Overkill (the Atlantic years) boxset

It’s just $43 on Amazon for America.

I can handle that.

Troublezone wrote:

It’s just $43 on Amazon for America.

I can handle that.

Problem is with the shipping fees. Around 82$.

Unless i retain the services of a private shipping company. Will cost much less.

Will see.

Gilbert wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

It’s just $43 on Amazon for America.

I can handle that.

Problem is with the shipping fees. Around 82$.

Unless i retain the services of a private shipping company. Will cost much less.

Will see.

If you buy $25 worth of merch on Amazon and it qualifies, shipping is free (here in America). Not sure if that applies to your area.

Troublezone wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

It’s just $43 on Amazon for America.

I can handle that.

Problem is with the shipping fees. Around 82$.

Unless i retain the services of a private shipping company. Will cost much less.

Will see.

If you buy $25 worth of merch on Amazon and it qualifies, shipping is free (here in America). Not sure if that applies to your area.

Not sure it applies. Anyways, there are shipping agents who can have the Amazon orders delivered to a valid local US address, then sent via fast courier. Costs less.

I will have a friend of mine in the US pick this up for me.

Shipping to other countries is super expensive. I once bought a extra copy of that Black Sabbath CD they were only releasing to people at the shows for The End tour. The guy that I picked it up for, ended up spending something like $75.00 for the single CD. CD was $35.00 if memory serves, then shipping was more than the CD cost. I felt guilty when I told him how much it was going to be, but he didn't care one bit. Good luck with yours Gilbert, hope prices are less these days.

It's €34.99 on Amazon.de. Free shipping. I'll probably order in October together with the KK's Priest CD.

But for €35, I don't expect the packaging to be all that great.

Wrecked Neck wrote:

Shipping to other countries is super expensive. I once bought a extra copy of that Black Sabbath CD they were only releasing to people at the shows for The End tour. The guy that I picked it up for, ended up spending something like $75.00 for the single CD. CD was $35.00 if memory serves, then shipping was more than the CD cost. I felt guilty when I told him how much it was going to be, but he didn't care one bit. Good luck with yours Gilbert, hope prices are less these days.

Thanks man.

Normally, i don't mind spending money on stuff that i really need. But it happens that i already own all the Overkill cds.

That's why i am considering spending the amount on other releases. Will see how things go.

Gilbert wrote:

I will have a friend of mine in the US pick this up for me.

That's probably the best way for you.

Lari wrote:

I think I'll get it. The CD set looks a little cheap though. No booklets?

It is indeed a little on the cheap side. CD sleeves in a box. The box is alright, looks good on the shelf. Sturdy. But the sleeves are 'meh' (I like how the album art looks on them though, like it would be on vinyl, I suppose) and obviously there are no booklets like I guessed. It was not expensive so all is well. But maybe jewel cases of a few of my favourites would have been enough.

Then again, now I get private time with albums I probably never would have picked up, like Under the Influence, I Hear Black and W.F.O.

Before playing any on the system, I already popped the discs in my PC so I can rip them to Youtube Music, and the final track of W.F.O. is 28 minutes long. I assume it has bonus/hidden stuff on it.

Lari wrote:

Before playing any on the system, I already popped the discs in my PC so I can rip them to Youtube Music, and the final track of W.F.O. is 28 minutes long. I assume it has bonus/hidden stuff on it.

The original CD release was 99 tracks! After the last proper album track, most of them were just one or two seconds of silence, but then, buried waaaaayyy towards the end was what sounds like a drunken jam session. They play bits of Priest's "The Ripper," Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" and something else, I can't remember what it was cuz I haven't listened to it in awhile.

(EDIT: It's Sabbath's "Heaven & Hell.")

Wonder if they've considered making a box set (or even a best of) for all of the post-1994 material. Maybe even remix The Killing Kind (a good album that, like a lot of CMC material, was plagued by awful production).

Hadley wrote:

Wonder if they've considered making a box set (or even a best of) for all of the post-1994 material. Maybe even remix The Killing Kind (a good album that, like a lot of CMC material, was plagued by awful production).

They did that a couple of years ago, it was called Historikill.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Hadley wrote:

Wonder if they've considered making a box set (or even a best of) for all of the post-1994 material. Maybe even remix The Killing Kind (a good album that, like a lot of CMC material, was plagued by awful production).

They did that a couple of years ago, it was called Historikill.

So now we need one covering Ironbound through the Winds of War.

Historikill is one awesome box set.

I will probably order the Atlantic Years one in January. Enough cds for 2021.

Gilbert wrote:

Historikill is one awesome box set.

I will probably order the Atlantic Years one in January. Enough cds for 2021.

The collector in me could not resist, so i ender up ordering the box set

Lari wrote:

Lari wrote:

I think I'll get it. The CD set looks a little cheap though. No booklets?

It is indeed a little on the cheap side. CD sleeves in a box. The box is alright, looks good on the shelf. Sturdy. But the sleeves are 'meh' (I like how the album art looks on them though, like it would be on vinyl, I suppose) and obviously there are no booklets like I guessed. It was not expensive so all is well. But maybe jewel cases of a few of my favourites would have been enough.

Then again, now I get private time with albums I probably never would have picked up, like Under the Influence, I Hear Black and W.F.O.

Before playing any on the system, I already popped the discs in my PC so I can rip them to Youtube Music, and the final track of W.F.O. is 28 minutes long. I assume it has bonus/hidden stuff on it.

I've been playing the discs in order and yesterday and today I got to I Hear Black, and after listening to it twice... oh boy.... it's just crap. I didn't realise the band went downhill that fast after four real good records (I even liked Under the Influence a lot now that I got it). But I Hear Black sounds like grunge. They're suddenly Alice in Chains. It's boring and slow, yes some groove but not enough to keep me interested.

And this coming from someone who thought Testament's The Ritual is an awesome album. Different, but real well done. I don't know if the Overkill album is well done or not, but it just doesn't grab me. At all. I want to play it for my wife. She likes grunge.

W.F.O. is a massive improvement over I Hear Black IMO, even though its total Pantera worship.