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Many new LPs, CDs and tapes added to the webshop!

LP
ABSU – The Sun of Tiphareth
Asphyx – Necroceros
Atlain – Living in the Dark
AURA NOIR- Hades rise
AUTOPSY – Acts of the Unspeaskable
BLASPHEME – Blaspheme
BLASPHEME – Desir De Vampyr
BÜTCHER – 666 goats carry my charriot
BUTTERFLY – Doorways Of Time
COBRA – Back From The Dead
COBRA – Warriors Of The Dead
DENIAL OF GOD – The horrors of satan
DESASTER – Tyrants of the Netherworld
DESASTER – Divine Blasphemies
EURYNOMOS – From the Valleys of Hades
GARGOYLE – The Deluxe Major Metal Edition
Horisont – Sudden Death
IONA – Don’t Cry For The Innocent
LEGEND – From The Fjords
METALUCIFER – Heavy Metal Chainsaw
METALUCIFER – Bulldozing it True
MORTAL SCEPTER – As time sharpens the sentence
NOCTURNAL BREED – Napalm nights
NOCTURNAL GRAVES – Satan’s cross
No Quarter – Songs In Circles
PENTACLE – Spectre of the Eight Ropes
Pestilence – Consuming Impulse
Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients
POISON – (Further Down) Into the Abyss
Poison Leather – Trapped in the Abyss of Chauvet
Possessed Steel – Aedris
Razor – Evil Invaders
Razor – Executioners Song
Razor – Malicious Intent
STEELWITCH – Steelwitch
SABBAT / DEATHHAMMER – Army of Death
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – Fukk
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – FUCK II
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – The Magus
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – We are death fuck you
TRIDENT – Power Of The Trident
TROUBLE – Manic Frustration
TYRUS – s/t
VALHALLA – Unearthed
Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
Wehrmacht – Biermacht
Witchtower – Witches’ Domain
Witherfall – Curse Of Autumn
Witherfall – Nocturnes And Requiems
Witherfall – A Prelude To Sorrow

7”
SABBAT / METALUCIFER – The Asian Tyrantz / We’re Still Metal Kids

CD
ABSU – Tara CD
Black Oath – S/T
BÜTCHER – Bestial fukkin’ Warmachine
BÜTCHER – 666 goats carry my chariot
Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
Exodus – Bonded By Blood
GARGOYLE – The Deluxe Major Metal
JONAH QUIZZ – Ultimate Anthology
LEGEND – From The Fjords
NEPTUNE – Land Of Northern
Poison Leather – Trapped in the Abyss of Chauvet
Possessed Steel – Aedris
The Rite/Coven of Impurity – S/t
SYE – Turn On The Fire
SYE – Wings Of Change
TRIAL BY FIRE – Trial By Fire
Wehrmacht – Biermacht
Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
Witchtower – Witches’ Domain
Xysma – Xysma 1989-1993

MC
Blackslash – Gladiators of Rock / The Power
Cutthroat – Rape ! Rape! Rape!+ EPs
Evilcult – At the Darkest Night
INEPSY – No Speed Limit For Destruction
INEPSY – Madness & Overkill
INSANE – Wait and Pray
Mosh Angel -In The Sign Of Mosh Angel
Paranoid -Out Raising Hell
RIPPER – Raising The Corpse
Roadwolf – Unchain the Wolves
Sabbat – Sabbatical Maniac Vol 2
Slaughtered Priest – Eternal Goat Reign
Viper Queen – Surrender to the Bite

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Many new LPs, CDs and tapes added to the webshop!

LP
ASHBURY – Endless Skies
BLACK VIPER – Hellions of Fire
BOLT THROWER – Honour Valour Pride
BOLT THROWER – Mercenary
BOLT THROWER – Those Once Loyal
CENTURY – DEMO MMXX
CIRITH UNGOL – Forever Black
CLOVEN HOOF – s/t
CONDOR – Unstoppable Power
COUNT RAVEN – Destruction Of The Void
DARKNESS – Death Squad
DEAD LORD – Goodbye Repentance
DEGIAL – Savage Mutiny
DESTRUCTION – Eternal Devastation
DESTRUCTION – Mad Butcher
DESTRUCTION – Sentence of Death
DESTRUCTION – Cracked Brain
DEXTER WARD – RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY
DIABOLIC NIGHT – Beyond the Realm
DIVISION SPEED – s/t
ETERNAL CHAMPION – Ravening Iron
ETERNAL CHAMPION – The Armor of Ire
Evil Invaders – Feed Me Violence
Evil Invaders – Pulses Of Pleasure
EXCORIATE – On Pestilent Winds
EXUMER – Possessed by Fire
FATES WARNING – Awaken The Guardian
FATES WARNING – Night On Bröcken
FATES WARNING – The Spectre Within
FORTRESS – s/t
GRIFFIN – Flight Of The Griffin
HAUNT – If Icarus Could Fly
HELVETETS PORT – From Life to Death
HELVETETS PORT – Exodus to Hell
HERZEL – Le Dernier Rempart
HIGH SPIRITS – Hard to Stop
HITTMAN – Destroy All Humans
HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH – Hobbs’ Satan’s Crusade
INCURSION – The Hunter
KONQUEST – The Night Goes On
LEGENDRY – Mists of Time
LOOSELY TIGHT – Fightin’ Society
LORD FIST – Wilderness of Hearts
MERCYFUL FATE – Don’t Break The Oath
MERCYFUL FATE – Melissa
MERCYFUL FATE – Mercyful Fate
MESSIAH – Hymn to Abramelin
METALUCIFER – Heavy Metal Hunter
MILITIA – And the Gods Made War
OMEN – Battle Cry
ORIGINAL SIN – Sin Will Find You Out
PROTECTOR – Urm the Mad
RAZOR – Armed and Dangerous
RIOT CITY – Burn the Night
SACRED REICH – The American Way
SACRED REICH – Surf Nicaragua
SACRED REICH – Ignorance
SADWINGS – Lonely Hero
Sphinx – Here we are
SYAR – Death Before Dishonour
THRONE OF IRON – Adventure One
TRIDENT – Power Of The Trident
VENENUM – s/t
VENOM – Live from the Hammersmith Odeon Theatre
VIOLENT FORCE – Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow
VISIGOTH – The Revenant King
VULTURE – The Guillotine
VULTURE – Victim to the Blade
Warfect – Spectre of Devastation
WHEEL – PRESERVED IN TIME

7”
SCALD – There Flies Our Wail!
SNAKEPIT Archives Vol. 2 BOOK + 7”

CD
SLAUTER XSTROYES – Winter Kill
Stälker – Black Majik Terror
Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword
VANGUARD – Vanguard
WHEEL – PRESERVED IN TIME

MC
Stone Vengeance – To Kill Evil

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Dying Victims Productions is proud to announce the following new releases:

DVP 177 Witchseeker – Scene of the Wild LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present WITCHSEEKER’s highly anticipated second album, Scene of the Wild, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Singapore, WITCHSEEKER formed in late 2012, originally as a one-man project by Sheikh Spitfire. By the time of the band’s first EP, 2014’s Night Rituals, WITCHSEEKER had expanded to a trio but was then pared back to a duo for their debut album, 2017’s When the Clock Strikes, with Brandon Speedranger on guitars and Sheikh Spitfire on vocals, bass, and drums.

While traditional metal is not often associated with Singapore, WITCHSEEKER gained the attention of their national scene with a classics-minded style of heavy metal that’s packed with power, speed, melody, and aggression. Legions have joined their cause, and over the years, WITCHSEEKER have shared stages with such bands as Firehouse, Enforcer, Destruction, Midnight, Exciter, and many more.

Come 2019, WITCHSEEKER expanded to a quartet with the joining of Aip Sinner on drums and Nick Stormbringer on guitars. With this bolstered lineup, the band then wrote and recorded their second full-length, Scene of the Wild. Aptly titled, Scene of the Wild stylistically spans Sunset Strip hot-rockin’ and classy, cruising speed metal alike, all with the finesse and deftness of devotees of all that’s timeless and true. Each of these 10 tracks in an anthem unto itself, but each one offers something equally unique. Not here will you find one big blur of sameness: “Lust for Dust” is like a runaway train, while “Nights in Tokyo” offers space, shade, and a yearning heart; “Rock This Night Away” does exactly what it says, while the title track is a ballroom blitz; “Screaming in the Moonlight” is a steady night-time strut, while “Candle in the Dark” struts to a darker, more personal pulse; and plenty more to be experienced elsewhere. Keeping things true, WITCHSEEKER don’t let proceedings get too slick, retaining a rawness of approach and authenticity of spirit, together giving Scene of the Wild a “scrappy underdog” aspect not unlike Mötley Crüe’s Too Fast for Love.

