Overkill – The Killing Kind

If anyone is looking to sell this please DM me as I’m extremely interested.

If anyone is looking to sell this please DM me as I’m extremely interested.

If anyone is looking to sell, please DM me as I’m extremely interested.

If anyone has any pressing of this album on vinyl please message me if you are willing to sell!

IMHO Overkill’s best album

Released in 1996, THE KILLING KIND was Overkill’s eighth album and my personal favorite from their arguably best period, the mid-90s. My second favorite came out the next year, FROM THE UNDERGROUND AND BELOW.

The reason I like THE KILLING KIND so much is the quality of the songs from beginning to end, starting with the quirky-but-driving “Battle.” The catchy “God-Like” is compelling. The third song, “Certifiable,” is punkish metal. The haunting “Burn You Down/To Ashes” is one of my favorites; the first half is eerie and doomish while the second half, to be expected, picks up before closing with a moving short acoustic piece. “Let Me Shut that For You” is another amusing punk metal number.

That brings us to the ‘hit’ of the album, the great “Bold Face Pagan Stomp,” one of Overkill’s best songs ever. The next track, “Feeding Frenzy,” is an oddball instrumental featuring a couple nice Geezer Butler-ish bass solos before firing on all cylinders in an all-out thrash assault and closing with some typical Overkill eerie melodic noodling.

The stunning “The Cleansing” is my personal favorite song on the disk and perhaps my fave Overkill song ever. People have said the lyrics are ambiguous, but they’re really not. It’s about a “cool mutha******” who has a spiritual reawakening. What kind of spiritual reawakening? The closing mantra tells all. The song gives me goosebumps and the driving-yet-melodic ending is jaw-dropping. I can’t believe they had the gonads to do it but, hey, they’re Overkill and that’s what Overkill does—whatever the fudge they want.

“The Mourning After/Private Bleeding” is atypical for Overkill in that it’s a melancholic piano ballad and yet it’s very good, almost inspirational, and adds dimension to the disk. That leaves us with the AC/DC-meets-Corrosion of Conformity final track “Cold Hard Facts,” a very memorable ditty sometimes reminiscent of Mind Over Four’s stuff.

GRADE: A

I Played this Overkill The Killing Kind Album it was Awesome.
some my favorites tracks are The Cleansing and Burn You down (To Ashes) A very Overated song to say at least
But is this a Perfect OverKill Album for Me.