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Feel The Fire (Overkill album)

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

Overview

Feel the Fire marked Overkill's full length debut, and is hailed by many critics and fans as a thrash metal masterpiece. 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

1. "Raise the Dead" – 4:16
2. "Rotten to the Core" – 4:56
3. "There's No Tomorrow" – 3:18
4. "Second Son" – 3:50
5. "Hammerhead" – 3:56
6. "Feel the Fire" – 5:48
7. "Blood and Iron" – 2:35
8. "Kill at Command" – 4:42
9. "Overkill" – 3:20
10. "Sonic Reducer" – 2:50

• Track 10 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

• Official OVERKILL Site
• BORN IN THE BASEMENT- Thrash Metal/ Overkill History
• Overkill artwork archive from Rat Skates