The 1st time you ever heard berzerker

[Duncan]

What was the 1st ever time everyone heard the berzeker and what did you think at 1st??

I remember i was about 14, doing work experience at my local virgin records shop (where for some reason i still fuckin work today!!) and my buddy put some on and i thought "shit this is the nuts!!" and from then on i loved it. Id never heard anything as aggressive and its no suprise that i still havent really!!!

oh and on another note, i just joined the forum and is that AT THE GATES cover still around or am i being a total fool??

[nazgulofAngmar]

the first well I thought.. IS this music???

the second time I said to myself: THIS IS SICK DUDE...

and the thirth time I said to myself I LOVE IT wroar

[dave salmon]

Er well i saw the berzerker for the first time on the front of a metal hammer CD. When i tried watching the interveiw my comp didnt accept it! grrr.
So i asked a freind to get me some, i know naughty i had some downloaded but i have all three CDs real and the inextricable zenith vinyle.

Any ways, i got a CD and i listend to it and it acctually scared me, seriously, it scared the shit out of me! i didnt listen to it for a while. when i listened to it again, i haven't head bandged so hard or so fast in my entire life!!!!! I went out and bought dissimulate then self titled!

[lordmaul30]

actually, i was on the earache sight looking for morbid angel stuff and came across this ad that said they were banned from mtv. it was for the video "reality". i saw the mask and thought....oh, a gimmick and it's probably all hype so that they can try to be "brutal". i'm old school 90's death metal. it's hard to top the old stuff until i heard it. i was like "pretty heavy and they can play" the drummer was the fastest i've heard, though that was a drum machine. but i figured there would have to be a live act. the masks were creepy and i questioned if they used them on stage. then came the infamous gore scene. then it was like "lol, no wonder they were banned from mtv". that took balls! hence, my obsession with the berzerker.

[Deathcrush]

The first time I ever heard was when I was listening to some radio station in Australia. At first I thought "how the fuck did they do this!?" I heard it a second time and thought to myself "fucking hell!" and I'm still wondering what the fuck is going on with The Berzerker today.

[Barton]

My younger brother (also know as Priest) originally showed me The Berzerkers self titled album.
The first song i heard was Forever....and that riff tore me apart, and i loved it.
It was the hardest, heaviest music i had heard in my life when i first listened to it, and it still blows me away.
He then told me that they were Australian... i was extremely proud instantly to be part of a country which could produce this truely brutal insane music.
However when i was informed they wore masks, i became sceptical. I looked them up, found out a bit more information, and after actully reading and understanding everything on the webstie, i listened again.
It was the understanding of what The Berzerker was trying to achieve, the lengths he went to achieve it, and the true intensity of the music which hooked me instantly (One is no more or less important than the next) .

I've said it before "its one thing to listen to a band, it is something entirely different to understand the band".

[Corporal Carnage]

Can't really remember when I've first heard them, wasn't so long after the release of the self titled album.

[Ne[r]d]

It would've been when Andrew Haug from Triple J's "Three Hours of Power" guest programmed on Rage and played No One Wins.

I remember sitting on the edge of my seat, jaw lowered, thinking "what the FUCK?!", completely amazed.

[Ichi_the_killer]

First experience of The Berzerker was not an altogether good one. Got a bit freaky on the old Magic Mushrooms and a mate stuck "No one wins" on at a free party, big system. It fucked with my head totally, but i was somehow loving it deep down. Ever since that night i cant get enough of it!

[Coma]

At school, I just did a search for them because a while back an old friend of mine by the name of GabberGod told me about them saying I'd just love them and their artwork because thats what I like to draw/create as well and fuckin....like found the website and checked out Massacre and jesus christ....I was blown away....

[Jesus Wept]

A buddy of mine asked me if I had ever heard of the Berzerker. I had not at the time, so he put it on for me. I was already used to insane music (Origin, Nasum) but the Berzerker just blew me away. I was hooked instantly!

[Ne[r]d]

I'm still waiting for someone to reply with "I was searching Kazaa for that song "Berzerker" Olaf sung on Clerks, and accidentally came across the band"

[dave salmon]

I used to try kazza for that track all the time but it only ever came up with the berzerkers stufff never that dam sound byte!!!!

[emperadorXXIV]

Hey dave salmon. Exactly the same man! EXACTLY! That interview was a big file.

[leviathan]

i was exposed to a lot of berzerker fans so i thought, 'i gotta check this shit out' and the first song i heard was 'forever' and it was stuck in my head for days! so i liked them

[aenemic]

being a drummer I heard a lot about The Berzerker's insane drumming. so I had to check them out. this is definitely not my normal music taste, so at first I wasn't very impressed. a good while later I got into drum'n'bass and at the same time I checked out The Berzerker again. and I was hooked. now I love it.

[Braintechnician]

at first my friend showed me disregard and im like what the fuck is all this noise.then i asked him i can borrow dissimulate and the 2nd time i heard it i was it was alittle more clearer 2 me.3rd time im like holy crap i need to buy this cd.so the next day i gave my friend his cd then asked for a ride from my mom and bought the cd

[this_is_my_reality]

I heard em on the internet, and didn't like em at first, but then thought "Woah, this stuff is great!"