WITCHSEEKER are a promising band from a small country, just now realizing the depth of their potential. Graced with literally awesome cover art courtesy of Mario Lopez, Scene of the Wild is a vision of heavy metal revolution!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition sold out

DVP-R 002 MP – Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human) LP/b]

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the newly founded sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, is proud to present a reissue of MP’s cult-classic debut album, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human), on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Originally released in 1986 on the short-lived Steps Records, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human) was the first recorded statement of Germany’s MP. As such, it retains all the electricity and urgency of youth. It also upholds Germany’s rich heritage of heavy metal, which spanned the early hot-rockin’ throes of post-NWOBHM to the nascent rumblings of speed metal and its subsequent thrash offshoot, and of course the more mainstream stylings which lingered across all those idioms. It was still the 1980s, after all, and “heavy metal” as both a term and especially a musical style & subculture had yet to be too finely locked into boundaries. And with a complete lack of self-consciousness and, in its stead, an abundance of enthusiasm and energy, MP ably crisscrossed all these metals on their debut album, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human).

Indeed, aptly titled, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human) is a measured and never-messy explosion of hooks and heaviness, headbanging and hard-driving speed. Rough and raw yet somehow refined, MP at this stage authentically conveyed a sense of literally living & breathing HEAVY METAL, and each of the 10 should-be anthems comprising their debut full-length delivered the goods, each one as different as the last but altogether unified in their all-out metalness no matter the dynamic being explored. From the locomotive thrust of the opening title track to sleazy, midnight-walking panthers like “Startide Rising” and especially “Out for Love,” from the equally sleazy blitz of “On the Loose Again” to the stand-up-and-shout strut of “Fight for Your Life” right after and concluding with the moody push ‘n’ pull of “World of Tiers,” MP covered all ‘80s-stock metal bases and then some. Naturally, the specter of national heroes Accept loomed large across Bursting Out, but the band could just as handily hold their own with the likes of Living Death, Iron Angel, and Warrant domestically and even Exciter, Abattoir, and Nasty Savage overseas. And if their seemingly odd choice of moniker left any doubt, the trio drove the point home with “MP (Metal Priests).”

MP continued on for two more albums before changing that moniker to Melting Point, the title of their 1992 album still under the MP handle. But, of course, the band’s Bursting Out debut is their most beloved album, and one that cemented MP’s status as a cult band. Experience it again – or for the first time – on vinyl again since its original release, or on CD with five live bonus tracks!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code. ALL RECORDS DAMAGED; NEED TO BE REPRESSED!
– Special edition sold out

DVP 178 Evil – Possessed by Evil PicLP

Dying Victims Productions is proud to present EVIL’s second album, Possessed by Evil on Picture Disc format. The release is licenced from Nuclear War Now! and will include 3 additional live tracks.

As previously demonstrated on the 2017 debut, “Rites of Evil,” as well as the demo, two live recordings, and split with Siege Column that have since emerged, these twelve tracks of black/thrash metal once again capture the darkness of first wave black metal and unite it with the aggressive precision of early Teutonic thrash. Previous points of comparison between Evil and early Sodom continue to hold true, as do those that recognize similarities with the most notorious of Japanese hardcore outfits, especially insofar as the unhinged vocal delivery is concerned. Evil is anything but apologetic in its reverence to its metal heritage, which is what lends its recordings such a high degree of authenticity. “Possessed by Evil” is an unabashed conglomerate of riffs, accentuated by incisive leads and rabidly barked vocals. If there is one notable contrast with the debut album, it would be an increased cohesiveness among the instruments. Whereas “Rites of Evil” at times felt a bit loose, the performances on this album are characterized by noticeably tighter synchronicity, which one could logically assume to be the result of the band’s greater longevity. In any case, the outcome is one that represents a step forward from an already impressive debut and one that confirms Evil among the best of its black/thrash metal contemporaries.

Picture LP with insert and poster.

 

[WitheringHeights]

ALL RECORDS DAMAGED; NEED TO BE REPRESSED!

Uiuiui, was ist denn da passiert?

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Alle schwarzen Platten haben ziemlich an der gleichen Stelle einen recht miesen Kratzer. Nachproduktion wurde schon bestätigt, auf den Termin wart ich aber noch.

