this when it came out. Surprised they didn't get bigger globally.
same label as Metallica. Sadly no push from the label early on. :(
I haven’t heard this song in over 20 years, I completely forgot how good it was!!
I’m obsessed with Bobby’s solo 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Clank, clank, clank!!!
By far the best Overkill song to MOSH too!!!
speed metal 🖤 🤘
Overkill forever