Vintage Overkill "Taking Over Europe" Wrecking Your Head Tour T-Shirt Heavy Metal the Boston metalcore band

the Boston metalcore band

thanks in part to the single "Heat Of The Night

many lineup changes over the course of their career

The band continued on sporadically

and all the way to #17 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop chart

Vintage Overkill "Taking Over Europe" Wrecking Your Head Tour T-Shirt Heavy Metal the Boston metalcore bandOverkill is a trash metal band from New Jersey founded in 1980. They released their sophomore album Taking Over in 1987 on Megaforce, a metal label underr major label Atlantic. As thrash metal was breaking through to the mainstream, Overkill found some substantial success, breaking into Billboard's top 200 and getting consistent airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball. They also went on tour with some of the biggest names in metal that year, like Megadeth