Album
The Electric Age
The Electric Age is the sixteenth studio album by Overkill, the thrash metal band whose run of records stretches back to Feel the Fire in 1985. It came out on 27 March 2012, and European listeners got it three days later through Nuclear Blast, while American fans had it through eOne Music.
The record follows Ironbound from 2010 and comes before White Devil Armory in 2014, so it sits right in the middle of the band's late-career stretch, when they were releasing albums at a steady pace. For anyone who knows Overkill from the older records and wants to hear how the band sounded in the early 2010s, it is a natural place to start.
The Electric Age: tracklist and credits
10 tracks · 50:33Tracklist
- 1Come and Get ItBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni6:18
- 2Electric RattlesnakeBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni6:20
- 3Wish You Were DeadBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni4:19
- 4Black DazeBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni3:55
- 5Save YourselfBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni3:44
- 6Drop the Hammer DownBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni6:25
- 721st Century ManBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni4:13
- 8Old Wounds, New ScarsBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni4:12
- 9All Over but the ShoutingBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni5:30
- 10Good NightBobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and D.D. Verni5:37
- Produced by
- Overkill
- Recorded at
- Gear Recording Studio (Shrewsbury, New Jersey), JRod Productions, SKH Recording Studios
- Recorded
- September 2011–January 2012
- Mixed by
- Greg Reely
- Engineered by
- Dave Linsk, D.D. Verni
- Labels
- Icarus Music, eOne Music (North America), Nuclear Blast (Europe)
- Length
- 50:33
Line-up
- Dave Linsk · guitar
- Ron Lipnicki · membranophone
- Derek Tailer · guitar
- D.D. Verni · bass guitar
- Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth · lead vocals
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 27 March 2012 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 27 March 2012 | |
| Wikidata | 2012 | |
| Deezer | 1 April 2012 | |
| US release | 27 March 2012 | earliest US date |
8 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | AR | Icarus Music | 727361278120 | other |
| 2012 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361278120 | other |
| 27 March 2012 | US | E1 Entertainment | 099923215226 | original |
| 28 March 2012 | JP | Incubator | 4988001728290 | other |
| 30 March 2012 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361278106 | other |
| 3 September 2012 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361278113 | other |
| 26 February 2013 | US | E1 Entertainment | other | |
| 19 April 2013 | XE | Nuclear Blast | 727361308926 | other |
Cover art sources
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| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 2818×2838 | cropped: cropped from 2818x2838 to 2818x2818 |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |