During the early part of their career as a live act, band members were identified only as The Vocalist, The Guitarist, The Bassist and The Drummer, distinguishable on stage only by the masks they wore.
[2] A DVD documentary, The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker (2004), includes several hours of live concert footage, as well as the first public images of the band members without their masks.
Kenny had previously been a drummer in various Melbourne bands, including an early death metal group called Mystic Insight,[4] but after suffering injuries in a motor vehicle accident which involved twenty 18-wheeler trucks[citation needed], was forced to give up playing.
Earache Records' website suggests that the album was supposed to be recorded at Devin Townsend's Vancouver studio with contributions from well-known metal artists David Vincent (Morbid Angel), Kevin Sharp (Brutal Truth, Damaged), Dan Lilker (Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault), and Jed Simon (Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole) until they were all injured in a mysterious event.
[citation needed] After disagreements and financial issues, Kenny returned to Australia and worked with friend Sam Bean, who recorded guitar parts, as well as backing vocals.
The album received wide praise in underground metal magazines, and the band was compared to Napalm Death and Strapping Young Lad.
The band celebrated by playing live shows which resulted in onstage violence in Melbourne for months [citation needed] before heading off for a world tour lasting from 2002 to 2003.
This culminated in an infamous Earache Christmas Party appearance, where the band terrorised both record label and the audience.
The band continued on to the US after a brief Christmas break to do another full US tour with Nile, Napalm Death, Strapping Young Lad and Dark Tranquillity.
Nile drummer Tony Laureano played the Carcass cover "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" each night.
The Berzerker hit the UK for its next round of headlining shows featuring snuff footage, locals being abducted, and audiences getting punched in the face, then headed out to Europe for their first-ever appearance there.
Luke Kenny decided to focus the downtime into compiling all the footage he had recorded of the band, producing a DVD titled The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker.
This DVD ended up being over four hours long, consisting of one professionally shot show, another concert-worth of assorted bootleg footage, backstage recordings, band rehearsals, and touring.
Following the release they toured extensively in several parts of the world sharing the stage with other acts including Satyricon, Napalm Death, Suicide Silence, and Zonaria.
Furthermore, Kenny has stated that he had lost interest in carrying on with the band and has since moved on to a photography job for Evokke magazine.