Exhorder @ The Grove of Anaheim 7-14-23
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Overkill Thrashes Way into the O.C. with a Scorching Set-Up!
East coast thrashers Overkill have made their way currently upon their summer tour titled “Scorching The Earth U.S. Tour”. Taking place across a majority of the month of July, with their friends and label mates in Exhorder and Heathen. Making a stop at the happiest place on earth, no not Disneyland but it’s home base Anaheim, California is where the tour would stop, arriving at the The Grove of Anaheim venue, next to Angel’s baseball stadium.
Doors would open at 6PM allowing fans lined up along its building to head inside, openers of the evening being Sunlord, whose performance was powerful yet brief. Their set being roughly around 20 to 30 minutes, performing an array of tracks, that were catching yet entertaining as well. The crowd of arrivals were pleased with their performance regardless.
SUNLORD PHOTOS:
Next up would be Heathen, whose thrash metal elements were intense yet welcoming. The crowd getting into the grove of their presents, nodding their heads, to pushing one another along to the beat of it all. The songs were fast and very catchy, that there was no stopping them, except their set time but they kept that energy true and heavy.
HEATHEN PHOTOS:
Exhorder would be next and they were another thrash metal act with more punk based influence during their material, a lot of their workings being instrumental. But they did provide an entertaining set, the music being thrash metal like, the crowd taking it all in. All there really bobbing their heads to the beat, while others pushed one another, they brought the momentum that kept everyone in check.
EXHORDER PHOTOS:
Headliners of the night was Overkill, and they brought it. It just being everything really, that angst, energy, and pure adrenaline rush, that had been active for the past almost 45 years now. With the band going on to release a new album just this year titled “Scorched”, it shows how much the crowd enjoyed the new working’s as well as the old working’s too. A lot of the songs sung would include new one’s like “Scorched”, “The Surgeon”, along with many classics such as “Coma”, “Horrorscope”, “Mean, Green, Killing Machine”, “Rotten to the Core” and “Overkill”. The band’s frontman being in his 60’s still can play and sing rather nicely, with the rest of the band, doing just as good of a job. Even the audience admired the performance antics. Surely the crowd kept the crowd surfers flowing, and mosh pit crowd circulating, with the rest banging their heads, to singing along, all there were impressed with what was done here tonight.
OVERKILL PHOTOS:
All in all really, Overkill and the rest of the acts, brought on something that kept all there pleased, energized, and well entertained. Wanting likely more, if not begging for more, more than once, that is how much fun all was had with a band like Overkill, a little band that could and has done for a long time coming.
SETLIST:
1. Scorched
2. Bring Me the Night
3. Electric Rattlesnake
4. Hello From the Gutter
5. Powersurge
6. Wicked Place
7. Coma
8. Horrorscope
9. Long Time Dyin’
10. The Surgeon
11. Mean, Green, Killing Machine
12. Ironbound
13. Elimination
ENCORE:
14. Overkill
15. Rotten to the Core
16. Fuck You (The Subhumans Cover Song)
OVERKILL - ANNOUNCE "SCORCHING THE EARTH" U.S. TOUR WITH LABELMATES EXHORDER & HEATHEN!
For four decades, OVERKILL have been the trailblazers in producing some of the most signature moments in the world of metal. Earlier this year, the New Jersey Thrash Legends unleashed their twentieth studio album, entitled Scorched via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, the band announce they are heading on their "Scorching The Earth" U.S. Tour with labelmates EXHORDER and HEATHEN. The 16-date trek will kick off on July 13th in San Francisco and make stops in Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, and Silver Springs before ending in Huntington, NY on July 30th!
OVERKILL’s Bobby Blitz state, 'Hey "killers', the time has come to hit the road in the US of A! July the 13th starts the salvo in San Fran and we will be rolling down the west coast to L.A., across Rt10 east to Florida then up the east coast and back home. Been a long time kids! Keep your eyes open, and get Scorched! Cya on the R.O.A.D.!"
EXHORDER's Kyle Thomas comments "Rolling with OVERKILL is always nothing short of a family affair, but add HEATHEN and us to the mix too and it’s like a family vacation! We can’t wait to tear up the States with our family!”
HEATHEN comments, "We are absolutely stoked to continue this killer tour package with our friends in OVERKILL and EXHORDER and look forward to bringing it to the United States! We'll see you in the pit!"
TOUR DATES:
07/13/2023 San Francisco, CA - Great American Hall
07/14/2023 Anaheim, CA - The Grove
07/15/2023 Las Vegas, NV - 24 Oxford (Virgin Hotel)
07/16/2023 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
07/18/2023 Dallas, TX - Trees
07/19/2023 San Antonio, TX - The Rock Box
07/20/2023 Houston, TX - Scout Bar
07/21/2023 Destin, FL - Club LA
07/22/2023 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
07/23/2023 Orlando, FL - House Of Blues
07/24/2023 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
07/26/2023 Silver Springs, MD - The Fillmore
07/27/2023 Stroudsburg, PA - Sherman Theater
07/28/2023 Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance
07/29/2023 Boston, MA - House Of Blues
07/30/2023 Huntington, NY - The Paramount