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Video: Overkill’s Blitz says hello to Japan

October 17, 2017 roppongirocks

Overkill’s Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth speaks with Roppongi Rocks backstage at the Loud Park festival in Japan on 14th October 2017.

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