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Loads of killer new merchandise items available for pre-order!
Out 28th October.

Eisenhand – Band T-Shirt & Metal Pin
Heavy Sentence – Logo Metal Pin
Karloff – The Sound of Discipline T-Shirt
Luzifer – Logo Metal Pin & Iron Shackles Patch, Longsleeve, T-Shirt
Reaper – Viridian Inferno Longsleeve
Venator - Echoes from the Gutter Ringer Shirt
Vulture – Logo Metal Pin

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





DVP-R 008 Sortilège – Larmes de héros Box/LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a long-overdue vinyl reissue of the classic second album of France’s SORTILÈGE, Larmes de héros.

A cult fixture in the ‘80s French heavy metal scene that retroactively grew in legendry, SORTILÈGE defined a unique national style that had equal footing in the NWOBHM, contemporaneous hard rock, and nascent epic metal. Formed in 1981 and releasing a demo and EP over the new two years, it was SORTILÈGE’s 1984 debut album, Métamorphose – also concurrently released in an English-language version as Metamorphosis – that truly introduced the band to worldwide audiences with a wild ‘n’ weird iteration of heavy metal. While that English version made their unique style more palatable (helped in no small part by its release on Steamhammer), it’s arguably the French-language version that defined the SORTILÈGE sound. And so it went with its superior follow-up.

Again released in both French- and English-language versions, SORTILÈGE’s second album is a tour de force of true-metal passion and performance, mysticism and might. Blithely summarized as French romantic twist on Judas Priest’s transition from the ‘70s to the ‘80s – or, rather, spanning Sin After Sin to Defenders of the Faith – the original Larmes de héros was released in that golden year of 1986, harkening to a fantastical place far, far away where hot rockers bloomed into heroic-yet-tragic epics. The English version of Hero’s Tears plainly spells out the path ahead, but the dramatic (and oft-melancholic) vocals of Christian Augustin in his native language truly chill/sizzle the soul: a veritable French Metal God. Not to be outdone, his bandmates create a canvas at once anthemic and narrative; pacing is crucial across Larmes de héros, as more direct power-surges flank the album’s utterly immersive epic songs. And at nine songs across 46 minutes, you feel like you’ve undertaken a hero’s journey – but one not without a monumental amount of headbanging.

Tragically and too fittingly, Larmes de héros would be SORTILÈGE’s final studio album. A number of re-formations would happen over the next couple decades and then fizzle out, but the true SORTILÈGE died with Larmes de héros. Wipe away those hero’s tears, though, for RELICS FROM THE CRYPT at long last resurrects this stone-cold classic for posterity!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on Blue Jay vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– Limited Box set on milky clear vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag and download code.

– CD edition with sticker and obi

Out 16th December.



DVP-R 009 Rampage – Veil of Mourn LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a long-overdue vinyl reissue of the cult lone album of Australia’s RAMPAGE, Veil of Mourn, along with a CD edition with both demos as bonus.

While there have been many Rampages past and present, there was only one RAMPAGE from Australia – and a more cult band you will not find. Formed in 1985, the band went through several lineup changes before recording their debut demo, Acid Storm, in July 1986. Recorded on a home 4-track, the demo sold well in their native Melbourne but failed to gain any interest. More lineup changes followed the next year, with a pre-production demo recorded as a prelude to their album, but once again, RAMPAGE failed to generate any record company interest. Then, in late 1987, the band recorded, produced, and financed their debut album, Veil of Mourn, which was more-or-less self-released in early 1988. Extensive touring across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, and Brisbane followed. Likewise, excellent record sales locally and overseas followed, but no interest from international record companies came. In May 1988, vocalist/guitarist George Mitrov rang bassist Dave Frew and advised that he had found God and would no longer have anything to do with the band; cancellation of all gigs followed. Then, later that year, Dave Frew (who had formed TYRUS with Peter Hobbs) and drummer Bruno Canzianni join Hobbs Angel of Death, and RAMPAGE effectively came to an end.

However, as a lone document of a band and era, RAMPAGE’s Veil of Mourn is superlative in every sense. There’s a distinct ruggedness to the band’s ceaselessly shifting style of thrash. Mind you, NOT necessarily “rawness” – although the album’s production certainly tends toward the rough – but RAMPAGE’s execution eschews the super-clean sharpness that thrash metal was largely heading toward in the post-Master of Puppets era. With form meeting content, the power-trio’s songwriting similarly takes all sorts of labyrinthine paths short of being qualified as “tech,” racing around and restarting with sometimes-maddening fury. Hooks thankfully abounded, and RAMPAGE’s attack undeniably possessed a death metalled underbelly not unlike Dark Angel or aforementioned Oz cult icons Hobbs Angel of Death. With that songwriting often reaching a fever pitch of diabolism and all three members barely keeping that fury in check, Veil of Mourn becomes a palpitating experience, a veritable ‘80s horror movie turned into a thrash record. The creepy cover art only heightened this sensation.

As years passed, the aura around Veil of Mourn only grew, helped in part by Australia’s ever-growing prominence in the extreme metal landscape. RAMPAGE thus became an etched-in-time “what could have been?” cult band, who respectably preserved their legacy with a mere album. Connect the dots to “the Australian sound” with this LONG-overdue reissue!

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

Out 16th December.




DVP 239 Hellish – The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, in conspiracy with UNSPEAKABLE AXE RECORDS, is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Chile’s HELLISH, The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. DYING VICTIMS will handle the vinyl LP version while UNSPEAKABLE AXE will handle the CD version.

Since their formation in 2010, HELLISH have become a prolific force on the blackened thrash scene. With a discography to date totaling two albums, three EPs, four demos, a couple compilations, a split, and a single, this Chilean quartet have been nothing but dedicated to their evil cause over the past decade-plus. During that cursed year of 2020, longtime vocalist/bassist Necromancer departed the band, but in came Christopher Aravena as his replacement, and HELLISH sounded more invigorated than ever on last year’s The Vermis Mysteriis EP.

With that bolstered lineup in place, HELLISH return to the full-length front with The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. The title alone should speak toward the band’s elevation above the cliché aspects of idiomatic blackthrash; while their grounding in the Teutonic “Big Four” of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction has never been in question, HELLISH have always made subtle-yet-concerted strides to separate themselves from mere worship, and The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. For one, the guitars of Francisco Sanhueza and Javier Salgado wind and wend with wild abandon, keeping the riff trajectory aggressive yet creative, twisting and turning with a diabolism that reaches a fever pitch with well-timed (and quite literally explosive) solos. For another, Aravena’s bass goes in busier directions than just following the guitarists’ riffing; hulking and upfront, his chops match those of the six-stringers, and guitarist-turned-drummer Christian León’s tasteful touches on the kit flesh out that momentum with fury and finesse. Altogether, HELLISH give a masterclass in blackened thrash songwriting that’s far more inventive and interesting than “blackthrash,” and The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents becomes a surprisingly epic spin during its deceptive eight-song/33-minute runtime.

Dizzying and diabolical, HELLISH hereby raise the bar considerably with The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents.

– 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.

Out 16th December.



DVP 245 Pursuer – Demo 2022 MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut demo of Poland’s PURSUER, Demo 2022, on music cassette format.

Having come together in 2021 as a new band, featuring members of Offender and Necromastery, this Polish 4-piece is now ready to unleash their debut demo, simply titled Demo 2022. Drawing influences from the international 80s speed metal scene the band races through four original tracks which are topped off by a high pitched vocalist that will haunt you for far longer than the actual running time.

– MC comes with sticker, button, download code.

Out 18th November.

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



DVP 230 Vigilance – Vigilance MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new mini-album from Slovenia’s VIGILANCE, simply self-titled Vigilance, on CD and 12” vinyl formats.

Born from the cavernous depths of Adelsberg, Slovenia’s VIGILANCE have been unleashing their own brand of heavy metal since Walpurgisnacht 2010. Inspired both by the harmonic arts of the original NWOBHM wave and the sepulchral elements of the first wave of black metal, VIGILANCE have steadily perfected their craft over the past decade-plus,possessing a unique crossover appeal to fans of early Iron Maiden and Mercyful Fate as equally as Venom and Bathory.

However, after years of taking that throwback sound to countless stages across Europe, it was VIGILANCE’s fourth album, Enter the Endless Abyss – released in 2019 by DYING VICTIMS to widespread acclaim – where the band had their breakout moment. Dark and dynamic but galloping gloriously with the eternal luminescence of HEAVY METAL might, Enter the Endless Abyss proved that VIGILANCE had truly nailed their subtly unique sound – and made it more compelling than ever.

And although some three years have passed since that pivotal record, VIGILANCE return with the same fire on the brand-new mini-album Vigilance. Across its five-song/26-minute duration, VIGILANCE’s self-titled salvo goes in an ever-epic direction, maximizing that (memorable) sonic storytelling they so compactly revealed on its full-length predecessor. Everything’s still head- and fistbangingly metal, arguably even more so here – the dual-guitar work is FIRE in the non-flashiest way – but there’s equally a sense of fantastical AOR ala classic-era Rainbow as the record progresses, hitting a heavenly high with nearly-seven-minute closer “Orbis Mundi.” And while VIGILANCE’s execution has never been doubted, on Vigilance do they loosen up a bit and let these more mysterious odes wind and wend with a suitably earthier feel. Put another way, take one look at that gorgeous cover artwork and you KNOW what you’re in for!

VIGILANCE have been aging like a fine wine, and have only grown more potent. Drink deeply of the concise cup that is Vigilance!

– CD edition with sticker.

Vinyl editions slightly delayed, they are supposed to leave the pressing plant late next week.

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

– Special edition on electric blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.



DVP 233 Bunker 66 / Lucifuge – Of Night And Lust MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present Of Night and Lust, a special split mini-album between BUNKER 66 and Germany’s LUCIFUGE, on CD and 12” vinyl formats.

Both BUNKER 66 and LUCIFUGE should be familiar names to those versed in the dark deeds of DYING VICTIMS: Just earlier this year, BUNKER 66 released through the label a split 7” with fellow Italian filth-bangers HELLCRASH, as well as their long-awaited (and rightly celebrated) fourth album, Beyond the Help of Prayers, earlier in 2021; for their part, LUCIFUGE released their equally celebrated fourth album, Infernal Power, through DYING VICTIMS during the spring of 2021. Here on Of Night and Lust, both bands each deliver three exclusive songs, making for 24 minutes of ancient speed metal sleaze and metalpunk ghoulishness.

BUNKER 66 are up first and show no signs of slowing down, especially so after 15 years as a band now. “Mellhammer” and “Sulphurous Lust” are exemplary displays of their greasy speed-metal surge, and yet subtly exude an eerie aspect that perhaps point the way forward for future recordings. Capping their entry is a faithful cover of Motörhead’s “Doctor Rock,” which both underlines BUNKER 66’s roots as well as reverently paying respect to the fallen gods of Lemmy and Würzel. LUCIFUGE follow with an even-more-blackened iteration of their etched-in-stone metalpunk across the tracks “The Great Unseen” and “In Blood and Dust.” They conclude with a surprising-yet-storming anthem fittingly titled “Warriors of the Night.” While many metal anthems have been attempted under such a title, you’ve truly never heard one as invigorating as this – nor LUCIFUGE so bright and brassy!

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



DVP 234 Witch Blade – Månsken LP/CD

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

Hailing from Kristinehamn, Sweden’s WITCH BLADE were formed back in 2012 by Witchlover and Witchhunter. The two childhood friends had been playing together in other projects but wanted to form a band that honored their heavy metal heroes: namely Angel Witch, Tokyo Blade, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden. After writing a couple of songs, the band became a three-piece when drummer Witchburner joined in early 2013. The same year, the band recorded their self-titled debut demo, which sold out quickly and was later re-released by Levitate Records, followed by a 7” single titled Fjärrans Krig in 2014. After working as a sound engineer on the single recording, Witchdoctor joined on second guitar just in time for the band’s debut album, Oskuldernas Eld, released in 2015 by DYING VICTIMS.

