The lyrics are all included, and considering the band’s spotty English skills aren’t too bad at all. Someday a BM band will ditch the face paint and it will look revolutionary. The band looks like Kiss at a Rennaisance Faire in the band photo, oh well. The cover art is very cool, and the interior design isn’t bad either. The CD package is very pro looking for an underground band. All the songs here are pretty good, with "Funeral Pyre" standing out as especially good, also the cool instrumental "Votive Gift in Sacred Forest", a very atmospheric acoustic tune. Vocals that are too raspy or screamy are usually a deal-breaker for me, so I dig these. Vocals are more a death-metal midrange style, rather than the usual black metal shriek, and I like that.
The lower end is basically nonexistent, and the mix is very treble-ey. The production is pretty rough, but not bad for a production that was done on essentially no budget. I like the midpaced riffing interspersed with the usual quick-strummed guitar rumble, and the cool keyboard harmonies layered over the double-bass attack. Berserk have a good sense of melody and compose more complex tunes than most underground BM bands, they also don’t overdo the speedy parts. This is pretty standard stuff, but well-executed. This is the first CD by Spanish pagan black metallers Berserk, and it’s pretty cool.īerserk play a keyboardy brand of black metal with some slight folky or medieval touches here and there. Every time I go on the Dark Symphonies website, I end up getting more stuff I never heard of but looks interesting, and so far the ol’ metal detector hasn’t steered me wrong.
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