OVERKILL: New Video Interview With BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH Posted Online
May 28, 2010Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com conducted an interview with conducted an interview with vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of veteran New Jersey thrash metallers OVERKILL prior to the band's April 26, 2010 concert at Emo's in Austin, Texas. Watch the chat below.
OVERKILL has announced the second leg of its Killfest 2010 tour. The trek will consist of stops in markets where the band has not been in a long time, including several dates in the North Carolina and Florida. Support on the tour will come from FORBIDDEN, EVILE, GAMA BOMB and BONDED BY BLOOD.
As with the first leg of the tour, there will be a special VIP ticket that will allow fans one hour early access to the venue for a special pre-show meet-and-greet.
Tickets are on sale now exclusively through EnterTheVault.com until May 28 at which point they will be made available through all regular ticketing systems.
OVERKILL's new album, "Ironbound", sold 4,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 192 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at No. 4 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
OVERKILL's previous album, "Immortalis", opened with 2,800 units back in October 2007 .
OVERKILL's top-selling album of the SoundScan era (1991-) is "Horrorscope", which has shifted more than 120,000 copies in the U.S. since its 1991 release (there is no SoundScan data available for LPs sold prior to 1991).
"Ironbound" was released on February 9 via E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records). The CD, which was issued in Europe on January 29 via Nuclear Blast Records, was mixed by PAIN/HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren and is described in a press release as "a true thrasher-piece."
OVERKILL filmed a video for the song "Bring Me The Night" on January 9 in Brooklyn, New York with director Kevin Custer (HATEBREED, TESTAMENT, SUFFOCATION).
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