Overkill performance
"Sanctuary" ( Iron Maiden cover (Japanese bonus track)) The Grinding Wheel debuted at number 69 on the Billboard 200, making it the second highest position of Overkill's career (after its predecessor, White Devil Armory, which charted at number 31). Nonetheless, Overkill's middle finger remains in your face." Commercial performance Yet no political songs can be found on the album surprising, since Blitz has some strong political views and 2016 was the most divisive year for politics in American history.
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This band is driven by Blitz’s frenetic vocal delivery and energy. contributor Alex Yarborough, who reviewed The Grinding Wheel a week before its release, gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half out of five, and wrote, "Fans will also be happy with the thrash energy on this album, while also enjoying the diversity of the songs: more references to NWOBHM, punk, and classic rock. While the band hasn't lost its knack for dropping unrelenting artillery blasts of breakneck, old-school thrash - "Goddamn Trouble," "Red, White, and Blue"-there's a nervy, classic rock/ NWOBHM undercurrent that runs through Grinding Wheel that owes more to Judas Priest and Accept than it does Testament and Metallica." Monger also praised the album's opening track "Mean, Green, Killing Machine" as "thrilling an opening number as the band has penned in a decade" and "Come Heavy" a "decidedly upbeat, Sabbathy doom anthem".
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If Destruction won the thrash sweepstakes in 2016, consider Overkill early on front runners for 2017." ĪllMusic writer James Christopher Monger gave the album a rating of four stars out of five, and said that it "snaps necks with impunity, but it does so with a structural inventiveness that's eluded some of Overkill's most recent offerings. For the diehard wrecking crew, The Grinding Wheel is going to be a gift to cling to throughout 2017." He finished his review, saying that the album "well surpasses the recent offerings by the Big Four, noble as most of the latter's recent offerings have been. Consider that some fans dropped off after 1991's Horrorscope, which is those poor saps' folly. For its eighteenth album, The Grinding Wheel, Overkill does the unthinkable: it outdoes itself. gave the album a rating of nine-and-a-half out of ten, and said, "If you think Overkill expended its tanks producing output with such astonishing velocity, you don't know this band very well. The Grinding Wheel has received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores On November 16, 2016, it was announced that The Grinding Wheel would be released on February 10, 2017, and its artwork and track listing were revealed on the same day. It was originally planned to be released in October 2016 before being pushed back a month later however, the album's release date was pushed back to February 2017 to coincide with the band's US tour with Nile. The album's title was revealed in an interview with Alternative Nation in August 2016, along with a projected release date of November.
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I feel we accomplished that on the last few albums." A lot of bands are known for what they have done, but I feel being known for where you are and what you are doing is where true value lies. I think that is what keeps the band rolling. It's always best to try to make it better or at least think in your mind that it is going to be better. So sure it is a metal record and like always it will have sort of a thrash vibe to it with some melody in it. For the three decades we have been around we were always Overkill. Our trademark is that we are always recognizable on every release. "At the end of the day Overkill is Overkill. Vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth said about the album's style: