"self-titled"
Earache Records
By Tate Bengtson Combining death metal guitars and growls with some pretty wild gabber beats, The Berzerker is the next evolution in the industrial-death hybrid project. While the intensity of this project cannot be denied, the guitar riffs tend to get drowned beneath the caterwaul of the domineering vocals and programmed rhythms, although they are foregrounded in those instances when the gabbercore rhythmic battery temporarily relaxes its totalitarian grip on the music. The vocals are a seething mass of violent and violating snarls which swarm the programmed gabber beats with psychotic fury. This release will either be loved or hated - mixing gabber, industrial, and death metal has always seemed like a logical progression to me and, while the band’s songwriting does not emphasize the guitar enough to fully satiate my heavy metal hunger, there is more than enough innovation and aggression on The Berzerker’s self-titled debut to hold my attention and pique my curiousity for where this band will go on its next release. |
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