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Overkill - The Grinding Wheel (2017) [Official Digital Download]

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Overkill - The Grinding Wheel (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Overkill - The Grinding Wheel (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 64:11 minutes | 901 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"The Grinding Wheel" is the 18th studio album by American Thrash metal band Overkill. Witness the thrash's ultimate team of five machined parts shows up and executes to perfection… with a little punk thrown in for bad measure. This edition features Thin Lizzy's cover as bonus track.

Overkill - The Grinding Wheel (2017) [Official Digital Download]

The New Jersey thrash legends' 18th full-length outing, Grinding Wheel arrives a little over two years after the release of 2014's uncompromising White Devil Armory. Produced by the band and mixed by Andy Sneap, the ten-track set – the digital version includes a meaty studio version of Thin Lizzy's "Emerald," a song the band has covered live for years – snaps necks with impunity, but it does so with a structural inventiveness that's eluded some of Overkill's most recent offerings. While the band hasn't lost its knack for dropping unrelenting artillery blasts of breakneck, old-school thrash – "Goddamn Trouble," "Red, White, and Blue" – there's a nervy, classic rock/NWOBHM undercurrent that runs through Grinding Wheel that owes more to Judas Priest and Accept than it does Testament and Metallica. "Mean, Green, Killing Machine," as thrilling an opening number as the band has penned in a decade, gets things off to a gloriously brutal start, with the aforementioned "Goddamn Trouble" and fiery lead single "Our Finest Hour" tearing through like a pair of Marshall Stack-born F5 tornados to sort through the detritus. The meaty "Shine On" impresses with its groove-laden, almost Southern rock-inspired swagger, the epic title cut feels like it was pulled from the same sessions that birthed Iron Maiden's Killers, and the aptly named "Come Heavy," a decidedly upbeat, Sabbathy doom anthem, delivers a Ron Lipnicki-led master class in heavy metal drumming. Even at its most frivolous – "Let's All Go to Hades" could be a Dethklok song – Grinding Wheel never feels like anything less than vital. Overkill, or to be more specific, founding vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni, have been at this racket for nearly four decades now, and the fact they're continuing to dial up the intensity instead of resting on their considerable laurels is impressive, to say the least.

Tracklist:

01 - Mean, Green, Killing Machine
02 - Goddamn Trouble
03 - Our Finest Hour
04 - Shine On
05 - The Long Road
06 - Let's All Go to Hades
07 - Come Heavy
08 - Red White and Blue
09 - The Wheel
10 - The Grinding Wheel
11 - Emerald [Bonus Track]

Produced by Overkill.
Mixed & Mastered by Andy Sneap.

Musicians:
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth - lead vocals
D. D. Verni - bass, backing vocals
Dave Linsk - lead guitar
Derek "The Skull" Tailer - rhythm guitar
Ron Lipnicki - drums

Analyzed: Overkill / The Grinding Wheel
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.71 dB -7.85 dB 7:30 01-Mean, Green, Killing Machine
DR6 -0.71 dB -7.77 dB 6:21 02-Goddamn Trouble
DR5 -0.71 dB -7.25 dB 5:50 03-Our Finest Hour
DR6 -0.71 dB -8.09 dB 6:04 04-Shine On
DR6 -0.71 dB -7.72 dB 6:45 05-The Long Road
DR6 -0.71 dB -7.87 dB 4:56 06-Let's All Go to Hades
DR6 -0.71 dB -8.07 dB 5:00 07-Come Heavy
DR6 -0.71 dB -7.42 dB 5:06 08-Red White and Blue
DR6 -0.71 dB -7.75 dB 4:52 09-The Wheel
DR6 -0.71 dB -8.45 dB 7:56 10-The Grinding Wheel
DR6 -0.66 dB -7.86 dB 3:52 11-Emerald
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR6

Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1866 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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