THE BERZERKER

Cybergrind / Non-Metal • Australia
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The Berzerker is an extreme metal band from Melbourne, Australia. The band's music, heavily influenced by older death metal and grindcore, can be characterized as a fusion of these with industrial metal, speedcore, and gabba. The band's founding member Luke Kenny describes the band's style as industrial death metal.

The Berzerker has produced five full length albums, The Berzerker (2000), Dissimulate (2002), World of Lies (2005), Animosity (2007) and The Reawakening (2008). These were released through Earache Records, with the exception of the latest album, which was released through Berserker Industries. During the early part of their career as a live act, band members were identified only as The Vocalist, The Guitarist, The Bassist and The Drummer, distinguishable on stage only by the masks they wore. However, the group has since abandoned this device.

A DVD documentary, The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker (2004), includes several hours of live
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THE BERZERKER Discography

THE BERZERKER albums / top albums

THE BERZERKER The Berzerker album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
The Berzerker
Cybergrind 2000
THE BERZERKER Dissimulate album cover 3.17 | 3 ratings
Dissimulate
Cybergrind 2002
THE BERZERKER World of Lies album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
World of Lies
Cybergrind 2006
THE BERZERKER Animosity album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Animosity
Cybergrind 2007
THE BERZERKER The Reawakening album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Reawakening
Cybergrind 2008

THE BERZERKER EPs & splits

THE BERZERKER Archie Campbell album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archie Campbell
Non-Metal 1995
THE BERZERKER No? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
No?
Non-Metal 1996
THE BERZERKER Inextricable Zenith album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Inextricable Zenith
Non-Metal 1998
THE BERZERKER Broken album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Broken
Non-Metal 2000
THE BERZERKER Animosity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Animosity
Cybergrind 2006
THE BERZERKER The Reawakening album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Reawakening
Cybergrind 2008

THE BERZERKER live albums

THE BERZERKER Live in London album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Live in London
Cybergrind 2010

THE BERZERKER demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

THE BERZERKER Demo's 1998 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Demo's 1998
Non-Metal 1998

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THE BERZERKER singles (1)

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Caught In The Crossfire (Dead By Silence Rmx)
Cybergrind 2013

THE BERZERKER movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

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Principles and Practices of the Berzerker
Cybergrind 2004

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THE BERZERKER The Berzerker

Album · 2000 · Cybergrind
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"The Berzerker" is the self-titled debut full-length studio album by Australian, Melbourne based grindcore act The Berzerker. The album was released through Earache Records in April 2000. The Berzerker is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of drum machine grindcore along with an act like Agoraphobic Nosebleed. There are of course loads of artists practicing this style, but The Berzerker is one of the most successful ones.

The music on the album is grindcore with death and industrial metal influences. The latter influence mostly stems from the fact that the drums on the album are programmed and as a consequence there is a cold mechanical edge to the band´s sound. I´m often reminded of early Carcass if they had used programmed drums. Mostly because of the sick gurgling/gargling and growling/higher pitched snarling vocals, but also because of the prominent use of eerie voice samples with pathologists talking about their job. There are also samples from horror movies. It´s just an influence though and ultimately The Berzerker have quite a unique sound and for a grindcore act also quite a varied sound. The use of samples and the occasional use of keyboards really enhance the dark and eerie atmosphere of the band´s music. Towards the end of the album, the diversity of the band´s music goes a little overboard though and they close the album with two noise tracks, that might challenge even the most ardent extreme metal fan.

Besides those two closing tracks the other 13 tracks on the 40:55 minutes long album are high energy aggressive grindcore tracks featuring very convincing and varied extreme vocals. Personally I find this both original (well... at least within the boundaries of the genre) and highly enjoyable and a 4 star (80%) rating is fully deserved.

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