 

[WitheringHeights]

Alle schwarzen Platten haben ziemlich an der gleichen Stelle einen recht miesen Kratzer. Nachproduktion wurde schon bestätigt, auf den Termin wart ich aber noch.

Unschön.
Ich hatte ein wenig sensationslüstern auf eine Geschichte gelauert wie" um nicht selbst in den Abhang zu stürzen, über dessen Klippe er bereits wippte, musste der Vinylbote die Palette mit den frischgeschnittenen Scheiben vom Laster in den Abgrund schmeißen. Am Fuß der Schlucht dann: filmreife Explosion, aber Bote gerettet."

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Many new LPs, CDs and tapes added to the webshop!

LPs
BAT – AXESTASY
BONEHUNTER – EVIL TRIUMPHS AGAIN
BONEHUNTER – SEXUAL PANIC HUMAN MACHINE
CARNAGE – DARK RECOLLECTIONS
CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY – WRITTEN DESTINY
DEATHHAMMER – CHAINED TO HELL
DEATHWISH – DEMON PREACHER
DESTRUCTOR – MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION
DESTRUCTOR – SONIC BULLET
DISMEMBER – LIKE AN EVER FLOWING STREAM
ENFORCER – LIVE BY FIRE
EVIL ARMY – VIOLENCE AND WAR
Galactic Superlords – S/t
Galactic Superlords – Freight Trein
GROTESQUE – IN THE EMBRACE OF EVIL
HÄLLAS – EXCERPTS FROM A FUTURE PAST
LADY BEAST – THE VULTURE’S AMULET
LIZZIES – GOOD LUCK
LIZZIES – ON THIN ICE
Lunar Shadow – Wish to Leave
Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fire
MAYHEM – DEATHCRUSH
NIGHT – HIGH TIDES – DISTANT SKIES
NIGHT – RAFT OF THE WORLD
Old Mother Hell – Lord of Demise
Phaethon – Sacrifice Doth Call
POWER FROM HELL – SADISMO
Pulver – Kings under the Sand
SHITFUCKER – SUCK COCKS IN HELL
Solicitor – Spectral Devastation
VIOLENT FORCE – DEMO COLLECTION – VELBERT DEAD CITY II & DEAD CITY III – THE NIGHT
VIXEN – MADE IN HAWAII
Wheel – Preserved in Time
WHIPSTRIKER – MERCILESS ARTILLERY
WYTCH HAZEL – III: PENTECOST

CDs
100 Slain – Anthology 1989-1991
Aftershock – 1988-1991
ARTILLERY – In the Trash
ASOMVEL – KNUCKLE DUSTER
Asphyx – The Rack
ATOMKRAFT- FUTURE WARRIORS
ATOMKRAFT- QUEEN OF DEATH
CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY – FUTURE DECAY
Doomsday – 1989-1991…Thrashing Days
FLIGHT – FLIGHT
GROTESQUE – IN THE EMBRACE OF EVIL
HÄLLAS – HALLAS
HÄLLAS – EXCERPTS FROM A FUTURE PAST
H-BOMB – Attaque
INTRUDER – ESCAPE FROM PAIN
IRON ANGEL – Emerald Eyes
LADY BEAST – THE EARLY COLLECTION
METALUCIFER – Heavy Metal Drill
NIGHT – HIGH TIDES – DISTANT SKIES
SABBAT – Kill Fuck Jesus Christ
SABBAT – 20 Years of Blokula
Sortilège – Sortilège
Stallion – Rise And Ride
V. A. – Condenados al Olvido Vll
V. A. – Condenados al Olvido Vl
WYTCH HAZEL – II: SOJOURN
WYTCH HAZEL – III: PENTECOST
WYTCH HAZEL – PRELUDE

Books
SEVEN METAL INCHES – 40 Years of Picture 7″s in Extreme Metal
SEVEN INCHES OF DEATH – 5 Years of Cult Death Metal 7 Inch EPs
TAPE DEALER – 1984-1994: Decade of Demos, Tape Trading and Fanzines
UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES!

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Dying Victims Productions is proud to announce the following new releases:

(Unfortunately, again some delays:
DVP 172 Significant Point Repress and DVP 179 Lucifuge LP will arrive next week.
Still waiting for a date for DVP 181 Bunker 66 LP, but most likely also next week)

DVP 179 Lucifuge – Infernal Power CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated fourth album of Germany’s LUCIFUGE, Infernal Power, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

For the past five years, LUCIFUGE have been perfecting an addicting style of blackened speed metalpunk, all guided by the iron fist of mainman Equinox. Starting in 2018, the one-man wrecking crew released a demo, an EP, and the Ride the Beast debut album. The next year was no less busy, with two EPs and the second album Der AntiChrist. And just last year, the full-length The One Great Curse was released and then the digital single “Infernal Power.”

