The Berzerker

The Berzerker

Editorial Reviews
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Berzerker deal in a pestilent and unsubtle brand of sonic violence. Larynx-liquidating vocals disgorge lyrical gouts of graphic ghastliness with titles such as "Chronological Order of Putrefaction" and "Massacre." Their frenzied fretwork, tortured samples, and impossible tempos conspire to accelerate heart rates to the bursting point. With an insanely accentuated, ultraheavy brand of grindcore that's similar to the most savage works of Napalm Death and Carcass, Berzerker operate at the very limit of sonic brutality. --Ian Fortnam

Tracks:

Committed to Nothing
Black Heart
All About You
Burn the Evil
World of Tomorrow
Follow Me
Y
As the World Waits
Afterlife
Never Hated More
Free Yourself
Constant Pain
...............................
Farewell

Customer Reviews:

OH YEAH!.......2006-05-03

I had heard a lot about these guys from Earache's website and online. I had downloaded a song and wasn't too impressed (mainly because it was described as a death metal version of "Pitchshifter") so I didn't think anything of it.

I wandered into the local used cd store with my girlfriend. I was paying for my new (used) cds and forgot to wander to the new arrival bin. If any of you are like me, anytime I go into one of those stores I expect to spend near $50. Of course, having already spent $40, I find two more cds, this being one. Ok, I bought both.

I pop the cd in my car, subwoofer hooked up, girlfriend sitting there patiently waiting me to turn off my "crazy Satanic music" and leave the parking lot. Well, I heard the drum machine going (too bad they only have one album with a real drummer) and thought, "this isn't hitting my subwoofer at all!". About ten seconds later, the samples started POUNDING. This is one of the few albums I have ever bought where the samples hit harder than the double bass and I LIKE it. The other being Mortician cds, but I can't even call that music.

I was so happy I bought this that I gave myself a headache turning it up too high (and having a whining girlfriend in the passenger seat). I recommend this to ANYONE who likes extreme music and can get past the drum machine. A little side note: the Carcass-style vocals are UNGODLY.

Berzerker blasts away with number 3.......2005-12-22

I myself am more partial to Dissimulate due to that CD being one of the absolute best albums to EVER be released in the metal community. With that comment aside, I was blown away only just a few minutes into World of Lies. All of the ingredients that make up Dissimulate are on this album also. A little bit more samples this time around and they picked up the pace to pure blinding speed on a few songs. "Y" is a friggin crusher, man that song with stick with ya for a while after you listen to it. Many people have mixed emotions over the last track "Farewell", it IS different for BERZERKER, but after everything else they've released, they can do whatever they want for a "different" song. This is an excellent album and I definately recommend it for fans of Dissimulate. I have been listening to it nonstop since it came in the mail. If my cd player could kiss me, it would. Buy it.

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Bjorn Everforst is a _______
No other Metal band is heavier and/or faster than The Berzerker
Greatest taste of brutality
Could have been better
like fast metal?look no further

Dissimulate
Berzerker
Manufacturer: Earache Records
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World of Lies
The Berzerker
Principles and Practices of the Berzerker
Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
Altered States of America

ASIN: B00006FI7A
Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

Disregard
Failure
The Principles And Practices Of Embalming
No One Wins
Death Reveals
Compromise
Betrayal
Last Mistake
Painless
Pure Hatred
Paradox
Abandonment
Untitled
Corporal Jigsaw Quandary

Album Description

14 gruesome tracks including 'Disregard', 'Failure', 'No One Wins', 'Death Reveals', 'Last Mistake', 'Pure Hatred', 'Paradox' and 'Abandonment'. A band shrouded in mystery, The Berzerker is a group of misanthropic mutants who have evolved into un-human monsters...GWAR beware. Earache. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Bjorn Everforst is a _______.......2006-09-22

Bjorn Everfrost, you are the lamest excuse for a human, and your comeback is so childish and __________: "SNAFS is a poser". Your a stupid _______.

