Overkill confirmed for UK's Bloodstock Open Air festival
Posted by: Mindsaver on 19/01/'08 18:09
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Category: Festivals&Concerts
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Legendary New Jersey thrashers Overkill have been confirmed for this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 15-17, 2008 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:

At The GAtES
Cloudscape
Communic
Dimmu Borgir
Eluveitie
Evile
Helloween
KAtAKLYSM
Moonsorrow
Opeth
Overkill
Primal Fear
Soilwork
Swallow The Sun
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Overkill will release its second DVD, "Live at Wacken Open Air 2007", on February 5.

The 50-minute disc was shot during the band?s headline set at the festival in front of an audience of 40,000, and will feature songs that span Overkill's 28-year career, including "Walk Through Fire" (which can be viewed below) from the group's new disc "Immortalis", "Rotten to the Core", "Elimination", "Fuck You", "In Union We Stand", "Necroshine", "Skull and Bones", "Old School" and "Wrecking Crew".

The show was previously released as the limited-edition bonus Dvd in the Germany digipack edition of "Immortalis".

"Live at Wacken Open Air 2007" track listing:

01. Rotten to the Core
02. Elimination
03. Necroshine
04. Thanx for Nothin'
05. Skull and Bones
06. In Union We Stand
07. Walk through Fire
08. Wrecking Crew
09. Old School
10. Fuck You

"Immortalis" sold 2,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Issued on October 9 via Bodog Music, the Cd marks Overkill's reunion with Jonny and Marsha Zazula, previous owners of Megaforce Records, the label responsible for putting metal on the map and bringing Overkill's New Jersey thrash metal to the world. The Zazulas are now a part of the Bodog Music team in the United States.

"Immortalis" is the follow-up to 2005's "RelixIV", which has sold around 16,000 copies in the U.s. to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Overkill's top-selling album of the SoundScan era (1991-) is "Horrorscope", which has shifted around 118,000 units in the U.s. since its 1991 release (there is no SoundScan data available for LPs sold prior to 1991).
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