Overkill Announce Lineup For "Killfest 2" + Studio Update!

Legendary Thrash Metal band Overkill are currently busy in the studio working on their NEW as of yet untitled studio album. The band was actually offered to be part of the current Anthrax and Testament North American tour, but had to decline since they're busy tracking their 16th studio album.

However, Overkill has confirmed that they will be cruising along the Caribbean as part of the "70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise." They have also announced that they will be hitting the road in the Spring of 2012 with Belphegor, Aborted, Blackguard, System Divide and Diamond Plate. The event dubbed as "Killfest 2" will kickoff on April 20th at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia, PA and will conclude on May 12th at the Best Buy Theater in New York City! Complete list of tour-dates below.

Overkill released "Ironbound" in 2010 which charted at 168 on the Billboard Top 200, the bands fastest selling record in 16 years. A video was also filmed for "Bring Me The Night" in Brooklyn, NY with director Kevin Custer (Hatebreed, Testament, Suffocation).



"Killfest 2" Tour-dates:

4/20 - Trocadero Theater - Philadelphia PA
4/22 - Lost Horizon - Syracuse NY
4/23 - Screamin WIllie's - Columbus OH
4/24 - Blondie's - Detroit MI
4/25 - Bottom Lounge - Chicago IL
4/26 - Beaumont Club - Kansas City MO
4/27 - Bluebird Theater - Denver CO
4/28 - The Complex - Salt Lake City UT
4/30 - El Corazon - Seattle WA
5/1 - Hawthorne Theater - Portland OR
5/2 - The Grand Ballroom - San Francisco CA
5/3 - Club Nokia - Los Angeles CA
5/5 - Emo's East - Austin TX
5/6 - Trees - Dallas TX
5/8 - The Club at Firestone - Orlando FL
5/9 - Culture Room - Ft. Lauderdale FL
5/10 - The Masquerade - Atlanta GA
5/11 - Jaxx Nightclub - West Springfield VA
5/12 - Best Buy Theater - New York, NY

Overkill is:

- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth
- Dave Linsk
- Derek "The Skull" Tailer
- D.D. Verni
- Ron Lipnicki

Overkill's Discography:

- Feel the Fire (1985)
- Taking Over (1987)
- Under The Influence (1988)
- The Years of Decay (1989)
- Horrorscope (1991)
- I Hear Black (1993)
- W.F.O. (1994)
- The Killing Kind (1996)
- From the Underground and Below (1997)
- Necroshine (1999)
- Bloodletting (2000)
- Killbox 13 (2003)
- ReliXIV (2005)
- Immortalis (2007)
- Ironbound (2010)

Related links:
Overkill's Official Site
Official Site of EONE Metal

Cannibal Corpse Enter Studio with Producer Erik Rutan

Death Metal masters Cannibal Corpse have just announced that they will be entering the studio with producer Erik Rutan from Hate Eternal to record their twelfth studio album. Once again, the band will be working Sonic Ranch studios. The band has spent months writing the album and has recorded at Sonic Ranch in the past, but never with Rutan at the helm. More details on the album, including art, songs, title and more will be revealed in the months to follow. For now, the band is hard at work carving their next Death Metal offering.

"After having spent the past 7 months writing and rehearsing new material, we're very excited to finally begin recording. We've had great success working with Erik Rutan on our past two albums so we've decided to work with him again, but to keep things fresh we decided on a change of location - we're returning to Sonic Ranch studios in Texas, where we've recorded several albums in the past. We are psyched to see how this combination works out- we feel it's pairing that could result in our best album yet." - Bassist Alex Webster

Erik Rutan worked with Cannibal Corpse for both "Kill" (2006) and "Evisceration Plague" (2009) and is returning for a third time. Rutan explains further: "I am super excited to work with Cannibal Corpse for our 3rd album together. We are determined to make the best album we possibly can. Everyone is very focused and the new material is awesome. There is a great blend of classic, old school CC with a newer, more heavy, dynamic and aggressive approach. I look forward to the challenge of making one heavy as hell record!"

Cannibal Corpse's latest release, the "Global Evisceration" DVD, was released March of this year and contains nearly three hours of live and behind the scenes footage of the band as they traveled to 10 different countries in 18 days, three of which were countries the band had not previously played.



Cannibal Corpse is:

- Alex Webster
- Paul Mazurkiewicz
- Rob Barrett
- George Fisher
- Pat O'Brien

Studio albums:

- 1990: Eaten Back to Life
- 1991: Butchered at Birth
- 1992: Tomb of the Mutilated
- 1994: The Bleeding
- 1996: Vile
- 1998: Gallery of Suicide
- 1999: Bloodthirst
- 2002: Gore Obsessed
- 2004: The Wretched Spawn
- 2006: Kill
- 2009: Evisceration Plague

CANNIBAL CORPSE Latin American Tour 2011 THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and SUICIDE SILENCE:

12/03 Sao Paulo, Brazil
12/04 Curitiba, Brazil
12/06 Buenos Aires, Argentina
12/07 Santiago, Chile
12/08 Quito, Ecuador
12/10 Bogota, Colombia
12/11 Caracas, Venezuela
12/13 Mexico City, Mexico

CANNIBAL CORPSE European Tour 2012 BEHEMOTH, Legion Of The Damned, Misery Index and Suicidal Angels:

- Feb. 09: Hamburg, Germany at Markthalle
- Feb. 10 - Oberhausen, Germany at Turbinenhalle
- Feb. 11 - Stuttgart, Germany at LKA Longhorn
- Feb. 12 - Enschede, Netherlands at Atak
- Feb. 13 - Paris, France at Bataclan
- Feb. 14 - Saarbrücken, Germany at Garage
- Feb. 15 - Pratteln, Switzerland at Z7
- Feb. 16 - Milan, Italy at Live Club
- Feb. 17 - Wien, Austria at Arena
- Feb. 18 - München, Germany at Backstage
- Feb. 19 - Antwerpen, Belgium at Trix
- Feb. 21 - Bologna, Italy at Estragon
- Feb. 22 - Bratislava, Slovakia at Majestic Music Club
- Feb. 23 - Prague, Czech Republic at KD Vltavska
- Feb. 24 - Linz, Austria at Posthof
- Feb. 25 - Geiselwind, Germany at Music Hall
- Feb. 27 - Stockholm, Sweden at Münchenbryggeriet
- Feb. 28 - Gothenburg, Sweden at Trädgårn
- Feb. 29 - Aarhus, Denmark at Voxhall
- Mar. 01 - Berlin, Germany at Postbahnhof
- Mar. 02 - Leipzig, Germany at Hellraiserv
- Mar. 03 - Giessen, Germany at Hessenhalle
- Mar. 04 - Tilburg, Netherlands at O13 (Neurotic Deathfest)

Related links:
Cannibal Corpse on Metal Blade Records
Cannibal Corpse on Facebook
Cannibal Corpse on YouTube
Cannibal Corpse on Twitter