The Berzerker - Complete Discography Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- The Berzerker are one of the fastest, heaviest bands to have ever entered the realms of grindcore and death metal. Born from a speedcore project into a fully fledged touring band - but always led by frontman and drum programmer Luke Kenny - The Berzerker gave us five albums of unseemly levels of brutality. Mixing gabba techno with grindcore and death metal (not to mention grimy samples from documentaries), this retrospective covers the full career of The Berzerker, from the speedcore days right through to the hiatus in the late 2000s.
SOURCES AND ADDITIONAL WATCHING:
Principles & Practices Of The Berzerker - Live Dissimulate era set and tour diary:
• The Principles and Pra...
Principles & Practices Of The Berzerker - The making of the debut album:
• The Berzerker - Making...
Sam Bean interview on Pardon My Frans (part 1, but leads to a part 2):
• PARDON MY FRANS Ep. 1:...
The Berzerker Facebook page:
/ officiallytheberzerker
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
2:50 No? & The Beginning Of The Berzerker
4:50 Archie Campbell
5:50 Inextricable Zenith, Hellspawn, Demos 1998 & Untitled/Broken EP
8:52 The Berzerker (Self-Titled)
14:13 Dissimulate
19:35 World Of Lies
23:24 Animosity
26:36 The Reawakening
30:01 Hiatus & The Future
CORRECTIONS:
When talking about the Dissimulate album, I made some comments about it not being available on vinyl. Well, turns out a limited picture disc release came out in August 2021, limited to 300 copies.
SONGS USED IN THIS VIDEO (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):
Mono Grind
No?
Archie 1
Back In Aus
Broken
Reality
Forever
Burnt
Death Reveals
Paradox
All About You
Heavily Medicated
The Deception
Chronological Order Of Putrefaction
All song clips and artwork (and photography) have been used for the purpose of critique and review, and no copyright infringement is not intended or encouraged. If you like any of the music you hear here please consider purchasing it, or checking it out through legal streaming channels such as UA-cam Music or Spotify. Likewise, if there is an issue with any of the content of this video, please contact me and we can make it right.
The Berzerker is an underrated gem, we can only hope Luke finally finishes what he started with the 6th album 2 years ago. I'm still holding out for it. Nothing like The Berzerker will ever happen again, but I'm so glad we got what we got. \m/
Yeah fingers crossed! I certainly hope it sees the light of day, that would be great after all these years.
Probably stuck mixing the damn thing lol
I met them when I was 13 years old in 2007 and it was a helluva experience. I miss them
Correction: Dissimulate was released on picture vinyl a year ago.
I've worked with Gary Thomas for several years. He's got a family and a mortgage, he's never been big headed about what he's done, very humble and definitely one of the nicest crustiest men you could ever meet with a good sense of humor. Like all people who's gone out and done it he's got a different view point from the person who watches someone else do it, and wants to try different things from life
Cheers Charles for your insight! I've always wondered what he went on to do. Easily one of the most insane drummers of all time!
Thank you for this. Take care out there!
God this channel is so underrated love your discography retrospective series so much
That’s very kind, thank you. Glad you like the videos!
Watching this one now after Mushroomhead and Cradle of Filth - I agree theyre really informative and entertaining 🤟
Any video about The Berzerker is a good video
Right back at you dude! Nice to see people still giving this stuff love after all these years
Probably my favorite band at least top three for sure
The Berzerker definitely lead me to discovering even wilder projects in the future. Wouldn't have learned about Passenger of Shit or Shitwank records entirely if it wasn't for their melding of Speedcore and Metal.
Me and a friend of mine got heavily influenced by The Berzerker at the age of 13-14. Must have been 99/00. We were browsing Napster for the most extreme stuff available at that time. They got us to record a casiogrind demo tape called Eisenhüttenstadt, the 23 old treasure is still alive on tape reportedly.