WITCH BLADE made their live debut in 2015 as a supporting act for Black Trip. Since then, the band have made several live appearances around Sweden. Thereafter, a period of hibernation followed until 2021, when the band decided to continue again as a trio. The result is something of a rebirth: Månsken, WITCH BLADE’s second album.

While the cover to Oskuldernas Eld certainly clued listeners in to its contents, the one for Månsken compellingly complements the album’s contents in a most tasteful fashion. There’s undoubtedly an olde-worlde, magickally musty flair to WITCH BLADE here – also keenly note the band’s change in logos – their traditional heavy metal going back even further in time to the proto-metal era. Nothing overdriven, nothing too over-the-top, just hard rocking AND hot rockin’ and an almost narrative moodiness to the songwriting whilst staying locked into classic verse/chorus/break structures, WITCH BLADE once again locate that wonderful (and elusive) balance between garage-born emotion and swords & sorcery stateliness. To a man, the riffs and leads of guitarists Witchlover and Witchdoctor (who also drums here) often impart a melancholy on par with Wishbone Ash’s Argus or Thin Lizzy’s Black Rose, while frontman/bassist Witchhunter sings his heart out in his native tongue, which only heightens the heart-on-sleeve pathos across Månsken. And just like its full-length predecessor, the eight-song Månsken is an extremely swift & satisfying spin at 33 minutes.

All those denim-clad diehards and cloak-wrapped warlocks into early (and moody) hard rock AND cult NWOBHM, you are hereby commanded to witness the rebirth of WITCH BLADE with Månsken!

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



DVP 235 Spectre / Tension – Hard Attacks / Earth Crisis 7”

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a new split release between Spectre and Tension, on 7” vinyl format.

Both heavy metal acts are no strangers to Dying Victims and its audience, as they have released two EPs as well as an EP and an album respectively. Spectre’s side contains one straight rocking track “Hard Attacks” which was originally recorded in 2017 and only distributed handmade CD-R which was given away for free with orders from the band’s own Heavy Chains Records store.

Tension’s debut album came out in early 2022 and was, unfortunately, quickly followed by the band splitting up. Now, posthumously, the last track of the CD edition of the album, “Earth Crisis”, gets its well-deserved vinyl treatment as it was left off the vinyl in order to reduce playing time and to preserve the best possible sound. Melancholic heavy metal at its best!

– 7″ edition comes with sticker, button, download code.



DVP 225 War Ripper – Strength In Numbers 7″

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present WAR RIPPER’s long-awaited second EP, Strength in Numbers, on 7” vinyl format.

While the name might be unfamiliar to many, WAR RIPPER is a side-project of prolific madman Joel Grind, who needs no introduction for the long-running (and influential) Toxic Holocaust as well as his solo work and the Tiger Junkies with Abigail founder Yasuyuki. From the start, WAR RIPPER was built on the foundation of honoring Joel’s D-beat influences, and he thrillingly recast with the strict-yet-exciting Hellstorm EP in 2007 courtesy of Hells Headbangers.

While the years since have obviously been spent on Toxic Holocaust and their rigorous recording and touring demands, Joel Grind brought back WAR RIPPER in the pandemic-stricken 2020 with the EP Strength in Numbers. Originally released on Bandcamp, Strength in Numbers at last sees a physical release on 7” vinyl courtesy of longtime fans DYING VICTIMS. Picking up exactly where Hellstorm left off but buttressed by clear-yet-crushing production, Strength in Numbers is a swift ‘n’ satisfying statement of metallic D-beat. No more but definitely no less, and of course graced with Grind’s encyclopedic knowledge of both metal and punk, WAR RIPPER’s long-awaited second recording is sure to stoke maniacs of Disfear, Warcollapse, England’s Disgust, later Anti-Cimex, and granddaddies of it all, Discharge.

– 7″ comes with sticker and download code.

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Massive Distro update, lots of new and restocked LPs, CDs, Tapes:

LP
Abigail - Grotesque Nightmare
ANACRUSIS - Manic Impressions
ANACRUSIS - Reason
ANACRUSIS - Screams And Whispers
ANACRUSIS - Suffering Hour
ANGEL WITCH - Angel Of Light
ARMORED SAINT - March Of The Saints
ARTILLERY - In The Trash
BASTET – Bastet
BOLT THROWER - Honour Valour Pride
BOLT THROWER - Mercenary
BOLT THROWER - Those Once Loyal
Breaker – Dead Rider
CENTURY - Demo MMXX
CIRITH UNGOL - King Of The Dead
CIRITH UNGOL - Paradise Lost
COUNT RAVEN - Destruction Of The Void
COUNT RAVEN - High On Infinity
COUNT RAVEN - Messiah Of Confusion
COUNT RAVEN - Storm Warning
DARK FOREST - Ridge & Furrow
DEATHHAMMER - Electric Warfare
DEMON HEAD – RIDE THE WILDERNESS
DESASTER - Churches Without Saints
DOOMSWORD - Same
DRAGHKAR - The Endless Howling Abyss
DREAD SOVEREIGN - Alchemical Warfare
D.R.I. - Four Of A Kind
D.R.I. - Thrashzone
ERUPTION - Tellurian Rupture
ETERNAL CHAMPION - Ravening Iron
ETERNAL CHAMPION - The Armor Of Ire
EVIL - Evil's Message
EVIL CORPSE – Apocalyptic Future
EXPULSER - BLOODY FORNICATIONS
Exxplorer – Symphonies of Steel
EZRA BROOKS / SERPENT RIDER - Visions Of Esoteric Splendor
FATES WARNING - Awaken The Guardian
FATES WARNING - The Spectre Within
FER DE LANCE - The Hyperborean
FIFTH ANGEL - Fifth Angel
FIFTH ANGEL - Time Will Tell
Fingernails – Heavy Metal Forces
FRADE NEGRO – The Attack of the Damned
GLACIER - The Passing of Time
HAUNT - Luminous Eyes
Heat – Night Trouble
HEAVY LOAD - DEATH OR GLORY
HELLSWORD - Cold Is The Grave
Hyena - Live at Sanctuary
IN SOLITUDE - The World:The Flesh:TheDevil
IRON ANGEL - Emerald Eyes
KETZER - Cloud Collider
KETZER - Satan's Boundaries Unchained
KETZER - Endzeit Metropolis
Killers - Resistances
Killers - Fils De La Haine
KILLING - Face The Madness
KING DIAMOND - Abigail
KING DIAMOND - Abigail II-The Revenge
KING DIAMOND - Conspiracy
KING DIAMOND - Fatal Portrait
KING DIAMOND - In Concert 1987
KING DIAMOND - Songs For The Dead Live
KING DIAMOND - The Dark Sides
KING DIAMOND - The Eye
KING DIAMOND - The Graveyard
KING DIAMOND - The Puppet Master
KING DIAMOND - The Spider's Lullabye
KONQUEST - Time And Tyranny
LORD VIGO - SIX MUST DIE
LUNAR SHADOW - Far From Light
Magnus – Power Metal
Magnus - Trash Speed Blood
Mayhem - Burned Alive
MERCYFUL FATE - 9
MERCYFUL FATE - In The Shadows
MERCYFUL FATE - Into The Unknown
MERCYFUL FATE - Melissa
MERCYFUL FATE - The Beginning
METALUCIFER - Heavy Metal Ninja
MIDNIGHT - Rebirth By Blasphemy
MIDNIGHT - Let There Be Witchery
MIDNIGHT – No Mercy For Mayhem
MIDNIGHT – Satanic Royalty
MIDNIGHT – Sweet Death and Ecstasy
Mirage – And the Earth Shall Crumble
MORGUL BLADE - Fell Sorcery Abounds
MOUNTAIN WITCH – BURNING VILLAGE
NASTY SAVAGE - Nasty Savage
NASTY SAVAGE - Indulgence
The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of A Rat Queen
NightFyre – Shattered Lands
NIGHTWÖLF – Unleash the Beast
OMEN - Warning Of Danger
OMEN - The Curse
ORACLE - As Darkness Reigns
PILEDRIVER - Metal Inquisition
PORTRAIT - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
PORTRAIT – Crossroads
PORTRAIT - Burn The World
PORTRAIT – At One With None
Powergame – Slaying Gods
PRODIGY - As Darkness Reigns
Pyracanda - Thorns
Pyracanda - Two Sides Of A Coin
RAM - The Throne Within
RIOT - Born In America
RIOT - Rock City
RIOT CITY - Electric Elite
SABIRE - Gates Ajar
SACRAL NIGHT - Le Diademe D' Argent
SACRED REICH - Awakening
SACRED REICH - Ignorance
SACRED REICH - Surf Nicaragua
SACRED REICH - The American Way
Sacred Rite - Same
SANHEDRIN - A Funeral For The World
SANHEDRIN - Lights On LP
Santuário - 1982-1987
SATAN - Cruel Magic
SATAN - Earth Infernal
SAVAGE GRACE - After The Fall From Grace
SAVAGE GRACE - Master Of Disguise
SAVAGE MASTER - Those Who Hunt At Night
Seax – Speed Inferno
SCRATCH - Beyond The Fear
SKELATOR - King Of Fear
SKELATOR - Cyber Metal
SKELATOR - Blood Empire
SLAYER – Haunting The Chapel
SLAYER – Hell Awaits
SMOULDER - Times Of Obscene Evil And Wild
SOLSTICE - Demo 1991
SONJA - Loud Arriver
SPACE CHASER - Give Us Life
Space Chaser / Distillator - Split
Space Chaser – Dead Sun Rising
SPACE CHASER – WATCH THE SKIES
SPELLBOOK - Deadly Charms
STEEL INFERNO - Evil Reign
STYGIAN CROWN - STYGIAN CROWN
SYAR - Death Before Dishonour
TENTATION - Le Berceau Des Dieux
TRAVELER - Traveler
TRAVELER - Termination Shock
TRIAL - Feed The Fire
VIOLATOR - Scenarois of Brutality
VIO-LENCE - Let The World Burn
VIO-LENCE - Eternal Nightmare
VISIGOTH - The Revenant King
VOIVOD - War & Pain
VULTURE - Dealin' Death
VULTURE - Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
VULTURES VENGEANCE - The Knightlore
VULTURES VENGEANCE - Where The Time Dwelt
Witchnight – Unholy Speed Metal
WITCHSPËLL – Witchspëll

7”
FARSCAPE/VIOLATOR - The Fall of Silence – Split
Hell Bullet – Kill for Beer
HERZEL - Unis dans la Gloire
HIRAX/THE FORCE - Split
MURDEATH - Possessão
Nunslaughter – Fuck That Cunt

