Overkill
The Grinding Wheel

Overkill continues to grind your eardrums as they did 30 years since. You cannot miss with this album. They're Mean, green, killing machine. One Finest Hour of thrashing metal Grinding Wheel!

“There is still gunpowder in the flasks,” many will say. And I will say that this gunpowder was scattered over the casings flying out of a large-caliber machine gun leading continuous fire. It is with him that I associate the new album of the best thrash metal band of all time in my subjective opinion. The shortest comment on this album is Overkill. In perfect balance, the listener is bombarded with fury and directness, melody and tempo changes, dull pressure and thoughtful arrangements, all under the excellent sound and high-quality work of the musicians. Bobby Ellsworth - my compliments, everything in tune with the music, and more. The last song (not counting the cover) will also bring down pure epicness on you, so much so that on the last notes you involuntarily think - are they exactly more than 50 years old? To summarize, this album contains everything that people love about trash, and everything that should be in trash. The old men really did ignite, and without any obvious associations with anything else. Someone may find the album secondary or uninteresting - but personally, I blissed out from the first to the last song, frankly there are no passages among them. For me personally, this is a dozen, but to be more objective, it is 8 points. After all, only one killing hit, "Goddamn Trouble", is straightforward, and the world of trash has not yet degraded enough to say that no one will reach the high bar of "The Grinding Wheel" in 2017. And this is, perhaps, excellent.