OVERKILL Say They’re Going “To Start Recording Before The First Of The Year”

Approaching their 46th year as an active group, Overkill have been pretty open about the fact that they are working on even more material.

When chatting to Metal Mayhem ROC, original member Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth explained that the band’s newest venture isn’t that far off the horizon (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “We’re demoed out. Jeramie Kling‘s playing drums for us now. Jason Bittner moved on to other things… We’re going to start recording before the first of the year. We’ll get some stuff done, I’m sure just the drum tracks; we’re working on those as of right now. I’m just filling in the blanks with what the other dudes have done. And it’s kind of business as usual at this point. So, no big news to report as of this moment, but tomorrow you never know.”

It’s not the first time Overkill has talked about upcoming music either. Overkill bassist D.D. Verni told MisplacedStraws.com that they were “demoing stuff” back in September, “We probably have maybe nine or 10 songs kind of scratched out that I gave to Blitz a little while ago. Usually the process is I’ll demo everything up musically [and] then I’ll give it to Blitz. He’ll spend some time with it and kind of do his thing with them. Then we get everybody together, kind of that. So I gave it to Blitz maybe not too long ago.”

Verni continued to give a bit more information, saying that he thinks the new record will be out in 2026, “I would think next year, for sure. Just when will it be — spring? Will it be fall? Somewhere in there. But [in] ’26 [there] will definitely be a new Overkill record.”