Feel the Fire (Overkill album)

Infobox Album | Name = Feel the Fire
Type = Studio album
Artist = Overkill


Released = 1985
Recorded = Pyramid Studios,
New York, USA
Genre = Thrash metal
Length = 40:13
Label = Megaforce Records
Noise International (1988)
Producer = Carl Canedy
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ce2ibk096akq link]
Last album = "Overkill (EP)"
(1984)
This album = "Feel The Fire"
(1985)
Next album = "Taking Over"
(1987) |

Feel the Fire is an album by the thrash metal band Overkill, released by Megaforce records in 1985.

Overview

The band spent the better part of 1985 and 1986 on the "Feel the Fire" tour, beginning as a support act for Megadeth's "Peace Sells" US tour and later in Europe with Anthrax and Agent Steel.

Track listing

* All music, lyrics and arrangements by Overkill
# "Raise the Dead" – 4:16
# "Rotten to the Core" – 4:56
# "There's No Tomorrow" – 3:18
# "Second Son" – 3:50
# "Hammerhead" – 3:56
# "Feel the Fire" – 5:48
# "Blood and Iron" – 2:35
# "Kill at Command" – 4:42
# "Overkill" – 3:20
# "Sonic Reducer" – 2:50
* Track 10 - a Dead Boys cover - was a bonus CD track – appearing as track 5 to continue the tradition of having the "Overkill" series of songs as the closing track

Overkill (song)

On the original Megaforce vinyl and cassette versions of this album, there is a barely audible backwards message by Bobby "Blitz" in the closing moments of the track "Overkill", which when played forward says: "There's no message here, you're going to ruin your needle, asshole!"

Personnel

* Rat Skates – drums
* Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – vocals
* D.D. Verni – bass, backing vocals
* Bobby Gustafson – guitar

* Recorded at Pyramid Studios, New York, USA
* Produced by Carl Canedy
* Engineered by Alex Perialas
* Executive produced by Jon Zazula
* Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound

External links

* [http://www.wreckingcrew.com/ Official OVERKILL Site]