Overdose: Hit The Road 7″

Description

If you like ripping rock & roll that’s built to be blasted with the pedal to the floor in a Seventies muscle car, then turn off Tool’s Fear Inoculum and grab a copy of Overdose’s new Hit the Road 7-inch, streaming in full here at Revolver. The band features members of Speedwolf, Mutilation Rites and Pyrolatrous, and while the influences on this release are fairly obvious bands like Motrhead, Girlschool, Venom and Midnight are all part of the conversation what the NYC-based four-piece do the best isn’t just recreate a style, but capture the dangerous spirit of it all. “Took the Deal” and “Hit the Road” are perfect for breaking glass, shotgunning beers and causing general mayhem basically, the perfect soundtrack for Labor Day Weekend.

“Our second single is more of the same,” admits vocalist-guitarist Reed Bruemmer. “One fast song. One mid-paced. All of our influences released singles for years before their debut full-length, so why wouldn’t we? Rock & roll in heavy small format at optimum 45 RPM.”

Blast Hit the Road below. You can order the 7-inch, as well as their previous one, via Bruemmer’s own Splattered Records.

Our take: Second single from this Motorcharged band from New York. Hit the Road comes out of the gate with fire, opening with a blistering lead that walks the (thin) line between prime-era Motorhead and Scandinavian Jawbreaker-era Anti-Cimex. There are a lot of bands who have done this Motorhead-inspired sound over the years, but Overdose is a standout, capturing the punk energy that you want, packing their songs with exciting part after exciting part (theres even a SECOND guitar solo in Hit the Road!), and delivering the whole thing with a thick layer of grime that makes you feel likeyoure watching them bash it out in a damp basement at 1AM when everyone is bleary-eyed, drunk, and raging. The b-side is more mid-paced but just as raging, and slacker pace gives the guitarist room to deliver a more melodic lead. This record is a total ripper.