Album Review: Overkill - The Wings Of War

The thrash gods are hilarious. Who would have thought that one of the most consistent and long-lived acts of the genre would turn out to be fuckin' Overkill – a band who at best were considered second-tier back in the halcyon days of the late 1980s.

The Wings Of War is the band’s 19th album and is chock-full of anthemic thrash anthems with huge choruses (Believe In The Fight), rapid-fire rhythms and catchy, straightforward melodies (Welcome To The Garden State) that remind us just how much this band owe to a certain hardcore scene just across the Hudson River.

With the venerable Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth in the finest vocal form of his life, this is yet another success from a band who deserve far more exposure than they currently receive.