Werewolves is hysterical and relentless, totally worth checking out. They even have a song with a death metal haiku in it. Also, there was recently a 200 edition picture disc release of the Dissimilate album. Just last year.
There was!? Damn, I snoozed on that. Thanks for letting me know.
Sam did an interview on into the necrosphere apparently he wanted to call their last record "now that's what i call toxic masculinity", but apparently some markets wouldn't see that it was a joke.
@@lewisb85 Nah. Wanted to call it 'Hate Speech'.
@@werewolvesdeathmetal That's awesome. Just realised I was referencing Jackie's joke as yours haha.
This is an excellent retrospective and a quality amount of attention to very buried detail has gone into it, excellent work 👍
Thank you very much. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I may be a bit late, but Dissimulate was released on vinyl (picture disk). It is still in stock on Earache's website after being released in August 2021.
I found out about The Berzerker deep in my cybergrind phase I had when I was a teenager. Pretty brutal band! Good job on this video.
Thank you!
Did you have one of the many seemingly thousands of MySpace cybergrind projects? Haha
@@linesinwax4996 Nope! But I was a fan of Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Wecamewithbrokenteeth.
I should probably do a video on Agoraphobic Nosebleed. I really miss that “band”
@@linesinwax4996 me too, although that pivot toward doom metal that they did on the last album I didn’t really like that much.
Very amazing overview man!! Total respect
Cheers!
The Berzerker was also a big part of my childhood/puberty and still love them a lot so very nice to see such a similar detailed story, also regarding the speedcore
They played a heavy bass sounding song near the end of their Edmonton show many years ago and have not been able to find it.
Pig destroyer would be a nice one man. Loved this btw. 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Thank you! Pig Destroyer is not a bad shout at all, gives me an excuse to get back into the later stuff which I’m not so familiar with.
haven't heard this band before. i think someone recommended them to me, and i thought of that band "berserker" in that Kevin Smith movie "clerks."
Loving these, any chance of an Akercocke one?
Yes! That’s a great idea, I love that band
Hi Bro..! I Brought the Berzerker Back Catalog - Dvd to day. But not the Last Album 😂😂 Really Looking forward to listen - Watching it all. Thanks again for this Amazing Video.
Amazing stuff man! Thank you! Let me know what you think of their albums?
@@linesinwax4996 definitely will Do Brother...! 😜
The Reawakening actually has some fucking bangers on it. The Deception is currently my favorite track they've ever done.
I wish I was born earlier so I could have seen them live earlier 😢
You never know what can happen 👀
Such an under rated band, I saw them live in Exeter years ago, I still don’t think I’ve recovered, Desecration we’re on the bill too, brutal stuff.
Nice lineup! Desecration are fantastic too.
@@linesinwax4996 I think it was swansea where they played an all dayer with Desecration, Black eye riot,taint and shaped by fate (the big four welsh underground metal bands back in the day), . I remember that show because BER went onstage drunk as but were on fire because of it so the other bands had to up their game, was actually my first gig in swansea after I moved there for uni.
Appropriate that the venue in Pontypridd is now a hookah bar.
Only place I've been in that was smokier was Foufounes Electriques in Montreal.
LOL cheers for dropping by Sam!
Great video brother..! 23 Massive Respect from Slamcrew North West London ORGINAL 23 someone's Living Room.....! 😂 😂 😂 😂 Love it.....!
Thank you my friend! I’m glad you enjoyed.
In regards to those Re-awakening remixes, the band ran a competition on their Myspace page for remixes. If you emtered theyd send you the stems of one or two of the albums tracks nd left you at it, with the winners of course getting featured in the final release.
So they are all fanmade....and no...mine didnt get picked 😅
But been going back and listening to these guys recently, big nostalgia from my teens. Remember seeing them in Newport TJs in about 2007/2008 and Sam was touring with them. Absolutely lovely chap but Luke was a bit standoffish by comparison...although we bumped into him at Wacken later that year and he was super chillz taking a good chunk of time to talk to us and take some photos so I always put it down to just being in "gig mode"
Was that the gig they did with RSJ and Happy Face?
