Video Showdown #2: Avenged Sevenfold vs. Overkill
Today’s Video Showdown puts the Metal band Overkill against Avenged Sevenfold.
It seems that there is some logo infringement between the bands Overkill, and Avenged Sevenfold. Overkill has been using the flying bat skull logo since their 1988 release, Under the Influence.
Meanwhile, the flying bat skull started showing up on Avenged Sevenfold covers in 2003, with the A7X’s release, Waking the Fallen.
Overkill’s Hello From the Gutter
vs.
Avenged Sevenfold’s Bat Country
Which band to you prefer, and why? Please post your comments!!
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over kill was around for 30 years and i only herd of them this year Avenged sevenfold has been around for 19 years and i have herd of them since the day i could wal
Overkill seem like such dicks, I’m just putting that out there. No one I’ve ever known seems to like Overkill, which is completely understandable. Avenged Sevenfold, till death do us part.
Care to explain? Their lead singer actually seems pretty hilarious and laid back. If you’re talking about them sending T-Shirts to A7X for literally stealing their logo, then I’d say that that’s actually about the best humoured and least dick-ish response to that that I can think of. They could easily have just sued the band for it.
It’s obvious that your friends won’t like Overkill. Most people tend to be in groups that share similar tastes, and that includes music. If you’re suggesting that your small group of friends is indicative of the opinions of the rest of the world, then that’s incredibly ignorant. Overkill have a number of highly critically acclaimed albums spanning a 30 year career, and 16 million albums worldwide, which is extremely impressive for such a fast, heavy and unique metal band: a “true” one, if you will.
While a lot of people like A7X since they’re a kind of softer hard rock band, a lot of people also realise that they plagiarise a lot of material and are actually very bland, if you’re not ignorant to all of the other metal bands out there. I’d say blatant plagiarism (seriously, listen to Sad but True by Metallica and tell me that This Means War is just a coincidence) is more of a dick move than sending T-shirts.
OVERKILL!!!!!!!
They’re way better then that avenged sevenfold shit overkill will always be better they play real music \m/
chaly,overkill’s mascot is on feel the fire,their first full length album and the other band sucks
Living just to kill!
Hmmm..if we talk about stealing logos,what would Maiden say about Overkill’s?. Anyway,EVIL NEVER DIES!!!(..all the evil seem to live forever…)
they’re both really good bands, but I think A 7s is better. even got their name on my license plate
Eww
EVIL NEVER DIES!!!
NUFF SAID
First of you got your facts wrong, The Avenged Sevenfold “deathbat” Showed up in 2002 with: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. And i personally think Avenged Sevenfold is MUCH more talented and over all a better band
R.I.P. The Rev
You must have different cover art than mine. The death bat is not on my copy of Sounding the Seventh Trumpet.
booooo!!!! avenged is NOTHING compared to Overkill!
Best band!? You mean riff stealing,logo stealing, bass line stealing band full of Emos…… Fuck the Rev! He burns in the flames. OverKill wins!!!!! Thrash Till Death!
Why would someone ask this,overkill wins 1 million times,avenged sevenfold sucks EVIL NEVER DIES!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSS!!!!!!! \m/