Formed in 1979 under the name Rheagan by George "Wildman" Koerber and Darrell Collins. The band took this name from the character Regan MacNeil, the possessed child in the horror novel/movie adaptation The Exorcist. Supposedly, when president Ronald Reagan came into office in early 1981, they changed the name to Overlorde after George Koerber "dropped a Webster's dictionary on its spine and put his finger on a word on the page".