CD
ADAMANTIS - The Daemon's Strain
ALCOHOLIC RITES - Ritual Alcohomancy
ANACRUSIS - Reason
ANACRUSIS - Manic Impressions
ANACRUSIS - Screams And Whispers
ANACRUSIS - Suffering Hour
ANGEL WITCH - Angel Of Light DIGI
ARKHAM WITCH - Get Thothed Vol. III
ARKHAM WITCH - Swords Against Death
Biwo - Life And Death
BLACK VOMIT 666 - Nocturno Poemario Maldito
CADAVERIC POISON - Cadaveric Poison
Caustic - Arrowfire
Conjure - Releasing The Mighty Conjure
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY – Technocracy
CUTTY SARK - Die Tonight/Heroes
DARK FOREST - Ridge & Furrow
DARK QUARTERER – Ithaca
DEALER - First Strike
DESASTER - Churches Without Saints
DETONATOR - Demo 1990
DEVILS´ POISON - STREET METAL ATTACK
Diabolical Evil - Evil Command
DISTRAINERS - ENGLANDS´GREEN UNPLEASANT LAND
Dungeon - Purifying Fire
ETERNAL CHAMPION - Ravening Iron
Evil - Possessed By Evil
EVIL CORPSE – Apocalyptic Future
EXCALIBUR - The Bitter End
Exxplorer - Symphonies Of Steel
Facing Fear- Marginal Metal
FER DE LANCE - Colossus
Forbidden Evil - The Bloody Birth
THE FORCE - Possessed by Metal
GEHENNAH - Too Loud To Live / MetalPolice
GLACIER - The Passing of Time
GRAVESTONE - Back To Attack
GRAVESTONE - Creating A Monster
GRAVESTONE - Victim Of Chains
GRAVETY - Bow Down
GRIFFIN - Flight Of The Griffin/Protectors Of The Lair
GRIM REAPER - The Grimm Chronicles 1983-1987
HALLOWS EVE – Death And Insanity
HALLOWS EVE – Monument
HALLOWS EVE - Tales Of Terror
HAMMERS RULE - Show No Mercy, After The Bomb
HEAVY LOAD - Stronger Than Evil
HEAVY LOAD - Death or Glory
HELLION - Faceless Invader
HELLSPIKE - Dynasties of Decay
HERITAGE - Ominous Ritual
HITTMAN - Destroy All Humans
HOLOCAUSTO W.M. - Made in War
HOME STYLE SURGERY - Brain Drill Poetry
Hyena - Live at Sanctuary
IGNITOR - The Golden Age of Black Magick
IN SOLITUDE - Sister
IRON CURTAIN - Guilty As Charged
IRON GRIFFIN - Storm Of Magic
JUGGERNAUT - Baptism Under Fire/ Trouble Within
KADAVAR - S/T
KETZER - Cloud Collider
KETZER - Endzeit Metropolis
KETZER - Satan's Boundaries Unchained
KING DIAMOND - Abigail
KING DIAMOND - Abigail II-The Revenge
KÖMMAND - Stubborn Arsenal
KONQUEST - Time And Tyranny
LEGENDRY - Mists Of Time & Dungeon Crawler
Locust Point - Michigan Drag
Louder Than Hell - True Metal Till The End
Mammoth - Possesso
MANILLA ROAD - The Deluge
MANILLA ROAD Open The Gates
MANILLA ROAD – Crystal Logic
Masacre - Sin Piedad
Masacre - En Vivo Hasta el Final
MELIAH RAGE - Before the Kill
MERCYFUL FATE - Dead Again
MERCYFUL FATE - Don't Break The Oath
MERCYFUL FATE - Mercyful Fate
METAL INQUISITOR - The Apparition
MIDNIGHT – Sweet Death and Ecstasy
MORBID JESTER - Until The Battle Is Won
NightFyre – Shattered Lands
Nightfyre –From Fortune To Ruin
NIGHTPRÖWLER - ROCK N´ROLL UPROARING BLASPHEMY
NIGROMANTE - Summon the Devil
NOCTURNAL - Arrival of the Carnivore
NOCTURNAL – Storming Evil
NOCTURNAL - Violent Revenge
NOISEHUNTER - Spell of Noise + Too Young to Die
NUNSLAUGHTER – Goat
OLD MOTHER HELL - Lord of Demise
OMEGA - The Timekeeper / The Beast
OMEN - Battle Cry
OMEN - Warning Of Danger
OMEN - The Curse/Nightmares
ORACLE - As Darkness Reigns
OUTRAGE - And the Bedlam Broke Loose
PORTRAIT – At One With None
PORTRAIT - Burn The World
PORTRAIT - Crossroads
PORTRAIT - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Powergame – Slaying Gods
Prelude to Ruin - Ronin Ex Mortiis
PRODIGY - As Darkness Reigns
PROFECIA - 1983 – 1986
PURGATöR - Helvetin Meteli
PYÖVELI - No Speed Limits
RAM - The Throne Within
REENCARNACION - Dioses Muertos
REENCARNACION – Alucinogeno
REENCARNACION - Planeta Azul
RIOT - Thundersteel
RIOT CITY - Electric Elite
RIOT CITY - Burn the Night
SACRAL RAGE - Beyond Celestial Echoes
SAINT'S ANGER - Danger Metal
SANHEDRIN - Lights On
Santuário - 1982-1987
SCALARE - UNDER HELLS DOMINION
SCRATCH - Beyond The Fear
SINDROME - Resurrection, The complete (studio) Collection
Siren – A Mercenary´s Fate
Slaughterlord - Thrash til Death
Slaughter Messiah - Donnerheim Terror live
SONJA - Loud Arriver
SPELLBOOK - Deadly Charms
Stormhunters – Eye of the Storm
STRANGER - The Bell
TARAMIS - Queen Of Thieves/Stretch Of The Imagination
Tokyo Blade - Night Of The Blade - Deluxe Edition
Tormentor – Anno Domini
TOWER - Shock To The System
TRIAL - Feed The Fire
Trifixion - Descrucificados
TYRANN - Djavulens Musik
VIO-LENCE - Let The World Burn
VIO-LENCE - Eternal Nightmare
VIRGIN STEELE - Guardians Of The Flame
VISIGOTH - Conqueror's Oath
VULTURE - Dealin' Death
VULTURE - Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
VULTURE - The Guillotine + Victim to the Blade
WARRANT - Ready to Command
WARRANT - The Enforcer / First Strike
Witches Hammer - Devourer Of The Dead
Witchtiger - Warlords of destruction 2004-2014

MC
Ambush - Firestorm
Ambush - Desecrator
Blasphemaniac - Bestial Occult Ceremony
BLIND WITCH - Burn Witch Burn
BLITZ - THE NACHTMAHR SESSIONS
Blizzard Hunter - Live at Padova
Bulldozer – The Final Separation
Bunker 66 - Beyond the Help of Prayers
Bunker 66 - Chained Down in Dirt
Conjuro - Promo MMXXI
Dai - Demos 1989-1992
Dai - The Advent
Evilcult - At the Darkness Night
Hellrot & Sadistic Force - Sadistic Rot
HERZEL - Le Dernier Rempart
Hyena - Live at Sanctuary
Killing Addiction - Omega Factor
Kontact – First Kontact
Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Opprobrium - Discerning Forces
Phobia - Slaughterhouse Tapes
Prelude to Ruin - Ronin Ex-Mortis
REMMIRATH - Polis Rouge
Retrofulgor - A Traves del Éter
Revenge - Soldiers under satan's command & bang your head
ROK - This is Satanik
Sadowhore - Speed & Lust
SCHIZOPHRENIA – Voices
SMOULDER - TIMES OF OBSCENE EVIL AND WILD DARING
Sorceress - The Four Centaurs
Stallion - Slaves of time
Strappado - Not Dead Yet
Strappado - Fatal Judgement
Tabernacle - Terror in Thrace
TOWER - SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
Trilogia - Heavy Metal Cruceño
Viper Queen - Surrender to the bite
ZEMIAL - Face of the Conqueror

Misc
Carrion Patch
Children of Technology - Mayhem Speed Anarchy Patch
Children of Technology - It's Time To Face The Doomsday Patch
Cloven Hoof Patch
Gallower – Logo Metal Pin
Grinder Patch
Heathen - Breaking The Silence Patch
Imperator – Eternal Might Patch
Jaguar - Power Games Patch
Megaton Sword – Epic Metal Shirts
Metalucifer – Heavy Metal Chainsaw Patch
Nasty Savage Patch
Nekromantheon – Visions of Trismegistos Patch
Protector – Golem Patch
Protector – Misanthropy Patch
Vampyr Patch

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DVP 241 Freeroad – Do What You Feel! LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present FREEROAD’s striking debut album, Do What You Feel!, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, FREEROAD formed in 2018 with only the goal of making music for the love of making music. The moniker FREEROAD was thus chosen to symbolize the idea that there’s no boundaries in music; genres don’t really matter, as long as they’re keeping the essence of old-school rock ‘n’ roll. For FREEROAD, that essence is largely built up on the classic sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s – be it UFO, Thin Lizzy, Yes, Rush, or Jeff Beck – as well as the early rocking sounds of the NWOBHM.

Armed with such a noble ‘n’ rustic foundation, FREEROAD proceed to make their bolt-from-the-blue first statement with Do What You Feel! Ever aptly titled, Do What You Feel! indeed finds the quartet ranging those aforementioned sounds and styles with almost alchemical ease. Heartfelt, honest, and homemade, FREEROAD’s hot-rockin’ harkens to an era where immediately immersive hooks, loose-yet-locked-in ensemble playing, and earthy dynamics were king. Thus, it’s not disingenuous to suggest that there’s a certain déjà vu here; you might’ve heard these songs before, in a nostalgic alternate reality or two removed, but they had yet to be written. Such is the wondrous and endearingly celebratory magick at work across Do What You Feel!, as each of these nine anthems-in-waiting work their spell: each one different than the last, but definitely all the work of the same band. Again, the album experience as one that’s narrative in its variety – truly, FREEROAD are a band out of time.

Pleasures that are simple but utterly sublime, there’s no over-thinking needed or fancy words necessary when approaching the gritty glory of FREEROAD. Just like its cover cheekily displays, you’ll feel compelled to Do What You Feel!

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

– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 27th January.



DVP 242 Critical Defiance – No Life Forms LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s highly anticipated second album, No Life Forms, on vinyl LP format. Unspeakable Axe have done the CD version.

Hailing from the cult-metal hotbed of Chile, for nearly a decade now, CRITICAL DEFIANCE have been steadfast purveyors of authentically late ‘80s-style THRASH. Their 2019 debut album, Misconception, turned many a head, and now the time has come for CRITICAL DEFIANCE to turn heads completely around with their second album.

Ominously titled No Life Forms, CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s second full-length sees the quintet firing on all cylinders – and heading into hyperdrive. Insanely tight in their razor-sharp execution, the Chileans here dish out extreme aggression nearly every second of this breathless, 30-minute work, with riffs flowing fast and free, and then going faster, faster, FASTER! Through it all, CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s stop-on-a-dime chops prove jawdropping, and lest one misconstrue No Life Forms as a mere exercise in clinical precision, be aware that the band never forget thrash’s primary power: full-on thrashing and The Mosh, moving seamlessly between the two and with catchiness to spare. All that’s in full force here, and it cannot be overstated how insanely juiced-up their execution is. No speed limit!

Fans of vintage Vio-Lence, Atrophy, Whiplash, and Dark Angel, you’ve met your modern match with CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s No Life Forms!

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

Out 27th January.



DVP 243 Trastorned – Into the Void LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TRASTORNED’s highly anticipated debut album, Into the Void, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, TRASTORNED formed in 2008 with the simple goal of being a local thrash band. Led by guitarist Fabian Piña and vocalist Felipe Lonza, the band became more serious the next year and recorded their debut demo, Decapitacion. More lineup shuffles ensued, but second demo Killer Thrash arrived in 2010. Four years would pass before TRASTORNED recorded another demo, but this time, with Witching Demo!, they revamped their sound and sharpened their attack, going from more blackened thrash to a cleaner and more complex style of thrash not unlike Vio-lence, Forbidden and Exodus around the turn of the ‘90s.

TRASTORNED began working on the initial recording of their debut album as early as 2019, but eventually moved proceedings to a different studio. And while Covid no doubt stalled those proceedings, at last is TRASTORNED’s debut album here: Into the Void. Bearing luridly Lovecraftian artwork by Marcelo Miranda aka Made In Darkness, Into the Void suitably disorients and demolishes the senses with dizzying ease. Truly, TRASTORNED here sound transported from 1990, from songwriting to production, slicing and surging with stop-start precision and an acidic execution as aggravated as prime Demolition Hammer and Morbid Saint. However era-authentic their sound may be, the quintet nevertheless possess THE SONGS to put this handily within that hallowed pantheon, each track taking mind-mangling routes but ones not without hooks; the catalog of riffs here on Into the Void is staggering, and they’re all threaded together masterfully. More than that, TRASTORNED’s chops are superlative and always put in service of the song, and the razor-sharp production only amplifies this electrifying fact.

Eight songs in 30 minutes and your heart will race like it rarely does these days: TRASTORNED will take you Into the Void, and FAST!

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

Out 27th January.



DVP 252 Running Maiden – s/t MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RUNNING MAIDEN’s self-titled debut ep, on music cassette format.

