News von Dying Victims Productions- Pagan Altar, Freeways, Lady Beast, Vulture

[Disbe]

Holy Moly!
Die neue Critical Defiance...
Meine Fresse!
Was ein geiles Brett!
Da hat sich schon eine Menge südamerikanischer Black Metal eingeschlichen, ohne ZU dominant zu sein.
Aber das steht dem Thrash der Truppe unglaublich gut.
Fuck, macht das Ding Spaß.
Ich freue mich darauf, das Vinyl aufzulegen.

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

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

DVP 297 Lucifer’s Hammer – Be And Exist LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated fourth album of Chile’s LUCIFER’S HAMMER, Be and Exist, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Since their formation in 2012, Chile’s LUCIFER’S HAMMER have been fighting the good fight for heavy metal, both at home and abroad. During their first years, the homeland wasn’t as renown for traditional metals, but ever since their ascent to the international stage, LUCIFER’S HAMMER have wielded a wealth of influence on the wider Chilean heavy metal scene. Their Night Sacrifice demo in 2013 was their first public work, but it was the full-length Beyond the Omens debut in 2016 which really blew the doors open, reaping widespread acclaim and firmly establishing their trademark sound: pure & proud HEAVY METAL equally rooted in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with an air of anthemic memorability ala classic radio metal but never forgetting their underground roots. LUCIFER’S HAMMER really expanded upon that radio angle with the subsequent Victory is Mine mini-album a year later, showing darkness and versatility in equal measure. They further consolidated this sound with two more full-lengths, 2018’s Time is Death and 2021’s The Trip.

Now, longtime fans DYING VICTIMS step forth to raise high the banner of LUCIFER’S HAMMER with their fourth album, Be and Exist. The title is something of a clarion call for the Chileans: staying put in the ‘80s for years now, the band simply want to continue crafting true-as-steel HEAVY METAL that bangs the head as profoundly as it enflames the heart. Like an iron fist lined with velvet, there’s a deceptively silky surge to Be and Exist that drives deepest into the heart of mid ‘80s metal, all the while pumping pistons patiently and powerfully. With leads moody and emotive and founding frontman / guitarist Hades’ vocals ringing out through the night, across rain-soaked streets and through the back alleys, LUCIFER’S HAMMER here deliver a masterclass in mystery & atmosphere. The album’s attention-grabbing cover art vividly illustrates the point, but the band are certainly tackling more cosmic matters here, and it fits perfectly with the classy classic metal across Be and Exist. At any one point, one can detect the likes of prime Dokken, Heavy Pettin’, Diamond Head, Europe, Witch Cross, Virgin Steele, and even ‘80s KISS at their most metal – but the way these noble influences are rearranged and reformed into anthems is 100% LUCIFER’S HAMMER.

Indeed are LUCIFER’S HAMMER a band with a vision of the future, treading the metal boards for over a decade now with pure passion and hunger. Life doesn’t come easy in South America, and so have they made their music the ideal stage where the hammer will fall with force to demonstrate all that’s in their hearts. To Be an Exist – this is what heavy metal dreams are made of!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with noble embossed cover sleeve, insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on transparent blue inyl, with noble embossed cover sleeve, insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 14th June

DVP 298 Angel Sword – World Fighter LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ANGEL SWORD’s highly anticipated third album, World Fighter, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Helsinki, Finland’s ANGEL SWORD formed in 2010 with the intent to play old-school heavy metal. And they get right to it with the too-perfectly titled demo Where We Are Going You Cannot Come demo later that year. Two EPs followed – 2013’s Ripping the Heavens and 2015’s The Midwinter Tapes – before their decisive debut album, Rebels Beyond the Pale, in 2016. Another perfectly titled recording, ANGEL SWORD’s first full-length was a fresh breath of old air, finding some elusive (and deceptively laidback yet rough) landscape of late ‘70s heavy metal, subsequent NWOBHM, and adjacent early US power metal. Three years later followed the tighter and slightly more aggressive Neon City, expanding the band’s still-‘80s-bound gaze through a charmingly rustic retro-futurist lens. During all these years, ANGEL SWORD have opened for Manilla Road, Blitzkrieg, and Satan as well as playing such festivals as Metal Assault, Metalheadz Open Air, Storm Crusher warmup, and Up the Hammers warm-up. Oh, and along the way, Darkthrone’s Fenriz thoroughly championed the band!