A poser is somebody who thinks they are something there not. When I wrote that review, I WAS a metal fan, rather, I was just getting into death metal, and I really liked it, and kept seeking out new death metal bands. I had a ________ time finding a lot of the cd's, and then I kind of stopped searching. I'm not any more, I don't buy as many death metal cd's anymore, so I'm not a big metal fan, ________ this genre __________, I'm a music fan, nothing else, little ________. _______ you and your stupid labels, grrrrrrrrrr Im a metalhead, get bent, loser. I'll be what I want to be, listen to whatever I want (if it's mainstream or popular, I don't care), and I won't let anybody tell me what I should or not listen to. Got that, ________? I will listen to Panic! and Suffocation, and your gonna deal with it, and if you can't, tough luck, ____head.

Get a catscan. You're just as bad as any MTV poser. You think your so underground, you hate the mainstream for no reason, I hate the mainstream retards to, but mainstream labels are so __________ stupid. The fact you label Squash undergound shoots down any merit your stupid pathetic comments would ever have. Squash's bands are great, but have plenty of singles, music videos, and mainstream appeal. That's right, ________.

Stick to the undergound, and never come up, we don't want you. Rot in the ground, __________.

I'm going to give this a try again next time, I also got them last summer, so my taste in metal is a little bit stronger. It never was too heavy for me, I was intrigued because I liked None So Vile and wanted something so heavy.

No other Metal band is heavier and/or faster than The Berzerker.......2006-02-05

If you thought Meshuggah, Origin, Strapping Young Lad, and Cryptopsy were the heaviest Metal bands, think again. The Berzerker (which is actually a four-man band) is 1,000,000,000,000x heavier than those four bands and no other band can top off The Berzerker. Sure, they wear masks like Slipknot (which is by far the #1 most overrated band of Nu-Metal and I really do hate them) but unlike Slipknot, The Berzerker do have reasons wearing them like what Azrael said. The Berzerker is NOT in the horrible genre called Nu-Metal (which is Alt. Rock NOT Metal), they are actually a combination of Death Metal, Grindcore, and Gabba (a type of Techno music that is played at more than 200+ BPM); fusing a genre called Cybergrind. And they do it with impressive results. On Dissimulate, this album delivers the most brutal type of music that no one can ever attempt to do. Their music is all-out ear-piercing brutality: frantic guitar riffs with some groove in a few of their songs, real machine-gun drumming, and dual Death Metal vocals. These describe what The Berzerker really are. The stand out tracks of Dissimulate are The Principles and Practices of Embalming, No One Wins, Death Reveals, Paradox, and Corporal Jigsaw Quandary. For Corporal Jigsaw Quandary (the Jigsaw part was spelled incorrectly and the true name for it is Corporal Jigsore Quandary), it is a cover song of the almighty Carcass of their Necroticism days. Although some Metalheads who listened to the cover song think it is terrible compared to the original song, I believe that it is 10x better than the way Carcass play it. The Berzerker deserves to be merited and recognized with a positive approach and it's not for the faint of heart (i.e. dumb Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, R&B, modern Rock, Power/Heavy Metal, and Nu-Metal listeners), it's for the Metalheads who have specially trained ears, such as me.

All in all, an astoundingly well-done album. I recommend buying it. Long live The Berzerker and death to all "lovey-dovey" music and trashy Nu-Metal!! \m/\m/

P.S. to Azrael: Let me correct you about the beginning sample of No One Wins.

"No one ever wins, no one finally loses, except the dead. Under the sun, they rot together, with absolute, biological equality."

There you go! :)