Hailing from Switzerland, a quarantine one-woman project at first, Running Maiden quickly turned into a three-piece, totally devoted to classic heavy metal from the 80s. Drawing lyrical inspiration from legends of old and occultism, the band pays tribute to some of their main influences among the likes of Acid and Iron Maiden. This debut ep contains four well written and executed heavy metal anthems – it’s time to enter the Bazaar of Evil!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 27th January.



Repress:

DVP 143 Karloff – Raw Nights MLP

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

Out 27th January.

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DVP 230 Vigilance – Vigilance MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new mini-album from Slovenia’s VIGILANCE, simply self-titled Vigilance, on CD and 12” vinyl formats.

Born from the cavernous depths of Adelsberg, Slovenia’s VIGILANCE have been unleashing their own brand of heavy metal since Walpurgisnacht 2010. Inspired both by the harmonic arts of the original NWOBHM wave and the sepulchral elements of the first wave of black metal, VIGILANCE have steadily perfected their craft over the past decade-plus,possessing a unique crossover appeal to fans of early Iron Maiden and Mercyful Fate as equally as Venom and Bathory.

However, after years of taking that throwback sound to countless stages across Europe, it was VIGILANCE’s fourth album, Enter the Endless Abyss – released in 2019 by DYING VICTIMS to widespread acclaim – where the band had their breakout moment. Dark and dynamic but galloping gloriously with the eternal luminescence of HEAVY METAL might, Enter the Endless Abyss proved that VIGILANCE had truly nailed their subtly unique sound – and made it more compelling than ever.

And although some three years have passed since that pivotal record, VIGILANCE return with the same fire on the brand-new mini-album Vigilance. Across its five-song/26-minute duration, VIGILANCE’s self-titled salvo goes in an ever-epic direction, maximizing that (memorable) sonic storytelling they so compactly revealed on its full-length predecessor. Everything’s still head- and fistbangingly metal, arguably even more so here – the dual-guitar work is FIRE in the non-flashiest way – but there’s equally a sense of fantastical AOR ala classic-era Rainbow as the record progresses, hitting a heavenly high with nearly-seven-minute closer “Orbis Mundi.” And while VIGILANCE’s execution has never been doubted, on Vigilance do they loosen up a bit and let these more mysterious odes wind and wend with a suitably earthier feel. Put another way, take one look at that gorgeous cover artwork and you KNOW what you’re in for!

VIGILANCE have been aging like a fine wine, and have only grown more potent. Drink deeply of the concise cup that is Vigilance! 

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



DVP 236 Risingfall – Rise or Fall LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Japan’s RISINGFALL, Rise or Fall, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Based in Tokyo, Japan’s RISINGFALL formed in 2014. From the beginning, the band’s foundation has been power-leaning heavy metal with an emphasis on vocal melodies. Stirred into their magickal cauldron are strong doses of NWOBHM, hard rock, and US power metal from the olden days.

RISINGFALL made their recorded debut in 2017 with the Prologue demo. That same year, the Tokyo Metal Fire live EP and “Far Britannia” were both released on Bandcamp. In 2018 came the Cry for the Steel EP, and a year the Arise from the Ashes (蘇る灰) EP. In 2020, at last would all these short-lengths be compiled onto CD format. And while a number of lineup changes occurred, but by 2019 did RISINGFALL finalize the lineup of founding guitarists Yoshiki and Kono, bassist Gyokusai Ishii, drummer Yuki, and erstwhile Military Shadow vocalist George Itoh. While performing live, work begins on the first RISINGFALL album.

At last, it is here, bearing the title Rise or Fall, but it comes not without tragedy: while recording was completed in spring 2021, Yoshiki was hospitalized after suffering from a chronic illness; later, in February 2022, he passes away. Thus, Rise or Fall is a tribute to this fiery six-stringer, and what a monument he leaves behind. Bristling with an energy that draws together the various likes of Saxon, Rainbow, Savage Grace, and especially Vicious Rumors and Michael Jackson-era Satan, RISINGFALL exude high drama and dazzling dynamics steeped in the rich tradition of hard rock and early heavy metal of the ‘70s bursting into the next decade with boundless possibilities. The scythe-sharp production makes Rise or Fall feel tastefully modern, but the band’s highly refined set of influences all gel together into something timeless. Plus, the variety of songcraft across these eight tracks makes each one a stunner on its own while rendering Rise or Fall an album-length experience: each one is undeniably RISINGFALL, but they truly can do it all.

Due to the wishes of Yoshiki and his family, RISINGFALL will continue to perform, and Oyatata from the thrash band Mud Tiger has joined as second guitarist. Rest in power, Yoshiki: Rise or Fall will echo your metalized memory for time eternal! 

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



DVP 237 Witchunter – Metal Dream LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Italy’s WITCHUNTER, Metal Dream, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Founded in 2007, Italy’s WITCHUNTER began as the manifestation of true heavy metal obsession. Foremost among those metallic obsessions were the NWOBHM, ‘80s European heavy metal and speed metal, and especially ‘70s hard rock sounds and attitude. It all coalesced together into a paradoxically refreshing time-warp where traditional metal in the vein of Angel Witch, Jaguar, Tygers of Pan Tang, and Saxon get the subtlest of twists, not to mention some evil mixing in a manner most Mercyful Fate and Black Sabbath. A true purist’s band, then, but not one that’s just lazy pastiche: WITCHUNTER are the real deal, from the beginning to now!

And now, since long years after their last LP, WITCHUNTER return hungrier than ever! Metal Dream is the name of that long-awaited comeback, and a more simple-yet-sublime title you will not find. Gleaming with a chrome-encased production that’s pure ‘80s valor, WITCHUNTER’s latest spans all the band’s previous styles – dramatic speed metal overdrive, leather-and-chains strut, balls-to-the-wall headbangers – but the pure passion and charisma in which they deliver these nine primary tracks, the seamless expression of HEAVY METAL in ALL its glories, makes Metal Dream astounding to behold. Hooks, solos, aggression, dynamics, high notes, manliness, variety, everything heading out to the highway, and even some tasteful nods to Tony Martin-era Sabbath: it’s a veritable jukebox of ’82-’87, if we’re being specific, although it’s all palatably modern just the same. WITCHUNTER truly LIVE this, and it comes through loud ‘n’ proud in their songwriting.

If your metal heart beats purer than steel, awaken to WITCHUNTER’s Metal Dream! 

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



DVP 238 Dying Victims Vol. 1 – Power Thrashing Death CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the first installation of its new compilation series, on CD format.

Aptly titled “Power Thrashing Death”, this CD contains (sold out) demos/eps by 5 of the most ravaging Speed/Thrash/Death metal acts on the label. All of these have so far been available only on cassette tape and are now unleashed onto a broader mass. Featured bands are Austria’s Death Racer with their first demo “Qualifying” (Black/Speed), Chile’s Hellpossession with their latest demo “Phantom Aggressor” (Black/Thrash/Speed), USA’s Reaver with their debut demo “Butchery from Beyond!” (Death), France’s Savagery with their first ep “Off the Ruins…” (Speed/Thrash) as well as Germany’s Terok Nor with their debut ep “Rematerialization Fails” (Death/Thrash).
A total of 19 tracks – almost 70 minutes of Power Thrashing Death!

– CD edition with sticker.



DVP 240 Deathstorm – Swarming MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a new three-track demo by Deathstorm, on music cassette format.

Two years after their punishing fourth album “For Dread Shall Reign”, the Austrian three-piece is back with “Swarming”, a new demo. After 15 years of high-quality thrashing in an ever-steady line-up (the band underwent a name change from “Damage” to “Deathstorm” though), the band knows exactly what they are capable of and what kind of sound their creations need. These two originals plus an additional (highly unusual) cover track are the result of their self-recording aspirations – and the sound turned out perfect for this uncompromising death thrash massacre!

– MC edition with sticker, button, download code.



DVP 245 Pursuer – Demo 2022 MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut demo of Poland’s PURSUER, Demo 2022, on music cassette format.

Having come together in 2021 as a new band, featuring members of Offender and Necromastery, this Polish 4-piece is now ready to unleash their debut demo, simply titled Demo 2022. Drawing influences from the international 80s speed metal scene the band races through four original tracks which are topped off by a high pitched vocalist that will haunt you for far longer than the actual running time.

– MC comes with sticker, button, download code.



Repress:

DVP 127 The Night Eternal – s/t MLP 3rd press
– Full pressing on black vinyl, with insert, poster and sticker.

DVP 205 Venator – Echoes from the Gutter LP 3rd press
– Full pressing on black vinyl, with insert, poster and sticker.

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LP
ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth
Ara - Gurre – s/t
Archangel - By Blood Be Birthed
Archangel - Nosferatu
ARMORED SAINT - Raising Fear
BLASFEMIA - Muerte Psicológica en Marcha
Cannibal - Fire Meets Steel
Chainbreaker – Relentless Night
CHEVALIER - Ancient Metal Attack
CNTMPT - Von unreiner Willkür
COUNT RAVEN – The Sixth Storm
COUNT RAVEN – Mammons War
Gallower - Behold the Realm of Darkness
Hadron - Hadron
Hadron - Evil Lady
HELVETETS PORT - Exodus to Hell
Konfession - Wenn die Schatten Rufen
Legend - Contes Inachevés
LETHAL STEEL - Running from the Dawn
LIZZY BORDEN – Give Em The Axe
METALIAN - Beyond the Wall
MONASTERIUM - Cold Are The Graves
MUTILATOR - Live at Lemmy´s Bar
MYSTIK – Mystik
NECRODEATH – Mater of All Evil
No Quarter – Songs In Circles
OUTRE-TOMBE – Répurgation
OUTRE-TOMBE – Nécrovortex
Pyre - Human hecatomb
Pyre - Chained to ossuaries
R.A.M.O.N. - Resurrección maldita de los falsos egos
Résistance - A Tale of Decadence
Rude - outer reaches
Skitzo – Thrash Slashing Hits
SORDID BLADE - Every Battle Has Its Glory
Steel Inferno - Aesthetics of Decay
Steel Inferno - …And the Earth Stood Still
Toca Madera – Toca Madera
Toca Madera – Horizontes Prohibidos
TÖXIK DEATH - Sepulchral Demons
TRENCH HELL - Southern Cross Ripper
THE TROOPS OF DOOM - The Absence Of Light
THE TROOPS OF DOOM - The rise of heresy
WHITE MANTIS - Sacrifice Your Future
Witchtower – Witches’ Domain

7”
Invunche - Sacrificio
Outre tombe / Skelethal - Split
Scalare - Knights in Satans Service

CD
AFTERMATH - Don't Cheer Me Up
AFTERMATH - Building Up To Meltdown
ALTAIR - Ghosts ‘n Sinners
ANTICHRIST – Crushing Metal Death
ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth
Bafomet - f.o.a.d.i.f
BLACK ROSE - Walk It How You Talk It
Cannibal - Fire Meets Steel
Capharnaüm – Capharnaüm
CARDINALS FOLLY - Deranged Pagan Sons
CLAW - Feel The Claw
CULPRIT - First Offense
DANTESCO - El día que murieron los dioses
Drifter - Anthology 1986-1988
ENGLISH DOGS - Forward into battle
GUEPPARDO - I am the Law
HADES - The Lost Fox Studio Sessions
Hedonist - Sepulchral lacerations
Impalers - The Celestial Dictator
Impalers - Power Behind the Throne
Impalers - From Ashes to Iro
Impalers - Styx Demon - The Master of Death
Impalers - Prepare For War
INSULTER - ...To The Last!
JBP - Ataca
Konfession - Relics Of URD
Konfession - Wenn die Schatten rufen
METALIAN - Beyond the Wall
MONASTERIUM - Cold Are The Graves
MUTILATOR - Live at Lemmy´s Bar
NATION - Queen Of Rock
OUTRE-TOMBE – Répurgation
Paxtilence - Wildfire
Phantasmagore - Insurrection or submission
POISON DAGGER - Looking for a fate
ROSARY - Telestai
Rude - Outer reaches
SAGRAT - Legado Sagrado-Demos 89/93
SEDUCER - Caught In The Act / Indecent Exposure
SORDID BLADE - Every Battle Has Its Glory
SPITFIRE - Nightmares
Steel Inferno - …And the Earth Stood Still
STEELOVER - Glove Me
Sulfuric - Into the darkness
THRASHIN' SPAIN - 1987-1990
THE TROOPS OF DOOM - The Absence Of Light
THE TROOPS OF DOOM - The rise of heresy
TUNDRA - La Leyenda del País de los Hielos. 1986-1988
V.A. - CONDENADOS AL OLVIDO IX - Ladies of Metal ll
V.A. - Spanish Steel Attack Vol. 3
V.A. - Spanish Steel Attack Vol. 4
VIGILANCE - Hounds Of Megiddo
WITCHNIGHT - Unholy Speed Metal Black Speed
Witchtower – Witches’ Domain
ZABBETH - Zabbeth