I remember the competition, I probably should have mentioned that! I wonder how many unused remixes are floating around in the ether 😀
Cheers for commenting!
@@linesinwax4996 I think it was Nochaa and some other local opener.
Will have to dig out my remix. It's embarrassingly BTEC
Wow, Nochaa! Now you’ve got me going down memory lane. I want to say the other bands were Ultimate Trigger Mechanism (?) and Necrocest.
Are you into any bands like Devourment or Mortician maybe? Love your retrospectives!
Yes, absolutely! I love Mortician. I just got one of their Christmas jumpers, actually. That should raise a few questions at the dinner table. Mortician is also actually very much on the cards for a retrospective. Have you heard Roger’s side project Grind.bot? (I think it’s called something like that)
I really like Devourment too, love all their stuff but especially the earlier slammier stuff. Obscene Majesty did surprise me though, that was a good album.
Glad you enjoyed the retrospectives, thank you for reaching out and letting me know. Need to pull my finger out and start the next one!
Cheers!
I'm the guitarist/producer of diarrhea of the mouth and this band was def one of my inspirations
David gray was a full member of the berzerker for a year, it fell apart because Sam was living in England and quit for a while and Matt and David made akercocke their full time priority, I spoke to David Gray about that show in Ponty(I'm originally from Blackwood) in Bristol recently where I know live, he said he enjoyed that tour. Although David did say in an into the necrosphere interview that his new gig as the drummer for Anaal Nathrakh is a similar vibe to the berzerker. Also Matt was writing berzerker esque material when he also joined ted maul when he was living in London, ted maul’s first record is savage if they had made a second with Matt wow. Digby said on his ask earache blog about why he separated his relationship with the Berzerker "the project wasn't progressing the way that Luke told us it would".
It’s nice to meet one of the other idk 15 or 20 people who were at that gig! Haha
If I recall that was the second tour with Dave Gray, the first time was touring World Of Lies and they played TJs with Happy Face.
Cheers for your insights man there’s a few bits here that I missed, nice one.
I’ve never really gotten into Ted Maul, I’ll have to give that album a try.
Cheers!
@@linesinwax4996 There was a show I saw them at(all dayer in swansea I believe) with Desecration, Taint and Shaped By fate.
I forgot to mention there were Four bands that were similar back then The berzerker, Anaal Nathrakth and The Axis of Perdition and their drummers were absolute monsters The berzerker (Gary Thomas/David Gray), Anaal Nathrakth (Nick Barker, Danny from Napalm) oh and the Axis of Perdition who had dan mullins behind the kit, a lot of people thought Dan could only play slow because he was best known for My dying bride, but listen to his drumming with the axis he's an absolute beast. It showed how things had moved on when dragged into sunlight joined the party. The fourth band was another earache band called December wolves (who later evolved into trap them- didn't include them because DW had no drummer), they were doing the industrial meets grindcore meets black metal thing and were extreme with it, all the bands took the agoraphobic nosebleed mould and ran with it to it's logical extreme.
Also was reminded of this by someone recently one of the drum and bass/gabba kids who used to post on the berzerker forum back in the day grew up to be rob swire from pendulum. So when rob says he was influenced by the the berzerker back in the day he's not saying it to appear scene he's legit. His main influences were the berzerker, pitchshifter, pop will eat itself and the prodigy.
there is some new material but just few seconds
Cheers for the heads up - I need to go searching
It was the song clip at 4:51 what is it
It’s “Archie 1” from the Archie Campbell EP :)
Gary left the band after attacking a fan, also I heard he did time for stabbing his next door neighbor but I can not confirm that
Blimey I never heard that before, that’s not good if that’s true!
Not true. He left the band after getting injured getting bounced by a bouncer after a show in Poughkeepsie, NY on the first Summer Slaughter tour.
Honestly the shit people hear.