The Years of Decay
by Overkill
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 October 1989
- Label: Megaforce
- Country: United States
- Length: 56:17
- Community rating: 3.74/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, Bobby Gustafson, D.D. Verni, The Satone's, Sid Falck
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by Terry Date, 'The Years of Decay' elevates Overkill's East Coast thrash into incredibly epic, dynamic, and progressively structured territory. The album balances high-speed, energetic aggression with heavy, doom-laden rhythms and deeply misanthropic, pessimistic lyricism.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, riff-heavy, gallop, relentless, old-school
Tracklist
- Time to Kill (6:16)
- Elimination (4:35)
- I Hate (3:46)
- Nothing to Die For (4:22)
- Playing with Spiders / Skullkrusher (10:15)
- Birth of Tension (5:03)
- Who Tends the Fire (8:09)
- The Years of Decay (8:00)
- Evil Never Dies (5:47)
Credits
- Overkill - primary artist, producer, written-by
- Fastner & Larson - artwork by
- The Satone's - backing vocals
- D.D. Verni - bass
- Sid Falck - drums
- Terry Date - engineer, producer
- Matt Lane - engineer [2nd]
- Bobby Gustafson - guitar
- Howie Weinberg - mastered by, mastering
- Michael Paras - photography
- Jon Zazula - producer [executive]
- Marsha Zazula - producer [executive]
- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth - vocals