Let's start with the 80's for a sec: I loved two things in the 80's: Glam Metal; yes I know it's not the popular to say that, however it was big thing back then. Please bear in mind that there were a few good bands even in the hated glam genre. However the second thing I loved was the pure attack of the Thrash Metal.

I will not go into a history lesson, yet I will provide some important information, Thrash Metal started around 1980 and was parallel to Glam metal; it was a genre for people who looked for more a aggressive style of riffing and music, everybody knows about the big four ANTHRAX, MEGADETH, METALLICA, and SLAYER, still there were some other great bands that stayed the course, bands like TESTAMENT, EXODUS and OVERKILL.

Let me also talk a little about the METALLICA issue, well-known to all; the band strayed from the real Thrash Metal sound in order to get more successful, in some ways also MEGADETH did that; this is what I call the money trail. Yet some bands, like I said stayed the course, one in particular OVERKILL, with a Thrash Metal career spanning over 30 years these Thrash Metal Gods are going to perform live in the first time in Israel.

The show took place in the Reading 3, well known for general shows and some metal shows, so you can understand that it's not my first time in this establishment.

However when I was parking my massive 125 cc Dealim in front of  the Reading 3 I thought that my eyes were deceiving me. The line of metal warriors was short, I was looking around to try and look for the gathering of the metal warriors but there was no gathering. I was asking myself, "is it possible that the metal fans in Israel that complains many a time about the lack of good and solid live shows in Israel from known bands will not come to see one of the most amazing bands that Metal music was able to produce?"

I will leave this question unanswered, you will have to answer it yourself.

In addition one more thing was obvious this time and that was that Prog-Stage Productions, the production agency that is responsible for many metal and rock live shows in Israel, did learn from their last mistake and opened the gates early to let the Metal warrior pour in, only that they more-so seemed to trickle, again the number astonished me and I was thinking to myself… "What the fuck?"

Nonetheless before the OVERKILL show we need to give some playing time to some local bands, people sometimes don't like the option for a band that comes on in order to fire up the crowd, however I think that this is important to give time for bands to show their ability to fans that probably will not have gone to see them otherwise.

First to come on stage were STRIDENT, never heard of them myself before. They're a four piece band that plays mix of Thrash Metal and some Death Metal, however it does seems that people in the crowd are aware of them. I find it hard to give any opinion on the band, yet I can tell you that the STRIDENT show was energetic and full of great riffs, I do think that the crowd agreed with me.
 

Nevertheless OVERKILL came to stage to the roars of the crowd and I can tell you that these guys come to work and when I say came to work, they came to kill all; what I mean is it was an overkill.

Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth on vocals needs no introduction, Bobby is a god among gods, the way he control the stage and the crowd is amazing; the biggest surprise for me was that is vocal abilities have not changed on stage like many other singers that are good only when recording. Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth was on full attack on the crowd and did what is nickname says, it was a vocal blitz like I have never seen.
 

I can't let go of the feeling I had regarding the lack of fans and crowd, it  amazed me that people in Israel are always talking about the fact that there are no good metal shows and the moment some great band came to perform people stayed at home.

I will conclude and say, I saw OVERKILL and all the fuckers who didn't come to the show, it's your loss; remember what I said, I will stay witness for that and next time somebody will come to me and say, "dude, I saw a great show"; I will ask him where they were when OVERKILL performed in the Reading 3 on the 08.06.2015. Mark my words.