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{{quote|"Welcome to the gutter, we've been expecting ''you!'' HAHAHA!"|'''Hello from the Gutter'''}}

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* ''Overkill'' (1984, EP)

* ''Ironbound'' (2010)

* ''The Electric Age'' (2012)

 

 

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: On the cover of ''Under the Influence'', as seen above.

* [[Animated Music Video]]: Some parts of "Hello from the Gutter".

* [[Angst Dissonance]]: "Drunken Wisdom" appears to be from the perspective of someone experiencing this in real life and telling the angster where to shove it.

* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "We don't care what you say! ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZPo2m2Qvs FUCK YOU!]''"

* [[Badass Creed]]: "In Union We Stand" from ''Taking Over''.

* [[Call Back]]: "Overkill III" opens with same acoustic piece which "Overkill II" ended with.

* [[Cover Version]]: They have covered "Sonic Reducer" by Dead Boys, "Fuck You" by The Subhumans (the canadian one), "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" by Animals and "Under the Blade" by [[Twisted Sister]].

* [[Epic Rocking]]: "The Answer", "Overkill II (The Nightmare Continues", "Fatal If Swallowed", "End of the Line", "Playing With Spider/Skullkrusher", "Who Tends the Fire", "Years of Decay", "Gasoline Dream", "Burn You Down/To Ashes".

* [[Executive Meddling]]: A positive example; When they sent one of their demos to Metal Storm it was released as an extended play.

* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: They have two: ''Hello from the Gutter: The Best of Overkill'' and ''Then and Now''.

* [[Music/Instrumentals|Instrumentals]]: "Frankenstein", "Ghost Dance", "R.I.P. (Undone)" and "Feeding Frenzy"

* [[Long Runner]]: With 16 studio albums released, they are one of thrash metal's longest recording bands.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Hello from the Gutter" (from the third album) is an upbeat song about living in pisspoor conditions in the sewers of [[New York City]].

* [[Mascot]]: Chaly, a horned skull with bat wings.

* [[Metal Scream]]: Blitz loves it.

* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Most of their stuff is around a 7 or 8, while their occasional softer songs drop down to a 5 or 6.

** Also, due to them covering Motörhead's "Overkill" (which was where the band's name came from) on ''Coverkill'', they now have two songs with that exact name (five if you count [[Sequel|sequels]] "Overkill II" through "Overkill V"). There would be six, but the fourth one was called "E.vil N.ever D.ies" instead.

* [[New Sound Album]]: ''I Hear Black'' introduced band's [[Groove Metal]] sound for the 90's.

* [[Portmantitle]]: Song titles "Soulitude" and "Genocya" and the albums ''Coverkill'' and ''ReliXIV''.

* [[Sampling]]: "The Wait/New High in Lows" from ''W.F.O.'' opens with the "Here comes the pain!" quote from ''[[Carlitos Way]]''.

* [[Subdued Section]]: "In Union We Stand"

 

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