The Grinding Wheel is the 18th studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill, released on February 10, 2017.

"The album's title was revealed in an interview with Alternative Nation in August 2016, along with a projected release date of November.

Blabbermouth.net writer Ray Van Horn Jr. gave the album a rating of nine-and-a-half out of ten, and said, "If you think Overkill expended its tanks producing output with such astonishing velocity, you don't know this band very well.

"[11] AllMusic writer James Christopher Monger gave the album a rating of four stars out of five, and said that it "snaps necks with impunity, but it does so with a structural inventiveness that's eluded some of Overkill's most recent offerings.

While the band hasn't lost its knack for dropping unrelenting artillery blasts of breakneck, old-school thrash -- "Goddamn Trouble," "Red, White, and Blue"—there's a nervy, classic rock/NWOBHM undercurrent that runs through Grinding Wheel that owes more to Judas Priest and Accept than it does Testament and Metallica."

[15] All tracks are written by D. D. Verni and Bobby EllsworthWriting, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.