Greatest taste of brutality.......2005-12-01

The second release of The Berzerker is the most intense, fast and brutal ever. It really blows the selftitled out of the water.
The first song I heard from this album was the brutal No One Wins, in a mp3 file, along with The Principles And Practices Of The Embalming. Two brutal and extremely fast tracks that worth to get this album.
The Berzerker are four anonymous guys only recognized by their instruments: "The Singer", "The Bassist", "The Guitarist" and of course "The Drummer". Yes,The Berzerker used a drum machine only in their selftitled. Yes, it's the true, many people can't believe it, but the 909 kickdrums are played by a guy that can reach over 1143 beats per minute(aproximately 20 beats per second; The Berzerker's drummer play the drums, and then, the sound of the drums is distorted in an industrial-sound frenzy.
The singer is a growls' master and is helped with screeching vocals (I don't know if it's the guitarist or the bassist who sing these vocals...), and the bass and the guitar are the pure sound of a chain-machinegun.
Contrary at the people say, this band from Melbourne make Brutal-Industrial-Death metal, and not Grindcore as bands like Carcass or Cattle Decapitation. The sound is totally different, man.
My favorites would be Death Reveals,No One Wins, The Principals And Practices Of The Embalming and the cover of Carcass' classic Corporal Jigsore Quandary,(that some people said it's bad, and it damage the original version), man, you have your opinion and ME the mine, and I'll only agree that I prefer to hear this version cuz it's louder and more brutal a million times than the original.
In conclusion if you want to hear the most brutal and fast drums in the world in songs as Death Reveals and No One Wins, then pick up this wonder of extreme metal. If you want it, you can buy now this CD with the selftitled, but be sure that it's better this than the selftitled.

Could have been better.......2005-06-03

The Berzerker is definitely an incredible band. Their debut album showed the music industry how extreme music can get. This album had the same extremeness of their first one, but not the heaviness. Their first album was very brutal and somewhat dark in a sense. This album was almost a punk-sounding kind of grindcore; It doesnt have the same "death metal" aspect to it. I bought this album first and thought it was pretty good, but then when I listened to their first album, it put this one to shame. I definitely think that The Berzerker should learn from their mistakes and make their next album more like their first. In conclusion, dont buy this one, buy their first album.

like fast metal?look no further.......2005-05-10

The Berzerker have got the be THE fastest band i have ever heard in my life,plus they all play their instruments with such precision that no matter how fast it is you can still hear the individual notes,i used to think SYL was the fastest band in the world but since i heard the Berzerker, SYL are #2 in the speed category for me...now even though i like SYL alot more i still think the Berzerker are an amazing band and if you want some really REALLY fast speed/death/grindcore look no further,if you watch their DVD "The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker" you will see how fast the guitarist and drummer play...and yes,those electronic drums are done manually,they're not programmed!...check out the Bezerker..they've been waiting for you!

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I don't know what to say, I think I like it???
Industrial Grindcore
Amazing
GOOD.
First taste of brutality

The Berzerker
The Berzerker
Manufacturer: Earache Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Dissimulate
World of Lies
Principles and Practices of the Berzerker
Protest and Survive
Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas

ASIN: B00004OCWM
Release Date: 2000-04-11

Tracks:

Reality
Forever
Burnt
Pain
Cannibal Rights
Massacre
Chronological Order Of Putrefaction
Deform
Sit Down
February
Mono Grind
Ignorance
Humanity
95
Ode To Nash

Amazon.com

Berzerker deal in a pestilent and unsubtle brand of sonic violence. Larynx-liquidating vocals disgorge lyrical gouts of graphic ghastliness with titles such as "Chronological Order of Putrefaction" and "Massacre." Their frenzied fretwork, tortured samples, and impossible tempos conspire to accelerate heart rates to the bursting point. With an insanely accentuated, ultraheavy brand of grindcore that's similar to the most savage works of Napalm Death and Carcass, Berzerker operate at the very limit of sonic brutality. --Ian Fortnam

Customer Reviews:

I don't know what to say, I think I like it???.......2006-11-09

I'm not sure where to begin with this one. Once again I happened upon this album while I was looking through some used cds and the album cover and the name of the band just jumped out at me. The band's name is The Berzerker and the album is entitled "Dissimulate". The look of the band on the back of the cd look pretty intense as well as the song titles, being a used cd and at a cheap price I just picked it up. When I put it into my cd player I was somewhat shocked in what I heard. I expected a heavy band, the album being on Earache records made me think that The Berzerker would probably even be a death metal band. Well I was half right. What I got was had Death/techno/industrial metal band.??

