Overkill was a band on the periphery of my thrash favorites back in 1987 and one that my friends liked a bit more than I back in the day, especially as I started to tend towards raw sounds and more of a skate/thrash esthetic. Truth be told, the vocals took some getting use to with the high pitched squeals and soaring upper register, something I never truely dug back in the day.
That being said, Overkill is considered today one of the better thrash acts of the late 1980's and their back catalog is stocked with solid albums, with 1985's Feeling the Fire and 1988's Under The Influence being true classics of the genre.
!!!Fuck You!!! was an EP released back in 1987 with the title song actually a cover of the Subhumans and the remaining four songs all from a live recording that sale year at The Phantasy Theatre in Cleveland, OH. It's tight and fast and once you get use to the vocals, its an excellent EP. It has been reissued with one extra track on CD (a live version of 'Fuck You') and its a great place to start if you want to check out one of the more operatic and fast bands to have graced the thrash scene from day one.