The latter single proved to be a teaser for LUCIFUGE’s fourth album, also titled Infernal Power. Going from strength to strength and now expanded to a full quartet, here does Equinox take his signature sound – greasy ‘n’ galloping riffs, locomotive rhythmic (dis)charge, and twisted ‘n’ pissed vocals – and spit-shine them with the dirtiest motor oil known to man. It’s all righteously party-hardy stuff, headbanging and boozy to the bitter end, but Infernal Power palatably exudes a startling professionalism usually elusive to those flying the metalpunk banner, no doubt a result of the lineup expansion. Likewise, the EVIL is ramped up here, cobwebs of haunting melodicism draped delicately across LUCIFUGE’s no-less-crazed attack. And perhaps most interestingly, Equinox covers GISM’s “As Good As It Is,” from that legendary Japanese band’s cult second album, M.A.N., an idiosyncratic blend of epic metal and noise. Which is all to underline the relatively unique ground LUCIFUGE are travelling with Infernal Power; names such as Inepsy, Blood Spit Nights, and Kriegshog are as easily evoked as those of Exciter, Razor, and English Dogs – and of course, the almighty Warfare and especially equally early Running Wild and Onslaught UK.

The full moon is night, and all the witches are about to dance…prepare to feel LUCIFUGE’s Infernal Power!

– CD edition with sticker.

Arriving next week:
– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

 

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DVP 180 Insane – Victims LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Sweden’s INSANE, Victims, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

For over a decade now, Sweden’s INSANE have inconspicuously built a catalog of dark ‘n’ dirty thrash metal worth reckoning. That they’ve gone largely unnoticed by all but diehard thrashers is a crime, and attributable more to the sheer abundance of metallic options still coming out of their homeland rather than any lack of quality. In fact, across INSANE’s two EPs, three demos, one split, one compilation, and especially 2017’s Evil debut album, one will be hard pressed to find a more strident iteration of ripping ancient thrash.

And INSANE continue sticking to their (strident, ripping) guns with their second full-length, Victims. Lyrically focused on the dark world of Swedish murderers, Victims indeed evokes a darker aspect than the already-dark Evil predecessor; the harmonic dual-guitar action sends well-timed shivers down the listener’s spine. But just like that preceding LP, here do INSANE show their mastery of epic songcraft, as the majority of the tracks again top five minutes whilst exhibiting that exhilarating rush so crucial to thrash, winding along wildly and ever so slightly touching upon more “tech” textures. If anything, the band engage and challenge in equal measure here, feeding manna to musos and rivetheads alike. Likewise, their iteration of thrash is a multilingual one, varyingly nodding to classic Canadian and German tropes and especially those that have been budding in the wider Scandinavian region more recently and also more “back in the day.”

A unique aspect to INSANE that the quartet continue on Victims is the full-bodied, almost rock ‘n’ roll-ish production: warmly analog but not faked, gritty and dirty but never belabored, and thankfully, nothing ear-piercingly overdriven like so much pizza thrash. Essentially, Victims is for those who like their thrash dank and pure and, above all, well-crafted.

If thrash as a whole has its waves of popularity/oversaturation, depending on the year, INSANE remain resolute as perpendicular maverick ready to challenge the passé and played-out. If you’re ready for their bandwagon to start rolling, become one of their Victims NOW!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on mustard colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– CD edition with sticker.

