![]() And I said, “You’re kidding.” We had some people in our corner, for sure, but we had to stand in front of fifteen Megaforce people and play the Horrorscope record on a stage in Brooklyn - that’s not well known, but now it is. We were getting the Horrorscope stuff together and Megaforce said, “We’re not sure we want to keep the band.” They wanted us to audition for them. You can talk about Lars and Lombardo, but Sid wasn’t afraid to do other things, to think outside the thrash box. He really reached a new level with Horrorscope. He was the sole riff writer in the band after Bobby Gustafson left. If I attribute that to anything, I attribute it to D.D. Merritt Grant and Rob Cannavino came in really seamlessly, because the band seemed to carry what we’d done on Years of Decay into Horrorscope. We realized that change isn’t a bad thing. We didn’t want anyone to say, “Bobby was better than this new guy.” And we wanted to perform old stuff with two guitars to keep it fresh. So, it seemed like to logical thing to bring in two players. We knew if we replaced Bobby with one guitarist, we’d get compared to what we were. We started the band and I trusted his ethic and songwriting. There are different stories about what happened, but I wanted to play with D.D. Vocalist Bobby Blitz called this record his personal favorite in 1999.īobby left the band, and it wasn’t the most amicable circumstances. The band then wiped away any of their doubts with this thrash metal masterpiece. ![]() Guitarist Bobby Gustafson had left the band and Megaforce Records had their doubts about keeping the band. Overkill’s fifth album is considered by many fans to be their best.
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