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Overkill

Artist Motörhead Released 1979 Type album

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Fourth of the 23 Motörhead records held here. It came four years into a run that began in 1975. 1979 puts it two years ahead of the genre it is filed under: this tree dates Speed metal from 1981.

From Wikipedia

Overkill is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Motörhead, released on 16 March 1979. It was the band's first album with Bronze Records. Kerrang! magazine listed the album at number 46 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". American thrash metal band Overkill was named after this album.

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