OVERKILL frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth is featured in a new audio interview with Steel And Fire. Check it out via the audio player below:

Overkill

As previously reported, Overkill have released their new video for the single 'Electric Rattlesnake'. Directed by veteran Kevin J. Custer, the video is the first we've seen since the band released the 'Bring Me The Night' video in 2010.

Ellsworth: "Damn, this one BITES hard! Kevin Custer did it again! So plug us in yeah, set us free, this is a thrashing vid the way it’s supposed to be! Here we go kids , 'Electric Rattlesnake'!"

Overkill's new album, The Electric Age, has debuted on the Billboard 200 at #73 with approximately 6,700 units sold. To compare, the band's last release Ironbound sold roughly 4,500 copies first week and debuted at #192 making The Electric Ag" the highest charting first week album since their 1994 record W.F.O.

In support, the band will head out on the Electric Age Tour. Supporting will be GOD FORBID, DIAMOND PLATE and SUDIKARA. Dates will stretch coast to coast and run through April and May.

Dates include:

April

20 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero Theater
21 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
22 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon
23 - Columbus, OH - Screamin WIllie's
24 - Detroit, MI - Blondie's
25 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
26 - Kansas City, MO - Beaumont Club
27 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
28 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
30 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon

May

1 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
2 - San Francisco, CA - The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center
3 - Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia
5 - Austin, TX - Emo's East
6 - Dallas, TX - Trees
8 - Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone
9 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
10 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
11 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx Nightclub
12 - New York, NY - Best Buy Theater

European Killfest 2012 dates include:

October

4 - Hannover, Germany - Musikzentrum
5 - Osnabrück, Germany - Rosenhof
6 - Den Haag, Netherlands - Paard Van Troje
7 - London, England - O2 Islington Academy
8 - Sheffield, England - Corporation
10 - Milano, Italy - Alcatraz
11 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
12 - Geiselwind, Germany - Musichall
13 - Straubing, Germany - Metal Invasion Festival
14 - Katowice, Poland - Mega Club
15 - Prague, Czech Republic - Meet Factory
16 - Saarbrücken, Germany - Garage
17 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
18 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
19 - Andernach, Germany - JUZ
20 - Bochum, Germany - Zeche
21 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle