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Beautifully penned, Fia. This is an incredible write and I also dig your narrating voice my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Thank you ☺️ Damian
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Everything here is perfect. Well said and your voice is silky smooth. xo
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Thank you ☺️ Keith
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Always have to rise from the hardships. It helps when you have somebody to motivate you.
Great ink
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Thank you, Nick 😊
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Read MoreWelcome, Backstage, I’m Damian DeadLove. Tonights band is: Overkill. That’s right we’re talking about the boys from, Jersey. I’m a huge fan of this band they are by far my favorite thrash metal band. Shout out to my brother, J.J.Burton,...
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I like the way they kept going. Like just because they lost a deal.they kept going. Nice.
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Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Fia. So glad you enjoyed the story my friend. Yeah, they are a band that still loves making music, and performing for their fans. One of my favorites. Appreciate you.
Damian
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I remember reading this one on DUP. I never knew anything about them until you introduced them. I will say a couple things here. You brought such an infectious enthusiasm to the tellingvof theor story that it roused my curiosity. So well the fuck done there! Also, completely unrelated to the story, I have complete hair envy looking at their photo. Sigh… Another fascinating episode, my friend
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Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Willow. So glad you enjoyed the story my friend. Yeah, it was the last one written. The enthusiasm was it’s a band my friend and I talk about all the time. He got me into them, and his mother had passed away. This was in March around my birthday, he had called me in late February saying he might not be able to call on my birthday because she was getting worse. She passed, I knew he was going to be busy with all her arrangements. So I wrote this episode for him. I wanted it to be good when I read it on my YouTube channel. I was relieved a couple months later on my belated birthday call, because he calls me on my birthday, always has. That it was his escape, a place to relax and get calm. He said he’d close his eyes and listen to me talk about, Overkill. So I was there for him in an untraditional way, but I was there. Sorry for the novel. Appreciate you.
Damian
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EXCELLENT! Seen Overkill live 2 times in the 90’s and once in the 2000’s. Great live act. Horroscope was a mature, progressive thrash album. That release, they gained a wider audience. Atlantic Records wanted them to polish their sound even more with the followup, I Hear Black. That’s why that album sounds much different then others. They were trying to go mainstream. The album did ok, reaching the charts. WFO was solid, but the sales weren’t great. That was their last release on a major label. Overkill will never be as huge as Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth or Anthrax but they left their mark on Metal and Thrash Metal. Great job Damian.
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Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Keith. So glad you enjoyed the story my friend. I agree they went more commercial it was their “Black Album” says J.J. Burton. Just like Megadeth had “Countdown to Extinction”, and Slayer had “Seasons.” Every thrash band took a shot at what Metallica done with the Black Album. That’s also straight from the mouth of my old friend. He’s the wisest man I know when it comes to Thrash or Death Metal. If I get stuck he’s the one I ask. lol. But we loved the Blues vibe and the songwriting. They are often called the Motörhead of thrash by some. Appreciate you.
Damian
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I actually don’t think I know this band unless I’m just not recalling. But heck, any band with a ‘Fuck You” EP is worth a listen.
I have some YouTubing to do.
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Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Nick. So glad you enjoyed the story my friend. YouTube away, I’m always into teaching people about music they haven’t heard yet. Appreciate you.
Damian
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The Fuck You Ep is a great listen. Though the track “Fuck You” is a cover song from the Canadian Punk band D.O.A. Check them out as well.
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I checked out both band and both are great. Though I will say D.O.A. “Fucked Up Donald” is going on my playlist haha. Loved it.
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HA, Yes! Great track!
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Meant to comment on this on DUP but the shutdown happened before I got around to it!
I never even thought of calling them the Motorhead of thrash but that is an apt description for them. When Hello From the Gutter came to Headbanger’s Ball on MTV they suddenly became one of my top-tier favorite bands. I even had an Under the Influence t-shirt I found at a mall in the city (they didn’t sell Overkill merch out in the sticks where I was from lol). 90-95 period is significant for me as those were very formative years (age 17-22)
I always felt that Overkill had a gritty realness to them, actually (imo) superior to Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer or Anthrax (the so-called “big four”). I grew up with those bands and went to the concerts and wore the t-shirts and cranked the tapes in my muscle cars but now, in my 50’s, I find that I never listen to any songs by the Big Four anymore, but I still listen to Overkill. The music has truly aged like a fine wine. A very streetwise kind of metal. Developed under harsh conditions. This is a band with a lot of moxie, and you can hear it in the music.
The Years of Decay is probably my sentimental favorite, but Horrorscope really showed how they had matured as songwriters. “Time to Kill” and “Who Tends the Fire?” are the 2 tracks I seem to drift back to the most.
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Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Benjamin. So glad you connected with the story my friend. I always thought it should have been Overkill instead of Anthrax representing the east coast side of the Big 4. And I like Anthrax, but Overkill had songwriting and something special that couldn’t be duplicated. I agree a moxie, or a swagger. Plus “Blitz” who reminds me of a Thrash metal David Lee Roth. He’s clever in his lyric writing and has a very witty sarcasm to his humor. He’s a fucking frontman, not strapped to an instrument. He knows how to interact with the crowd. Great album, I love Decay as well. “Who Tends the Fire?” is one of my favorites as well. “Time To Kill” is awesome as well. But I really loved “Decay” as a song. Being it explains life on the road and touring isn’t as glamorous as you think, it’s work. Great comment. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Read MoreCan anyone ever hopeto explain or derive trulythe biophysical nature of meorbiting these twin polesA classical three body problemwhose physics still eludeswhose attraction so exudeslike some wicked alchemyConverting my calm daysinto such maniacal waysonly to be metby the ragged...
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Like some chipped teacup. beautiful and functional but chipped still. Love this
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Terrific expression of yours and many others wonky minds.
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hello beautiful poet twirling whirling out of control seeking a tempest resounded with me great write ❤️
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S. I can relate heavily. My diagnosis is schizoaffective with a bipolar attachment. Thank you for writing this and posting. Brave.
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Brilliantly penned, LDF. This is a very powerful write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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I agree, brave and beautiful LDF…
This resonates with me, as well…
I just went for a walk, sort of,
gravitating back to something like
equilibrium, following the closing of DUP…Twas/tis such a unique form of loss…
(But it got me thinking about the different
times where I was searching for equilibrium…One thing I would say is that equilibrium is
not all it’s cracked up to be…:)(I don’t mind being a little crazy, honestly…
I have taken quite a liking to it…
I have decided I like being dangerous…
Poem inspired… TY)
I agree also, with the idea of our will to
stillness, based upon our divine sides…In a world that is ever moving…
A fine dance between fine dancing partners…
Nicely done…
<#3
I miss you and think of you often
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Thank you, Will
You inspired it.;))