1985 Seculo XX Split LP w/SEPULTURA

1986 Seculo XX (full) LP

1987 Conscience LP

1989 You're Really Big LP

1990 Addicted To Reality LP

1992 Circus Of Death LP

1993 Progress Of Decadence LP/CD

1996 Scars CD

Sie kommen aus Belo Horizonte, und standen immer im Schatten der anderen bekannten Band aus ihrem Heimatort. Dabei hatten sie gleiche Startchancen, als sie auf der berühmten Split LP gemeinsam ihren Vinyl Einstand feierten. Sie sind aber auf jeden Fall besser als SEPULTURA, und bieten dort richtig guten Rumpelthrash. Als Anekdote geht um, dass die jeweiligen Fans die LP Seite der anderen Band verkratzten. Bei SEPULTURA kann man aber eine gerade Linie in ihrer Entwicklung ausmachen. Bei OVERDOSE dagegen gab es die verrücktesten Stilwechsel, was sicher auch, trotz vieler Alben einen Durchbruch verhindert hat. Dabei sah es für die Jungs teilweise gar nicht so schlecht aus. Ihr "Seculo XX" Album wurde erstmal noch einmal herausgebracht, als volle LP, mit 5 weiteren guten Thrash Stücken. Das nächste Album ist wirklich guter Power Metal, und sie kommen ein Jahr später bei "Metal Blade" sogar auf ihre Cultsamplerreihe "Metal Massacre" Nr 9. Noch ein Jahr später sieht die Sache schon wieder anders aus. Sie holen sich den bekannten Keyboarder Fabio Ribeiro,und machen mit "You are really big" ein Hard Rock Album!!
Dannach geht es (natürlich ohne Keyboarder) wieder zum leicht angethrashten Power Metal, und bei "Circus of death" mit zweitem Gitarristen zum puren Thrash Metal. Nach 1992 geht es dann voll zum groovigen 90er Modetrend, einfach schreckliches Zeug. 1997 liegen sie mit dem letzten Album auch wieder im brutalen Trend der Zeit. Ob sie noch existieren oder ob ihnen schon einer den Gnadenschuss gegeben hat, wo sie sich doch so durch die Metal Szene gequält haben, weiss ich nicht. Nachdem ich viele gute Fotos aus der angfangszeit bekommen habe, habe ich unten eine kleine Gallerie gemacht mit Bildern aus der Zeit, als die Band noch richtig gut und cool war! Also Leute die ihr euch heute OVERDOSE nennt schaut auf diese Bilder, und hört euch die alten Sachen an! Das war Metal, und nicht der Dreck den ihr heute macht!!

They came from Belo Horizonte and stood always in the shadow of the other famous band from their home town. But they had the same chances in the beginning, as they released their first album together as a split LP. At this time they were even better than SEPULTURA and delivered really good rough Thrash. Old Metal fans from this time tell the tale, that the fans of each band were scratching and destroying the side of the record of the other band. But SEPULTURA were smarter and had a straight line in their releases and became better with each record. OVERDOSE, instead, made the most crazy changes in style, which in spite of many released albums, stopped any progress. But it did not look bad for them at the beginning. First their "Seculo XX" album got released again as a full LP with 5 tracks more. The next album was really good Power Metal and they even could release one song on the US label "Metal Blade" at their cult compilation "Metal Massacre" No. 9 one year later.
Another year later things changed to the bad. They hired the keyboard player Fabio Ribeira and made with "You are really big" a Hard Rock album!! With the next album they changed (of course without keyboarder) to thrashing Power Metal. And with "Circus of Death" with a second guitar player it changed to pure Thrash Metal. After 1992 they "develop" to groovy 90s modern sound, really horrible stuff. In 1997 they made another album in the trend of the time. If they still exist, or if somebody gave them already the "final blow" (as they tortured themselves so long through the Metal scene) I don't know. Friends gave me some relly cool pictures of the band from the very beginning, which I show in the following photo gallery! So you guys, who call yourself now OVERDOSE, look at this pictures, and listen to the old records, ...THIS WAS METAL, ...and not this shit what you are doing now!

Eles são de Belo Horizonte e sempre ficaram à margem dos conterrâneos famosos, mas tiveram chances no começo de carreira, já que lançaram o primeiro álbum,um split LP com o SEPULTURA. Naquela época eles eram até melhores que o SEPULTURA e traziam um Thrash realmente muito bom. Os velhos fãs desta época contam uma estória de que os fãs de cada banda riscavam o lado do LP da outra banda. O SEPULTURA foi mais esperto e seguiram uma linha mais correta e foram melhorando a cada álbum. O OVERDOSE, no entanto, mudou de estilo demais e, embora muitos álbuns tenham sido lançados, eles não progrediram. No começo isto não parecia tão ruim para eles. Primeiro o "Século XX" deles foi relançado como um LP completo e mais 5 faixas adicionais. O próximo álbum era um Power Metal muito bom e eles conseguiram inclusive incluir uma música na coletânea americana "Metal Massacre 9" da gravadora "Metal Blade", um ano depois. Um ano depois as coisas pioraram. Eles contrataram o tecladista Fábio Ribeira e fizeram de "You are really big" um álbum de Hard Rock! No próximo álbum eles (claro que sem o tecladista!) fizeram um álbum de Power Metal/ Thrash e no "Circus of death", com um segundo guitarrista, mudaram para o puro Thrash. depois, em 1992, eles "desenvolveram" um som groove moderno dos anos 90, realmente um material horrível! Em 1997, fizeram um outro álbum na tendência da época. Se eles ainda existem ou se alguém já deu o sopro final eu não sei. Uns amigos me deram algumas fotos bem legais do começo da banda, cujas eu mostro na galeria de fotos!
So you guys, who call yourself now OVERDOSE, look at this pictures, and listen to the old records, ...THIS WAS METAL, ...and not this shit what you are doing now!