“Our goal in this age of soulless, overproduced modern metal is to re-summon the metal gods of old with a skull-crushing, vomit-inducing dose of rough-edged heavy metal,” state ANGEL SWORD, and that’s exactly what they do with World Fighter! It’d be easy to simply say that their third album is a fairly even balance between the first two albums and…well, it’s kinda the truth! Sporting yet another amazing cover artwork, World Fighter brings the bathos and bravado right from its opening seconds, ANGEL SWORD sounding like true world fighters as they chug forward to their battle hymns. From there, nuance and shade – or, rather, just MOOD – become the watchwords as the quartet keep the thrust mostly mid-tempo, allowing their dark melodicism to fully take flight. And, while ANGEL SWORD never seem like they’re in any hurry, the eight tracks of World Fighter are actually the band’s most uptempo work yet; it’s just that they’re exuding such poise now that that pace feels deceptively relaxed, that big & brassy pulse coasting with coolness and heaviness. Put another way, the album’s almost-uniformly balls-to-the-wall gait summons an effervescent energy – and maximum attitude. Truly, ANGEL SWORD are nothing if not engaging in their rough ‘n’ tumble, raise-the-swords charisma, becoming those very blue-collar ruffians you can really believe in. Coupled with a smoother, somewhat-shimmering style of production that still allows their intrinsic grit to “shine” through, World Fighter goes against all odds to become ANGEL SWORD’s crowning achievement to date. All weekend warriors, enter their Church of Rock post-haste!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on neon yellow vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 14th June

 

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DVP 299 Vendel – Out In The Fields LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present VENDEL’s highly anticipated debut album, Out in the Fields, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

VENDEL are an epic heavy metal band hailing from Moscow, formed in 2015 by a group of friends who are all members of the local metal community. From the onset, their inspiration was taken from genuine NWOBHM and ‘80s doom metal as well as the history and archeology of the Dark Ages period, which serves as the strongest influence on the band’s lore and their attendant lyrical and visual concepts. This combination – with a particular emphasis on the epic side of heavy metal ala classic Candlemass, Manilla Road, and Viking-era Bathory as equally as contemporary doom informed by the likes of the UK’s Solistice and Russian heroes Scald – manifested in VENDEL’s self-titled debut EP in 2017. Lyrically and aesthetically, there was a deep appreciation of the late Iron Age, also known as the “Vendel Era,” and hence the band’s moniker. They followed up that EP with another one, titled Dirge, in 2019, which included one new track as well as covers of Manilla Road and Saint Vitus. Also in 2019, VENDEL made their first live appearance outside Russia at the Riddle of Steel Fest, which made a huge impact on the band’s next activity.

At long last, that “next activity” has manifested in VENDEL’s debut album, Out in the Fields. While the band’s first full-length comprises two songs rerecorded from their EPs – the first one’s “Defender” and the title track to Dirge – this structure more so underlines where VENDEL are coming from and, with a suitably stage-setting intro segueing into the first track, then where they are going. Absolutely HUGE in sound and songwriting, atmosphere and execution, VENDEL here give a masterclass in EPIC heavy metal; “doomed,” definitely, but there’s energy to spare no matter the tempo, and thus do the four component tracks of Out in the Fields seemingly fly by in a flash. Make no mistake, the journey is vast in scale and arduous in terms of emotional reserves tapped, but the album is utterly engrossing each (HUGE) step of the way. Thankfully, VENDEL don’t abandon their core sound but, rather, re-solidify it with bigger & better production, performances that dazzle in their technique yet hit hard with their physicality, and vocalist Alexey Goryachev absolutely spellbinding the listener with tales of heroism and death, particularly on the poignantly titled “Never Surrender.” It all becomes the very definition of what a debut album should be.

Fans of the aforementioned as well as Solitude Aeternus, Atlantean Kodex, labelmates MEGATON SWORD, and even Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath, you are hereby commanded to bend the knee before VENDEL’s Out in the Fields. NEVER SURRENDER!

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 14th June

 

[Seehawk]

Bisher gar nicht mitbekommen. Ne neue Angel Sword im Anmarsch. Ich werd bekloppt!!!

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Wie immer gibt's diese Woche je einen neuen Song.