MC
Acid Blade – Power Dive
ANGEL DUST - Into the Dark Past
Armory – The Search
ATROCIOUS DEVASTATION - Nuclear Sword of Damocles
CNTMPT Von unreiner Willkür
CULT OF HORROR - Hermetik Heretik
DESTRUCTOR - Maximum Destruction
Filthgrave - Desecrator
FORCE OF HELL - Better be Dead
GOATEN - Crimson Moonlight/The Following
Hadron - Live at Noselake
Hypnosia – Extreme Hatred
Killing - Face the Madness
LIVING DEATH - Metal Revolution
LIVING DEATH - Vengeance of Hell
LUZIFER - Iron Shackles
Mindless Sinner – Turn on the Power
Mindless Sinner – Master of Evil
Parasite Dreams - Self Centered And Too Late
PAXTILENCE – Wildfire
Plague - Order of the Scythe
Rät King – We Are The Rät King
Remser - Die Nacht Gehört Mir
Rude - Outer reaches
Sarcator - s/t
SLAUGHTER - Strappado
Steel Inferno - …And the Earth Stood Still
Stormdeath – Call of the Panzer Goat
TANK - Filth Hounds of Hades
TANK - Don't Walk Away
TANK - Honour & Blood
TOWER - Shock to System
WANDERER - Awakening Force
WITCH CROSS - Fit for Fight

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DVP 244 Megaton Sword – Might & Power LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MEGATON SWORD’s highly anticipated second album, Might & Power, on CD, music cassette and vinyl LP formats. 

Since their auspicious birth in 2018, there’s been no stopping Switzerland’s MEGATON SWORD. As if their very moniker was a prescient stroke of genius – or, rather, a self-fulfilling prophecy – the once-quartet arrived fully formed with their glorious debut EP, Niralet, in 2019 via DYING VICTIMS. Here, virtually without warning, they evinced an ages-old sound that was wise (and wizened) well beyond their young years. Already, MEGATON SWORD knew the mystery of steel…and wielded it with a startling confidence. Which made their debut album the next year, Blood Hails Steel – Steel Hails Fire, all the more shocking: MEGATON SWORD somehow revealed new twists to that mystery of steel, and further evinced a charisma that was star-power writ large. Again released by DYING VICTIMS, it was no shock that Blood Hails Steel – Steel Hails Fire was hailed far and wide. And yet still, it seemed MEGATON SWORD were only getting started… 

And they’re not finished – not by a long shot – as testified by their second album, Might & Power. Almost absurdly titled in its elegant simplicity, Might & Power might seem on the surface a reiteration of their true-as-steel HEAVY METAL, and to a large degree, that’s correct – MEGATON SWORD are still drunk on high fantasy and the enduring themes of conquest and valor, triumph and tragedy – but the deceptively expansive album sees the now-quintet stretching their sturdy sound in directions more dynamic and extreme. When was the last time you heard actual blastbeats on a true-metal album? Well, you’ll certainly find ‘em here on Might & Power and probably not bat an eyelash, for MEGATON SWORD wield all their weapons effortlessly. What about ‘70s singer-songwriter melodrama, plaintive piano and all? Same here: while far more subtle, the integration of softer, rock-oriented textures makes their metal all the more enduring – and exciting. For if there’s one guiding theme that earmarks Might & Power as MEGATON SWORD’s arguably greatest recording, it’s that the drama is windswept but undeniably human, in all its myriad hues; this may be heavy metal after all, but it’s not “only heavy metal.” Put another way, MEGATON SWORD so deeply understand that mystery of steel that they know when to sheath their (sonic) swords and offer a weathered hand, gently raising up their fallen comrades. Much credit goes to vocalist Uzzy Unchained, whose pipes poignantly narrate this evocative shift. 

With no hyperbole intended, MEGATON SWORD are no longer on the march. They have truly reached the halls of greatness with Might & Power. Hearing is believing, but it just might bring you to tears. 

– Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special gatefold edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– Special gatefold edition on tricolor vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.
– MC edition with sticker, button, download code.

Out 24th February



DVP 246 Iron Curtain – Metal Gladiator EP MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new mini-album from IRON CURTAIN, Metal Gladiator, on CD and 12” vinyl formats. 

For over 15 years now, Spanish metal inquisition IRON CURTAIN have been stalwart defenders of the faith. With a discography that includes four full-lengths and twice as many EPs, splits, and demos, IRON CURTAIN’s ever-sturdy sound was forged in the fires of the early ‘80s: largely nodding to the eternal Motörhead as well as Tank, but also Canadian gods like Exciter and Razor, to the Teutonic might of early Iron Angel and Grave Digger, to Scandinavian gods OZ and Heavy Load, to cult American icons Abattoir and Savage Grace. And with the DYING VICTIMS release of career highpoint Danger Zone in 2019, that sound’s become even more rocking than ever. 

And IRON CURTAIN continue that trajectory with a quick-hitting and absolutely electric mini-album titled Metal Gladiator. A smorgasboard of old & new and special all the same, Metal Gladiator includes three new and exclusive tracks – “Crossing the Acheron,” “Burn in Hell,” and the title track “Metal Gladiator” – recorded at their own Gorgon Studios during the latter half of 2021, displaying perhaps their most perfect balance of grit and gleam…total anthems! Then there are three older songs that include special lead-guitar friends: “Rough Riders”with Noboru Jero Sakuma (Gorgon, Abigail, Metalucifer), “Stormbound”with Blumi (Metal Inquisitor, Midnight Rider), and “The Running Man” with Harry Granroth (RAM). And lastly is the brand-new song “Rattlesnake,” which will be on IRON CURTAIN’s forthcoming fifth full-length. Altogether, Metal Gladiator is a new start for the band and resounding reassurance for IRON CULT’s true-metal dominance during their third decade of existence! 

– 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.
– MCD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 24th February



DVP-R 010 Buzzard – Gambler LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a long-overdue reissue of the lone cult album of Belgium’s BUZZARD, Gambler, on vinyl LP and CD formats. The CD version also includes the band’s 1983 demo, A Strange Gang, as bonus tracks. 

Hailing from Menen, West Flanders, Belgium’s BUZZARD initially began as early as 1979 when vocalist Hans Berten (Hanzie) and drummer Dirk Vanhee decided to start a band together. A search for a guitarist and bassist began in earnest, with guitarist Steve Deceuninck and Nick Debeuf (Riff) both joining midway through 1980. Since a bassist was not immediately found, Hans decided to take on bass guitar as well as vocals. The moniker BUZZARD was then chosen, as inspiration was drawn from the band Armageddon, whose 1975 album of the same name featured the song “Buzzard,” which Steve had learned to play on guitar. The band’s first gig took place in February 1981.

Lineup shuffles ensued, but BUZZARD eventually recorded the demo A Strange Gang in 1983, the only official demo they’d record. Their live reputation grew in kind, and the band came to the attention of Antler Records, who signed BUZZARD for a two-album deal. Perhaps not surprisingly, more lineup shuffles ensued two months before recording their debut album and even continued during its recording, but what a record they delivered. 

Titled Gambler, BUZZARD’s first – and sadly, only – album is a poignant snapshot of heavy metal in 1984. Reprising three re-recorded songs from the preceding demo, Gambler bursts and bristles with a youthful energy that’s almost naïve, but endearingly and charmingly so. For BUZZARD were simply a HEAVY METAL band – not strictly speed metal, although they had their share of juiced-up rockers, nor did they have the pout & strut of so much hard rock-leaning metal of the time, and they definitely weren’t thrash, still very much in its nascent days – and one that nodded to both England and Germany, but never too often nor for too long. The album’s first two tracks perhaps spell it out best: “Stone-Hard and Loud” and “We Are Heavy Rockers,” as perfect of an opening combo as there is for the time. And the rest of the record is absolutely spellbinding in its verve and vivacity, with the recording just on the right side of rough. 

Gambler was released at the end of October 1984, and the following week, disaster struck again: Steve was involved in a motorcycle accident and was in a coma for a week and a half, requiring three months of rehabilitation. When Steve was fit again, many gigs followed, including some concerts in France and in the Netherlands. Work then began on the second BUZZARD album, and although the writing process was progressing well and the record was already written, the band found that the fire was actually quietly dying out because of other interests, relationships etc. Thus, in February 1986, the band decided to pull the plug on BUZZARD. 

Now, 38 years later, Gambler will see a well-deserved reissue – and, for the first time ever, on CD as well as vinyl. A BUZZARD reunion is out of the question because Steve has traded in his guitar for a drum kit over the years and also out of respect for Stephan Logie (Elly), who sadly left us in 2018. The former members still see each other regularly at local parties where old memories are made between pot and pint. BUZZARD created a band for life! 

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

Out 24th February



DVP 247 Iron Kobra / Atom Smasher – Malicious Magician / The Law 7″

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a split 7” EP between IRON KOBRA and ATOM SMASHER.     

IRON KOBRA should be a familiar name to those who follow DYING VICTIMS, as the Germans have become something of a “flagship band” for the label after their two full-lengths, 2012’s Dungeon Masters and 2015’s Might & Magic. And just as those two albums’ titles (and covers!) display, IRON KOBRA are true-as-steel HEAVY METAL time-locked in 1984! And while it’s been quite quiet on the recorded front since that second full-length (except for the 2017 “Kerker & Drachen” 7”), the bikers from Hell return with a brand-new track here, “Malicious Magician,” that’s a glorious return to form – and shows they’re ready for a gleaming-black new chapter, swords strapped to their iron steeds. On the flip is fellow Germans ATOM SMASHER: despite forming in 2010, it wasn’t until a decade later when they delivered their first EP. And while a four-way split followed the next year, the duo’s spare discography suggests quality over quantity – and that’s what you get with their track here, “The Law,” which is a moody & mysterious epic of equally archaic metal. Bright days ahead for ATOM SMASHER, and DYING VICTIMS is stoked to get their name out there with the ever-reliable IRON KOBRA. 

– 7″ with sticker, download code.

Out 24th February

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DVP-R 008 Sortilège – Larmes de heros Box/LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a long-overdue vinyl reissue of the classic second album of France’s SORTILÈGE, Larmes de héros. 

A cult fixture in the ‘80s French heavy metal scene that retroactively grew in legendry, SORTILÈGE defined a unique national style that had equal footing in the NWOBHM, contemporaneous hard rock, and nascent epic metal. Formed in 1981 and releasing a demo and EP over the new two years, it was SORTILÈGE’s 1984 debut album, Métamorphose – also concurrently released in an English-language version as Metamorphosis – that truly introduced the band to worldwide audiences with a wild ‘n’ weird iteration of heavy metal. While that English version made their unique style more palatable (helped in no small part by its release on Steamhammer), it’s arguably the French-language version that defined the SORTILÈGE sound. And so it went with its superior follow-up. 

