★★★★★
Sound: The sound on this album is absolutely crushing. This, in my opinion, is one of the few good mixed albums that has come out recently. The tone on the guitar is a really hot one, which adds to the energy. The drums are typical thrash blast beats in places, but he never fails to miss a beat and add technical fills and such. Of course D.D's bass and writing helps with the album's heaviness too! It's not too hard to realize I'm excited, but I am for good reason...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Well first of all Overkill are a thrash metal band from New Jersey. They've gone through a lot of line up changes over the years but the members that make the band have always stayed. They would be Bobby Blitz (lead vocals) and D.D. Verni (bass). Now Blitz has a really strange voice. But I'll get into that later. The music as I said earlier is thrash metal but Overkill seem to add a bit of their own twist on it which is really awesome...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Here we have it again, another Overkill album, another amazing production sound (how does any band sound this full on an album?), more catchy tunes, wild and manic thrash, and those endearing overly long songs ("Electric Rattlesnake" has time to go from full-throttle thrash to slow-burn middle breakdown to mid-tempo stomper and back in its 6:20 playing time, and it's placed "strategically" as the second song)...
- exclaim.ca
2012-04-02
★★★★★
When did these guys get so great? Overkill's crucial role in the development of East Coast thrash metal cannot be denied, but unlike the accessibility of Anthrax and the political awareness of Nuclear Assault, as time went on Overkill did little to establish themselves as anything more than one of the genre's progenitors...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
"From top to bottom, 'Ironbound' is the most consistent album the band has released since 'Horrorscope.'" One band that seems to be overlooked by many thrash metal fans is New Jersey's Overkill. Ever since their 1985 debut "Feel The Fire," they have been non-stop in releasing stellar material, save for a few missteps in the late 90s. Their output from 1985-1991 ("Feel The Fire" to "Horrorscope") is arguably the best collection of material from any thrash metal band ever...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
"10 tracks and 50 minutes of footage ranging over classic thrash albums like 'Feel The Fire' to the new (unreleased at the time) 'Immortalis'" Few bands are ever granted the prestige of taking the stage at Wacken - let alone more than once - but it's no surprise to see a revered thrash originator like Overkill as a headlining act...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
As the saying goes, age is just number. So who cares if Overkill are collectively pushing past their late 40's? The thrash they peddle on this sixteenth(!) album of theirs is priceless, beginning with the brooding bass lines that open the curtains for The Green And Black. Once it's underway the band quickly get into gear and are soon thrashing mad at 250mph, with ever reliable frontman Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth belting out the lyrics with his trademark snarlsome charm...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Dust off yer acid wash jeans, break out yer leather jacket with all the tassels and get drunk as feek 'cause Overkill got a new platter that's ready to giv'r. I vaguely remember seeing videos from 1991's Horrorscope and thinking, "How does that dude with the curly hairdo yowl like a vampire so convincingly?" And now, 14 years later, New Jersey's most shameless sons unleash an old-fashioned thrash assault on the unsuspecting masses...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Sound: The two remaining founding members of Overkill, vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni, have stuck with Overkill for nearly thirty years, and it has certainly paid off. Ironbound is one of the finest albums Overkill has ever released, delivering an all-out thrash bombardment that one must assume completely destroyed the unfortunate studio that the band used to record it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-08-07