 

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DVP 181 Bunker 66 – Beyond the Help of Prayers CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present BUNKER 66’s highly anticipated fourth album, Beyond the Help of Prayers, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Since 2007, Italy’s BUNKER 66 have been proudly (and prolifically) flying the flag of ‘80s metalpunk, all in the beloved power-trio format. Of course, the joint influence of Motörhead and Venom looms large, but equally so do homeland heroes Bulldozer, the UK’s Warfare, early Running Wild, early Bathory and Slayer, later Anti-Cimex, metal-era Gang Green, and any ‘80s recordings from Discharge and Exciter. With this robust and rust-covered foundation firmly in place, BUNKER 66 recorded a trio of cult albums for High Roller Records as well as a grip of splits with the likes of Italy’s Barbarian and Morbo, Brazil’s Whipstriker, and most recently Scotland’s Vuil. Simply put, they’re a cult band for cult fanatics – and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Now, a couple years on from that last-mentioned split with Vuil comes BUNKER 66’s long-awaited fourth album, Beyond the Help of Prayers. The band’s first full-length in four years and second with the lineup of co-founders vocalist/bassist Damien Thorne and drummer Dee Dee Altar alongside ex-Schizo guitarist J.J. Priestkiller, Beyond the Help of Prayers is a refreshing blast of old air! Right from the opening, galloping minutes of “To the Gates of Death – Lair of the Profaner,” this is 666% BUNKER 66 through and through – all those above influences, all sliced and diced with the deft touch of devotees, but always brimming with a charisma that’s undeniable – and thereafter do the hits keep on coming. But, while one could say that Beyond the Help of Prayers is business as usual for the band (and we’d still love it), the album sees BUNKER 66 taking on subtly more epic touches, ones that feel almost swords & sorcery without being obvious about it, or perhaps the post-apocalyptic wasteland vibes of Dee Dee Altar’s time in Children of Technology played a significant role? Naturally, the trio keep their noses deep within their realms of the black here, and while they’re undoubtedly dirtier and more blasphemous than ever, BUNKER 66 arguably receive their best-sounding production on Beyond the Help of Prayers, which thankfully only maximizes their power that much more.

You can’t teach old dogs new tricks, and the same be said – STUNNINGLY – for BUNKER 66, for they’re Beyond the Help of Prayers!

– CD edition with sticker.

Slight delay, waiting for the delivery date:
– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

 

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DVP-R 003 MP – Get it Now LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the newly founded sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, is proud to present a reissue of MP’s cult-classic second album, Get It Now, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Originally released in 1987 on the short-lived Steps Records, Get It Now, was the second recorded statement of Germany’s MP. Their debut album from the year before, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human), retained all the electricity and urgency of youth, and subsequently become a cult record for its raw verve. A year older and presumably wiser, the power-trio unleashed a more finessed follow-up in Get It Now. While the band hardly wavered in their approach between the two albums – still spanning the early hot-rockin’ throes of post-NWOBHM to the nascent rumblings of speed metal and its subsequent thrash offshoot, and of course the more mainstream stylings which lingered across all those idioms – MP here focused their songwriting into a more streamlined push ‘n’ pull that was 100% HEAVY METAL personified.

And yet, its year of release provides some (in-hindsight) context for Get It Now’s unique and underdog nature, which has thankfully made it an enduring album. Not only in Germany but across the world, traditional metal was on the decline as “hair metal” crept up the pop charts and thrash metal exploded all across the international underground – and lest we forget the first album-length rumblings of death metal. In this landscape, where subgenres started taking hold and “heavy metal” as both a term and especially a musical style & subculture became much more defined, MP doggedly defied the norms and stuck to their increasingly gleaming guns. As such, Get It Now retains a rich, metal-for-metal’s-sake balance between slick ‘n’ speeding burners and grimy fist-shakers. And while the debut album conspicuously nodded toward metal culture with “MP (Metal Priests),” here do MP continue to acknowledge that culture through the wider world’s acknowledgement of metal culture with “Rocktober Blood,” about the cult horror film of the same name. Elsewhere, the production was taken up a couple notches without losing that raw verve that so endeared the band’s debut album, arguably making Get It Now the fullest expression of MP’s true metal might.

MP continued on for one more album before changing that moniker to Melting Point, the title of their 1992 album still under the MP handle. Like many overlooked albums within the metal pantheon, Get It Now never truly got its due “back in the day,” but thankfully, it sounds surprisingly fresh today, and RELICS FROM THE CRYPT hopes this dog will have its day with this long-overdue reissue!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on halloween orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– CD edition with sticker.

 

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Significant Point – Into the Storm T-Shirt

Awesome Heavy/Speed Metal from Japan. Redesigned by Dark Dungeons Atelier.

Two sided print on Gildan Heavy cotton shirts.

