Track Listing

1. Eye For An Eye
2. Purgatory
3. False Hope
4. Evolution
5. No More Reasons
6. Retribution
7. Cancer
8. Weapons Of War
9. Heavily Medicated
10. Lonely World
11. Intro
12. Forever
13. Compromise
14. Principles & Practices Of Enbalming
15. "Y"
16. Never Hated More
17. World Of Tomorrow
18. Disregard
19. All About You
20. Cannibal Rites
21. Heavily Medicated
22. Burnt
23. After Life
24. Chapel Of Cghoulds
25. Pure Haterd
26. Deform
27. No- One Wins
28. Death Reveals
29. Reality
30. Committed To Nothing
31. Corporal Jigsore Quandary

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340656 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-19
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import

Album Description
Limited Edition two CD pressing of the 2007 release from the controversial and mysterious Australian Death Metal/Grindcore band featuring a bonus live disc recorded live in London in December of 2006. This 20 track bonus disc features classic Berzerker tracks, one new song 'Heavily Medicated' plus Morbid Angel and Carcass cover versions. The Berzerker are the only band to adeptly marry the basics of old school grind with distinctly current technology. Animosity continues their destructive tradition bringing 10 more tracks of caustic technological grind in their most intense and violent outing yet! Earache. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Aural terrorism?
Earache describes The Berzerker's new album Animosity as "aural terrorism", given the ever-present onslaught of double bass drum fury combined with hyperkinetic riffery and vocals from hell. While firmly rooted in an old school grind blueprint, the band also seem to benefit from studio trickery in order to update their sound without sacrificing their core elements.

Contrary to some of their older albums, Animosity's guitar sound is more primal, more in-your-face; and thankfully, the processed spoken vocal samples that appeared on some of their previous works are nonexistent here. This is unbridled heaviness, played at break-neck speed and topped with demonic vocals. The machine-gun riffery of "False Hope" keeps pounding out like a marching army of hundred thousand troops whilst monstrous double bass drums of "Evolution" are among their most relentless to date. That said, being a drum machine, the not-so-organic sound of the drums may turn some old-school death metal fans off. While in no way a setback to the album, the tones of kicks and toms do sound identical on each and every song. The most interesting parts are when the guitars slow down to generate doomy atmospheres, as on the intro of "No More Reasons", but it only lasts for a couple of seconds before everything turns into yet another "play as fast as you can" type of grind. That said, the guitar work is also rather simplistic, despite seeming quite complex at first. Most of it is repeated three-note rhythms that get buried under the two-part vocal lines: Luke Kerry does both the super low death growls and the deafening black-like shrieks depending on the speed and structure of the song.

Fans of Berzerker will no doubt enjoy this release, but to me, it seems rather bland and even boring most of the time.

Make sure you pick up the 2 disc edtion
I am so happy when I got this cd. Wold of Lies was an ok cd I felt a lil let down didnt see like the berzerker at all but i did enjoy the album just wasnt them. This cd seems like its there 1st 2 cds put together mix it up and here you go. I love this cd. To any berzerker fan you must get this album and the 20 live tracks are amazing!!!!