| The Berzerker | 013-Tilburg | Mar 09, 2003 |
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Strange package today in the 013: emocore, thrash/death metal and extreme industrial grindcore. By far, most of the visitors came for only one band: The Berzerker. The opening acts only got a lukewarm reception. December "Hi, we`re December from Reno, Arizona". The words spoken by the not-so-metal-looking singer turned out to be the intro for a half-hour of emo/metalcore. Singer Mark tried to get the people more upfront, closer to the stage but with little success. The volume was quite loud but with a clean sound. Unlike a lot of other bands in this genre, December never got boring. Or maybe a half-hour is just right... Corporation 187 Corporation 187 played a solid set with tracks of their latest album Perfection In Pain and their debut Subliminal Fear. Not bad at all, just the wrong time and place. The Berzerker Luckily, things were back to normal as The Berzerker kicked off their show. Monster masks and everything else we hoped for. The samples and drum computer were all fired up just like the band on stage. The Berzerker gave us the best of both their albums including songs like "Massacre", "Forever", "Reality, "Death Reveals", “Disregard” and “The Principles And Practices Of Embalming”. We were left with the fantastic "Corporal Jigsaw Quandary" (a Carcass original) but by then several people already had left the building. Pussies! Nobody probably noticed it but the drummer of The Berzerker was a replacement for the original drummer who broke his foot just a couple of days before this tour started. The replacement filled in nicely and nobody could tell the difference because of the mask. The only negative remark I have to make is that the volume wasn`t loud enough, but then again I maybe too used to hearing The Berzerker at a deafening volume... (Review & Pics: Jan Geert Koops) |
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