 

[Starlight Rainbow]

Catchy wie immer! die Jungs spielen nur Hits...Ich freue mich schon auf die Platte und kommende gigs!

 

[Seehawk]

Ich hoffe sehr, dass Dying Victims Angel Sword zu höherer Bekanntheit verhelfen kann! Der erste neue Song macht jedenfalls Lust auf mehr.

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

Distro update, lots of new and restock LPs, CDs and tapes added to the webshop!

www.dyingvictims.com

LP
200 STAB WOUNDS – Slave To The Scalpel
ANACRUSIS – Suffering Hour
ANGUS – Track Of Doom
ANGUS – Warrior Of The World LP
ARMORED SAINT – March Of The Saints
ARMORED SAINT – Raising Fear
ATTACKER – THE GOD PARTICLE
BETRAYER – Necronomical Exmortis
Black Fate – Commander Of Fate
BULLDOZER – The exorcism
BURN RITUAL – The Void
BURN RITUAL – Grave Watcher
CASTLE RAT – Into The Realm
CIRITH UNGOL – Frost and Fire
CIRITH UNGOL – Dark Parade LP
CIRITH UNGOL – Forever Black
CIRITH UNGOL – One Foot in Hell
CIRITH UNGOL – Paradise Lost
CRIONIC – The land which once were
DEATHCHANT – Thrones
DEMON EYES – Rites Of Chaos
DEMON EYES – Garde A Vue
DEMON EYES – Posthumous Remorse
DESASTER – 666 – Satan’s Soldiers Syndicate
DESASTER – Angelwhore
DOUBLE HORSE – Diablerie
EARLY MOODS – A Sinner’s Past
FATES WARNING – Awaken The Guardian
FATES WARNING – Night On Bröcken
FORCE OF DARKNESS – Darkness Revelation
GHOST – Bad Obsession
HALLOWS EVE – Monument
HALLOWS EVE – Tales Of Terror
Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways
INCINERATOR – Mass genocide / Live into the crematorium
INDULGENCE – Embodiment of Evil
IN SOLITUDE – The World:The Flesh:The Devil
Ironbound – Serpent’s Kiss
Keks – Nocturnal Denomination
KETZER – Satan’s Boundaries Unchained
KILLERHAWK – Shadows From The Past
LIZZY BORDEN – Menace To Society
MAGMAKAMMER – Mindtripper
MAGNUS – Alcoholic Suicide
Manimals – Blood is the Harvest
MIDNIGHT – Complete & Total Hell
MIDNIGHT – Satanic Royalty
MIDNIGHT – Shox Of Violence
MIDNIGHT – Let There Be Witchery
MIDNIGHT – No Mercy For Mayhem
MIDNIGHT – Rebirth By Blasphemy
MIDNIGHT – Sweet Death and Ecstasy
MIDNIGHT – Hellish Expectations
Morgoth/Satan’s Arrival – The Demos
MORTAL SLAUGHTER – Lepers
NASTY SAVAGE – Nasty Savage
OUTRAGE – The book of the seven seals
Paradox – Rearrange The Past
Rascal – Lost Beyond Reason
SANHEDRIN – Lights On
Sauron – Demo 1984
SCARECROW – Deo Optimo Maximo
SCHIZO – Main frame collapse
SLAUGHTER – Into The darkness
SLAYER – Haunting The Chapel
TANITH – In Another Time
TANITH – Voyage
TAROT – GLIMPSE OF THE DAWN
Terminal – Kompilacijski Album
TONNERRE – LA NUIT SAUVAGE
Twisted Tower Dire – Crest of the Martyrs Demos
Twisted Tower Dire / Cauldron Born – Knights of True Metal
Twisted Tower Dire – The Isle of Hydra
VISIGOTH – Conqueror’s Oath
VISIGOTH – The Revenant King
VULTURE – Sentinels
VULTURE – Dealin’ Death
WYTCH HAZEL – IV: Sacrament