 

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Dying Victims Productions is proud to announce the following new Pre-orders:

DVP 186 Karloff – The Appearing LP/CD/MC/T-Shirt

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present KARLOFF’s highly anticipated debut album, The Appearing, on CD, music cassette and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Germany, KARLOFF formed in 2018 as a means for erstwhile Graveyard Ghoul member Tom Horrified to blow off some punk-oriented steam with a couple close comrades. Describing their sound as “raw obscure punk turns into blackness,” it didn’t take long for the band to record their first recording, Demo ’18, but it was the following Raw Nights mini-album a year later where KARLOFF kicked into high gear. Released to widespread acclaim by DYING VICTIMS with the preceding demo tracks tacked on, Raw Nights strutted with sleazy confidence and an infectious sense of bash/crash/slash that struck deep into the heart of what makes the best of both punk and metal. But, the best was still come from KARLOFF…

At last, it arrives with their long-awaited debut album, The Appearing. If KARLOFF’s previous two short-lengths presented them as a more gutter-level Midnight, then The Appearing recasts the band in a totally new, altogether more unique light – and one that’s still brimming with that ever-special twist of olde-worlde evil. Rich and robust and ripplingly muscular, The Appearing struts like a cheetah with a heart full of napalm and flexes like nobody’s business. In fact, the lead-heavy stomp here harkens to ancient-days metalpunk like Carnivore, Best Wishes-era Cro-Mags, or even early Nasty Savage; equally, one could also point to the more modern likes of Iron Age, Shitfucker, and The Rival Mob. However, the creepiness KARLOFF hinted at earlier reaches a fever pitch across the tastefully-applied chorus FX, a subtle nod to post-punk that ably broadens the band’s reach without sacrificing their vision. More than all that, it’s the songwriting of The Appearing which renders it an intensely re-playable record: exciting, invigorating, and skillfully finding that balance between the seemingly epic and the swiftly concise.

Ghouls and ghosts, thugs and thieves: KARLOFF are calling upon you to witness The Appearing!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on ultra clear vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.
– T-Shirt, printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton.

Out 30th July

DVP 187 Fate’s Hand – Fate’s Hand MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the striking self-titled debut EP by FATE’S HAND on CD and 12” vinyl formats.

With the roar of parting waves and the call of a thousand ravens, Australian heavy metal thunders into new being, bearing the ever-ominous moniker FATE’S HAND. Reverberating opuses, wrought straight from tales lost in time but ever-present in the blood of fellow men, across the band’s self-titled debut EP does visceral melody grasp tightly on the spear of classic heavy metal, hearkening to the genre’s progenitors and in the same breath taunting, daring the very same gods. In a word, Fate’s Hand is both old and new, surprising and unsurpassed.

Perhaps not surprising is the fact that FATE’S HAND comprises various members from Australia’s esteemed extreme metal scene, such heavyweights as Mongrel’s Cross, Impetuous Ritual, and Stargazer. While the same peerless standards of quality run rampant across the band’s debut statement, this formation are their own masters, and empowered as such, FATE’S HAND deftly draw from the primordial well of Northern lore and attack in a savage foray of traditionalist heavy metal. And this is but the mere start of battles to be waged…

Expect less and your life is forfeit. FATE’S HAND draw first sword!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– MCD edition with sticker.

Out 30th July

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

DVP-R 005 Breathless – Breathless LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the newly founded sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, is proud to present a reissue of the killer self-titled debut album from Belgium’s BREATHLESS on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Genk, Belgium’s BREATHLESS was founded in 1983 by Antonio and Dirk. Antonio already had experience as a drummer in the punk rock bands The Visions and Transylvania, and Dirk had previously played in Hammerhead. Antonio knew Stanis, brother of the guitarist and singer of The Visions, and asked him to join the band as bass player. Because many metal bands had two guitar players at the time, it was decided to look for an additional guitarist. Dirk was friends with Laky, but Laky had never held a guitar before… Friendship being one of the key values of the band, Dirk suggested to teach Laky how to play the guitar, and so he joined the band. Finally, Pascal (who was only 14 years old at that time) was brought in as singer.

The driving force of BREATHELESS was to impress, push the boundaries, deliver high-level tempo changes, and dark and angry vocals – both high and low, which was quite remarkable in the Belgian metal scene of that time. Supporting gigs of international acts followed: BREATHLESS joined Warlock, Helloween, Tyson Dog, and Axe Victims onstage.

