Origin: New York, New York, USA  
Genres: Thrash Metal
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Last update/review: May 8, 2023

Overkill

A legendary East Coast thrash band, Overkill gained a large initial following from their well-received stage shows, and have carved a remarkable career for themselves, churning out blue-collar thrash albums for just short of 20 years now. Members have come and gone (the exceptions being vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni, who've been there from the beginning), but the basic style hasn't really changed much, and nor has their commitment to energetic live shows and quality thrash metal.

Current Members

Bobby Ellsworth

vocals (BPMD, ex-The Cursed)

Dave Linsk

guitars (Speed Kill Hate)

Derek Tailer

guitars (ex-Speed Kill Hate)

Carlo "D.D." Verni

bass (ex-The Bronx Casket Co.)

Jeramie Kling

drums (The Absence, Ex Deo, Necromancing The Stone, ex-Venom Inc.)

Former Members/Guests

Bobby Gustafson

guitars (ex-Cycle Sluts From Hell, ex-Response Negative, ex-Skrew, ex-Vio-lence)

Rob Cannevino

guitars

Joe Comeau

guitars (ex-Annihilator, Duskmachine, Liege Lord, ex-Tad Morose)

Merritt Gant

guitars

Sebastian Marino

guitars (ex-Anvil) RIP: January 1, 2023, heart attack, age 57

Rat Skates (Lee Kundrat)

drums

Sid Falck

drums

Tim Mallare

drums (ex-The Bronx Casket Co., ex-M.O.D., ex-Speed Kill Hate)

Ron Lipnicki

drums (ex-Hades)

Eddy Garcia (guest)

drums (Pissing Razors)

Jason Bittner

drums (Category 7, ex-Flotsam & Jetsam, Shadows Fall)


Discography



Overkill  EP
1984 Azra
  1. Rotten To The Core
  2. Fatal If Swallowed
  3. The ANswer
  4. Overkill
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Rat Skates


Feel The Fire  
1985 Megaforce
  1. Raise The Dead
  2. Rotten To The Core
  3. There's No Tomorrow
  4. Second Son
  5. Hammerhead
  6. Feel The Fire
  7. Blood And Iron
  8. Kill On Command
  9. Overkill
  10. Sonic Reducer
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Rat Skates


Taking Over  
1987 Atlantic
  1. Deny The Cross
  2. Wrecking Crew
  3. Fear His Name
  4. Use Your Head
  5. Fatal If Swallowed
  6. Powersurge
  7. In Union We Stand
  8. Electro-Vilolence
  9. Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues)
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Rat Skates
1987 Readers' Album #7



Fuck You  LIVE EP
1987 Atlantic
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Sid Falck


Under The Influence  
1988 Atlantic
  1. Shred
  2. Never Say Never
  3. Hello From The Gutter
  4. Mad Gone World
  5. Brainfade
  6. Drunken Wisdom
  7. End Of The Line
  8. Head First
  9. Overkill III (Under The Influence)
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Sid Falck


The Years Of Decay  
1989 Atlantic
  1. Time To Kill
  2. Elimination
  3. I Hate
  4. Nothing To Die For
  5. Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher
  6. Birth Of Tension
  7. The Years Of Decay
  8. Who Tends The Fire
  9. Evil Never Dies
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Bobby Gustafson
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Sid Falck


Horrorscope  
1991 Atlantic
  1. Coma
  2. Infectious
  3. Blood Money
  4. Thankx For Nothing'
  5. Bare Bones
  6. Horrorscope
  7. New Machine
  8. Frankenstein (Instrumental)
  9. Live Young, Die Free
  10. Nice Day For A Funeral
  11. Solitude
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Rob Cannevino
  • Merritt Gant
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Sid Falck
1991 Readers' Album #6



I Hear Black  
1993 Atlantic
  1. Dreaming In Columbian
  2. I Hear Black
  3. World Of Hurt
  4. Feed My Head
  5. Shades Of Grey
  6. Spiritual Void
  7. Ghost Dance (Instrumental)
  8. Weight Of The World
  9. Ignorance and Innocence
  10. Undying
  11. Just Like You
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Rob Cannevino
  • Merritt Gant
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1993 Readers' Album #34



