{"id":55072,"date":"2017-05-04T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=55072"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:10:02","slug":"news-overkill-recruit-shadows-fall-drummer-jason-bittner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-overkill-recruit-shadows-fall-drummer-jason-bittner\/","title":{"rendered":"OVERKILL Recruit SHADOWS FALL Drummer Jason Bittner (May 4th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OVERKILL Recruit SHADOWS FALL Drummer Jason Bittner<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay 4th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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New Jersey-based thrash metal group Overkill have recruited drummer Jason Bittner, also of Shadows Fall. Replacing Ron Lipnicki, Bittner\u2019s addition to the ranks was revealed on May 4th, 2017. Longtime drum technician Eddy Garcia had been holding down the fort.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Bobby \u2018Blitz\u2019 Ellsworth issued the following statement: \u201cOverkill would like to announce its newest member, behind the kit and steering the ship, Jason \u2018Sticks\u2019 Bittner. We wholeheartedly would like to thank Eddy \u2018The Mexicutioner\u2019 Garcia for holding down the ship and keeping the momentum up for the band over this past year plus. Eddy has, and always will be, part of the Overkill machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cJason is a long time friend of the band and his abilities have always spoke for themselves. Let the touring continue… onward-upward!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Bittner shared the following words, meanwhile: \u201cWhen my phone rang about two months ago and Blitz said \u2018Hey, me and D.D. (Verni, Overkill bassist) are wondering if you would be interested in joining?\u2019 It really didn\u2019t take much for me to write back a one-word answer…. ABSOLUTELY! I am extremely excited to be a part, once again, of thrash metal history, and I cannot wait to get out on the road and wreck stages across the world with the \u2018Mean Green Killing Machine!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Overkill\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n

Bobby \u201cBlitz\u201d Ellsworth (vocals)
\nDave Linsk (lead guitar)
\nDerek Tailer (rhythm guitar)
\nD.D. Verni (bass)
\nJason Bittner (drums, Shadows Fall \/ ex-Flotsam And Jetsam) <\/p>\n

A member of Overkill from 2005 until 2016, Ron Lipnicki stepped behind the drumkit for Overkill studio albums 14 through to 18, namely; Immortalis<\/em> (2007), Ironbound<\/em> (2010), The Electric Age<\/em><\/a> (2012), White Devil Armory<\/em><\/a> (2014), and The Grinding Wheel<\/em><\/a> (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OVERKILL Recruit SHADOWS FALL Drummer Jason Bittner May 4th, 2017 New Jersey-based thrash metal group Overkill have recruited drummer Jason Bittner, also of Shadows Fall. Replacing Ron Lipnicki, Bittner\u2019s addition to the ranks was revealed on May 4th, 2017. Longtime drum technician Eddy Garcia had been holding down the fort. Vocalist Bobby \u2018Blitz\u2019 Ellsworth issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overkill-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072","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=55072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69286,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072\/revisions\/69286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}