Album Review: Overkill - The Grinding Wheel

You could say that veteran thrashers Overkill have been on quite the tear since 2010's blistering Ironbound, but really this is a band that has delivered consistently solid albums since dropping their studio debut way back in 1985.

Even in the late '90s when their peers were delivering missteps, the Jersey outfit never wavered. Accordingly, album number 18(!) opens with a mammoth seven-minute thrasher before settling down to deliver track after track of classic pit-starting thrash with a definite classical-metal edge, ending with the sombre mid-tempo strains of the fist-raising title track. No, this won't change the world — but it does chalk up another win for Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth and his crew.