In a current interview with Moshpit Ardour, Overkill‘s frontman Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth supplied a glimpse into the timeline for the New Jersey thrashers subsequent studio album. Followers eagerly awaiting the follow-up to Scorched (2023) can anticipate 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 12 months’s finish and a potential launch in 2026. “Nicely, we simply form of slot it right into a timeframe. We’re taking a look at, I suppose, the vast majority of the primary half of 2025 as being that timeframe for the writing. And possibly recording by the tip 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 possibility. There is not 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 inside the band, and elaborated that Overkill‘s inner dynamics have been key of their decision-making, particularly in the case of personnel adjustments: “I do not assume 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 working, so we all know when one thing must be modified.”
Reflecting on the departure of former drummer Jason Bittner, Ellsworth commented, “Hear, he is an excellent drummer — do not get me incorrect; he is buddy — nevertheless it was, like, you simply felt that change was coming as a result of… Pressure generally is a good factor in a heavy metallic band, however an excessive amount of pressure can convey you to your personal demise; it could possibly destroy all the pieces. So I believe that reinvention, particularly at this age, will not be essentially the proper means to think about issues..”
At 65, Ellsworth is not occupied with reinventing the band however relatively specializing in sharpening his present strengths: “I believe the way in which to think about it, at 65, is what are my strengths? And might I make my strengths stronger? Now after 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 stay so long as this [laughs], not to mention in rock and roll.
“So I believe 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 believe that that was one, for positive, one of many emotions that we bought by ‘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 competition in Romania on August 30, following Bittner’s departure earlier within the month.
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