TRACK #390:

Halloween by Bezerker

It’s been 5 whole years since we closed out the season with a Heavy Metal Halloween.

Now, this is mostly because I was pretty sure we had drained that well damn near dry. But just like Title Tracks, it seems like there might be an infinite amount of 80’s metal songs called Halloween.

This year’s offering comes from a very short lived Australian band named Bezerker. They formed in 1988 from the ashes of another Australian (I assum) band named (I guess) Final Warning. Outside of this small blurb at the Metal Archives, I can find no mention (even through rest of the Metal Archives) of this former band named Final Warning.

The story of Bezerker seems to follow the same trajectory of many a Heavy Metal Halloweeners. Shortly after forming in ‘88 they release their full length debut, Lost, in 1990. Then they open up for a big name headliner, in this case Faith No More. Shortly after that they relocate to the UK in May of ‘91. There they don’t find much footing and they soon disband due to financial trouble. For Bezerker it was 2 months later in August of that same year.

It’s a shame too, as Lost is a pretty solid Thrash album and Halloween is no exception.

So many of these bands never caught on, struggled too early, or just missed wave. I feel bad for a lot of these late 80’s and early 90’s guys especially that didn’t quite have good footing before the scene gave way. They are across the board talented musicians relegated to being footnotes to a footnote, almost forgotten entirely.

However, as we’ve said in the past, thanks to their festive foresight, they are forever enshrined here on the walls of Halloween Shindig, front and center, not opening for anyone. Because here they are the headliners.

Thanks for tuning in everybody. We hope you’ve enjoyed all the new tunes. Here’s the final one for 2024.

From Berzerker to you, The Shindig wishes you all a very Happy (and hard) Halloween.

PS: the new episodes coming soon, I swear.