Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on The New York Hardcore Chronicles Live!, Overkill’s D.D. Verni offered an update on the band’s new album. He says they are “probably looking at a release early next year.”

Verni said the following when asked about the injury that is keeping him from touring:

“Ah, well, there’s a few different reasons for that, but I would say probably the main one at this point is that I just need to kind of rest this arm some. And we’re just support on this [tour]. This isn’t our tour; this is a TESTAMENT tour. We’re just kind of tagging along. I had another surgery done a little while ago, and just at this point, for something like this, I’m, like, ‘All right, maybe it’s best I just sit this one out.’ So our friend Christian [Olde Wolbers, ex-FEAR FACTORY] is filling in. And it’s just rolling on.”

He continued:

“I had the surgery once, I did all the P.T. [physical therapy]. They told me I was good. I went out on the road, and I completely ripped it off again. And I came back and I had to do it all over again. [I had] rotator cuff and a bicep tear — on both shoulders. It’s just old-guy shit. But now if I blow it off again, if it tears off again, it’s shoulder replacement, and I’m really trying to avoid that. But you know what’s fucked up, though? It’s only playing bass. I can’t play sitting down anymore at all. I can play standing up, but if I sit with my arm kind of locked like that, I can’t play it. I can’t even get through a single song. But I can on a guitar. I don’t know. It’s something about the way I hold the pick and the amount [of weight and pressure] I’m putting on a specific spot. But that’s the way it goes right now. I gotta get strong and get it back to place so I don’t have to fucking worry about that shit anymore.”

He also confirmed that he is still a member of the group and has contributed to their new album:

“Oh, yeah. I’m writing right now. I have most of the new OVERKILL record done, demoed up, for the most part ready to go. I just did a couple of new things yesterday. I thought it was ready to go. Then I had a couple other things that I wanted to add. So, for the most part it’s all done. I gave it to Blitz [OVERKILL singer Bobby Ellsworth], I guess, a while ago, and he’s been noodling around with it. So over the next — I don’t know — six months or so, probably we’ll jump in the studio somewhere along the way. And I would think we’re probably looking at a release early next year, February, March, something like that. We got a couple of calls about some tours and some things then. So we’ll see.”

[via Blabbermouth]