The Berzerker — Cassette

Intro

The Berzerker sounds like a factory floor being overtaken by a violent digital virus. It is a suffocatingly dense wall of sound where the traditional blast beats of grindcore are replaced by the distorted, square-wave kicks of speedcore and gabber. The guitars are jagged and metallic, serrating the air while the vocals oscillate between guttural roars and high-pitched shrieks, all processed to sound like they are coming from a malfunctioning cyborg.

What truly sets them apart is the 'cyber' element. While many industrial metal bands use synths for atmosphere, The Berzerker uses them as a rhythmic weapon. The percussion is inhumanly fast, often reaching BPMs that would be physically impossible for a human drummer to sustain without the aid of the triggers and machines Luke Kenny pioneered. It is music that feels like a strobe light: flickering, disorienting, and physically demanding.

For those looking to dive in, Dissimulate is the essential starting point. It captures the band at their most feral and focused, bridging the gap between the underground Australian extreme scene and the global metal stage. It is the perfect soundtrack for moments of high-intensity physical output or when you simply need the loudest possible shield against the outside world.

The Berzerker are an Australian/British industrial death metal band from Melbourne formed in 1995. The band's music, heavily influenced by older death metal and grindcore bands such as Carcass, Obituary, and Napalm Death, can be characterised as a fusion of these with speedcore, and gabber. The band's founding member Luke Kenny described 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 last album, which was self-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 eventually abandoned this device, after the masks became unhygienic with age, and to avoid unfavorable comparisons with Slipknot. A DVD documentary, The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker (2004), includes several hours of live concert footage, as well as the first public images of the band members without their masks. Most of the band's music videos have been banned from broadcast for reasons such as the possible epileptic seizure-inducing imagery contained in the video "Forever", and the horrific imagery of "Reality". The latter features graphic images of cadavers and body parts.

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