Again released in both French- and English-language versions, SORTILÈGE’s second album is a tour de force of true-metal passion and performance, mysticism and might. Blithely summarized as French romantic twist on Judas Priest’s transition from the ‘70s to the ‘80s – or, rather, spanning Sin After Sin to Defenders of the Faith – the original Larmes de héros was released in that golden year of 1986, harkening to a fantastical place far, far away where hot rockers bloomed into heroic-yet-tragic epics. The English version of Hero’s Tears plainly spells out the path ahead, but the dramatic (and oft-melancholic) vocals of Christian Augustin in his native language truly chill/sizzle the soul: a veritable French Metal God. Not to be outdone, his bandmates create a canvas at once anthemic and narrative; pacing is crucial across Larmes de héros, as more direct power-surges flank the album’s utterly immersive epic songs. And at nine songs across 46 minutes, you feel like you’ve undertaken a hero’s journey – but one not without a monumental amount of headbanging. 

Tragically and too fittingly, Larmes de héros would be SORTILÈGE’s final studio album. A number of re-formations would happen over the next couple decades and then fizzle out, but the true SORTILÈGE died with Larmes de héros. Wipe away those hero’s tears, though, for RELICS FROM THE CRYPT at long last resurrects this stone-cold classic for posterity! 

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

– CD edition with sticker and obi – slightly delayed until late December.



DVP-R 009 Rampage – Veil of Mourn LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a long-overdue vinyl reissue of the cult lone album of Australia’s RAMPAGE, Veil of Mourn, along with a CD edition with both demos as bonus.

While there have been many Rampages past and present, there was only one RAMPAGE from Australia – and a more cult band you will not find. Formed in 1985, the band went through several lineup changes before recording their debut demo, Acid Storm, in July 1986. Recorded on a home 4-track, the demo sold well in their native Melbourne but failed to gain any interest. More lineup changes followed the next year, with a pre-production demo recorded as a prelude to their album, but once again, RAMPAGE failed to generate any record company interest. Then, in late 1987, the band recorded, produced, and financed their debut album, Veil of Mourn, which was more-or-less self-released in early 1988. Extensive touring across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, and Brisbane followed. Likewise, excellent record sales locally and overseas followed, but no interest from international record companies came. In May 1988, vocalist/guitarist George Mitrov rang bassist Dave Frew and advised that he had found God and would no longer have anything to do with the band; cancellation of all gigs followed. Then, later that year, Dave Frew (who had formed TYRUS with Peter Hobbs) and drummer Bruno Canzianni join Hobbs Angel of Death, and RAMPAGE effectively came to an end.

However, as a lone document of a band and era, RAMPAGE’s Veil of Mourn is superlative in every sense. There’s a distinct ruggedness to the band’s ceaselessly shifting style of thrash. Mind you, NOT necessarily “rawness” – although the album’s production certainly tends toward the rough – but RAMPAGE’s execution eschews the super-clean sharpness that thrash metal was largely heading toward in the post-Master of Puppets era. With form meeting content, the power-trio’s songwriting similarly takes all sorts of labyrinthine paths short of being qualified as “tech,” racing around and restarting with sometimes-maddening fury. Hooks thankfully abounded, and RAMPAGE’s attack undeniably possessed a death metalled underbelly not unlike Dark Angel or aforementioned Oz cult icons Hobbs Angel of Death. With that songwriting often reaching a fever pitch of diabolism and all three members barely keeping that fury in check, Veil of Mourn becomes a palpitating experience, a veritable ‘80s horror movie turned into a thrash record. The creepy cover art only heightened this sensation.

As years passed, the aura around Veil of Mourn only grew, helped in part by Australia’s ever-growing prominence in the extreme metal landscape. RAMPAGE thus became an etched-in-time “what could have been?” cult band, who respectably preserved their legacy with a mere album. Connect the dots to “the Australian sound” with this LONG-overdue reissue!

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

– CD edition with sticker and obi – slightly delayed until late December.



DVP 239 Hellish – The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, in conspiracy with UNSPEAKABLE AXE RECORDS, is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Chile’s HELLISH, The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. DYING VICTIMS will handle the vinyl LP version while UNSPEAKABLE AXE will handle the CD version. 

Since their formation in 2010, HELLISH have become a prolific force on the blackened thrash scene. With a discography to date totaling two albums, three EPs, four demos, a couple compilations, a split, and a single, this Chilean quartet have been nothing but dedicated to their evil cause over the past decade-plus. During that cursed year of 2020, longtime vocalist/bassist Necromancer departed the band, but in came Christopher Aravena as his replacement, and HELLISH sounded more invigorated than ever on last year’s The Vermis Mysteriis EP. 

With that bolstered lineup in place, HELLISH return to the full-length front with The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. The title alone should speak toward the band’s elevation above the cliché aspects of idiomatic blackthrash; while their grounding in the Teutonic “Big Four” of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction has never been in question, HELLISH have always made subtle-yet-concerted strides to separate themselves from mere worship, and The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. For one, the guitars of Francisco Sanhueza and Javier Salgado wind and wend with wild abandon, keeping the riff trajectory aggressive yet creative, twisting and turning with a diabolism that reaches a fever pitch with well-timed (and quite literally explosive) solos. For another, Aravena’s bass goes in busier directions than just following the guitarists’ riffing; hulking and upfront, his chops match those of the six-stringers, and guitarist-turned-drummer Christian León’s tasteful touches on the kit flesh out that momentum with fury and finesse. Altogether, HELLISH give a masterclass in blackened thrash songwriting that’s far more inventive and interesting than “blackthrash,” and The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents becomes a surprisingly epic spin during its deceptive eight-song/33-minute runtime. 

Dizzying and diabolical, HELLISH hereby raise the bar considerably with The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. 

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

LP
ACT – 1984
APOSTASY – Death Return
ASPHYX – GOD CRIES
ASPHYX – ASPHYX
ASPHYX – DEATH THE BRUTAL WAY
Bastard Priest – Under The Hammer Of Destruction
Bastard Priest – Ghouls Of The Endless Night
BETRAYER- Necronomical Exmortis
BEWITCHED – PENTAGRAM PRAYER
BLADE RUNNER – Warriors Of Rock
BLIND ILLUSION – The Demos 1980/1986 (Ultimate Anthology Vol 2)
BLIND ILLUSION – Wrath Of The Gods
BLIND ILLUSION – The Sane Asylum
Bones – Gate Of Night
Burning Leather – Daylight Nights
Cadaveric Fumes – Echoing Chambers Of Soul
Chain Wolf – Dark Premonitions
Claymorean – Eulogy to the Gods
CRYSTAL VIPER – The cult
DESULTORY – INTO ETERNITY
DESULTORY – BITTERNESS
Disciples Of Power – Powertrap
Disciples Of Power – Ominous Prophecy
EVIL INVADERS – Shattering Reflection
Exploder – Pictures of Reality
Griffin – Protector of the Lair
HÄLLAS – Isle of Wisdom
HÄLLAS – Conundrum
HARVEST MOON – The Lion & Snake
HEIR APPARENT – Graceful Inheritance
HELLIAS – Revenger Of Hellias
HERETIC – BREAKING POINT
HOLY DEATH-Triumph Of Evil
Ironbound – The Lightbringer
IRON GRIFFIN – Storm Of Magic
Kublai Khan – Annihilation
LETHAL SHÖCK – Evil Aggressor
Lord Fist – Green Eyleene 
Lord Gallery – Lord Gallery
MEZZROW – Then Came The Demo
MEZZROW – Then Came The Killing
The Night Eternal – Moonlit Cross
OBITUARY – Slowly we rot
ONYX – The Complete Recordings
Rankelson – Wales Hungry for Blood
SADUS – A vision of misery
SADUS – Chemical exposure
SADUS – Swallowed in black
SCALPTURE – Feldwärts
Seax – Fallout Rituals
SLAUGHTERDAY – Ravenous
SLAUGHTERDAY – Tyrants of Doom
SOLSTICE – PRAY
SPEEDWHORE – On The Verge Of Dysfunction
Sphinx – Aggressions
Stormkeep – Tales Of Othertime
Taphos – Come Ethereal Somberness
Taphos – Demo MMXVI
Taramis – Queen of Thieves
Tarot – The Warrior’s Spell 
Tarot – Reflections 
THRASHIT – Chaos Of Fear
TROUBLE – Psalm 9
TROUBLE Manic Frustration
Tyrann – Djävulens Musik
VICE – Vice
WITCH – Still Alive?

7”
Death Breath – Old Hag
Die Wasted – Sleazy Nights Till Armageddon
SABÏRE – Mistress, Mistress

CD
ALITOR – Eternal Depression
ANCIENT EMPIRE – Priest of Stygia
ANCIENT EMPIRE – Wings of the Fallen
Aquilla – Mankind’s Odyssey
ASOMVEL – WORLD SHAKER 
Atlain – Living in the Dark
Atlain – G.O.E
ATTOMICA – Attomica 1987/Children’s Assassin
ATTOMICA- Limits Of Insanit
AZATOTH – Ruins of Humanity
Bastard Priest – Under The Hammer Of Destruction
Bastard Priest – Ghouls Of The Endless Night
BETRAYER-Necronomical Exmortis/Forbiidden Personality
BETRAYER-Calamity
Black Sites – Exile
BLAZON STONE – Damnation 
BLAZON STONE – War of the Roses
BLAZON STONE – Hymns of Triumph and Death
BLAZON STONE – Live in the Dark
CAPTAIN TRIPS – The Dance of Untruth
Cherokee – Wakan Tanka Nici Un
DESECRATOR – TO THE GALLOWS
Despair – Decay Of Humanity
DETEST – The End of All Ends
DEVIL LEE ROT – Hellscraper / A Little Devil Ain’t Enough
DEVIL LEE ROT – Metal Dictator / Soldier From Hell
DEVIL LEE ROT – Metalizer
Distrüster – Sic Semper Tyrannis
DROID – TERRESTRIAL MUTATIONS
DROID – DISCONNECTED
EGZEKUTHOR! – Hateful Subconsciousness 1991
EMERALD RAGE – High King
EVIL INVADERS – Shattering Reflection
EVIL INVADERS – Feed Me Violence
EVIL SHADE – Vandals
EXORCIST- Voices From Graves/ After The North Winds
Exploder – Pictures of Reality
Extermination Day – Be The Consequence
GREY WOLF – Cimmerian Hordes
HÄLLAS – Isle of Wisdom
HAMMERWHORE – Hammerwhore
HEKTOR – The Inner Dementia 1989
HELLAVENGER- Lord Of The Burning Abyss/Forbidden Shrine
HOLY BATTALION – Cosmic War 89 / Breaking the Face 90
Hrom – Legends of Powerheart Pt. II
IMMACULATE – Thrash, Kill ‘N’ Destroy
INSULTER – Crypts Of Satan
INSULTER – The Misanthrope
Jag Panzer – Mechanized Warfare
KNIGHTRIOT – Beware The Knight
LETHAL SHÖCK – Evil Aggressor
MAX PLANCK – Kill the Pain
Mental Devastation – The Delusional Mystery Of The Self (Part 1)
MEZZROW – Then Came The Killing
Midnight Dice – Hypnotized
MORBID VISION- Visions of the Morbid Rites
MORTAL SLAUGHTER – Destiny / Roots Of Evil
MORTAL SLAUGHTER – Lepers 93
MORBID INSANE- Sicken Crazy/No Future
MORTIFY- Abyssal / The Calm Beyond
Night Lord – Death Doesn’t Wait
NIGHTSTRYKE – Power Shall Prevail
OBITUARY – Cause of death
Original Sin – Demos & More, Beginning To End 1979-1985
QUESTION – Gnosis Primordial
PYÖVELI – The New Renaissance…
Ranger – Yl​ö​s raunioista / Risen From The Ruins
RAPTORE – Rage N Fever
REDSHARK – Digital race
Roadhog – Gates to Madness
ROCKA ROLLAS – Metal Strikes Back: Definitive Edition
ROCKA ROLLAS – Celtic Kings
ROCKA ROLLAS – The War of Steel Has Begun
RUTHLESS HORDE – Demo Anthology 1989-1991 
Sacrafice – The First Experience with the Unknown
SADUS – Chemical exposure
SADUS – Swallowed in black
SADUS – A vision of misery
SATAN – Early Rituals
SATAN – Life Sentence
SATAN – Atom by atom
SATAN – Trail of fire
SATAN – Court in the act
Scarecrow – Condemned to be Doomed
Sieges Even – Life Cycle
SLAUGHTERDAY – Tyrants of Doom
SLAUTER XSTROYES – Winter Kill
SPEEDWHORE – The Future Is Now
Sphinx – Deathstroke
Sphinx – Aggressions
STÄLKER – Shadow Of The Sword
STRYCTNYNE – 1989-1991 Demo Anthology
Sweet Cheater – Immortal Instant
SYLENT STORM – The Fire Never Dies
Tailgunner – Crashdive
THANATOS – Violent death rituals
V.A. – Obscure N.W.O.B.H.M Demos Vol.4
V.A. – Iron and Hell vol 2
WARHEAD – SPEEDWAY
WARRIOR PATH – The Mad King
WARRIOR PATH – Warrior Path
WICKED LESTER – Better Off Dead
WITCHNIGHT – Old Steel Breath
XENTRIX – Seven words
Zoetrope – A Life Of Time

