{"id":3142,"date":"1984-01-01T00:00:08","date_gmt":"1984-01-01T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:26:35","slug":"demo-review-overkill-power-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-overkill-power-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"OVERKILL – Power In Black (1983) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OVERKILL<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nPower In Black (1983)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This four-piece band from New Jersey have been in existence since 1978 and play the hard, fast and aggressive power metal that is currently so popular with the global hardcore clan; although Overkill themselves like to use the term \u201cblood metal\u201d to describe their particular form of mayhem.<\/p>\n

Founding members D.D. Verni (bass) and Rat Skates (drums) were part of New York\u2019s punk scene in the 70s, having previously been together in a band called Lubricunts; roots that obviously contribute to Overkill\u2019s raw, thrash \u2019n\u2019 bash approach. The band\u2019s line-up is completed by ex-DOA vocalist Bobby \u2018Blitz\u2019 Ellsworth and guitarist Bobby Gustafson, who was formerly with the apparently aptly named Dropouts.<\/p>\n

Overkill\u2019s demo, Power In Black<\/em>, contains five tracks of equally constructed mayhem: \u2018Overkill\u2019, \u2018The Beast Within\u2019, \u2018There\u2019s No Tomorrow\u2019, \u2018Death Riders\u2019 and their stage opener \u2018Raise The Dead\u2019. Although at present there\u2019s nothing particularly significant in their music to make them stand out from countless other similar sounding combos, Overkill\u2019s high energized metal will no doubt appeal to the hordes of you fellow go-for-death metal merchants out there.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 3 (1984)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OVERKILL Power In Black (1983) This four-piece band from New Jersey have been in existence since 1978 and play the hard, fast and aggressive power metal that is currently so popular with the global hardcore clan; although Overkill themselves like to use the term \u201cblood metal\u201d to describe their particular form of mayhem. Founding members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}