Let me just say that industrial death metal just does not work for me at all. However the Berzerker proved me wrong. "Dissimulate" is a fast, intense, heavy, and brutal album everything an extreme metal record should be. I must say that the drum machine turned me off at first. I usually hate drum machines. This is why I have held off on trying a Mortician record. But Berzerker makes it work, well for the most part. I still think I might enjoy the band more if the lost the drum machine and just had a regular drum kit. But then they might loose some of what makes them who they are. To let you know the drum machine sounds like someone is firing an M-60 machine gun in the background along side the beat of the band. So I guess in the respect it kind of works. For some reason I like this cd. There are some catchy grooves in it and the death metal vocals are pretty brutal. I guess the best way to describe this record is it's kind of like a way over hyperactive child who hasn't taken his medication in while and who is also throwing a major temper tantrum. All in all it's a pretty intense record and I can't say I've heard anything like the Berzerker before. However, a warning this album is not for everybody

Industrial Grindcore.......2006-10-11

This band is so intense that they'll basically make your head explode after listening to this. The blastbeats are inhuman, as they're used by a drum machine like Mortician and F**k...I'm Dead, but don't let that be an excuse from enjoying this album. Guitar leads are excellent, which is not usually perfected in grindcore. True, this may not be the most genius music, but it's good nonetheless!

Amazing.......2005-12-27

The first time I heard this music I was amazed. Although they use drum machines I think its great because its amazingly fast and it brings the whole thing together. As for the music, well...I think theres something to it because it messes with your mind. The lyrics for this cd are upside down, sideways, and the words are sometimes jumbled up too, but its okay because for some strange reason if you read them while listening to the music you can read them (well I did). Wierd isn't it. Well I would highly reccomend this to any fan of metal.

GOOD........2005-12-07

I'm not going to say much for the time being. I do want to address a previous reviewer who said that he saw The Berzerker open up for Nile, SYL, etc. and they were terrible. Well, I was at that same show and I thought the Berzerker were a complete joke...terrible music, nothing more than noise, etc.

I was so wrong. I have this album now and I absolutely love it. This is really unique grind. Any fan of extreme music who wants to hear the most creative stuff available simply must check this out. Don't be discouraged if you didn't like them live, give The Berzerker a chance. You won't be disappointed.

First taste of brutality.......2005-11-25

OK, I only have listened the "normal" songs, not the last instrumental tracks. This is what I'll going to say about this release: it's the first CD of the Death/Brutal Industrial metal band from Melbourne, and I'm not going to say it's my favorite album of them. I think they're the most brutal and fastest band in the world of today. The first song I heard of them was the "Elephant Man song", and it's titled "Deform". Man, when I heard it, I experienced the most extreme music my dark ears have ever listened to (but when I heard Dissimulate, this seemed to me weak after hear the track "No One Wins").
OK, this release will be the perfect way to get into The Berzerker's world. I suggest you hear first an mp3, cos maybe it could be so agressive for you. Anyway, it worths the money, and the only explanation for I rated it with 4 stars, it's cos I haven't heard the last three tracks yet.
I think if you're interested in this release you shoul buy it here with Dissimulate, their best til this date.
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Make sure you pick up the 2 disc edtion
Aural terrorism?

Animosity
Berzerker
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Genesis
Hope

ASIN: B000LRZHNM
Release Date: 2007-02-19

Tracks:

Eye For An Eye
Purgatory
False Hope
Evolution
No More Reasons
Retribution
Cancer
Weapons Of War
Heavily Medicated
Lonely World
Intro
Forever
Compromise
Principles & Practices Of Enbalming
"Y"
Never Hated More
World Of Tomorrow
Disregard
All About You
Cannibal Rites
Heavily Medicated
Burnt
After Life
Chapel Of Cghoulds
Pure Haterd
Deform
No- One Wins
Death Reveals
Reality
Committed To Nothing
Corporal Jigsore Quandary

Album Description

Limited Edition two CD pressing of the 2007 release from the controversial and mysterious Australian Death Metal/Grindcore band featuring a bonus live disc recorded live in London in December of 2006. This 20 track bonus disc features classic Berzerker tracks, one new song 'Heavily Medicated' plus Morbid Angel and Carcass cover versions. The Berzerker are the only band to adeptly marry the basics of old school grind with distinctly current technology. Animosity continues their destructive tradition bringing 10 more tracks of caustic technological grind in their most intense and violent outing yet! Earache. 2007.

