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When Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth isn't writing or rocking with his influential thrash band Overkill, he and his wife are hard at work on the family business -- importing fine chocolates for their shop, Chocolaterie. "We get our chocolates from Bruges in Belgium, which is the chocolate-making capital of the world," Ellsworth told Noisecreep...

Before he formed Life of Agony in 1989 with vocalist Keith Caputo and guitarist Joey Z, bassist Alan Robert was going to school to be a professional illustrator. Then the band got a record deal and he scrapped his art career for a life of rock 'n' roll...

To celebrate the release of their new album 'Ironbound,' New Jersey thrash metal titans Overkill present the album's first video 'Bring Me the Night.' The performance video was shot in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Jan. 9, and directed by Kevin Custer (Hatebreed, Testament)...

With Jan. 26 being heavy on metal releases, fans responsed by picking up nearly 9,000 copies of Alesana's 'The Emptiness,' which was enough to propel the album to secondd on the hard rock sales charts for the week. Living Sacrifice's 'The Infinite Order' also shifted nearly 3,000 units its first week on shelves, while newbies Taking Dawn sold nearly 1,400 copies of their debut, too...

They're getting ready to enter the 25th year since the release of their debut album 'Feel the Fire,' but New Jersey thrash metal veterans Overkill aren't content to live in the past. On Feb. 9, the band will drop its 15th studio album, 'Ironbound,' on the metal masses...

Overkill are kind of like the Motörhead of traditional thrash metal. You know they're going to put out a new record every couple years, and you know it's going to be solid, regardless of what label it appears on. For their new record, 'Ironbound,' Overkill have shifted from the fledgling Bodog to the colossal E1 Entertainment (Hatebreed, Satyricon), and they've conjured a batch of songs that are n

Fans of old-school, no-nonsense thrash metal should definitely know and love this week's ''Creep Show' guest artist, Overkill frontman Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth. For almost 25 years now, he, bassist D.D. Verni and whatever drummer and guitarists they've got behind them, have been cranking out consistently pummeling albums at the rate of about one every 18 months and touring to a loyal legion of unwa

"With the beginning of a new decade comes a new beginning for us as well: We're about to hit the road with our new bass player Joel Graham, and we've only had three weeks to teach him two albums worth of songs, it's a giant undertaking and a weird situation for both him and ourselves because as always, it's something you never see coming," Evile vocalist Matt Drake exclusively tells Noi

Overkill started touring the U.S. back in the '80s, when some Noisecreep readers weren't even zygotic. The legendary Jersey thrashers are celebrating 25 years of making a glorious metal racket with 'Ironbound,' due out in February on E1. "We got signed in 1984 and it started with us on Halloween night when we opened for a band called Anvil," frontman Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth told Noisecr

It has to be fun to be Overkill vocalist Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth. The curly-topped singer cracked a Heineken after 6 PM and sat down for our chat about his next album -- which will be Overkill's first effort for E1, due out Feb. 9. It's titled 'Ironbound,' but it doesn't have too much to do with the neighborhood in Newark, N...