The Years Of Decay
by Overkill
Overkill bestography
The Years Of Decay is ranked 2nd best out of 27 albums by Overkill on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Overkill is Feel The Fire which is ranked number 9401 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 130.
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The Years Of Decay track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 04/23/2026 14:31 |  Gammarus1979 | 587 | 81/100 | |
| 04/06/2026 20:04 |  dihansse | 6,341 | 75/100 | |
| 04/02/2026 23:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 11,373 | 70/100 | |
| 09/23/2025 21:45 | Olli | 7,274 | 62/100 | |
| 09/15/2025 21:31 | traistboar | 1,705 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.4.
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Best metal album of '89 my hs graduation year. This beats Practice What you Preach only because Testaments album has a shitty drum mix. Sounded like a click track. Plus, OverKill always had that hunger to do better and better. You could tell they weren't wannabes or lazy. Bobby Gustafson is the only guitarist at the time and made 'em famous with his writing abilities.
Fantastic album! Vocals reminded me of Dead Kennedys at times. Only made me like it more!
Jasonconfused 11/16/2012 08:12 | #55160
Overkill is one of the most underrated thrash bands. This was probably their best produced and highest quality album of their early days. Favorite songs: Elimination, Birth of Tension, Evil Never Dies.
This is such a quality thrash album. I hope others will check out this band.
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