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Make sure you pick up the 2 disc edtion.......2007-06-22

I am so happy when I got this cd. Wold of Lies was an ok cd I felt a lil let down didnt see like the berzerker at all but i did enjoy the album just wasnt them. This cd seems like its there 1st 2 cds put together mix it up and here you go. I love this cd. To any berzerker fan you must get this album and the 20 live tracks are amazing!!!!

Aural terrorism?.......2007-05-29

Earache describes The Berzerker's new album Animosity as "aural terrorism", given the ever-present onslaught of double bass drum fury combined with hyperkinetic riffery and vocals from hell. While firmly rooted in an old school grind blueprint, the band also seem to benefit from studio trickery in order to update their sound without sacrificing their core elements.

Contrary to some of their older albums, Animosity's guitar sound is more primal, more in-your-face; and thankfully, the processed spoken vocal samples that appeared on some of their previous works are nonexistent here. This is unbridled heaviness, played at break-neck speed and topped with demonic vocals. The machine-gun riffery of "False Hope" keeps pounding out like a marching army of hundred thousand troops whilst monstrous double bass drums of "Evolution" are among their most relentless to date. That said, being a drum machine, the not-so-organic sound of the drums may turn some old-school death metal fans off. While in no way a setback to the album, the tones of kicks and toms do sound identical on each and every song. The most interesting parts are when the guitars slow down to generate doomy atmospheres, as on the intro of "No More Reasons", but it only lasts for a couple of seconds before everything turns into yet another "play as fast as you can" type of grind. That said, the guitar work is also rather simplistic, despite seeming quite complex at first. Most of it is repeated three-note rhythms that get buried under the two-part vocal lines: Luke Kerry does both the super low death growls and the deafening black-like shrieks depending on the speed and structure of the song.

Fans of Berzerker will no doubt enjoy this release, but to me, it seems rather bland and even boring most of the time.

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Us Berzerker Campaign
Exmortem
Manufacturer: Unique Leader
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001BKBF2
Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

Icecold Ugliness, Pt. 1
Berzerker Legions
Sovereignty
Bonfire of the Insanities
Grim Wrecker
Conqueror
Deeds of Hatred
Terror Mundi
Into the Realm of Legend
Dawn of Revelation
Revolutionary Soul
Berzerker Legions [Live][*]
Into the Realm of Legend [Live][*]
Icecold Ugliness [Live][*]
Intoxicated by Death [New Version][*]
Killstorms [#][*]
Critical Madness [Autopsy Cover Track][*]

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Berzerker Legions
Exmortem
Manufacturer: Hammerheart
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005JT5R
Release Date: 2007-04-17

Tracks:

Berzerke Legions
Sovereignty
Bonfire of the Insanities
Shadowlands
Grim Wrecke
Conqueror
Deeds of Hatred
Terro Mundi
Cult of Fimbulty
Into the Realm of Legend
Revolutionary Soul

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World of Lies
The Berzerker
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ASIN: B000CBVN3U
Release Date: 2006-01-31

Tracks:

Committed to Nothing
Black Heart
All About You
Burn the Evil
World of Tomorrow
Follow Me
Y
As the World Waits
Afterlife
Never Hated More
Free Yourself
Constant Pain
...............................
Farewell

Album Description

Limited Dual Disc (PAL/Region 0) version includes behind the scenes and photo gallery. Emerging from the Australian underground, The Berzerker rose to prominence with a hectic schedule of worldwide touring that saw the band embraced by the UK extreme scene. Fueled by a love for old Carcass and similar early Earache acts, The Berzerker set about modernizing the sounds of his old favorites. The band became notorious for their persona which saw them adopt hideous masks both in photos and on stage. World of Lies marks the debut of The Berzerker unmasked! MOS. 2006.

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Berzerker

ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004SPSO
Release Date: 2004-01-20

Tracks:

Reality
Forever
Burnt
Pain
Cannibal Rights
Massacre
Chronological Order Of Putrefaction
Deform
Slit Down
February
Momo Grind
Ignorance
Humanity
Ode To Nash

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2000 album for the mighty Earache label by electronic death metal outfit that mixes the intensity of early grindcore with hardcore techno. Standard jewel case.

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Berzerker Legions

Manufacturer: Hammerheart Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000I27DW8