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Australia is famous for its homegrown "war metal" scene, but Melbourne's mysterious, one-man Berzerker has managed to gain international acclaim—and sign with England's powerhouse label Earache—by departing from that model and playing a drum-machine-propelled mix of grind metal and extreme electronics. The sound on the Berzerker's debut is astonishingly dense, halfway between machine-gun barrage and noise of an almost Japanese quality. The aptly titled "Mono Grind" is the aural equivalent of a machine gun vomiting on the listener. And speaking of vomit…those with a solid gag reflex should also scour the web to check out the Berzerker's graphically gory videos.
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When one looks past the fact that the Berzerker (a group rather than an individual) perform in monstrous costume and focus strictly on their music, it becomes apparent that they are producing some relatively exciting grindcore for 2000. A second-wave Earache band, obviously influenced by the first-wave Earache bands -- Napalm Death, Carcass, Godflesh, Morbid Angel -- the Berzerker breathe much-needed new life into the insular grindcore genre by incorporating what appear to be industrial-tinged drum machine beats rather than traditional drums in an attempt to take grindcore to faster and more brutal extremes -- an impressive accomplishment given grindcore's already ridiculous extremes. So with this incorporation of mechanical percussion, the songs on this eponymous debut come off as a cross breed of classic early-'90s grindcore and late-'90s gabba, an almost self-mocking style of hardcore techno that pushes the bpm level to ultra-jackhammer levels. Of course, with such an exploitative approach to making music, it would seem as if the Berzerker's music comes off as contrived, and for the most part, it does. But there are many moments when it's easy to overlook how gimmicky this band is (and don't forget that they wear costumes!), and it is during this moments when the sheer reckless abandon of their music crosses the line from a contrived formula to raw aggression quite unlike anything else. It is these hints of substance that separate the Berzerker from their overly theatrical peers in Gwar.
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| 01. |  |
Reality |
1:20 |
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| 02. | |
Forever |
2:44 |
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| 03. | |
Burnt |
2:55 |
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| 04. | |
Pain |
2:17 |
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| 05. | |
Cannibal Rights |
2:10 |
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| 06. | |
Massacre |
3:29 |
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| 07. | |
Chronological Order of Putrification |
2:50 |
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| 08. | |
Deform |
2:47 |
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| 09. | |
Sit Down |
1:40 |
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| 10. | |
February |
4:09 |
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| 11. | |
Mono Grind |
1:03 |
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| 12. | |
Ignorance |
2:03 |
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| 13. | |
Humanity |
1:45 |
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| 14. | |
95 |
3:54 |
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| 15. | |
Ode to Nash |
5:44 |
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15 Total Tracks, 40:50 Total Length
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