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- Overkill, Jag Panzer & Massacra - Nov. 1994 - Frankfurt (D) - - Overkill, Annihilator & Wicked Mystic - Jan. 2000 - Helmond (NL) - - Overkill, Annihilator & Wicked Mystic - Jan. 2000 - Helmond (NL) - - Overkill, Annihilator & Dew-Scented - Feb. 2000 - Krefeld (D) - - Overkill, Annihilator & Dew-Scented - Feb. 2000 - Offenbach (D) - - Overkill - Nov. 2000 - Bochum (D) - - Overkill & Wicked Mystic - June 2002 - Vosselaar (B) - - Overkill, Blaze & Wicked Mystic - June 2002 - Osnabrück (D) - - Overkill, Blaze & Wicked Mystic - June 2002 - Krefeld (D) - - Overkill, Blaze & Wicked Mystic - June 2002 - Nuremberg (D) - - Overkill, Seven Witches & After All - Nov. 2003 - Zaandam (NL) - - Overkill, Seven Witches & After All - Nov. 2003 - Bad Wünnenberg (D) - - Overkill, Contradiction & 10 Fold B-Low - July 2005 - Wuppertal (D) - - Overkill, Exodus & Torture Squad - Feb. 2009 - Bochum (D) - - Overkill, Savage Messiah & Cripper - Feb. 2010 - Bochum (D) - - Overkill - Apr. 2010 - San Francisco, CA (USA) - - Overkill, Destruction, Heathen & After All - Mar. 2011 - Cologne (D) - - RockHard 2011 - June 2011 - Gelsenkirchen (D) -
- Killfest 2011: Overkill, Destruction, Heathen & After All -
- March 4th 2011 - Cologne (D), Essigfabrik -
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Again it's carnival season and again Overkill stop on their Killfest tour in an area of Germany where carnival is celebrated. This time they invited German thrashers Destruction, Bay Area thrashers Heathen and the Belgium outfit After All to join them on tour. |
- Overkill - April 18th 2010 - San Francisco (USA), Slim's -
© Claudia Ehrhardt Photos: Overkill - Feb. 2010 Live in Bochum |
First let me start off by saying, who the fuck cares about the other bands that played, the ticket said Overkill, and that is who we are talking about today. |
- Overkill, Savage Messiah & Cripper -
- February 11th 2010 - Bochum (D), Zeche -
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Overkill have a new album out and even without a new album Overkill is frequently touring in Europe. Last year they teamed up with Exodus, this time they had some newcomers with them - Suicidal Angels, Savage Messiah and Cripper. |
- Overkill, Exodus & Torture Squad -
- February, 25th 2009 - Bochum (D), Zeche -
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First a tour of Overkill and Metal Church was announced, but Metal Church had to pull out, coz guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof has back problems and wasn't allowed to tour. The fans of Bay Area thrash welcomed their replacement - Exodus! Two more bands were added to the billing: Gama Bomb from Ireland and Torture Squad from Brazil. Unfortunately they played at Zeche which is a pity, coz due to the strict curfew the bands had to cut down their sets. |
Overkill, Contradiction & 10 Fold B-Low
- July, 4th 2005 - Wuppertal (D), Die Börse -
In May they toured together and now there are a handful of shows Overkill came over to play and so the package got together again. On tour Contradiction were opening, but tonight in Wuppertal 10 Fold B-Low took over that position, coz this is Contradiction's hometown. At all shows it wasn't an easy task for the quintet from Cologne to convince the Overkill fans. It ain't easy to describe their sound, perhaps MetalCore fits best to their melange of Death'n'Thrash with modern sound elements and some blasting parts. I don't know their songs, so I can't tell you more about themat the moment. As their music is quite different compared with Overkill the fans keep distant, but showed their respect. My first impression is that they are good at what they're doing, but still not my cup of tea. The guys and guitarist Steffie seemed to enjoy being on stage and playing live, even if the audience wasn't really into them. Decent show, but not the right audience for their music. |
Tonight was the last show of the European Tourbox 13 and it led us to Bad Wünnenberg. Never heard of? Me, too! Well, Bad Wünnenberg is somewhere near Paderborn, but not that far from Dortmund... Just a one hour drive. None of us knew what to expect. |
The last - and the first - time I was in Zaandam at the de Kade was last August with Circle II Circle and Annihilator. Now I came back with Overkill. Due to the cold, rainy weather fans arrived late and so the Belgium opening act After All had to start their set when just a handful of fans where in front of the stage. A few Skullkrushers - non-official German fan club of Overkill - had come over to Zaandam and been there in time for After All. The band of guitarists Dries van Damme and Christophe Depree started - as far as I remember - with Beneath The Flesh. Probably I mixed up the line of songs, but I lost my notes... The band was again out on the road to promote their latest release Mercury Rising, even if they are already working on new material. After touring with Anthrax in March they are now on the road with another Thrash metal flag-ship - with Overkill. So they mainly keep the set list they had last March. Singer Piet Focroul and his pales presented a tight show and finally could heat up the few fans. A highlight of their show was the La Muerta cover Black God White Devil. Unfortunately the band had to enter earlier as planned, but they did their best to entertain the fans. Good show, guys. |
