Posts Tagged ‘The Berzerker’

Friday night’s show was great. it was a much better turn-out than I expected; of course the classic bands always seem to draw a bigger crowd in this area. Warbringer opened the show with ferocity as usual and had the energy to get the crowd ready for the bands to come. The Berzerker, a band I had only heard of, made quite the impact with the death metal/grindcore infusion from Melbourne, Australia. A bit loud but they put on a great show too.

Krisiun has a brand new fan. Another band that I had only heard the name and just never had the interest to pursue Krisiun. Damn, I’ve been missing out. Read the rest of this entry »

This behavior would have probably been unacceptable by thrash and death metal bands between 1985 and 1995, but so many bands are doing it. The whole covering of pop-songs thing. Some do it and put forth a good effort while others just completely suck at it? Why do they suck at it? Because they are a metal band, damnit. Metal bands are allowed to write power ballads, but doing a pop cover is just a cry out for attention to get noticed. It’s that shock factor, that chance some bands take to get noticed on a higher level than what they currently play at. This is another one of those sad moments.