The Electric Age

Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
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Based on 42 ratings
March 27, 2012 / Release Date
LP / Format
eOne / Label
Thrash Metal / Genre
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Critic Reviews

TheLilBastard
80

I have such a weird sense of vague nostalgia for this album. While I didn't listen to it at the time, it was the most recent Overkill album when I was first getting into the band, and I remember thinking how it was weird that a late-era album from a band as old as Overkill was getting so much love/ranked so highly in their discography. Now that I've finally gotten around to it (10+ years later), I see why.

Dekielek112
78

A bit of a letdown compared to Ironbound, but still full of the typical Overkill energy. Honestly, there are really no rememberable songs on this one, but it's consistent and delivered with enormous pace and fun. The album only showed that the band is able to still kick ass when others slightly disappointed.

Night_Crawler
75

Another one of their better projects. It has probably some of Overkill's most consistent performances in instrumentation and vocals, with everything being consistently pretty good throughoutt. None of the songs here are career highlights mind, but it's overall just a consistently decent album, with more good songs than bad. I also appreciate that the last two albums have been some of Overkill's more serious albums too, it's a nice change of pace from what they had done up to ... read more

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