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BERZERKER, THE - The Berzerker - CD - Earache Records

review by: Roberto Martinelli

The bio starts off on a really bad foot, proclaiming that The Berzerker sound like "Slipnot times one million." Well, folks, it's even worse than that. I don't like to say that any album is just a piece of crap, but I'm almost happy to say it about this.

Stylistically, this album blends death metal and industrial. The extremely simple and generic music features a drum machine that makes sounds like a bee frantically banging against a window, trying to get out.

Every track has some spoken word clip that talks about gory atrocity just for the sake of it. Indeed, the whole concept of this band seems to center not around what the actual music is, but rather about the shock value.

It even gets worse: the band members are supposedly the most "shocking" aspect, being "monstrous superhuman mutations". Translation: dorks in reject Star Trek get-ups. This is so puerile and lame, I can't stand it. I could rip on this a bunch more, but that would waste valuable moments of your time that could be used to read reviews in this zine of albums that I liked.

 

 

 

ISSUE 1
ALBUM REVIEWS

(.-B)  (D-W)  (W-WO)

...AND OCEANS
Allotropic/ Met

ABRUPTUM
De Profundis Mo

ANTAEUS
Cut Your Flesh

BECOMING
Regeneration

BEHEMOTH
Thelema.6

BERZERKER, THE
The Berzerker

BESEECH
Black Emotions

BURZUM
Ragnarok (A New

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