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THE BERZERKER TELLS THE TRUTH Fans questions answered
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On the 30th of January 2006 THE BERZERKER release the long-awaited new album WORLD OF LIES. We pitched a bunch of questions from the fans down to Australia.
"What does a normal day in the life of The Berzerker involve?
Get up; check mail, myspace, forum etc... Spend about 1hr
replying...breakfast, more emails, try to write some music, lunch, more mails, cleaning, eating more e-mails.... Thats pretty much it.... Groundhog day...
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Where has been your favourite place to play live so far and what countries that you have never been to would you like to tour?
We love playing the UK, the crowds are so into the music...out of everywhere, the UK seems to understand what The Berzerker are about the most. We would like to play in Portugal, Spain and South America, but we'd absolutely love to play Japan. All the bands who tour there rave about how much fun it is to play there, and the bassist lived there for a while and is dying to go back.
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Any special reason for unmasking?
The masks are dying and falling apart, and we went unmasked in The Berzerker DVD. Our reasons for being masked in the first place, which were to take attention away from individuals and back towards music, didn't seem to be working. People lost the ability to use their ears with us due to what their eyes were trying to process.
Will we be seeing The Berzerker setting Europe / USA ablaze in 2006?
We'll see.
What was it like to share a stage with some of your musical hero's such as Napalm Death and Vader and how did you get on with them?
It was an honour to play with those bands. They are to a degree the reason why we love extreme metal in the first place. The chance to see them play 30 nights in a row was a dream come true. Both bands were full of great guys we really had an amazing time with them. We were completely surprised by how down to earth they were, and how easy to get along with they are.
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What Pets do you have?
None any more.
According to some other interviews you grew up in a mortuary. What is the most disturbing thing you have ever seen?
I dont know but....the first naked women I ever saw was dead?
Your love for early Death Metal / Grindcore is well documented but what modern extreme metal bands and techno artists are you into at the moment?
Not too much, a lot of the new extreme metal bands are just musicians having a big musical wank instead of getting down and emanating evil and heaviness. I guess but saying that I really dont listen to much new music at all, Im too busy making it.
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If you could go back in time to any era what time would you go back to and why?
Not sure... Id just like to go back 10 yrs and know what I know now...
What kind of books do you read?
I dont ... I have maybe 2 books.... "Mixing with your mind" and "If chins could kill" great read...
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With the re-release of some of your early Gabba EP's such as Inextricable Zenith. Have you plans to do more gabba stuff in the future?
Hell yes. It's already started. Ive done some amazing tracks... Ill look for a release further down the track
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You've collaborated with some big names in the Hardcore techno scene. How do you know Scott Brown and how did you meet Lenny Dee?
Yeah Ive know Lenny since about 1993... Great guy... He put out my first records... At the time gabba was like 220bpm... My tracks were 378bpm, hes like "well can ya do a couple of slower ones so I made "koala fish mutant bird" and "No" featuring The Speed Freak, Scott has been a very good mate of mine for about 4 or 5 yrs... We talk almost every day.. I just did some shows with him last week... We have lots in common... Hes a metal head too!!!
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Do you think by losing the masks that your fanbase will will rise or faulter?
We honestly havent though about it. We didn't use the masks to win fans or personal praise in the first place. Who knows, perhaps less? Perhaps we are just a gimmick band to people? I think our music is stronger than most, I'm happy to compete on the 'normal' playing field visually.
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If you had 24hours left to live how would you spend them?
With some young teen girls
Have you ever considered moving from Australia to further your musical career?
I have a few times, Sam and Matt are now living in the UK. Germany has been my choice many, many time Ive been there 9 times. But I still call Australia home. You cant beat it... And I have been most places |
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WORLD OF LIES is out on EARACHE on January 30th 2006.
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