Another sunny day and the venue has a beer garden! We as well as the band, crew and fans used the chance to sit in the sun before the Hirsch opened the doors. Not the best circumstances for the Dutch, especially because their guitarist Niels Kuenen had to get back home and the quintet had to convince the fans as a quartet. Tonight the guys had a little bigger stage and so singer Remko Roes and his mates were running around and gave their best to heat up the fans. The sound wasn't that good and partly the second guitar was missing, even if the four did a good job to fill the sound gap Niels left. They acted really professional and kept going on when guitarist Harald te Grotenhuis had technical problems. Partly it wasn't easy for them and only drummer Wily van Haren seems to ignore the technical problems and enjoyed the show at all... Anyway, I think it was good for them to play this tour and introduce themselves to the German fans. |
For the first time in the career of Overkill the New York thrashers were invited to play at the Bang-Your-Head festival in Balingen and so they added a few shows in Germany, Holland and Belgium. The Kulturfabrik in Krefeld wasn't packed, some probably were already in Balingen to be there for the BYH club event which kicks off the festival, other are probably on vacation and due to the sunny and warm evening some might prefer to sit in a beer garden and have a cold drink. A pity, coz this billing was extraordinary. |
On a sunny Tuesday we were on our way to Osnabrück. Not much traffic, perhaps because Germany played in the semi-final against South Korea.... Anyway, when we arrived some of the guys and the local crew were watching the last minutes of the game. Germany won, but beside the local crew it seems that nobody was really interested in.... The Dutch hadn't arrived at that time and everybody else continued their work. A little chit-chat... Then it was time for soundcheck.... And we talked for quite awhile with some guys from the German Skullcrushers, an Overkill fan club, who came from Dortmund to see tonight's show. |
Again I was going to one of my favorite clubs - to the Biebob in Vosselaar. When I arrived it was just in time to say 'bye' to Jeff Singer - drummer of Blaze - coz he had to get back home. His brother was in hospital and it was pretty serious, so I wished him all the best. Blaze didn't want to cancel the tour, but it was too late for tonight's show to have a substitute. For Overkill mainman Bobby Ellsworth it wasn't a good day either, coz he got bad news from home. Show must go on! |
Earlier this year Overkill toured together with Annihilator in Europe, now they are back to promote their latest release Bloodletting. Actually the band is supporting Judas Priest's legendary singer Rob Halford, but when Rob has a day off the New Yorkers played a headlining show like today. |
Arriving at the Hafenbahn after a desasterous travel to Offenbach, I soon met the guys. Everyone was very happy to be back at Hafenbahn, not because they love the venue, they love the crowd! |
I arrived in the late afternoon and met Bobby for the interview. We sat down for coffee and talked about all and everything.... The interview you'll find in the interview section. |
The evening didn't start quite good, the bands arrived late and the 2 support acts had cancelled and been replaced tonight by Wicked Mystic... |
On a rainy Saturday night I went to Helmond to see Overkill and Annihilator at the Plato. First surprise was that a local band opened... Wicked Mystic. Even if several different tour schedules been released a lot of fans found their way to the Plato. Due to the controls at the entrance a lot of fans were still waiting to get in when Wicked Mystic entered the stage. I never heard about that band before........ But the Dutch band presented a quite good mixture of power and progressive metal. The quintet offered a good show which started with Bleeding My Soul. Their singer was always in motion and his way of singing sometimes remind me a little bit of James LaBrie. I liked Shadow Dancer most, but also Stand Alone. As far as I understood the band will release a CD soon.... I'll try to interview the band later! |
Many metal fans made their way to the Batschkapp at this Sunday evening. The local security told everybody that stage diving isn't allowed, but most had forget about when the headliners played... |