W.F.O.  
1994 Atlantic
  1. Where It Hurts
  2. Fast Junkie
  3. The Wait-New High In Lows
  4. They Eat Their Young
  5. What's Your Problem
  6. Under One
  7. Supersonic Hate
  8. R.I.P. (Undone)
  9. Up To Zero
  10. Bastard Nation
  11. Gasoline Dream
  12. Track 98
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Rob Cannevino
  • Merritt Gant
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1994 Readers' Album #10



Wrecking Your Neck  LIVE
1995 CMC
  1. Where It Hurts
  2. Infectious
  3. Coma
  4. Supersonic Hate
  5. Wrecking Crew
  6. Powersurge
  7. The Wait/New High in Lows
  8. Skullkrusher
  9. Spiritual Void
  10. Hello From the Gutter
  11. Anxiety
  12. Elimination
  13. Fast Junkie
  14. World of Hurt
  15. Gasoline Dream
  16. Rotten to the Core
  17. Horrorscope
  18. Under One
  19. New Machine
  20. Thanx for Nothing
  21. Bastard Nation
  22. Fuck You
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Rob Cannevino
  • Merritt Gant
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1995 Readers' Album #41



Killing Kind  
1996 CMC
  1. Battle
  2. God-Like
  3. Certifiable
  4. Burn You Down/To Ashes
  5. Let Me Shut That For You
  6. Bold Face Pagan Stomp
  7. Feeding Frenzy
  8. The Cleansing
  9. THe Mourning After/Private Bleeding
  10. Cold, Hard Fact
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Joe Comeau
  • Sebastian Marino
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare


Fuck You And Then Some  
1996 Megaforce
  1. Fuck You
  2. Rotten To The Core (live)
  3. Hammerhead (live)
  4. Use Your Head (live)
  5. Electro-Violence (live)
  6. Fuck You (live)
  7. Hole In The Sky (live)
  8. Evil Never Dies (live)
  9. Rotten To The Core
  10. Fatal If Swallowed
  11. The Answer
  12. OVerkill
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Joe Comeau
  • Sebastian Marino
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1996 Readers' Album #26



From The Underground And Below  
1997 CMC
  1. It Lives
  2. Save Me
  3. Long Time Dyin'
  4. Genocya
  5. Half Past Dead
  6. F.U.C.T.
  7. I'm Alright
  8. The Rip N Tear
  9. Promises
  10. Little Bit O' Murder
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Joe Comeau
  • Sebastian Marino
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1997 Readers' Album #14



Necroshine  
1999 CMC
  1. Necroshine
  2. My December
  3. Let Us Prey
  4. 80 Cycles
  5. Revelation
  6. Stone Cold Jesus
  7. Forked Tongue Kiss
  8. I Am Fear
  9. Black Line
  10. Dead Man
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Joe Comeau
  • Sebastian Marino
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare


Coverkill  
1999 CMC
  1. Overkill
  2. No Feelings
  3. Hymn
  4. Changes
  5. Space Truckin'
  6. Deuce
  7. Never Say Die
  8. Death Tone
  9. Cornucopia
  10. Tyrant
  11. Ain't Nothin' To Do
  12. I'm Against It
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Joe Comeau
  • Sebastian Marino
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
1999 Readers' Album #8



Bloodletting  
2000 Metal-Is
  1. Thunderhead
  2. Bleed Me
  3. What I'm Missin'
  4. Death Comes Out To Play
  5. Let It Burn
  6. I, Hurricane
  7. Left Hand Man
  8. Blown Away
  9. My Name Is Pain
  10. Can't Kill A Dead Man
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare


Wrecking Everything  
2002 Spitfire
  1. Necroshine
  2. Thunderhead
  3. Evil Never Dies
  4. Deny The Cross
  5. I Hate
  6. Shred
  7. Bleed Me
  8. Long Time Dyin'
  9. It Lives
  10. Battle
  11. The Years Of Decay
  12. In Union We Stand
  13. Overkill
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
2002 Readers' Album #43



Wrecking Everything  VIDEO
2002 Spitfire


Killbox 13  
2003 Spitfire
  1. Devil By The Tail
  2. Damned
  3. No Lights
  4. The One
  5. Crystal Clear
  6. The Sound Of Dying
  7. Until I Die
  8. Struck Down
  9. Unholy
  10. I Rise
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
2003 Readers' Album #15