[Priest]

I went to school one day and my friend alex had been downloading all this death metal and wanted to show me some. I sat down and listened to his compolation. it went through SYL and Deicide, etc. That was all cool but then it came to this charging song unlike anything i had ever heard before. It came to this song called forever by the berzerker and it took me back. Huge sound with a brutal sounding guitar and this really messed up sample about raping headless bodies. i had a few stares from the group when i started banging my head but eventually i stood up and said out loud "this is fucking mad".
any way me and alex went down to my brother, Barton, and showed him the song. his thoughts of it are already on the site.

[Homa]

My girlfriends brother bought their cd and we listened to it. I think it´s great but I wasn´t amazed that much because I´ve listened to rotten sound for soooooooo long. Listen to that drummers fills and speed.

[Surt]

hasn't this been posted before?


anyway... basically back in the days when Metal Hammer still had some vague sliver of credibility, I got an Earache sampler CD free with the mag with stuff from Decapitated, The Berzerker, Hate Eternal and that....

I remember disliking 'No One Wins' quite a bit to begin with, mainly cause it was just so harsh and 'extreme' than anything i'd been listening to previously. But, as cliched as this will no doubt sound, as soon as I actually persevered and gave it a couple of listens, I found myself sucked into the sheer fucking blood-pumping adrenalising effect of the song, ended up loving it and went out and got Dissimulate from MVC.

I think I got the self-titled a week / week and a half later, and never really looked back :)

man that CD fucking ruled. Introduced me not only to The Berzerker but Decapitated, December and Hate Eternal as well.

[SSJ2 Vegeta]

It was a couple of months ago and I was at the Black-Goat forums. And in the "Related Bands" section, someone posted a link to their site and I checked it out and went to the Audio section and downloaded the songs and liked it. I'm getting both CD's for my birthday in two weeks and their DVD. :D

[DistalSonority]

I was surfing the net looking for bands like I usually do, and I stopped into a forum and saw a link for quote "heaviest band ever". With a tagline like that you gotta see what's up. The link took me to the video for Reality. The intro sample started up and I'm sitting there saying "Man...this is gonna be something harsh", then BOOM. Heard the drummer (which by the way, I questioned for months if it was real or not), the killer riff, I was hooked ever since. Usually I'm skeptical of bands with masks and such but when the band can back it up, makes the whole experience that much better.

[Barnolde]

I had a download subscription to emusic.com (pay service) and was downloading a bunch of Earache bands, and I came across The Berzerker, when I played it for the first time, I basically just said "Holy shit!" and then grinned. I enjoyed my (legallly) downloaded music a lot, but I wanted to support them even more so a couple months ago, I bought the physical CDs as well, awesome booklets.

[Fetusgrinder]

I first heard them on Antimtv.com. it was the video for "reality" and it fuckin blew me away. i saved it on my computer and showed all my buds. they too became berzerkos like myself but im the only one that had the guts to talk to the berzerker and tell him that they were my favorite band.

dont know if u remember that Luke but it was in Houston when u guys did the tour with SYL,Nile,and Napalm Death.:D i was like the only black guy there hahaha.

[Deathcrush]

Originally posted by Ichi_the_killer
First experience of The Berzerker was not an altogether good one. Got a bit freaky on the old Magic Mushrooms and a mate stuck "No one wins" on at a free party, big system. It fucked with my head totally, but i was somehow loving it deep down. Ever since that night i cant get enough of it!
Magic Mushrooms tend to do that to ya. But were you tired as hell after you heard "No One Wins", Ichi?

[INCINERATION]

I was in a friends car when i first heard it. The drums stuck out the most, insane bass drum work.

[emperadorXXIV]

For some reason, dance/trance etc etc. sounds really good when I'm stoned... Am I alone?

[Deathcrush]

Originally posted by Fetusgrinder
and the Gabba shit is great too man."mutant,fish,somethin somethin" get stoned to that shit for real!!!!!

"BERZERKER!!!!!!"

Koala, Fish, Mutant, Bird...

sounds like that is a good track to get stoned on. I don't mean to go off topic, but is Koala, Fish, Mutant, Bird really a good track to get stoned on? I mean, wouldn't Forever or Reality be another good track to do drugs on?

I'm just wondering who'll answer this.

[berzerk]

I don't like this berzerker dj-ing, because techno and trance and all this gay music is stupid, but The Berzerker's two Albums are great. (except "Ode to Nash", "Humanity" and "95") - Why don't you just play music like "Cannibal Rights" and "Massacre" or "Forever" ??????

[buckers]

Originally posted by berzerk
I don't like this berzerker dj-ing, because techno and trance and all this gay music is stupid, but The Berzerker's two Albums are great. (except "Ode to Nash", "Humanity" and "95") - Why don't you just play music like "Cannibal Rights" and "Massacre" or "Forever" ??????

Because you touch yourself at night.

[Barton]

Those songs are just as important as the next Berzerker song.
Skip it if you dont like it... but i'm sure The Berzerker (vocalist)likes it... so let them (or in this case particularly the vocalist), do what he wants/they want to do.

[Barton]

"It" is dj-ing...apologies for not really making that clear.