Band

The Berzerker

Australia Active

Death Grindcore Industrial

About

Not to be confused with: - Bezerker (Progressive Thrash Metal from Adelaide, South Australia, later relocated to UK) - Berserker (Thrash Metal) Former guitarist Matt Wilcock left the band so that he could emigrate from Australia and move to the UK in search of a more established metal scene. Not long after arriving in the UK, he was announced as Akercocke's replacement for Paul Scanlan. Sam is also now based in the UK. The Berzerker was originally the project of Luke Kenny alone, where he played as a DJ of extreme electronic genres such as gabber; however, he was always a large fan of death metal and grindcore. The idea later arose to him to change The Berzerker into a band that was a combination of gabber and death/grind. The Berzerker gained its record deal after impressing Earache so much with a number of remixes of bands such as Morbid Angel which the label had asked Luke Kenny to do that they offered him a two-album deal. Rumours circulated the Internet in 2002 whether or not their drummer Gary Thomas held or broke the Guinness World Record for being the fastest drummer, but this was a pure fabrication on the part of internet users. Not only was there no proof of him reaching the alleged speeds (19 bps per hand), but even if he had done them, without an adjudicator, the record wouldn't have stood anyway. Their songs "Afterlife" and "Reality" appear in the game Earache: Extreme Metal Racing. Compilation appearances: - "Day of Suffering" & "Abominations" (both remixes of Morbid Angel tracks) on Hellspawn (Extreme Metal Meets Extreme Techno) (Earache Records, 1998) - "Day of Suffering (Morbid Angel vs. The Berzerker)" on Earplugged 3 (Earache Records, 1998) - "Reality (video)" on Noise Inc. Volume 5 (Metal Hammer, 2000) - "Forever" on Metal Hammer Issue 76 July 2000 (Metal Hammer, 2000) - "Reality" on Don't Walk Away (Rock Sound, 2000) - "Reality" on Immortalised (Earache 1986 - 2000) (Earache Records, 2000) - "Reality" & "Pain" on Immortalised 'The DVD+' (Earache Records, 2000) - "Reality" on Hard N' Heavy Vol.25 (Hard N' Heavy, 2000) - "Reality" on Earache Wicked World Sampler 2000 ‎(Earache Records, 2000) - "Forever" on iCrusher DVD (Earache Records, 2001) - "No One Wins" on Kerrang! Noise Annoys Volume 2 (Kerrang! Magazine, 2002) - "Failure" on Le Sampler-Rom RockHard N°14 (Rock Hard, 2002) - "No One Wins" on All Hail The New Kings! Earache Summer 2002 Sampler (Earache Records, 2002) - "No-one Wins" on Earache: Extremity Experiment 03 (Earache Records, 2002) - "No One Wins" on Earache: Extremity Experiment '03 (Metal Hammer, 2003) - "Reality" on Earache: Extreme Musick 2004 (Metal Hammer, 2003) - "Compromise" on Summer DJ Sampler '03 (Earache Records, 2003) - "No One Wins on iCrusher 2 (Earache: Extremity Experiment '03) DVD (Earache Records, 2003) - "No One Wins" on Earache Metaltracks (Metal Hammer, 2005) - "Afterlife" on Burn (Rock Sound/Earache Records, 2005) - "All About You" on Earacherecords 2006 (Earache Records, 2005) - "All About You" on Legacy 06/05 (Legacy Magazine, 2005) - "All About You" on Fear Candy 24 (Terrorizer Magazine, 2006) - "Committed to Nothing" & "All About You" video on Chop Your Own Head Off (Earache Records, 2006) - "All About You" on Rock Tribune - Gratis CD Januari 2006 (Rock Tribune Magazine, 2006) - "Heavily Medicated" on Fear Candy 38 (Terrorizer Magazine, 2007) - "Heavily Medicated" on MH (Metal Hammer, 2007) - "Reality" & "Mono Grind" on Metal (A Headbanger's Companion) (Earache Records, 2007) - "Day of Suffering" (Morbid Angel vs. The Berzerker) on Metal (A Headbanger's Companion) (Earache Records, 2007) - "Forever", "Reality", "Cannibal Rights" on Metal II: A Headbanger's Companion (Earache Records, 2007) - "Day of Suffering" & "Abominations" (Morbid Angel vs. The Berzerker) on Metal II: A Headbanger's Companion (Earache Records, 2007) - "Heavily Medicated" on Earache Summer Sampler 2007 (Earache Records, 2007) - "Heavily Medicated" on Let The Hammer Fall Vol. 55 (Metal & Hard Rock Hammer World, 2007) - "Caught in the Crossfire" on Brutal Assault Open Air Vol. 13 (Shindy Productions, 2008) - "Forever" ad "No One Wins" on Earache: iCrusher Complete DVD (Earache Records, 2008) - "Internal Examination", "Dante's Inferno", "Betrayal", "Caught in the Crossfire" on Grindskull: Anthology + Grindskull Comp Remix album (Mash BarZ, 2011) - "Caught in the Crossfire" on Grindskull Vol.9-12 Remix album (Mash BarZ, 2011)