Wrecking Your Neck
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Wrecking Your Neck is a 2-disc live album released by the thrash metal
band Overkill
in 1995. A March 1995 show, once again in Cleveland, Ohio, was recorded for Overkill's first full-length live album, and was released in April 1995; with the first pressing featuring a bonus CD containing the Overkill EP that had been out of print for ten years. A music video for the song "Bastard Nation" taken from Wrecking Your Neck was also released.
Wrecking Your Neck is also the last Overkill album to feature guitarists Rob Cannavino and Merritt Gant.
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
band Overkill
Overkill (band)
Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many line-up changes, with singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni remaining from the original lineup. Along with Anthrax , the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal...
in 1995. A March 1995 show, once again in Cleveland, Ohio, was recorded for Overkill's first full-length live album, and was released in April 1995; with the first pressing featuring a bonus CD containing the Overkill EP that had been out of print for ten years. A music video for the song "Bastard Nation" taken from Wrecking Your Neck was also released.
Wrecking Your Neck is also the last Overkill album to feature guitarists Rob Cannavino and Merritt Gant.
Track listing
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soundtrack) - "Infectious" – 4:05
- "Coma" – 3:59
- "Supersonic Hate" – 4:43
- "Wrecking Crew" – 1:09
- "Powersurge" – 4:13
- "The Wait/New High in Lows" – 6:10
- "Skullkrusher" – 6:23
- "Spiritual Void" – 4:52
- "Hello From the Gutter" – 2:35
- "Anxiety" – 1:50
- "Elimination" – 5:07
- "Fast Junkie" – 4:04
- "World of Hurt" – 4:59
- "Gasoline Dream" – 7:40
- "Rotten to the Core" – 5:38
- "Horrorscope" – 5:58
- "Under One" – 3:54
- "New Machine" – 4:21
- "Thanx for Nothing" – 5:03
- "Bastard Nation" – 5:57
- "Fuck You/War Pigs" – 7:03
Credits
- D.D. Verni – Bass
- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – Vocals
- Merrit Gant – Guitars
- Rob Cannavino – Guitars
- Tim Mallare – Drums