{"id":34849,"date":"2013-11-15T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T12:50:06","slug":"bobby-blitz-ellsworth-of-overkill-video-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2013\/bobby-blitz-ellsworth-of-overkill-video-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby &#8220;Blitz&#8221; Ellsworth of Overkill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Steve Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/OVERKILL-2.jpeg\" alt=\"OVERKILL-2\" width=\"440\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21297\" \/>New Jersey thrash pioneers Overkill are currently destroying North America with their German brothers-in-arms Kreator and Californian upstarts Warbringer as part of the Legends of Thrash tour. Never a band to rest on their laurels, Overkill have also all but completed work on the follow-up to 2012&#8217;s <em>The Electric Age<\/em>. The new record is due for release in early March 2014 via eOne Music. <\/p>\n<p>Frontman Bobby &#8220;Blitz&#8221; Ellsworth took a moment to speak with us at Hardrock Haven prior to the band&#8217;s show at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH on November 5th. In the exclusive interview, Ellsworth talks about why Obamacare would not work for him, the possibility of a new Overkill live CD\/DVD, the economics of fine chocolate making, the first time he met Kreator mainman Mille Petrozza, the fan-made video made up of clips of just Blitz laughing, and two new Overkill songs entitled &#8220;Pig&#8221; and &#8220;King of the Rat Bastards&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aLkxIVqOyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>***Video edited and compiled by Justin DelPrince***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Steve Patrick &#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212; New Jersey thrash pioneers Overkill are currently destroying North America with their German brothers-in-arms Kreator and Californian upstarts Warbringer as part of the Legends of Thrash tour. Never <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2013\/bobby-blitz-ellsworth-of-overkill-video-interview\/\" title=\"Bobby &#8220;Blitz&#8221; Ellsworth of Overkill\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9052],"tags":[203,1031,5083,2250],"class_list":{"0":"post-34849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcint2013","8":"tag-interview","9":"tag-overkill","10":"tag-the-electric-age","11":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}