In a current interview with Moshpit Passion, Overkill‘s frontman Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth offered a glimpse into the timeline for the New Jersey thrashers subsequent studio album. Followers eagerly awaiting the follow-up to Scorched (2023) can count on a brand new report on the horizon, although it could take some time.
In response to Ellsworth, the band is planning to start writing within the first half of 2025, with recording scheduled by the yr’s finish and a doable launch in 2026. “Properly, we simply type of slot it right into a timeframe. We’re taking a look at, I suppose, nearly all of the primary half of 2025 as being that timeframe for the writing. And doubtless recording by the top of 2025 after which releasing in 2026. Now I do not know who we’re gonna launch with — I imply, I assume it is Nuclear Blast; they’ve yet another choice. There isn’t any course that we’re taking a look at,” he added.
The dialog additionally touched on the band’s strategy to adjustments, each musically and inside its lineup. Ellsworth emphasised that these shifts are sometimes extra obvious to these throughout the band, and elaborated that Overkill‘s inside dynamics have been key of their decision-making, particularly in terms of personnel adjustments: “I do not suppose directional adjustments are essentially acknowledged by the skin. It is extra acknowledged on the within as a result of I am concerned in all the inside workings of the band. We’re just like the mechanics that hold the machine operating, so we all know when one thing must be modified.”
Reflecting on the departure of former drummer Jason Bittner, Ellsworth commented, “Pay attention, he is a fantastic drummer — do not get me improper; he is an excellent pal — but it surely was, like, you simply felt that change was coming as a result of… Pressure could be a good factor in a heavy metallic band, however an excessive amount of rigidity can convey you to your individual demise; it may destroy all the pieces. So I feel that reinvention, particularly at this age, isn’t essentially the proper manner to think about issues..”
At 65, Ellsworth is not fascinated about reinventing the band however relatively specializing in sharpening his present strengths: “I feel the best way to think about it, at 65, is what are my strengths? And may I make my strengths stronger? Now once I discuss to you about dropping the cigarettes and the vaping, I acquired stronger. Which is fucking bizarre for like a man who’s been doing this for… Guys do not reside so long as this [laughs], not to mention in rock and roll.
“So I feel the truth that I can put cigarettes down and go, ‘I can sing on a regular basis now,’ it is solely gonna make the information higher. And I feel that that was one, for positive, one of many emotions that we acquired by means of ‘Scorched‘ was, like, ‘Hearken to this fucking…’ We sound like a fucking younger, fucking hungry, fucking we-fucking-mean-it band. And that is what the fucking metallic is all about. So I am not gonna overthink it. I am not gonna reinvent, however I am gonna play to the strengths.”
When it comes to lineup adjustments, Overkill launched Jeramie Kling (ex-Venom Inc.) as their new drummer on the Posada Rock competition in Romania on August 30, following Bittner’s departure earlier in the month.
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