The Berzerker - Animosity Review

The Berzerker - Animosity Review
by Matt Hensch

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I would assume anyone who knows The Berzerker can agree with me in saying the group is totally nuts. After all, can you name another death metal band that incorporates electronic styles in their music without sounding like s***? I sure can't. Anyway, The Berzerker has been gaining a lot of attention over the years and they make some new heads turn every time an album is released, but a wind of change is blowing toward The Berzerker's direction. Progression is shown as time passes in The Berzerker's career, but with Animosity, the bar gets raised to what might be the group's finest hour.

With Animosity, The Berzerker launches an onslaught of unforgiving death metal with the band's natural industrial influences. The opening seconds of the album's opener gives a massive blast of power with mutilating growls, shredding riffs, and drums that could make Hermes exhausted because of their blistering pace. The riffing has reached its climax of enjoyable aspects due to the modified speed, crushing distortion, and wide-variety of sounds produced by this grinding annihilation. Everything from old-school death metal to melodic chops is portrayed with stunning skill and blazing agility. Luke Kenny's masterful growls remain an ear-splitting element of The Berzerker's already stellar product. Kenny's voice reminds me of Glen Benton's (Deicide) mixture of deep growls and deafening shrieks. Nothing sounds bad here; it's just quality death metal the way it sound be done.

The Berzerker's habitual industrial parameters remain intact within the band's advanced demonstration of merciless death metal. There is a slight electronic significance found in the bass (both guitar and drum) when the instruments eject a thundering blast of deep distortion with numbing speed. The sample found at the beginning of "Eye For An Eye" opens the album with a humorous anti-religous rant of man trying to get rid of Christians; this is the only pure sample throughout this album, which isn't like most Berzerker efforts, yet the band's focus on structured death metal with tiny industrial hits leaves any bad taste in the dust.

Animosity defines the skill and intensity that The Berzerker has been trying to do since 1995. The attitude and intelligence placed into this disc is an unmatched method that few groups could ever assemble or even consider. If you haven't had the chance or will to check out The Berzerker, this is your ticket to do so.

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Rating:9.3

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