In a latest interview with Moshpit Ardour, 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 document on the horizon, although it could take some time.
Based on 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 form of slot it right into a timeframe. We’re , I suppose, nearly all of the primary half of 2025 as being that timeframe for the writing. And possibly 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 another possibility. There isn’t any route that we’re ,” 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 inside the band, and elaborated that Overkill‘s inside dynamics have been key of their decision-making, particularly on the subject of personnel adjustments: “I do not suppose directional adjustments are essentially acknowledged by the surface. 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 working, 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 an excellent drummer — do not get me unsuitable; he is an excellent pal — however it was, like, you simply felt that change was coming as a result of… Pressure is usually a good factor in a heavy metallic band, however an excessive amount of rigidity can carry you to your individual demise; it may well destroy the whole lot. So I feel that reinvention, particularly at this age, shouldn’t be essentially the fitting method to think about issues..”
At 65, Ellsworth is not serious about reinventing the band however fairly specializing in sharpening his current 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 speak to you about dropping the cigarettes and the vaping, I bought stronger. Which is fucking bizarre for like a man who’s been doing this for… Guys do not dwell 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 data higher. And I feel that that was one, for certain, one of many emotions that we bought by means of ‘Scorched‘ was, like, ‘Take heed 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.”
By way of lineup adjustments, Overkill launched Jeramie Kling (ex-Venom Inc.) as their new drummer on the Posada Rock pageant in Romania on August 30, following Bittner’s departure earlier within the month.
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