New Jersey thrash metal legends OVERKILL, who recently inked a new deal with Bodog Music, will release their new studio album, entitled Immortalis, this fall.

The signing will reunite Overkill with Jonny and Marsha Zazula, previous owners of Megaforce Records, the label responsible for putting metal on the map and bringing Overkill's New Jersey thrash metal to the world. The Zazulas are now a part of the Bodog Music Team in the United States.

"Whoever said you can't go home again?" said Overkill frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth in a recent press release. "Well, whoever it was, they were wrong, as this reunites Overkill with their first and biggest supporters. Here we come - again!"
"I went to meet up with Overkill at their recent sold out show in NYC and they were better than ever," says Jonny Zazula. "They're heavy as hell and I loved it."

Since forming in 1980, Overkill has put out over 20 albums. Despite various lineup changes, the band has never gone on hiatus and has continued to stay true to the metal genre it helped create. With Megaforce Records and their management company, Crazed Management, the Zazulas were responsible for the early careers of such bands as METALLICA, ANTHRAX and MINISTRY, among many others.

"Now, as it was 20 years ago when we signed Overkill, I continue to have the utmost respect for what they have done," Marsha Zazula says.

The upcoming album and corresponding East Coast tour will feature Overkill's latest lineup, which along with Ellsworth, includes original bassist D.D. Verni, guitarists Derek "The Skull" Tailer and Dave Linsk, as well as the newest member to join the band, drummer Ron Lipnicki.

Ellsworth says Lipnicki "adds a new dimension of brutality to a proven formula. I was knocked on my ass by his talent. We look forward to debuting him on our upcoming Bodog Music release."

Overkill released three albums on Megaforce Records before making the jump to Atlantic Records where a string of critically-lauded albums, including 1991's quintessential Horroscope, solidified Overkill as one of the best metal bands of all time. In the past few years, the band has released such gems as Killbox 13 (2003) and ReliXIV (2005).

There are few names as well-respected as Overkill, and with the resurgence of metal in the music word, this band is poised to return to the top. Overkill is ready to show old metal heads they still have it and to teach the new schoolers exactly how it's done.

Overkill on tour:

October

4 - The Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
5 - Crocodile Rock - Allentown, PA
6 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
7 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
8 - Huntington Music Hall - Huntington, WV
9 - Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA
10 - The Muse - Nashville, TN
11 - The Mad Hatter - Covington, KY
12 - Al Rosa Villa - Columbus, OH
13 - Harpos Concert Theater - Detroit, MI
14 - The Pearl Room - Mokena, IL
15 - The Rock - Maplewood, MN
16 - Reverb - Cedar Falls, IA
17 - Pops - Sauget, IL
18 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
19 - The Chance Theater - Poughkeepsie, NY
20 - Mark's Place - Bedford, NH
21 - BB King's - NYC, NY