RelixIV  
2005 Spitfire
  1. Within Your Eyes
  2. Love
  3. Loaded Rack
  4. Bats In the Belfry
  5. A Pound Of Flesh
  6. Keeper
  7. Wheelz
  8. The Mark
  9. Play The Ace
  10. Old School
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Tim Mallare
2005 Readers' Album #22



Immortalis  
2007 Bodog Music
  1. Devils in the Mist
  2. What It Takes
  3. Skull and Bones
  4. Shadow of a Doubt
  5. Hellish Pride
  6. Walk Through Fire
  7. Head On
  8. Charlie Get Your Gun
  9. Hell Is
  10. Overkill V
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki
2007 Readers' Album #11



Live At Wacken Open Air 2007  VIDEO
2008 Bodog Music


Ironbound  
2010 eOne
  1. The Green And Black
  2. Ironbound
  3. Bring Me The Night
  4. The Goal Is Your Soul
  5. Give A Little
  6. Endless War
  7. The Head And Heart
  8. In Vain
  9. Killing For A Living
  10. The SRC
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki
2010 Readers' Album #2



The Electric Age  
2012 eOne
  1. Come and Get It
  2. Electric Rattlesnake
  3. Wish You Were Dead
  4. Black Daze
  5. Save Yourself
  6. Drop the Hammer Down
  7. 21st Century Man
  8. Old Wounds, New Scars
  9. All Over but the Shouting
  10. Good Night
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki
2012 Readers' Album #3



6 Songs  EP
2012 Rock Hard
  1. Electric Rattlesnake
  2. Wish You Were Dead
  3. Give a Little (live @ Rock Hard Festival 2011)
  4. Bring Me the Night (live @ Rock Hard Festival 2011)
  5. Death Rider (live @ Rock Hard Festival 2011)
  6. The Beast Within (live @ Rock Hard Festival 2011)
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki


Live From Oz  LIVE EP
2013 Nuclear Blast
  1. Horrorscope
  2. Long Time Dyin'
  3. Necroshine
  4. Walk through Fire
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki


White Devil Armory  
2014 eOne
  1. Freedom Rings
  2. Where There's Smoke...
  3. Pig
  4. Amorist
  5. Down To The Bone
  6. Bitter Pill
  7. King Of The Rat Bastards
  8. Another Day To Die
  9. It's All Yours
  10. In The Name
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki
2014 Readers' Album #2



The Grinding Wheel  
2017 Nuclear Blast
  1. Mean Green Killing Machine
  2. Goddamn Trouble
  3. Our Finest Hour
  4. Shine On
  5. The Long Road
  6. Let's All Go To Hades
  7. Come Heavy
  8. Red White And Blue
  9. The Wheel
  10. The Grinding Wheel
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Ron Lipnicki
2017 Readers' Album #2



Live In Overhausen  LIVE
2018 Nuclear Blast
  1. Coma
  2. Infectious
  3. Blood Money
  4. Thanx For Nothin'
  5. Bare Bones
  6. Horrorscope
  7. New Machine
  8. Frankenstein
  9. Live Young Die Free
  10. Nice Day - for a Funeral
  11. Soulitude
  12. Raise The Dead
  13. Rotten To The Core
  14. There's No Tomorrow
  15. Second Son
  16. Hammerhead
  17. Feel The Fire
  18. Blood And Iron
  19. Kill at Command
  20. Overkill
  21. Fuck You
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Eddy Garcia
2018 Readers' Album #19



The Wings Of War  
2019 Nuclear Blast
  1. Last Man Standing
  2. Believe in the Fight
  3. Head of a Pin
  4. Bat Shit Crazy
  5. Distortion
  6. A Mother's Prayer
  7. Welcome to the Garden State
  8. Where Few Dare to Walk
  9. Out on the Road-Kill
  10. Hole in My Soul
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Jason Bittner


Scorched  
2023 Nuclear Blast
  1. Scorched
  2. Goin' Home
  3. The Surgeon
  4. Twist of the Wick
  5. Wicked Place
  6. Won't Be Comin' Back
  7. Fever
  8. Harder They Fall
  9. Know Her Name
  10. Bag o' Bones
  • Bobby Ellsworth
  • Dave Linsk
  • Derek Tailer
  • Carlo "D.D." Verni
  • Jason Bittner



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