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Robert Ellsworth (born May 3, 1959), best known as Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of New Jersey thrash metal band Overkill. [3] He has been the vocalist of Overkill since its inception in 1980, and he and bassist D. D. Verni are the band's only constant members.
Apr 17, 2020 · Bobby 'Blitz’ Ellsworth has the best laugh you’ll ever hear. This infectious madman’s cackle explodes out of nowhere and promptly rips your eardrums shreds. You've barely had time to recover when the next one arrives. But then the Overkill frontman has a lot to laugh about.
- Dave Everley
- Overkill – Overkill
- Overkill - Sonic Reducer
- Overkill – End of The Line
- Overkill – Nice Day… For A Funeral
- Overkill – God-Like
- Overkill – Long Time Dyin’
- Overkill – Damned
- Overkill – The Goal Is Your Soul
- Overkill – Good Night
- Overkill - Fever
“That first record, Feel The Fire, was a great experience. I was a young man when I got my first record deal and was in college at the time taking liberal arts courses, which basically meant I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but knew I didn’t want to work! I was taking literature courses and we got into some Shakespeare. The song Overkill was the ...
"I was taking these classes in Manhattan, specifically going there because the punkthing was happening at that time. It was a cool scene, there was a lot more than just The Ramones and early Blondie; there was Television, Heartbreakers – which had Johnny Thunders who’d also been in the New York Dolls – some really avant-garde shit. It was like bein...
“End Of The Line to me, was the epitome of Overkill at that time because it had all this thrashy stuff, but also likened itself to what we considered greatness at that point – bands like Iron Maidenand how Bruce [Dickinson] could turn an Iron Maiden song into an epic. That’s what I aspired to – I don’t know if I always got there, but that’s what I ...
“With Horrorscope, there was a lot of uncertainty. We’d lost Bobby [Gustafson, guitars] and that meant we’d lost a third of the writing team. But I wasn’t sitting there scribbling out ‘fuck you’ and ‘death!’ in the lyrics, I was writing melodies that could play against the guitar lines and now I was having to do that with these two new guitarists (...
“Oh god, the 90s – here comes grunge. Basically, go sit in your mother’s basement until somebody appreciates your genius again! Overkill survived through tenacity – we were brought up to basically manage ourselves, and it really stuck with D.D. and myself. When bands started dropping away from our label, we decided we needed to start looking somewh...
“From The Underground And Below is still one of my favourite records because it felt like a fully realised experience. When I was a kid, I had a paper round and my dad helped me so I could earn 11 bucks a week or something. But I joined the record club around that time, and if you sent in a penny you’d get 12 releases just for that one penny. I’d j...
“Punk has always been there for me and D.D. [Verni, bass], so Damned was us coming back to that in a big way. Unholy was the opening track of Killlbox 13 and I just remember thinking ‘man, this is a heavy piece of real estate’. When I think of it, I always pair it with this other really punky song on that record – and my pick – Damned. It had this ...
“The stars aligned for us in 2010, when we did the Ironbound record. The songwriting culminated in one of those things where you just knew you had to listen to this record from start to finish. There was Bring Me The Night and Ironbound, which I think is one of the best songs we ever wrote as a team because it contained so many different things, bu...
“The Electric Age was a bit thrashier than Ironbound, but it had these incredible fuckin’ moments. The biggest one for me was on the last song, Good Night. Believe it or not, that song came from a Beatlestune to me – I can’t say which one from memory, but it was the way they ended one of their records with a real ‘good night’ sentiment. It really l...
“Back in 2012, something happened to me and I went down like a tonne of bricks. I was playing a festival in Germany at the time and one second I was on-stage, the next I was in a hospital. This doctor comes over and he’s like ‘you’ve gotta quit the cigarettes, or this shit is gonna keep happening’. I got through it and stopped smoking, which also m...
Aug 2, 2014 · Indestructible thrash metal veterans Overkill are back with their 17th studio album, the blistering White Devil Armory. We spoke to irrepressible frontman Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth about 35 years of neck-wrecking riffage, surviving the rock’n’roll rollercoaster ride and the unerring magic of thrash fuckin’ metal….
529. 16K views 1 year ago #nuclearblast #thrashmetal #overkill. Overkill frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth being interviewed about his journey as a metal vocalist. Interviews, news,...
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May 9, 2023 · In this exclusive interview with Blitz from Overkill, we delve into the band's latest album, "Scorched," which is their 20th and continues their impressive run of form since "White Devil Armory...
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- Scars and Guitars podcast
May 20, 2019 · Contributor and longtime fan Michael “MettleAngel” Francisco caught up with the band iconic front-man Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth before their recent performance at Bogarts, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
