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OVERKILL Release Date Pre-Order Start The Grinding Wheel uu 10/02/2017 uu 25/11/2016

uu LIMITED CD DIGIPAK available incl. bonus 1 bonus track uu 2-LP BLACK VINYL in gatefold available incl. 1 bonus track uu advertising in many important music magazines JAN/FEB 2017 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Eu- Price Code: CD02 rope’s JAN/FEB 2017 issues NB 3702-0 CD-Digi uu song placements in European magazine compilations (incl. bonus track) uu Spotify playlists in all European territories uu retail marketing campaigns uu instore decoration: flyers, poster A1 uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion Price Code: CD04 uu Recently, the band released »Our Finest Hour«. Enjoy an impression of NB 3702-2 CD the mighty thrash inferno with this lyric video and prepare to bang your heads even wilder in 2017 uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads (tbc) uu Banner advertising on more than 60 of the most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on YouTube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a background on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted audiences in support of the release Price Code: LP17 NB 3702-1 2LP SOME BANDS JUST DELIVER THE (black in gatefold) GOODS OVER AND OVER AGAIN uu Tracklists: Witness Overkill’s 18th album of blistering yet precise and the opinionated thought later on. And so when it runs through the thought-provoking thrash magic, The Grinding Wheel, a record machine, being D.D. and myself, then Dave, Derek comes in and CD / DIGI: on which thrash’s ultimate team of five machined parts shows up can change that song. It’s always kind of good to have, let’s say, 01. Mean, Green, Killing Machine and executes to perfection... with a little punk thrown in for bad a chief and some Indians. And it depends who’s wearing the chief 02. Goddamn Trouble 03. Our Finest Hour measure. hat at any particular time. But I think at the end of the day, when 04. Shine On “One of the principles—if not characteristics—of the band is that you’re looking for a clean perspective, it goes through Derek— 05. The Long Road it’s been grinding through for long, long periods of time,” seconds that’s usually what his contribution is, more of a finalization.” 06. Let’s All Go To Hades 07. Come Heavy Blitz. “Decades to this point. And not necessarily with huge gains And Ron? “He’s one-of-a-kind,” says Verni. “He’s a great drum- 08. Red, White And Blue with regards to popularity, but for sure, with huge gains in as much mer. I’ve worked with him for a bunch of records now. This is our 09. The Wheel as we can earn a living while doing the kind of music that we fifth record together and so I really understand how he plays at this 10. The Grinding Wheel want. And so the idea of grinding it out over the decades became point. Working with him in the studio is just a pleasure, because Bonus (Digipak): 11. Emerald a device for writing the album, whether it would be riffs or lyrics.” he’s so right on it.” More evident in the band’s panoramic classic metal passages, After heaping all manner of praise on legendary producer Andy 2LP but even articulated here on “Our Finest Hour,” is another sto- Sneap (brought on only for mix given Verni’s proven acumen at Side A ried Overkill trademark, the definition one gets in the band’s bass the task), D.D. further clarifies the reason Overkill can be at the top 01. Mean, Green, Killing Machine 02. Goddamn Trouble parts. Combine this with the Mensa-like percussive wizardry of of their game 18 records into their distinguished run. Side B Ron Lipnicki (laid bare for all to hear at headphone levels through “I have a studio and I did most of it at my place; I’ve been doing 01. Our Finest Hour the smack of his gravity-defying double bass work), and The it that way for a while now. And now the group of guys we have 02. Shine On 03. The Long Road Grinding Wheel emerges as a record with a remarkable rhythm in the band has been pretty consistent for a while. So we have a Side C section foundation from which to rise. nice mix; everybody kind of knows their role, and is good at their 01. Let’s All Go To Hades Which brings us back to the aforementioned machine-like efficien- role. Everybody brings a little something to the party. And I think 02. Come Heavy cy of the five guys that comprise Overkill, this idea that there are that’s why these last couple of records... people ask, ‘How is it that 03. Red, White And Blue Side D no weak links within this particular classic five-piece with two gui- your records get better after 25 years?’ And I think part of it is 01. The Wheel tars lineup of metal warriors. that everybody has a role in the band, everybody is comfortable 02. The Grinding Wheel “That’s the strength of the band,” explains Blitz. “Dave is really the with their role, and they’re really good at the part they have. So Bonus: one that holds the guitar reigns in this band. He’s a writer at his the records actually get better. It’s like having a team, instead of 03. Emeral core. You know, he’s one of these guys who brushes his teeth and having a whole bunch of chiefs and no Indians.” hears a rhythm the way the bristles are hitting the enamel (laughs). But a proven people’s band like Overkill—a more personable Territory: World He’s that dude. ‘Oh wait a second, I have another idea.’ He has bunch you’ll never meet—fully recognizes that part of the band’s an idea a minute, and if that’s the case, some of them are going to success in being able to survive and thrive with the grind is due Style: be great. So he holds the reins. When it comes to Derek, he’s more to the allegiance of the band’s considerable worldwide fan base. 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