{"id":3447,"date":"2013-11-23T05:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2013-11-23T05:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:11:52","slug":"video-interview-with-overkill-singer-bobby-blitz-ellsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/11\/23\/video-interview-with-overkill-singer-bobby-blitz-ellsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview With Overkill Singer Bobby &#8216;Blitz&#8217; Ellsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/overkillband2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3450\" title=\"overkillband2\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/overkillband2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>Building upon the strength of two fantastic recent releases &#8216;Ironbound&#8217; and &#8216;The Electric Age&#8217;, New Jersey thrash legends are currently annihilating stages across North America on the &#8216;Legends Of Thrash&#8217; tour, a co-headline run with German thrashers Kreator and Southern California youngsters Warbringer as the opening act. This tour visited the Grove of Anaheim on November 15, and before the show I sat down with singer Bobby &#8216;Blitz&#8217; Ellsworth for a detailed chat about this tour, the band&#8217;s recent &#8216;Battle Of San Bernardino&#8217; experience, new music, vocal recording, and lots more. Watch the 15-minute chat below and read a review of the Anaheim show or visit Overkill on the web using the links at the bottom.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDf_LPcJ8F0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video by Chad Alexander<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/11\/16\/legends-of-thrash-tour-slays-anaheim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overkill\/Kreator Anaheim gig review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Overkill on the web:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/WreckingCrew.com\" target=\"_blank\">WreckingCrew.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/OverkillWreckingCrew\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/Overkill<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/OverkillWreckingCrew\" target=\"_blank\">WreckingCrew<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OverkillBand\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/OverkillBand<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remaining tour dates<\/strong>:<br \/>\n11\/22\/13\u00a0 Empire \u2013 W. Springfield, VA<br \/>\n11\/23\/13\u00a0 Stage 48 \u2013 New York City, NY<br \/>\n11\/24\/13\u00a0 Stage 48 \u2013 New York City, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Building upon the strength of two fantastic recent releases &#8216;Ironbound&#8217; and &#8216;The Electric Age&#8217;, New Jersey thrash legends are currently annihilating stages across North America on the &#8216;Legends Of Thrash&#8217; tour, a co-headline run with German thrashers Kreator and Southern California youngsters Warbringer as the opening act. This tour visited the Grove &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/11\/23\/video-interview-with-overkill-singer-bobby-blitz-ellsworth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video Interview With Overkill Singer Bobby &#8216;Blitz&#8217; Ellsworth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}