• The Electric Age (Deluxe Edition) Overkill The Electric Age is the 16th studio album by the American thrash metal band Overkill, which was released on March 27, 2012 in the U.S. On eOne Music and in Europe three days later on Nuclear Blast.
• Another canal, the Delaware and Raritan, crossed the relatively flat land from. In 1990, 143,974 New Jersey residents age 5 and older had lived in Puerto Rico in. New Jersey produces little of its own energy, importing much of its electric. Along what ironically was then called Overkill Road (now Rivervale Road).

• Overkill 1989

Two years ago, Overkill’s Ironbound topped my Best Of 2010 list, and the perfect score I awarded it back when we assigned numerical scores remains the only 10 I’ve given in my five years at Last Rites. (In listening back to Ironbound as I prepared for The Electric Age, I must say that I stand by that score wholeheartedly.

Overkill 1989

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That record simply kills.) So given that that last effort was a perfectly blistering thrash album by a band that still has the goods, thirty years into their career, what does that mean for the follow-up?Well, for one thing, it means you have to take a moment to set aside the last release to let this one stand on its own merits. I can’t really say that The Electric Age lights up the sky like Ironbound did, but once I calmed down a bit from the inevitable anticipation high, once I gave it a few spins to settle in, I found its merits to be many. It doesn’t hit quite as hard, or quite as quickly, but it’s a bit insidious in its method – it’s a grower, and it’s not a perfect 10, but it’s a damned solid 8.5, and that is perfectly fine with me.Of course, an Overkill record defined by solidity should surprise no one – this original East Coast thrash outfit has long been noted for consistency. After consecutive band and genre high-water marks in 1989’s The Years Of Decay and 1991’s Horrorscope, these New Jerseyans endured the commercial decline of their style, transcending a relatively fallow period by experimenting with doom-ish downtempo, groove and even a few scant dashes of industrialized chug, all to above-average results, if certainly not to perfection or to particular popularity.

Briefly righting some lackluster song wrongs with Necroshine, Bloodletting and Killbox 13, the band back-slid a hair through ReliXIV and Immortalis (neither of which was bad, but neither of which was brilliant) before blind-siding the world with Ironbound. And here we are, on the dawn of The Electric AgeBut as usual, the dawn is a sluggish start. Opening with its worst track, The Electric Age stumbles only once, in that earliest moment. Serial key backuptrans android. First track “Come And Get It” reeks of a designed opening number, perfect for the concert stage in title and style, but on record, it simply doesn’t add up, the chorus falling flat after a promising verse and a mostly bland chugga-thrash opening.

(The track does redeem itself somewhat in a slamming bridge, replete with some Accept-esque Gregorian-chant backing vocals. Regardless, it remains The Electric Age’s least interesting tune.) And thenWith second track, the pre-release teaser “Electric Rattlesnake,” The Electric Age brightens, kicking in and never letting up. From the (ahem) electric humming that precedes it to the smoking riffs that drive it home, “Rattlesnake” positively crackles with kinetic energy, with Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth’s distinctive vocals soaring atop Dave Linsk and Derek Tailer’s guitars, until the whole affair drops into a surprising doomed-out midsection not unlike something from the much-maligned successor to Horrorscope, 1993’s I Hear Black. (That record remains my least favorite amongst Overkill’s vast catalog, but that’s not to say that it’s a failure, because it isn’t.