Overkill finished off its “Welcome to the Garden State” video docu-series this week.
The band debuted the last video in the series on Monday. In the series’ finale, the band’s members discuss the defining moments that have shaped each man through the band’s evolution.
Front man Bobby Blitz offered his thoughts on those moments in a recent interview.
“Those defining moments make us what we are today,” Blitz said. “So to say you are proud of yourself this many years later, you go back and say that’s because of those defining moments. That’s because it made me the person I am today, or it made us the team we are whatever; through the lean times, rich times, good times or bad times. I think we always had the same ideas. I think we always had the same ideas, but we had the same preparation.”
Overkill has released seven other videos previously in the series, with each video covering a variety of topics. The whole list of videos and topics is noted below.
Part I: Band Origin & Name
Part II: Early influences the Genre
Part III; East Coast vs. West Coast
Part IV: Old School Venues & Social Media!
Part V: “Hello From The Gutter” music video, & the origins of their symbol: the bat skull (Chaly)
Part VI: Album Out Tomorrow
Part VII: Rise Of The Internet And The Evolution Of Digital Audio And Social Media
The premiere of Overkill’s latest addition to its “Welcome to the Garden State” discussion comes a little more than a week after the debut of the seventh entry in the series and a little more than two weeks after the band debuted the music video for its latest single, ‘Welcome to the Garden State.’
‘Welcome to the Garden State’ is the third single to be released from Overkill’s new album The Wings of War. It follows the release of ‘Head of a Pin‘ and ‘Last Man Standing,’ both of which have had their own companion videos crafted.
Overkill will launch a tour in support of The Wings of War on April 25 alongside Death Angel and Act of Defiance. The two-week-plus tour is scheduled to start in Baltimore, MD and wind down May 11 in Boston, MA. It also features performances scheduled in Nashville, TN; Detroit, MI and Milwaukee, WI.
The tour’s current schedule is noted below.
Confirmed dates for the OVERKILL Wings Over The USA 2019 Tour with DEATH ANGEL & ACT OF DEFIANCE are:
4/25/2019 Sound Stage/ Rams Head – Baltimore, MD
4/26/2019 Theater of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
4/27/2019 Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
4/28/2019 House of Blues – Cleveland, OH
4/29/2019 Mercury Ballroom – Louisville, KY
4/30/2019 St Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI
5/01/2019 Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
5/02/2019 House of Blues – Chicago, IL
5/03/2019 Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN
5/04/2019 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
5/05/2019 Delmar Hall – St Louis, MO
5/06/2019 The Cannery Ballroom – Nashville, TN
5/08/2019 Bogarts – Cincinnati, OH
5/09/2019 Anthology – Rochester, NY
5/10/2019 PlayStation Theater – New York, NY **w/ Life Of Agony
5/11/2019 Paradise – Boston, MA
The Wings of War is available on a variety of platforms, all of which are noted below.
The Wings Of War will be available for purchase in the following formats:
- CD Digipak
- CD Digi + T-Shirt + Poster Bundle
- Green Cassette
- Grey Vinyl (limited to 1,500)
- Green with Yellow Splatter vinyl (limited to 500)
The full track listing for The Wings of War is noted below.
Below is the track listing for The Wings Of War
1 Last Man Standing
2 Believe In The Fight
3 Head Of A Pin
4 Bat Shit Crazy
5 Distortion
6 A Mother’s Prayer
7 Welcome To The Garden State
8 Where Few Dare To Walk
9 Out On The Road-Kill
10 Hole In My Soul
More information on The Wings of War is available online now along with all of Overkill’s latest news and more at:
Website: http://www.wreckingcrew.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OverkilLWreckingCrew
Twitter: http://twitter.com/OverkillBand
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