When I look back at the last twenty years, there is perhaps no more important musical entity in my life than England’s EARACHE RECORDS (srs). Back when I was a little kid on a quest to find the fastest, most cock-smashingly brutal music I could get my hands on, I stumbled across a copy of the legendary Grindcrusher compilation, and I’ve been hooked on death metal ever since. As my gateway to metal, Earache will always have a special place in my heart– and when you care for someone as I do for Earache, it hurts to see them lose their way, stumble, and fall as Earache did in the 90s and 00s. I had written them off as yet another band/label/artist who has a brief moment of brilliance, burns brightly, then fizzles out before dying in undignified circumstances [via Vincent Van Gogh]. But I am happy to report that I couldn’t be more wrong! Earach is back on the horse, stronger than ever, and signing more relevant, exciting bands than ever (srs).

In this post, I will briefly recap the label’s history in three sections to bring newer readers up to speed on Nottingham’s finest export. I will then share my thoughts on their current signings and solicit suggestions on which bands the label should sign next– hopefully Dig is reading!

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But at least this one has bondage chicks and lesbos in it.

Here’s The Berzerker doing the tATu (Christ I can’t believe I just typed that with the caps and everything) song “All the Things She Said.” Apparently some people are really offended by the sexual content of the video*, but really everyone should just be offended that this blows so hard.

Awful. Just awful.

Thanks to Mark Mortiz-Rabson for the link.

-AR

*And by “some people,” I mean “no one.” I mean, I don’t think the people who get offended by this kind of shit even know who the fuck The Berserker are. As far as I can tell, this is just some non-controversy cooked up by the group’s PR team to get them some headlines – so mission accomplished!

That Berzerker video Axl posted yesterday was all well and boobalicious, but when I think of Berzerker, much like MS commenters dthrasher and Fink, I immediately think of this scene from the classic Kevin Smith movie Clerks:

Normally when I think of The Berzerker, I think of this dude:

(The one in horns, not the lil’ Asian fella.)

But as long time MetalSucks Maniac Mark Moritz-Rabson recently reminded us, The Berzerker is also one of the many extreme metal acts who, for whatever reason (lack of time and resources, mostly), we have generally failed to cover here at MetalSucks.

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