Overloaded live Wed July 9th @ Rocklahoma

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“Always go for the cooler name”, was the advice given from Gene Simmons backstage after a Kiss concert at DTE arena in summer of 2004. With that in mind, Overloaded formed in the outskirts of Detroit, Mi USA on August 3rd, 2004. Within a year, the band went from nobodies to the go-to band for big local shows and support for nationals on their Detroit tour stops. In 2005, Overloaded released 2 eps, both of which sold out and were re-released as a full length 11 song cd entitled Hail the Kingdom. That same year, an indie label offered to sign Overloaded. The band considered the offer, but passed and released their follow up cd Regeneration independently in August of 2007.
Overloaded has been given all kinds of advice. Some of it has been good, but most is forgettable. Everyone thinks they have the answer when the reality is the music industry has been spiraling out of control for over a decade. Mainstream radio plays the same songs over and over and over. Concerts have become traveling freak shows where painted ladies and cheap trinkets are as big of an attraction as the music. Bands adhere to conservative guidelines written by industry professionals who wouldn’t be caught dead at a rock show. Punk has gone corporate, extreme metal has become a parody of itself, rap has skipped the same beat for fifteen years, and country has gone Bon Jovi. The music industry is in shambles and literally no one is buying it. Each day another record label crashes as experts try and re-invent the wheel in search of the next big thing. Through this sea of madness, Overloaded stays on course guided by heart, soul, and conviction. Is it metal or is it hard rock, it depends on who you ask. At the end of the day, what matters is how many heads are mounted on the wall.
Through hard work and research, Overloaded forced themselves on the media. Old school press kits were put together and mailed worldwide. Popular metal magazines and websites took notice, and word spread. Official sponsor Jagermeister continued its proud support through personalized merch while college metal radio programmers added Overloaded songs to their shows. New York’s Talking Metal podcast discovered Overloaded and featured the band on numerous episodes, and later as one of their top picks for up and coming metal artists on the pilot episode of Talking Metal on the fuse TV network. Fox TV almost had the cajones to feature Overloaded on their show “The Next Great American Band”, but chickened out.
This brings us to 2008, After 3 years of hard work and underground success, vocalist Chris Gillen and guitarist Erik Kluiber parted ways with drummer Lorenzo Gonzalez, bassist Michael Massie, and guitarist John Sullens. The official story is the age old rock and roll cliché of “personal differences”. Determined to keep pushing Overloaded to new levels of creativity and performance, Chris and Erik conducted a thorough search within the underground Detroit rock scene for a new rhythm section. Within 6 weeks, Overloaded was back on its feet with Frank Krukel on bass, Eli Brown on guitar, and Chris “Bootcheck” Buczek on drums. As you read this, a new chapter in the legend of Overloaded is being written, and those in the know wait and wonder with anticipation.