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Overkill is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been active since 1984, releasing 16 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "covers" album. Despite their first album being released in 1985, most of the songs appearing on their first two albums were written between 1981 and 1984, and as such, they are often hailed as one of the inventors of thrash metal. The band also has a notable mascot (named Chaly), a skeletal bat with a skull-like face, bony wings, and green eyes. It has appeared on most of their...

Urge Overkill are an alternative rock band from Chicago that attracted underground attention in the late 80s and early 90s. While their ironic reshaping of 70's arena and glam rock left them marginalized during the height of grunge, they managed to appear on the charts with their cover of the Neil Diamond classic "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, which hit #50 on the US Charts, and #11 on the Modern Rock charts. Their single "Sister Havana" also received some airplay. They disbanded in 1997 due to various addictions and in 2004 reunited, although they...

hardcore punk band from Baku, Az. https://www.reverbnation.com/overkillforprofit http://www.facebook.com/OverkillForProfit The band was formed in october 2008. Overkill For Profit is first and unfortunately only hardcore band in Azerbaijan. Their music can be characterized as melodic oldschool hardcore. Band's lyrics touch upon such themes as religious fanaticism, social problems,sell-out politics and also feelings and life of ordinary people. .

Joe Carducci, the former co-owner of SST Records, wrote in his book Rock and the Pop Narcotic that "Any band whose singer lights his balls on fire in performance is perhaps not destined to survive long, but Overkill did leave behind one heavy headstone of an album and they kicked any and all ass privileged to witness their spontaneous combustion - an early organic convergence of punk edge and heavy metal ambition." While Carducci's view maybe be slightly biased - Overkill recorded for SST and Carducci, himself, mixed their LP - they were one of the first bands to mix...