BREATHLESS’ debut album was recorded in 10 days. Local record store Gigaswing wanted to release the album, and so the long-player Breathless was born. The LP was well received everywhere, good reviews appeared in the metal magazines, gigs followed, the fanbase expanded…and then came the decline, when the lineup quickly crumbled away…

However, what was captured on BREATHLESS’ sadly only album was pure metal magic: unhinged, unselfconscious, and unlike most of their Belgian contemporaries. Neither strictly traditional metal nor speed metal nor hard rock nor latent NWOBHM, Breathless was a blender of all the tastes of the time, and its indeed-breathless rush was sublime in its sheer energy and electricity. Take the needle of your turntable and drop it anywhere across the album and you’ll be met with raw finesse and total abandon and even exceptionally placed moments of epic quietude – simply, all-out freedom in the spirit of the mid ‘80s before metallic boundaries were firmly drawn out and laid down. Put another way, one look at the cover of Breathless and BREATHLESS’ attendant logo and you just KNOW what you’re in for!

Ridiculously rare in its original vinyl guise and never officially released on CD, BREATHLESS’ legendary lone document now arrives bearing the full RELICS FROM THE CRYPT treatment. Don your best striped spandex, raise your beers, and get Breathless!

– Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special gatefold edition on olive green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– CD edition with sticker.

Out 30th July

DVP 189 Vulture – Dealin’ Death MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the 3rd album from Germany’s VULTURE, Dealin’ Death, on music cassette.

If we are talking High Speed Metal these days, one simply HAS to talk about Vulture! The band shows quite the work ethics and delivers their already 3rd album in their relatively short career, but do not make the mistake and expect any half assed, weak material on here. Working hard on carefully evolving their overall sound and especially the individual tracks, they have managed to streamline the material to 10 even more concise and catchy speed metal hymns.

– MC edition with sticker and button.

Out 28th May.

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

DVP 190 Reaver – Butchery from Beyond! MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut demo from USA’s REAVER, Butchery from Beyond!, on music cassette.

Rancid, old school metal ov Death, or as the band puts it themselves: “Swedish death metal from the hard streets of Stockholm, California”. If you like your death metal how it was in the late 80s/early 90s, then get yourself a copy of this 4-track demo!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 28th May.

 

[Stahlprophet]

Hach, ihr wärt das ideale Label, um das Angels in Exile Demo auf CD rauszubringen....ich träum mal weiter

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Kenn ich gar nicht, hör ich mir mal an

 

[Angelripper]

DVP 180 Insane – Victims LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Sweden’s INSANE, Victims, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

For over a decade now, Sweden’s INSANE have inconspicuously built a catalog of dark ‘n’ dirty thrash metal worth reckoning. That they’ve gone largely unnoticed by all but diehard thrashers is a crime, and attributable more to the sheer abundance of metallic options still coming out of their homeland rather than any lack of quality. In fact, across INSANE’s two EPs, three demos, one split, one compilation, and especially 2017’s Evil debut album, one will be hard pressed to find a more strident iteration of ripping ancient thrash.

And INSANE continue sticking to their (strident, ripping) guns with their second full-length, Victims. Lyrically focused on the dark world of Swedish murderers, Victims indeed evokes a darker aspect than the already-dark Evil predecessor; the harmonic dual-guitar action sends well-timed shivers down the listener’s spine. But just like that preceding LP, here do INSANE show their mastery of epic songcraft, as the majority of the tracks again top five minutes whilst exhibiting that exhilarating rush so crucial to thrash, winding along wildly and ever so slightly touching upon more “tech” textures. If anything, the band engage and challenge in equal measure here, feeding manna to musos and rivetheads alike. Likewise, their iteration of thrash is a multilingual one, varyingly nodding to classic Canadian and German tropes and especially those that have been budding in the wider Scandinavian region more recently and also more “back in the day.”

A unique aspect to INSANE that the quartet continue on Victims is the full-bodied, almost rock ‘n’ roll-ish production: warmly analog but not faked, gritty and dirty but never belabored, and thankfully, nothing ear-piercingly overdriven like so much pizza thrash. Essentially, Victims is for those who like their thrash dank and pure and, above all, well-crafted.

If thrash as a whole has its waves of popularity/oversaturation, depending on the year, INSANE remain resolute as perpendicular maverick ready to challenge the passé and played-out. If you’re ready for their bandwagon to start rolling, become one of their Victims NOW!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on mustard colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

– CD edition with sticker.

Killer Album!

 

[Stahlprophet]

Kenn ich gar nicht, hör ich mir mal an

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Danke!