In a brand new interview with “THAT Rocks!”, the weekly YouTube collection hosted by Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, OVERKILL frontman Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth spoke about his band’s August 6 efficiency within the car parking zone of the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey previous to METALLICA‘s look on the venue. Requested if he obtained an opportunity to say hiya to any of the METALLICA guys, Blitz stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “No, I did not. We might simply come off the street and we have been making an attempt to combat COVID. We have been making an attempt to maintain folks away from us. And concurrently we have been gonna go to Europe like a day and a half later. And it ended up being canceled as a result of three extra guys obtained it. And it wasn’t simply a kind of little simple flu type of issues. It was bedridden and a few guys have been, you understand, they have been only a mess. So we canceled the opposite stuff. So I did not [see any of the METALLICA guys]. I simply went house and [put my] head on the pillow and ice on the chest.”

Elaborating on how a lot his newest bout with COVID put a pressure on his well being, Bobby stated: “Properly, it wasn’t simple. I imply, I’ve had it up to now the place it is nothing. You will have a sniffle, you will have a fever, you understand what it’s, you take a look at your self. You go, ‘Ah, I simply will not go give it to someone,’ you understand? And I swear to God, I assumed I had someplace between pneumonia and a sinus an infection, you understand? And I am, like, I’ve gotta get higher for this METALLICA factor. After which I feel I obtained house [from OVERKILL‘s summer 2023 U.S. tour], and a day later Jason [Bittner, OVERKILL drummer] was, like, ‘I obtained COVID.’ I am, like, ‘Oh fuck. I by no means even considered this.’ After which, [it turned out that] there was, like, 5 guys within the band and crew [who contracted COVID], a ton of visitors that we had seen in Lengthy Island [at the final show of the U.S. tour on July 30] and previous to that. Clearly, no person knew — no person may determine who affected person one was, and who provides a rat’s [ass]? But it surely wasn’t nice. It was a little bit bit greater than that sniffle and ‘who cares’ that I had six, eight months in the past.”

OVERKILL kicked off its “Scorching The Earth” U.S. tour with EXHORDER and HEATHEN on July 13 on the Nice American Corridor in San Francisco, California. The 16-date trek made stops in Dallas and Silver Springs, amongst different cities, earlier than ending in Huntington, New York on July 30.

OVERKILL‘s twentieth studio album, “Scorched”, was launched in April by way of Nuclear Blast Data.

Photograph by Frank White