Overkill--Bloodletting (2000/Metal-Is) Rating--8.3

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Thunderhead--RealAudio

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Overkill continues its seemingly neverending assault on the metal world, as yet another bruiser is churned out by Blitz and company. The band returns to a one-guitar attack for the first time in years--though you can never tell the difference. The chops still flow, and this one is actually a good deal more bottom-heavy than the previous 'Necroshine'.
A driving, drum-heavy chorus frame rolls through "Thunderhead," and co-highlight "I, Hurricane" is chunky and slashing.
Thrashy staples surface in the forms of "Left Hand Man," "Can't Kill a Dead Man," "Bleed Me," and "Death Comes Out to Play"--the latter with a slow-down chorus.
"Let It Burn" is a nice groover, and a slower start to "Blown Away" is but a prelude to the chunking chord-flow that lies within...
Just what you'd expect from Overkill: solid, no-nonsense metal.

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TRACK LIST: Thunderhead/Bleed Me/What I'm Missin'/Death Comes Out to Play/Let It Burn/I, Hurricane/Left Hand Man/Blown Away/My Name is Pain/Can't Kill a Dead Man

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