7”
BUNKER 66 / VUIL – split 7″

CD
100 Slain – Thrasing Days 1989-1991
200 STAB WOUNDS – Slave To The Scalpel
Acerus – The Caliginous Serenade
ARLEQUIN – Demo 1989
ARMORED SAINT – March Of The Saints
ARMORED SAINT – Raising Fear
Atrocity – To be… or not to be
ATTACKER – THE GOD PARTICLE
BATTALION – Tyrant of Evil
B.O.2 – Condenados al Olvido
CADENA PERPETUA – Hijos de la Tormenta ’84/’88
CIRITH UNGOL – Forever Black
DAMAGE – The immortal death 1986-1987
DEMON EYES – Rites Of Chaos
DEMON EYES – Garde A Vue
DEMON EYES – Posthumous Remorse
Desecration – Dead yet but not forgotten
EARLY MOODS – A Sinner’s Past
Elazar de Wörms – El Ritual (Demo 1985+live 87-88)
THE FORCE – Awakened by Lightning
FORCE OF DARKNESS – Darkness Revelation
HELL FIRE – Reckoning
Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways
Ironbound – Serpent’s Kiss
Ironbound – The Lightbringer
Keks – Nocturnal Denomination
KILLERHAWK – Shadows From The Past
Lady Beast – Vicious Breed
MALEVOLENT CREATION – Eternal
MIDNIGHT – Shox Of Violence
MIDNIGHT – Satanic Royalty
MIDNIGHT – Hellish Expectations
Nekrofilth – Nganga
Okrütnik – Krwawy Pontyfikat
ONSLAUGHT – In Search of Sanity
PENTACLE – …Rides the Moonstorm
PODRIDÃO – Plague, Misery and Putrefaction
PODRIDÃO – Cadaveric Impregnation
POISON – Into the abyss resurrected
Ramera – Anarquía y Destrucción
Rascal – Lost Beyond Reason
RESTLESS – We Rock the Nation
RIPPER – Raising the Corpse / Fatal Memories
ROADHOG – The Oppressors
SABOTAJE – Demos 85/88
SABBAT – The Harmageddon Vinylucifer Singles PART II
SABBAT – Sabbatrinity
SACRED CRUCIFIX – Realms of the North Vol. 3 (1994-1995)
SACRED CRUCIFIX – Realms of the North Vol. 2 (1990-1993)
SACRED CRUCIFIX – Realms of the North Vol. 1 (1987-1989)
SCHIZO – Delayed death – 1984/1989 The years of collapse
TAROT – GLIMPSE OF THE DAWN
Technophobia – Anti-Human Terror
THANATOS – Emerging from the Netherworlds
THANATOS – Realm of Ecstacy
TNT – Post Mortem
TONNERRE – LA NUIT SAUVAGE
TSADE – Hacia el Fin 1988-1990
TYRANT- Ruling the World
TYRANT- Fight for Your Life
Twisted Tower Dire – The Isle of Hydra
V.A. – Thrashin’ Spain
VIOLATOR – Violent Mosh
VIOLATOR – Chemical Assault
VIOLATOR – Annihilation Process
VIOLATOR – Scenarios of Brutality
VIOLATOR – The Hidden Face of Death
VULTURE – Sentinels
Wild Forest -Born From Within the earth
Writhen Hilt – Ancient Sword Cult

MC
Acerus – The Caliginous Serenade
ENSLAVED – Demo 1989
Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways
Keks – Nocturnal Denomination
Pagan Altar – The Story of Pagan Altar
Sauron – Demo 1984
Templar – Black Knight
Writhen Hilt – Ancient Sword Cult

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

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

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

DVP 289 Pagan Altar – Judgement of the Dead LP/CD
DVP 290 Pagan Altar – The Time Lord LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue PAGAN ALTAR’S cult releases, Judgement of the Dead and The Time Lord, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

While the band is working hard on the upcoming new album, these reissues kick off the collaboration between the British Doom Metal pioneers PAGAN ALTAR and Dying Victims Productions. Based on the beautifully crafted releases on Canada’s Temple of Mystery, these important recordings will finally return into circulation.

Originally recorded back in 1978-79, “The Time Lord” features Pagan Altar’s earliest recordings. Two of these flawlessly executed tracks are from a 24-track recording session, and the rest of the album are early, atmospheric versions of songs that were later re-recorded on Judgement of the Dead. This LP includes a long-lost, never-heard before version of “Night Rider”, from the same era as the other songs! This is pure doom metal sorcery.

Originally recorded in 1982 during the NWOBHM movement, Pagan Altar’s debut album, Judgement of the Dead, is a timeless classic of macabre heavy/doom metal centered around magic, witchcraft, and the occult. This holy grail album is one of the purest, most magical records that were ever written, and had a tremendous influence on the heavy/doom metal scene.

