Overkill announce 18th album The Grinding Wheel

By Scott Munro
( Classic Rock )
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Overkill will release their 18th studio album The Grinding Wheel in February 2017

Overkill
Overkill

Overkill have announced details of their upcoming 18th studio album.

The follow-up to 2014’s White Devil Armory was produced by the band and mixed by Andy Sneap and will launch on February 10 after they signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast last year.

Frontman Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth says: “Grinding on! Here we come again kids, strapped to the Grinding Wheel. Bang your head.”

The band have also released a lyric video for album track Our Finest Hour. Watch it below. The single is also available to purchase through iTunes (opens in new tab) and in a variety of formats from the Nuclear Blast online store.

Overkill have been on tour across Europe this month and have three dates remaining in Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic over the coming days.

They released career anthology HistoriKill: 1995-2007 in October, which can also be purchased via Nuclear Blast.

The Grinding Wheel

The Grinding Wheel

Overkill The Grinding Wheel tracklist

  1. Mean Green Killing Machine
  2. Goddamn Trouble
  3. Our Finest Hour
  4. Shine On
  5. The Long Road
  6. Let’s All Go To Hades
  7. Come Heavy
  8. Red White And Blue
  9. The Wheel
  10. The Grinding Wheel

Overkill 2016 remaining European tour dates

Nov 17: Budapest Barba Negra Club, Hungary
Nov 18: Vienna Szene, Austria
Nov 19: Zlin Winter Masters Of Rock, Czech Republic

The complete history of Overkill

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.