Damnation Festival announce The Berzerker
Damnation Festival have announced a special reunion performance from THE BERZERKER!
The Australian industrial death metal outfit will reunite for their only European show at this year’s edition of the festival, set to take place on Saturday, November 7th. The announcement follows on from May’s announcement, which saw PELICAN, FRONTIERER and KRALLICE confirmed.
Speaking about the comeback, frontman Luke Kenny says, “I stopped the band in 2009 because I absolutely fucking hated the constant technical problems. My body was wrecked, and the technical limitations meant it was never anywhere near what I envisioned.
Every show felt like a fucking disaster waiting to happen and I refused to keep giving people a version of this band that didn’t live up to what I imagined. THE BERZERKER was built to be a brutal sonic and visual assault – speed, chaos, precision and violence – and for years everything onstage fought against that. I hit a point where I simply refused to keep doing it and moved on. Seventeen years later, the game has changed. I can finally build the machine to provide me with the sonic and visual onslaught I have always imagined.
And thanks to Damnation, I’m bringing Sam Bean, Todd Hanson, Matt Wilcock and our whole Australian team over for one epic show. No excuses. No compromise. Just pure brutality.”
Damnation Festival 2026 takes place at BEC Arena, Manchester from 7th-8th November 2026. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.
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