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with 32 pages booklet, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on bone colored vinyl, with 32 pages booklet, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

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

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

DVP 291 Freeways – Dark Sky Sanctuary LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Canada’s FREEWAYS, Dark Sky Sanctuary, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

FREEWAYS are comprised of four old friends from the peripheral fringes of the greater Toronto area who decided to channel their shared love of dollar-bin Canadian hard rock records and poorly ripped recordings of NWOBHM they’ll never afford into a nearly decades-long pursuit of seeing how far they can play from home and how many drink tickets they can accumulate at a single gig. So far, that plan has produced a handful thrilling of short-lengths (on both tape and 7” format) and an absolutely stunning debut album, True Bearings, released in 2020 by the late/great Temple of Mystery Records.

And True Bearings was presciently titled: this was the sound of FREEWAYS hitting a fever pitch of hard rock glory, plaintive and poignant and positively bleeding pathos every step of the rough, wild way. That widely celebrated debut LP took the band overseas again that spring, where they were even-more-warmly received by rivetheads old and young. With the untimely closing of said label and their growing throng of fans in Europe, DYING VICTIMS stepped in to reissue True Bearings last year, setting the stage for their hotly anticipated follow-up.

At last, it’s here in the form of Dark Sky Sanctuary. Whereas the debut’s cover art (partly) forecasted its contents – cold and cutting on the surface, with a wealth of warmth lurking within that figurative RV – so does the cover art of Dark Sky Sanctuary similarly suggest its sonic arc. The effervescent elan of FREEWAYS is in full force here, except that that’s daubed in hues darker for the band and perhaps a bit thornier as a result. On Dark Sky Sanctuary, the quartet’s fueled by a fire here that sees them both exploring their busier & more aggressive side as equally as their stripped-back & pensive one. It’s difficult to truly qualify the latter as “poppier,” but it’s not impossible to view the moodier side of turn-of-the-‘80s radio rock through FREEWAYS’ unique, ever-engaging lens.

Somehow rougher and more polished, Dark Sky Sanctuary is a sonic safe haven for those who still hold hope for heavy rock as an authentically emotional artform. FREEWAYS are fully recommended for fans of Blue Öyster Cult, Wishbone Ash, Praying Mantis…and FREEWAYS!

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

 

[Dying Victims Prod]

DVP 292 Lady Beast – Lady Beast II LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue LADY BEAST’s cult second album, Lady Beast II, on vinyl LP format.

Since 2009, LADY BEAST have been flying the flag for refined HEAVY METAL. The band hail from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, forming with firm influences ranging from Motörhead, Dio, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Mercyful Fate. From there, LADY BEAST have weaved their own unique style of metal with silky-yet-sharp harmonizing guitars and the soaring, rally-the-warriors vocals of frontwoman Deborah Levine. All the while, they’ve retained their blue-collar roots but have never forgotten the majesty of metal in its earliest, most classic form: fantasy, magic, epic adventure, and of course ANTHEMS!

While the quintet have released four full-lengths to date, it was LADY BEAST’s second album, 2015’s Lady Beast II, which could be viewed as their “breakout” moment. Released like their self-titled debut on their own Cobra Cabana Records, the original version of Lady Beast II was a vinyl edition limited to only 250 copies; the CD version followed later on Infernö Records, which closed a couple years ago. Thus, Lady Beast II has been criminally out of print, and DYING VICTIMS will now rectify that with a new vinyl version featuring remastered sound and updated cover art. Whatever year you experience it, LADY BEAST’s second album is a stormer, strutting and galloping with equal might, as instantly-hummable riffs prop up all these anthems-to-be whilst evincing a narrative flow that’s the quintessence of swords & sorcery. Of course, Levine’s vocals exude passion and power, pure & total EMOTION, and her performance here helped put LADY BEAST atop of the keep-it-true pack. Raise your sword again or for the first time with this new vinyl version of Lady Beast II!”

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on cyan blue/black splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.

DVP 296 Vulture – Sentinels MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present VULTURE’s fourth album, Sentinels, on music cassette format. Licensed from Metal Blade.

The German five piece is back with a new full length, filled to the brim with raging speed metal anthems. At this point VULTURE will sound like VULTURE, but at the same time they keep refining their song material to be even more catchy, fast and wild.

– MC edition with sticker and button