Overkill, Forbidden To Tour Together

Veteran New Jersey thrashers Overkill will join forces with reactivated San Francisco Bay Area metallers Forbidden for the second leg of the "Killfest" US tour in November. The full tour lineup and exact cities/dates will be announced on May 2, with tickets going on sale that day.

Overkill's new album, "Ironbound", sold 4,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 192 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at No. 4 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Overkill's previous album, "Immortalis", opened with 2,800 units back in October 2007.

Forbidden recently entered Sonic Room/Audio Voyage studios in Livermore, California to begin recording its as-yet-untitled fifth studio album for a late 2010 release via Nuclear Blast Records.

Read the entire article at Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[Adam124]

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

[Superperfex]

I did. I was about to say, "Oh, man. Juicy story."

I thought it was a band that is banned from touring.

[Plaeghdraeger]

I did! "Overkill forbidden to tour!!"
:O

[Superperfex]

To get back on topic, looks like an amazing combo. I might drive over and see this for myself.

[alkalineweeman]

Oh you sneaky UG headline writers you got me.. touche... touche..
News is up awful early today isn't it? I could get used to this rather than waiting till dinner time for the update.

[apple_apple]

haha i was completely wrong when i first saw that title

[KevVin]

I also misunderstood the title, like they got restraining orders against each other?

[NakedInTheRain]

UG News really needs to stop posting articles with misleading headlines. It is getting very annoying.

[BlitzkriegAir]

great line up!

Ironbound is a killer record

[RX120D]

I saw Overkill 2 nights ago in Montreal. Best performance from any band I've ever seen. So tight and they sounded sooo good. Fuckin' Blitz is a legend! \m/

[CJCKO]

oh wow. i thought the band was forbiden to tour together. lol

[Senor Kristian]

Ha ha! Me too! Like some kind of internal restraining order

[Oheric]

I was thinking "Overkill can't tour together? WHAT?"

Sounds pretty sweet. Might have to check this out.

[One-FISH-]

Punctuation totally makes this title...>.>

[okoman]

How misleading...

[24Hammett24]

OVERKILL!!!!

[98Timberwolf]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

You know it!

[Set-Abominae]

I think I'm the only one who DIDN'T read the title the wrong way o-O

Regardless, I'd definitely go for Overkill, but is Forbidden as good as they used to be?

[TheEsupremacy]

Headline was misleading, but not really. Lulz.

[CapnKickass]

they just love to do that hahaha.

[Thrill-house]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

I did, at least I'm not the only one haha

[bassthunder]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

I think everyone did. I was very confused for a moment.

[Krieger91]

well i wasn't the only one to get confused eheh.

[godberry]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

"wait a second...if the band members are forbidden to tour with each other...then how do they play? OHHHHH! I GET IT!"

[flame_mc]

godberry wrote:

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

"wait a second...if the band members are forbidden to tour with each other...then how do they play? OHHHHH! I GET IT!"

lol

[jrcsgtpeppers]

oh wow.
I thought this was gna be about like, a concert that resulted in many casualties and the bands arent allowed to tour together anymore.

[espChris93]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

haha yeah i was like wtf? forbiden to tour together thats pretty extreme, but this tour should be good

[The Shroom420]

Uhh..I feel left out. I actually knew that they meant the band Forbidden, probably because they're one of my favorite bands

[jimmeru87]

RX120D wrote:

I saw Overkill 2 nights ago in Montreal. Best performance from any band I've ever seen. So tight and they sounded sooo good. Fuckin' Blitz is a legend! \m/

[Argon688]

This Is Hillarious

[jimmeru87]

You got that right RX, they are probably the best sounding metal band live there is!

[tyrogue]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

Me, I was like "What", and then I read it

[nobrightskys]

Missled.

[BlkMgkNitez]

Jesus man, 4100 copies? 2800? Bands that have been playing for more than 20 years aren't even passing 20,000 units? It's a sad sad year for Metal

[Solarstar101]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

i was like wtf?!?! lol

[blueboy14]

wow, misleading much??? ultimate guitar writers are jerks! lol

[doritofreak93]

WOW. most misleading title Ive seen in forever.

[rickyj]

lol clever bastards. i loved the new album hopefully i get to see them live

[thrashmonkey]

I won't be able to make it to the Portland show in about a week. Please come to Oregon again with Forbidden!

[Im_Broken]

man, that was confusing when i first saw the title...

[mr.moo]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

hell yeah lol :P

[.:*§c@rY*:.]

Facking titles.

[Davidleerothsha]

Don't you dummies know what the hell a comma is?

[Skuzzmo]

BlkMgkNitez wrote:

Jesus man, 4100 copies? 2800? Bands that have been playing for more than 20 years aren't even passing 20,000 units? It's a sad sad year for Metal

Bad isn't it.....In a nation that has a population of 250ish million, 4100 units sounds.....not good.

[HammettFTW]

Skuzzmo wrote:

BlkMgkNitez wrote:

Jesus man, 4100 copies? 2800? Bands that have been playing for more than 20 years aren't even passing 20,000 units? It's a sad sad year for Metal

Bad isn't it.....In a nation that has a population of 250ish million, 4100 units sounds.....not good.

Then you know what to do - buy your albums! Oh and also, can I just say its not a sad year if the units sold were 50% more than their last albums - thrash metal is back on the rise, as are most metal genres.

[HammettFTW]

Oh and sorry for the double post, but can I just say that overkill are damn good, and its time to start listening to forbidden.

[Firering56]

Adam124 wrote:

anyone read this title completely the wrong way?

Yeah.
But 4,100 copies? Overkill is cooler then that! At least now i feel like im an exclusive club(Since i was apperently one of the 4,100 that bought the album)