MC
Bandit – Mad Rocker
Bastard Priest – Under The Hammer Of Destruction
Bastard Priest – Ghouls Of The Endless Night
Cauchemar – Rosa Mystica
DESULTORY – BITTERNESS
Distrüster – Sic Semper Tyrannis
EVIL SHADE – Vandals
Ewig Frost – Ain’t No Saint
Faceless Burial – Grotesque Miscreation
Faceless Burial – Multiversal Abattoir
Forbidden Cross – Demo MMXIX
HAIL OF BULLETS – …OF FROST AND WAR
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: THE ROMMEL CHRONICLES
HAIL OF BULLETS – ON DIVINE WINDS
Hard Charger – Collection 2013-2018
Hellraizerr – Life After Death
Lethal Steel – demo – 10 years anniversary re-release
Lynx – Grey Man
Mamorlis – Sturdy As An Oak
Mental Devastation – The Delusional Mystery Of The Self (Part 1)
MERCILESS – THE AWAKENING
Night Lord – Death Doesn’t Wait 
PRIMORDIAL – IMRAMA
PRIMORDIAL – A JOURNEY’S END
PRIMORDIAL – SPIRIT THE EARTH AFLAME
PRIMORDIAL – STORM BEFORE CALM
PRIMORDIAL – THE GATHERING WILDERNESS
PRIMORDIAL – TO THE NAMELESS DEAD
PRIMORDIAL – REDEMPTION AT THE PURITAN’S HAND
PRIMORDIAL – WHERE GREATER MEN HAVE FALLEN
Roadhog – Gates to Madness 
SOLSTICE – SAME
Sparrow – s/t
Tanator – Possessed by Madness. Possessed by War.
Tanator – Disapthoesis

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DVP 248 Firmament – s/t LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Germany’s FIRMAMENT, We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall, on CD, music cassette and vinyl LP formats. 


Hailing from Leipzig, Germany’s FIRMAMENT are a new heavy rock quintet begun in early 2021 by ex-members of TENSION, Prisma, and Wayward. Despite three of the members having done time in TENSION – who released their critically acclaimed debut album, Tension, via DYING VICTIMS last year – the goal for FIRMAMENT from the start was to write moving and thus catchy hard rock songs that get stuck in your head immediately as well as stylistically/spiritually returning to an era before traditional heavy metal even existed. So, while it’s tempting to superficially think FIRMAMENT are an extension of where TENSION left off, the truth is that FIRMAMENT are indeed their own “firmament.” 

FIRMAMENT’s first recording together was a two-song single, “The Void / Losing You,” which they recorded live in their rehearsal room. The single was first released digitally during the autumn of 2021, and then was released as a super-limited homemade tape sold exclusively at gigs. With such heartfelt and truly homemade passion, during March 2022 did FIRMAMENT enter the studio to record their debut album. Poignantly titled We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall, FIRMAMENT’s first full-length sees the five-piece steering the same ship – the unapologetically old-school vibes of the ‘70s and ‘80s and transferring them to the current time, without being stuck in specific genre boxes – but doing so more masterfully than before. Like those throwback eras (and particularly during the ‘70s), equal emphasis is placed on performance and songwriting, each one informing the other, resulting in an album-long experience where each of these nine songs retains its own identity and personality but come together to create a unified-yet-unique headspace. Just witness the deftly dynamic and era-authentic never-overdriven guitar work, where Tom Michalik and Philipp Meyer weave heartrending twin-guitar melodies; underneath that but actually taking center stage is the propulsive-yet-melodic bass work of Stefan Deutsch, which hooks just as effortlessly as those of his six-string partners. Of course, classic hard rock and proto-metal often lives or dies on the strength of its vocals, and in this department are FIRMAMENT no slouch: delivering his last performance with the band, frontman Maik Huber incites goosebumps with emotive, melancholic lines that sound as old as time and further add an air of mystery to We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall. 

While FIRMAMENT are currently working on fresh material with new vocalist Marco Herrmann, We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall stands as a citadel of archaic melancholy – towering in its aura, yet approachable across its moss-covered landscape. Maniacs for ‘70s Scorpions, Blue Öyster Cult, Wishbone Ash, and Thin Lizzy, lay down your sword and stand before FIRMAMENT! 

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

Out 24th March



DVP 249 Hellcrash – Demonic Assassinatiön LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HELLCRASH’s highly anticipated second album, Demonic Assassination, on CD, music cassette and vinyl LP formats. 

Despite forming in 2013 and a couple demos and a split over those first few years, it wasn’t until HELLCRASH’s debut album, Krvcifix Invertör, where the band started to make a dark name for itself. Released on vinyl by DYING VICTIMS in 2021, Krvcifix Invertör proved HELLCRASH were a power-trio in the grand tradition of domestic legends Bulldozer, brewing a similarly sleazy (and EVIL) style of speed metal. Simple but sublime it was, and diehards definitely took notice. 

Now, two years later, arrives HELLCRASH’s second album, Demonic Assassination. On first glance (and especially THAT COVER), it would seem that HELLCRASH are sticking to their guns, sowing the same seeds as earliest Slayer, Venom, and of course Bulldozer. Peer deeper and this latest expurse of sodomy shows that there’s more – much more – to HELLCRASH’s cauldron. Immediately, their attack’s more refined here: some would call it “cleaning up,” but the fine-tuning of songcraft and polishing of production have paid off in spades across Demonic Assassination. As such, there’s far more variation in that songcraft – sometimes more speed metal, other times more thrash, or even metalpunk before it was such a thing, often all in the same song – and HELLCRASH ably finesse this transition with tighter execution that, thankfully, doesn’t sacrifice an ounce of energy. In fact, if there’s on guiding aspect here, it’s energy: while HELLCRASH sometimes seem on the verge of self-combustion, so juiced-up is their rollercoaster sound, it all spills over into the listener as a celebration of filth, fury, and FUN. Could this be their The Final Separation? Perhaps… 

Still sick, still sleazy, and definitely still crude & rude, HELLCRASH are firing on ALL cylinders here, and not just the old ones. So, while the aforementioned references still apply, Demonic Assassination is equally recommended for maniacs of later GBH, Carnivore, Warfare, Crumbsuckers, and contemporaries Children of Technology. 

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

Out 24th March



DVP 251 Animalize – Tapes from the Crypt MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a reissue of the explosive debut mini-album of France’s ANIMALIZE, Tapes From the Crypt, on CD, and 12” vinyl formats.

Since 2018, France’s ANIMALIZE keep playing the kind of music that you (or your parents) may have been listening to 40 years ago. You know that “Heavy Metal” sound that appeared at a time when none of the band members was born. Well, they’re still doing it.

However, it is the band’s love of movies which arguably influence ANIMALIZE’s outlook the most and make the difference. For them, a visual identity and atmosphere – whether in their visual aesthetic, be it artwork or onstage, or especially their eventual videos – are of the utmost importance. Film also feeds their lyrics, quite often. The band states that such movies as Evil Dead, Mad Max, Pet Sematary, Masters of the Universe, and Terminator are among their most beloved.

While they would bring both to Technicolor climax with their debut album for DYING VICTIMS, Meat We Are Made Of, during the summer of 2022, ANIMALIZE nevertheless came out with all guns blazing two years prior on the preceding mini-album Tapes From the Crypt. With an eye-grabbing (and era-authentic) cover setting the stage, the originally-limited Tapes From the Crypt managed to make ANIMALIZE’s strengths plain and POWERFUL: cruising speed metal glory crossing swords with radio-ready traditional metal of a most mid-‘80s vintage. This is the sound of ANIMALIZE at their most straightforward– and, arguably, most accessible – for the proceeding debut full-length found them upping the vocal layering and especially the complexity considerably, but the gleam & glory of Tapes From the Crypt is undeniable, and undeniably fun. A snapshot of a still-boundless band finding their wings, now finally reissued: the saga of ANIMALIZE begins here!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on deep purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– MCD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 24th March

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Massive Distro update, lots of new and restocked LPs, CDs, Tapes:

LP
ABSU – … And shineth unto the cold cometh
ABSU – The third storm of cythraul
ABSU – Tara
Acid Blade – Power Dive
ANGELCORPSE – Hammer of gods
ANGELCORPSE – Of lucifer and lightning
ANGELCORPSE – The inexorable
ATTACK – Seven Years in the Past 
Battleroar – Battleroar   
Black Soul Horde – Tales Of The Ancient Ones 
Black Soul Horde – Horrors From The Void
BUTCHER – 666 Goats carry my chariot
CROSSFIRE – See You In hell
DENIAL OF GOD – Death and the beyond
DENIAL OF GOD – The hallow mass
DENIAL OF GOD – The shapeless mas
DENIAL OF GOD – The horrors of satan
EURYNOMOS – From the Valleys of Hades
Hammers Rule – Show no Mercy
INFERNO – Downtown hades
KILLER – Ready For Hell
KILLER – Wall of sound
LAZARUS SIN – Intracranial Mass
MERCILESS – The Awakening
METALUCIFER – Heavy Metal Tänk
SACRIFIZER – Le diamant de lucifer
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – Fukk
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – K.A.O.S.
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – The Magus
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – We are death fuck you
SADISTIC INTENT – Ancient Black Earth
Scald – North Winds
UNBLESSED – Unblessed
WARHEAD – Speedway

7”
NUCTEMERON / NUNSLAUGHTER – FUCK OFF !!! (IN THE NAME OF SATAN)

CD
Arkaina – Symposium Of A Troubled Mind & Beyond
Bladecrusher – Tempest
Blooddust – Fortress of unholy Power
BRICK MISTRESS – Anthology
BUTCHER – 666 Goats carry my chariot
BUTCHER – Bestial fukking warmachine
Castigo – Perturbación
Cerebus – Too Late to Pray
Cobra – Lethal Strike
CURSE BREAKER vs BLADE’S EDGE – Cursed Blade
Doomentor – Opus Diabolae
EURYNOMOS – From the Valleys of Hades
Evilizers – Center to the Grave
Excess – A Crucifixion: 1989 – 1993
FORCE MAJEURE – Force Majeure
GRAVESTONE – Back To Attack
GRAVESTONE – Creating A Monster
GRAVESTONE – Victim Of Chains
HELLBRINGER – Dominion of Darkness
HIGHWAYS – Breaking the Code
INVID – Journey of the Blind
KING’S RANSOM – Curators of the Realm
KNIGHTRIOT – Beware The Knight
Lunacy – Obscure Introspection
MAD BUTCHER – Eat The Rat (Demos ’83)
MAD BUTCHER – Metal Meat
MAD BUTCHER – For Adults Only + Demo’87
MADDAX – Speed Demon
MERCILESS LAW – The Holy Company
MERCILESS LAW – Troops of Steel
METAL INQUISITOR – Doomsday for the Heretic / Live at the Rock Hard Festival 2007
MURDEATH – Sacrilégio
Old Coven – The Awake of Ascendant Darkness
ONSLAUGHT – In Search of Sanity
ONSLAUGHT – Power from Hell
ONSLAUGHT – The Force
PROTECTOR – Reanimated Homunculus
REVENGE – Death Sentence + Bang Your Head
RUNELORD – Doomsday Script
Sacrifized – Arrival of the Tyrants
SACRIFIZER – Le diamant de lucifer
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – Fukk
SATAN’S BLADE – Curse of the Blade
Savage steel – Do or Die
SIX POINT SIX – Fallen Angel
SKELETAL REMAINS – The Entombment of Chaos
THANATOS – Angelic Encounters
THANATOS – Emerging from the Netherworlds
THANATOS – Realm of Ecstacy
T.N.T.- Deflorator
TYRAN’ PACE – Eye To Eye
V.A. – The Years Around The Wizard
WARHAMMER – No Beast …so Fierce
WICKED LESTER – Better Off Dead

