Overkill – The Killing Kind
Label: |
CMC International Records – CMC 7604 |
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Format: |
CD
, Album
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Country: |
US |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Heavy Metal |
Tracklist
| 1 | Battle | 4:31 | |
| 2 | God-Like | 4:11 | |
| 3 | Certifiable | 3:25 | |
| 4 | Burn You Down (To Ashes) | 6:47 | |
| 5 | Let Me Shut That For You | 5:19 | |
| 6 | Bold Face Pagan Stomp | 5:42 | |
| 7 | Feeding Frenzy | 4:13 | |
| 8 | The Cleansing | 5:50 | |
| 9 | The Mourning After / Private Bleeding | 4:36 | |
| 10 | Cold, Hard Fact | 5:18 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Carriage House Studios
- Mastered At – Masterdisk
- Pressed By – Disctronics USA – 140728
Credits
- Art Direction – Larry Freemantle
- Artwork [Cover Logo Manufactured By] – Mike Acker
- Bass, Backing Vocals – D.D. Verni
- Drums – Tim Mallare
- Engineer – Phil Magnotti
- Guitar – Sebastian Marino
- Guitar, Vocals – Joe Comeau
- Management [Worldwide Representation] – Loud & Proud Mgt. Inc.
- Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
- Mixed By – Overkill
- Photography By [Cover & Inner Photos] – Jeff Tisman
- Producer – Overkill
- Songwriter – Overkill
- Vocals – Blitz*
Notes
Recorded at Carriage House Studio, Stamford, CT, Sept-Oct '95.
Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC.
Says on back on CD jewel case and on back page of CD booklet "Printed In Canada"
Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC.
Says on back on CD jewel case and on back page of CD booklet "Printed In Canada"
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Printed): 0 60768 76042 4
- Barcode (Scanned): 060768760424
- Matrix / Runout: 140728-2XR1-6025--2 DISCTRONICS USA *CMC-7604*
- Mastering SID Code: IFPI L792
Other Versions (5 of 29)
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| The Killing Kind (CD, Album) | Concrete (2) | 0086502CTR | Europe | 1996 | |||
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The Killing Kind (Cassette, Album) | Metal Mind Records | MASS 0329 | Poland | 1996 | ||
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The Killing Kind (LP, Album) | Concrete (2) | 0086581CTR | 1996 | |||
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The Killing Kind (LP, Album, Green) | Concrete (2) | 0086502CTR | 1996 | |||
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The Killing Kind (CD, Album, Club Edition) | CMC International Records | CMC 7604 | US | 1996 |
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Reviews
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IMHO Overkill’s best album
Released in 1996, THE KILLING KIND was Overkill’s eighth album and my personal favorite from their arguably best period, the mid-90s. My second favorite came out the next year, FROM THE UNDERGROUND AND BELOW.
The reason I like THE KILLING KIND so much is the quality of the songs from beginning to end, starting with the quirky-but-driving “Battle.” The catchy “God-Like” is compelling. The third song, “Certifiable,” is punkish metal. The haunting “Burn You Down/To Ashes” is one of my favorites; the first half is eerie and doomish while the second half, to be expected, picks up before closing with a moving short acoustic piece. “Let Me Shut that For You” is another amusing punk metal number.
That brings us to the ‘hit’ of the album, the great “Bold Face Pagan Stomp,” one of Overkill’s best songs ever. The next track, “Feeding Frenzy,” is an oddball instrumental featuring a couple nice Geezer Butler-ish bass solos before firing on all cylinders in an all-out thrash assault and closing with some typical Overkill eerie melodic noodling.
The stunning “The Cleansing” is my personal favorite song on the disk and perhaps my fave Overkill song ever. People have said the lyrics are ambiguous, but they’re really not. It’s about a “cool mutha******” who has a spiritual reawakening. What kind of spiritual reawakening? The closing mantra tells all. The song gives me goosebumps and the driving-yet-melodic ending is jaw-dropping. I can’t believe they had the gonads to do it but, hey, they’re Overkill and that’s what Overkill does—whatever the fudge they want.
“The Mourning After/Private Bleeding” is atypical for Overkill in that it’s a melancholic piano ballad and yet it’s very good, almost inspirational, and adds dimension to the disk. That leaves us with the AC/DC-meets-Corrosion of Conformity final track “Cold Hard Facts,” a very memorable ditty sometimes reminiscent of Mind Over Four’s stuff.
GRADE: A
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