Overkill discography | |
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![]() Overkill live at Metalmania 2008 | |
Studio albums | 20 |
Live albums | 3 |
Compilation albums | 2 |
Video albums | 2 |
Music videos | 12 |
EPs | 2 |
Demos | 1 |
Box sets | 2 |
The following is the discography of Overkill, an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has released twenty studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, three EPs and one box set. They were one of the early thrash metal bands to sign to a major label (Atlantic Records in 1986), and rose to fame as part of the genre's movement of the late 1980s, along with bands such as Anthrax, Exodus, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Testament. In terms of chart positions and sales, the band's most successful records are Under the Influence (1988), The Years of Decay (1989), I Hear Black (1993), The Electric Age (2012), and White Devil Armory (2014), which debuted at No. 142, No. 155, No. 122, No. 77, and No. 31 respectively on the Billboard 200 chart. [1] As of 2006, Overkill has sold over 625,000 albums in the US since the beginning of the SoundScan era, and over 5 million records worldwide throughout their career. [2] [ failed verification ]
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US [3] | GER [4] | JPN [5] | HUN [6] | FIN [7] | AUT [8] | FRA [9] | SWI [10] | SWE [11] | |||||||||||
Feel the Fire |
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Taking Over |
| 191 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
Under the Influence |
| 142 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
The Years of Decay |
| 155 | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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Horrorscope |
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I Hear Black |
| 122 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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W.F.O. |
| — | 93 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
The Killing Kind |
| — | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
From the Underground and Below |
| — | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
Necroshine |
| — | 82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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Bloodletting |
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Killbox 13 |
| — | 93 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
ReliXIV |
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Immortalis |
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Ironbound |
| 192 | 31 | 152 | — | — | 61 | 198 | 77 | — |
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The Electric Age |
| 77 | 34 | 89 | 35 | 30 | 73 | 155 | 62 | 41 |
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White Devil Armory |
| 31 | 20 | 91 | 28 | 28 | 53 | — | 31 | — |
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The Grinding Wheel |
| 69 | 10 | 51 | 21 | 44 | 33 | 185 | 23 | — | |||||||||
The Wings of War |
| 158 | 5 | — | — | — | 23 | 153 | 13 | — | |||||||||
Scorched |
| — | 10 | 64 | — | — | 29 | 164 | 7 | — | |||||||||
"—" denotes a release that did not chart. |
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Wrecking Your Neck |
| 65 |
Wrecking Everything |
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Live in Overhausen |
| 12 |
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Fuck You and Then Some |
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Coverkill |
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Hello From the Gutter - the Best of Overkill |
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Historikill: 1995–2007 |
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The Atlantic Years 1986-1994 |
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1985 | Overkill | Azra/Metal Storm |
1987 | !!!Fuck You!!! | Megaforce |
2012 | 6 Songs | Rock Hard |
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Power in Black |
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Videoscope |
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Wrecking Everything - An Evening in Asbury Park |
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Live at Wacken Open Air 2007 |
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Year | Title | Director | Album |
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1987 | "In Union We Stand" | — | Taking Over |
1988 | "Hello from the Gutter" [20] | — | Under the Influence |
1989 | "Elimination" | — | The Years of Decay |
1991 | "Horroscope" [21] | — | Horrorscope |
"Thanx for Nothin" [22] | — | ||
1993 | "Spiritual Void" | Simeon Soffer [23] | I Hear Black |
1994 | "Fast Junkie" | — | W.F.O. |
1995 | "Bastard Nation" (live) | — | Wrecking Your Neck |
1997 | "Long Time Dyin'" | — | From the Underground and Below |
2007 | "Skull and Bones" (featuring Randy Blythe) | Kevin Custer [24] [25] [26] | Immortalis |
2010 | "Bring Me the Night" | Ironbound | |
2012 | "Electric Rattlesnake" | The Electric Age | |
2014 | "Armorist" | White Devil Armory | |
"Bitter Pill" | |||
2016 | "Our Finest Hour" (lyric video) | — | The Grinding Wheel |
"Mean, Green, Killing Machine" (lyric video) | — | ||
2017 | "Goddamn Trouble" | Kevin Custer [27] | |
"Shine On" | |||
2018 | "Hammerhead" (live) | — | Live in Overhausen |
"Thanx for Nothing" (live) | — | ||
"Second Son" (live) | — | ||
"Last Man Standing" (lyric video) | — | The Wings Of War | |
2019 | "Head of a Pin" (lyric video) | — | |
"Welcome to the Garden State" | Tommy Jones |
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