OVERKILL May 10, 2019 NYC - Concert Review with HD Video and Photos

On Friday May 10, 2019, Overkill played the hometown area stop on the tour for their new album, The Wings of War, at the PlayStation Theater in New York City.

The main room was hot and sweaty as Overkill took the stage at about 9:20 opening with "Last Man Standing", one of three songs off their new release they would play this night.

"Electric Rattlesnake" off their fantastic and immediate classic 2012 album, "The Electric Age" followed whipping the crowd into a frenzy.

The crowd remained hyped up; singing, slamming, crowd surfing and moshing - along all night.

What are probably their two biggest commercial hits were next with "Hello From the Gutter" and "Elimination."

With this being their 19th full length album release, you're never going to hear everything you want anymore at an Overkill show, but the band mixed it up well, touching on 10 of their full length releases.  Next up was the only one they would do off their second (and my favorite) album of theirs, "Taking Over," with a killer version of "Deny The Cross".  This was followed up by another brand new one, "Head of A Pin".  Below are the two videos I shot of these two songs.

The title track to 1999's "Necroshine" came next and was followed with a double shot off of "W.F.O." with "Under One" and "Bastard Nation."

"Mean, Green, Killing Machine", a modern call to arms for the band was then followed by two absolute classics from the 1st full length album "Feel The Fire" to close out the set - the title track and "Rotten To The Core."

After a quick break, the band encored with a massive "Ironbound" followed by their classic cover of "Fuck You" which bookended the last new song of the night "Welcome to the Garden State."

Like all their hometown area shows, this was a fantastic night of thrash and metal that had the crowd exiting back into Times Square feeling tired, happy and looking forward to the next time the boys returned.

It also had many tourists horrified at the invading horde of thousands of metal heads with one yelling out "We Don't Care What You Say!" and "Fuck You!" being roared back into the night.  It will probably be a memory that will last longer than their picture they just took with a dude in a smelly old Elmo or Spider-man costume down the street.

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Heavy Montreal 2014 - Day 1: Metallica, The Offspring, Anthrax, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Overkill, Baby Metal, Eagle Tears

Here's a trip through Day 1 of the Heavy MTL Montreal Festival on Saturday August 9, 2014.

We walked a few blocks from our hotel to the Metro and we were about three stops from Parc Jean-Drapeau on the island where the festival was being held.  We were there in about 10 minutes.  Got there about noon and had to wait in line about 20 minutes.  They had a good system in place and it moved pretty quick.

On the map below we came in right by the top of the pool and walked around the park counterclockwise checking out the two stages in the back and working our way around to the two huge side by side main stages.

Caught a song by Eagle Tears on the Scene stage on this initial trek.

When we got to the main stage, Baby Metal was on.  As you can see there was already a helluva crowd there, but it was nothing compared to what it would grow to by the time Metallica would headline that night.  

Next up was one of my favorites...the mighty Overkill.  They did a killer, but short 8 song set. 

Setlist:

Deny the Cross

Rotten to The Core

Electric Rattlesnake

Ironbound

Armorist

In Union We Stand

Elimination 

Fuck You

This was the live premiere of "Armorist" but the highlight for me was "In Union We Stand."  I've seen Overkill many times,but I haven't seen them bust out "In Union We Stand" in easily a decade.

Lots of tattoos on display.  This dude had an intersting mix of Metallica, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails.

I hadn't seen Pennywise in a long time since some Warped Tour probably in the 90's.  Great Set.  I dug the mix of metal and punk at this festival.

Dropkick Murphys are always fun and they played a killer cover of AC/DC's "T.N.T." on this day that killed.

Setlist:

The Boys Are Back

Citizen C.I.A.

Black Velvet Band

Don't Tear Us Apart

Which Side Are You on?

Prisoner's Song

Going Out In Style

Jimmy Collins' Wake

Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya

Rose Tattoo

T.N.T.

I'm Shipping Up to Boston

Anthrax did a classics filled set.

Setlist:

Among The Living

Caught In A Mosh

Got The Time

Indians

In The End

Madhouse

Fight Em Til You Can't

I Am The Law

Antisocial

Their tribute to Dio and Dimebag drew many cheers from the crowd.

God bless scary Smirnoff girl...at this point it was ridiculous trying to go get drinks or food.  We claimed a tiny patch of grass on the hill to watch the rest of the bands.  If you got up, it would be filled in seconds.

The Offspring were up next and performed all of their album "Smash."

After the "Smash" performance they encored with :

All I Want

You're Gonna Go Far Kid

Why Don't You Get A Job?

The Kids Aren't Alright

The Offspring totally could have headlined this festival.  The, at this point, gigantic crowd LOVED them and it seemed just about everyone knew the words to just about every song.  I kinda dig The Offspring but never knew they were this popular.

This guy got everyone's attention.  He climbed up there.  Sat and had a cigarette, then climbed down into the waiting hands of security.

It's hard to describe the size of this crowd by the time Metallica came on.  My guess would be 100,000 (it would be probably half that the next day.)  This was Metallica's only North American show last year and lots of people traveled to it like we did.

Now I've been to shows with more people, for example the two Woodstock Festivals in '94 and '99, but here EVERY INCH OF SPACE was filled so it just seemed more immense.  You could turn around 360 degrees and not see an empty space anywhere.

Metallica is another band I've seen a bunch of times and this was one of their "By Request" shows.  

We got a pretty good setlist - only a couple here I really didn't want to hear at all:

Blackened

Master of Puppets

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Ride The Lightning

The Unforgiven

Lords of Summer

...And Justice For All

Sad But True

Fade To Black

Orion

One

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Battery

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

Encore:

Creeping Death

The Four Horsemen

Seek & Destroy

So overall...a long hot helluva day.  Only complaint...way way too crowded by around 6pm.  The cool thing, I didn't see one fight or any drunk assholes.  Just a cool bunch of metal heads.

A lot of people just came to this first day for Metallica.  The next day had about half the crowd (which was still impressive) and honestly the hang that day was way more enjoyable because of it.  Not sure which day I would say had a better lineup.  Both had some favorites as well as some cool new bands I discovered.  Saw bits of quite a few other sets this day, but I evidently didn't snap any shots (day 2 also made it easier to get some great up close photos)

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Overkill / Kreator - Stage 48, NYC November 23, 2013

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