This morning i got up with the following tune in my head

Deny the cross is one of the songs on TAKING OVER, the second full album from Over KILL.

Over Kill is an American thrash metal band formed around 1980, and these guys are still touring today.

Taking Over was released almost 33 years ago, and after it’s release it got some main stream succes. Taking over even reached number 191 in the billboard charts. And to me this album has made an impact (especially because 33 years later, you still wake up with one of the songs in your head)

I remember being in my early teens and i really loved metal, i actually lived and breathed it!

Those days you had no internet, so you had to really do an effort to get to know and discover new music, especially if you liked something obscure and out of the ordinary top 40 bullshit. And because we lived in a small village, where an old iron maiden album was all the metal that you could find in the local record store. I really had to do an efford. I had my magazines (yaay aardschok/metal hammer)

So i watched obscure metal tv shows like mosh, headbangers ball and names of shows that I obviously forgot, but these shows aired late, so, thanks to vhs, i taped these shows. Which was also good to listen to the music more then once if i found a gem, and then one day, i’m watching one of those taped shows, and this video came around, and i was sold immediately

Man those Over Kill guys kicked ass

A little later i finally got my hands on the taking over record ... and there is not one track on this album that is a filler, each one of the songs stands on his own.

Listen to that bass

I will not be posting each and every track of taking over, because, just like in the old days, do some work and try to discover more about this great new band that you just heard.

Nowadays everything about a song or act we like is just two clicks away, the song, the lyric, what the band ate for breakfast. And that is one reason why we start to see music nowadays as a consuming good with not a long shelf life.

One thing i like to add .... the first couple of Over Kill Albums had a saga, with the over kill song that came back each album in a different form ....

In almost 40 years Over Kill released almost 20 full albums, so if you liked this, you got something to discover

Feel the Fire (1985)
Taking Over (1987)
Under the Influence (1988)
The Years of Decay (1989)
Horrorscope (1991)
I Hear Black (1993)
W.F.O. (1994)
The Killing Kind (1996)
From the Underground and Below (1997)
Necroshine (1999)
Bloodletting (2000)
Killbox 13 (2003)
ReliXIV (2005)
Immortalis (2007)
Ironbound (2010)
The Electric Age (2012)
White Devil Armory (2014)
The Grinding Wheel (2017)
The Wings of War (2019)