Horrorscope (Overkill album)

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Horrorscope

Studio album by Overkill
Released	September 3, 1991
Recorded	Mar – Apr 1991 Carriage House Studios Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Genre	Thrash Metal
Length	53:06
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer(s)	Overkill Terry Date
All Music Guide link
Overkill chronology
The Years of Decay (1989)	Horrorscope (1991)	I Hear Black (1993)

For the album by Eve 6, see Horrorscope (Eve 6 album)

Horrorscope was an album released by thrash metal band Overkill in 1991 on Atlantic Records. It was their 5th full-length album, and the first to feature the guitar duo of Merritt Gant and Rob Cannavino. Many fans consider Horrorscope to be the one of the bands finest efforts.

1 Overview
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 External links

[edit] Overview

Following the loss of longtime guitarist and songwriter Bobby Gustafson, Overkill added two new guitarists to the band; Rob Cannavino, who had been Gustafson's guitar technician, and Merritt Gant; from the New Jersey thrash band Faith Or Fear.

The 'new' Overkill recorded Horrorscope again with Terry Date, in 1991. Featuring the furious riffs and trade off solos of new guitarists Cannavino and Gant, and the refined songwriting of Verni and Ellsworth, Horrorscope quickly silenced fan fears that the loss of a chief songwriter would ruin the band. Today, the album is widely regarded as one of the Overkill's defining moments, and is arguably their heaviest release. Focusing on a darker, heavier style, the album spawned the doomy single "Horrorscope", a departure form the bands earlier singles, which had traditionally been uptempo songs.

In 1992, during the Horrorscope tour, Sid Falck left the band. Admittedly never a big fan of thrash metal music, Sid said that he had initially wanted to push his drumming to the limit by playing the most complex type of music (of the era), and in time he decided to pursue other musical interests. He was replaced by former M.O.D. drummer Tim Mallare.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Overkill unless stated

"Coma" – 5:23
"Infectious" – 4:04
"Blood Money" – 4:08
"Thanx For Nothin'" – 4:07
"Bare Bones" – 4:53
"Horrorscope" –5:49
"New Machine" – 5:18
"Frankenstein" (Edgar Winter) – 3:29
"Live Young, Die Free" – 4:12
"Nice Day...For A Funeral" – 6:17
"Soulitude" – 5:26

[edit] Personnel

Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – Vocals
D.D. Verni – Bass
Merritt Gant – Guitars
Rob Cannavino – Guitars
Sid Falck – Drums

Recorded and mixed March – April, 1991 at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Produced by Overkill and Terry Date
Executive produced by Jon and Marsha Zazula
Engineered by Terry Date
Assistant engineered by Matt Lane
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, New York City, USA