MC
Black Soul Horde – Tales Of The Ancient Ones
Black Soul Horde – Land Of Demise
Black Soul Horde – Horrors From The Void
Evil Spectrum – Emanation of the Hybris
Onyx – The Complete Recordings
Rosenfeld – Demo 1991
Sphinx – Aggression

Patch
ATONEMENT – Merciless Blasphemy
Brocas Helm – Defenders of the Crown
KONTACT – The First Contact
SADISTIK EXEKUTION – Kaos
TYRANN – Djävulens Musik stripe

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



DVP 241 Freeroad – Do What You Feel! LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present FREEROAD’s striking debut album, Do What You Feel!, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, FREEROAD formed in 2018 with only the goal of making music for the love of making music. The moniker FREEROAD was thus chosen to symbolize the idea that there’s no boundaries in music; genres don’t really matter, as long as they’re keeping the essence of old-school rock ‘n’ roll. For FREEROAD, that essence is largely built up on the classic sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s – be it UFO, Thin Lizzy, Yes, Rush, or Jeff Beck – as well as the early rocking sounds of the NWOBHM.

Armed with such a noble ‘n’ rustic foundation, FREEROAD proceed to make their bolt-from-the-blue first statement with Do What You Feel! Ever aptly titled, Do What You Feel! indeed finds the quartet ranging those aforementioned sounds and styles with almost alchemical ease. Heartfelt, honest, and homemade, FREEROAD’s hot-rockin’ harkens to an era where immediately immersive hooks, loose-yet-locked-in ensemble playing, and earthy dynamics were king. Thus, it’s not disingenuous to suggest that there’s a certain déjà vu here; you might’ve heard these songs before, in a nostalgic alternate reality or two removed, but they had yet to be written. Such is the wondrous and endearingly celebratory magick at work across Do What You Feel!, as each of these nine anthems-in-waiting work their spell: each one different than the last, but definitely all the work of the same band. Again, the album experience as one that’s narrative in its variety – truly, FREEROAD are a band out of time.

Pleasures that are simple but utterly sublime, there’s no over-thinking needed or fancy words necessary when approaching the gritty glory of FREEROAD. Just like its cover cheekily displays, you’ll feel compelled to Do What You Feel!

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



DVP 242 Critical Defiance – No Life Forms LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s highly anticipated second album, No Life Forms, on vinyl LP format. Unspeakable Axe have done the CD version.

Hailing from the cult-metal hotbed of Chile, for nearly a decade now, CRITICAL DEFIANCE have been steadfast purveyors of authentically late ‘80s-style THRASH. Their 2019 debut album, Misconception, turned many a head, and now the time has come for CRITICAL DEFIANCE to turn heads completely around with their second album.

Ominously titled No Life Forms, CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s second full-length sees the quintet firing on all cylinders – and heading into hyperdrive. Insanely tight in their razor-sharp execution, the Chileans here dish out extreme aggression nearly every second of this breathless, 30-minute work, with riffs flowing fast and free, and then going faster, faster, FASTER! Through it all, CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s stop-on-a-dime chops prove jawdropping, and lest one misconstrue No Life Forms as a mere exercise in clinical precision, be aware that the band never forget thrash’s primary power: full-on thrashing and The Mosh, moving seamlessly between the two and with catchiness to spare. All that’s in full force here, and it cannot be overstated how insanely juiced-up their execution is. No speed limit!

Fans of vintage Vio-Lence, Atrophy, Whiplash, and Dark Angel, you’ve met your modern match with CRITICAL DEFIANCE’s No Life Forms!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on aqua blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch. – patches are delayed, ships hopefully mid february



DVP 243 Trastorned – Into the Void LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TRASTORNED’s highly anticipated debut album, Into the Void, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, TRASTORNED formed in 2008 with the simple goal of being a local thrash band. Led by guitarist Fabian Piña and vocalist Felipe Lonza, the band became more serious the next year and recorded their debut demo, Decapitacion. More lineup shuffles ensued, but second demo Killer Thrash arrived in 2010. Four years would pass before TRASTORNED recorded another demo, but this time, with Witching Demo!, they revamped their sound and sharpened their attack, going from more blackened thrash to a cleaner and more complex style of thrash not unlike Vio-lence, Forbidden and Exodus around the turn of the ‘90s.

TRASTORNED began working on the initial recording of their debut album as early as 2019, but eventually moved proceedings to a different studio. And while Covid no doubt stalled those proceedings, at last is TRASTORNED’s debut album here: Into the Void. Bearing luridly Lovecraftian artwork by Marcelo Miranda aka Made In Darkness, Into the Void suitably disorients and demolishes the senses with dizzying ease. Truly, TRASTORNED here sound transported from 1990, from songwriting to production, slicing and surging with stop-start precision and an acidic execution as aggravated as prime Demolition Hammer and Morbid Saint. However era-authentic their sound may be, the quintet nevertheless possess THE SONGS to put this handily within that hallowed pantheon, each track taking mind-mangling routes but ones not without hooks; the catalog of riffs here on Into the Void is staggering, and they’re all threaded together masterfully. More than that, TRASTORNED’s chops are superlative and always put in service of the song, and the razor-sharp production only amplifies this electrifying fact.

Eight songs in 30 minutes and your heart will race like it rarely does these days: TRASTORNED will take you Into the Void, and FAST!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on sea blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch. – patches are delayed, ships hopefully mid february
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 252 Running Maiden – s/t MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RUNNING MAIDEN’s self-titled debut ep, on music cassette format.

Hailing from Switzerland, a quarantine one-woman project at first, Running Maiden quickly turned into a three-piece, totally devoted to classic heavy metal from the 80s. Drawing lyrical inspiration from legends of old and occultism, the band pays tribute to some of their main influences among the likes of Acid and Iron Maiden. This debut ep contains four well written and executed heavy metal anthems – it’s time to enter the Bazaar of Evil!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code



repress:

DVP 143 Karloff – Raw Nights MLP

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

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





DVP 250 EMISSARY – s/t LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the striking debut mini-album of Finland’s EMISSARY, self-titled Emissary, on cd and 12” vinyl format.

The planetary grid is riddled with unsteady and weak sonic occurrences, leaving a gap in the terrestrial soundscape. A planet-side distress signal originates from the northern hemisphere. Three trackers have joined forces in a mission to seal the aperture for good.

They are known as EMISSARY.

The tale of Finland’s EMISSARY began in October 2019, just moments before a Cirith Ungol gig in Helsinki. Dimi (Ranger) and Iiro’s idea of a band, which had already been around for years, got the fire it needed when they were chatting before the show with an old acquaintance, Joel (ex-Chevalier), and it turned out that his conceptions and ideas about music matched perfectly with the duo. Already at the first jam session, everything fell into place, and the trio focused immediately on writing their own songs. A shared vision crystallized week by week as sci-fi and fantasy fueled the ideas for the material. Even in the very beginning, the unrelenting power of old-school US power metal and the challenging structures of prog rock were the centerpieces of the music.

The epidemic slowed down the trio’s activities in spring 2020, but EMISSARY continued to actively rehearse whenever possible. In less than a year’s time after founding, the band began to record their debut five-track mini-album in cooperation with producer/engineer Anselmi Ahopalo.

Using precise state-of-the-art tech and stalwart sonic equipment from eras bygone, they have devised heavier-than-sun frequencies that would secure the breach and they would devote themselves as the Guardians of the Seal.

Indeed, EMISSARYs list of influences is vast and idiosyncratic. From the cult likes of Helstar, Sacred Blade, Camel, Virgin Steele, and Chastain to the big likes of Iron Maiden, Rush, Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, and Yes to films like Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, the first two Predator movies, the Star Trek franchise, and many, MANY more, EMISSARY’s pool of textures and sensations is nigh overwhelming, if not for the bravado in which they pursue their own sound and the resultant compositional mastery they so freely flex across Emissary. Truly, the record’s five primary songs – the aptly titled “Galactic Overture” sets the stage as an intro – burst and bristle with so many dazzling shapes, it’s almost an afterthought that the power-trio make these sonic sci-fi castles catchy. So, chops for days and also hooks just as long, EMISSARY here deliver a half-hour of infinite possibilities in what’s bound to be a classically brazen first statement – and now, under the auspices of DYING VICTIMS.

Stand by to receive auricular surge of earth-shattering heavy metal.
THE ORDER WILL BE RESTORED

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

Out 28th April.



DVP 253 LUCIFUGE – Monoliths of Wrath LP/CD

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

Since 2016, Germany’s have been steadily perfect an addicting style of blackened speed metalpunk, all guided by the iron fist of mainman Equinox. Come 2021’s fourth full-length Infernal Power, Equinox expanded LUCIFUGE to a full lineup, and it paid off in spades: the band’s first album under the banner of DYING VICTIMS capped this signature sound with power and applomb, exuding a new professionalism that somehow sounded dirtier than ever.

And as forecasted last year by their short ‘n’ sweet split with Italian comrades BUNKER 66, LUCIFUGE continue to spit-shine that sound with Monoliths of Wrath. Immediately upon pressing “play” on this fifth full-length, it becomes clear that Equinox and crew are taking their sound in a newer but no-less-parallel direction. Unapologetically more technical than their more idiomatic “metalpunk” past, LUCIFUGE’s latest LP is not lacking for speed – in fact, it’s FASTER – but this much-more-directly thrash-oriented record takes sonic cues from classic Sodom, Kreator, Exodus, and of course Slayer. Thankfully, we’re still entrenched in the ‘80s here, but more accurately 1987 rather than 1984. Likewise, the evil, blasphemic, and anti-religious themes are retained throughout the whole record, but Monoliths of Wrath sees LUCIFUGE integrating some almost-atmospheric black metal passages in between. So, while it definitely follows from the aforementioned full-length and split, Monoliths of Wrath involves much more complex song structures overall, which are given maximum power through the production: full-bodied and “pro” but hardly soft, LUCIFUGE’s first foray into a proper recording studio (rather than the practice room) makes a huge difference in highlighting their new dynamics and tempo variation. Oh, and did we mention the BREAKDOWNS? Seriously, this is a timewarp to ‘87, in the best possible way!

So, a blast from the past, but diffently: LUCIFUGE have truly nailed their own sound and direction with Monoliths of Wrath.

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

Out 28th April.



DVP 258 High Warden – Land of Stone MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut demo tape of Germany’s HIGH WARDEN, Land of Stone, on music cassette format.

The newly founded two-piece released their first four tracks digitally in the end of 2022, but now this epic doom & heavy metal demo will get its appropriate tape release. Drawing inspiration from bands such as Magic Circle, Solstice, Orodruin and Reverend Bizarre (whom they also pay tribute to by covering “Cirith Ungol”), HIGH WARDEN frame their own signature sound, plainly named Slow Heavy Metal. It’s an endless death march on the warrior’s path towards bleakness, doom and the murderous malice of the Morgul vale, paved with iron-clad riffs of Ancient Steel.

– MC edition with sticker, button, download code.

Out 24th March



picture LP represses:

DVP 151 Tøronto – Under Siege Picture LP – Toronto
DVP 158 HEXECUTOR – Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge Picture LP
DVP 195 SEXMAG – Sex Metal Picture LP

limited to 250 copies.