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[DVP-R 15 Manimals – Blood is the Harvest LP/CD]

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




DVP-R 15 Manimals – Blood is the Harvest LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue MANIMALS' cult-classic Blood Is the Harvest in expanded form on CD and vinyl LP, commemorating the 40th anniversary of its original release.

Formed in Ohio in 1982 by bassist/vocalist Larry the Wolf – the band's founder, mastermind, and sole constant member – MANIMALS emerged at a time when traditional heavy metal and American hardcore punk rarely crossed paths. Drawing from KISS, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, NWOBHM, the Misfits, and American hardcore – and wrapping it all in horror imagery and an outrageous theatrical stage presence – the band created its own peculiar strain of what Larry would come to call "Monster Metal."

In many ways, one could also argue that MANIMALS were among the very first bands to carry the horror-punk torch forward following the Misfits' original incarnation, bridging the gap between that band and the wave of horror-punk acts that would emerge in later years. But there was a lot more bubbling in the cauldron of Blood Is the Harvest. MANIMALS approached the horror aesthetic from a decidedly heavier direction, with traditional heavy metal always at the heart of the band's sound.

By 1984, Larry was joined by guitarist The Wraith and drummer Dark, forming the lineup that would record Blood Is the Harvest the following year. The six songs were written during 1983 and 1984 and recorded in 1985.

"I shopped the demo to several labels – Elektra, Combat, Metal Blade, among others," recalls Larry. "We received some polite passes, and I remember one or two basically saying they didn't know how to market us because the music didn't fit cleanly into any one genre. So I went back to my hardcore roots and took the DIY approach – if nobody knew what to do with it, then we'd put it out ourselves."

Larry created the House of Pain imprint for the release, and Blood Is the Harvest was self-released in early 1986 in an edition of 1,800 12" vinyl copies. It sounded – and looked – quite unlike anything else at the time.

MANIMALS juiced up that raw metal/punk energy and prolonged it across songs running three, four, and even six minutes, riding a righteous gallop that was indeed more indebted to traditional metal than hardcore punk.

"Years ago, someone told me that we sounded like a combination of early KISS, the Misfits, and early Alice Cooper, with Motörhead sprinkled in – I thought that was a pretty good description," says Larry. "While I admire all of those bands, I like to think that we had our own unique niche. The Misfits could never have done a six-minute epic like 'Blood Is the Harvest,' and KISS would never have done anything as fast as 'Monster Nation.'"

That early collision of metal and punk has since earned MANIMALS recognition in Alexandros Anesiadis' books Crossover the Edge: Where Hardcore, Punk and Metal Collide and Tear It Down: How Crossover Bridged Metal and Hardcore Punk, with the latter placing Blood Is the Harvest at #12 on its list of essential crossover records.

Four decades later, MANIMALS' original strain of "Monster Metal" rises again.

Expanded with two rough 'n' ready archival rehearsal recordings from 1984 – early versions of "Faster Cat" and "White Zombie" – this 40th-anniversary edition brings Blood Is the Harvest to album length and finally unleashes it once more on vinyl and CD.

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

Out 18th December



DVP 420 Pagan Altar – Room of Shadows  LP + 10″/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated reissue of PAGAN ALTAR's The Room of Shadows album on CD and vinyl LP (12" + 10") formats. Side 4 contains a beautiful etching. This reissue marks the 10th anniversary of this awesome album.

Mixing 70's proto-doom elements with mystical English folk, hard rock and heavy metal, this final album with Terry Jones on vocals will bring you into a macabre universe of olde. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar's back catalogue available again.

– Regular edition on black 12″ + 10″ vinyl, with 4 page insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and etching on side D.
– Special edition on ultra clear/brown/golden splatter 12″ + 10″ vinyl, with 4 page inser, poster, sticker, post card, download code, etching on side D and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 18th December



DVP 421 Flight – Flight LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue the debut album of Norway's FLIGHT, Flight, on vinyl LP format.

To call Norway's FLIGHT "retro" or "vintage" is to miss the point. Since their formation in 2012, the quartet have walked the fine line between effortless and studious – a throwback to '70s proto-metal, sure, but done with such vigor and authenticity that even the most skeptical listener would be helpless to resist being whisked away some four decades into the past. Simply, their music exists in that same vacuum when ROCK conquered all: be it "hard rock," FM rock, the dawn of "heavy metal," or especially anything retroactively "proto-metal," FLIGHT bring the past into the present and write understated-yet-invigorating rockers that draw from a very rich (and very idiosyncratic) history.

The first evidence of such was FLIGHT's self-titled debut album, released in 2015 via Bad Omen Records. Starting the album with a similarly titular track served as a statement of sorts: "Flight" is where everything begins, where it goes, and the path ahead. Indeed, Flight was a journey back to said '70s, warm and rustic and heartfelt and handmade. Hot-rockin' is the order of the day here, suffused with just the right amount of jangle, and dynamics taking center stage; there's no "volume wars," because when FLIGHT get going, they GO, and when they reel it back, it's indeed REAL. Naturally, shades of heavy rock's heroes dot the landscape – be it quartet-era Thin Lizzy, In Trance-era Scorpions, the first couple Rainbow records, any UFO ones, or earliest Riot – but the Norwegians' charisma and craftsmanship trump any perceived obviousness. That Flight adds to this noble lineage, with all sincerity and authenticity, speaks loudest.

Following their release of 2023's critically acclaimed Echoes of Journeys Past, DYING VICTIMS now makes FLIGHT's debut album available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade. Spread the wings of your imagination and take Flight!

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

Out 18th November



DVP 422 Kontakt – First Contact MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to reissue KONTACT's debut mini-album, First Contact, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

In 2024, DYING VICTIMS released KONTACT's critically acclaimed debut album, Full Contact, largely introducing these crazy Canadians to the international metal landscape. Amazingly askew yet strangely approachable, Full Contact inhabited a neon-hazed utopia / dystopia where sleaze metal fuses DNA with tech-thrash. But the roots of this dayglo landscape stretched back to early 2024, with the release of First Contact via the late / great Temple of Mystery Records.

Comparatively less "weird" but by no means any less idiosyncratic, KONTACT's first public appearance encompassed a compact five songs in 24 minutes. The primary influences at this stage were commercial-peak Judas Priest (think Defenders of the Faith and Turbo – YES, Turbo!) fused with the frayed circuitry of homeland heroes Voivod, particularly that band's transition from Dimension Hatröss to Nothingface. Likewise, where the realms of sci-fi were still within reach, there's a certain rough-hewn atmosphere to First Contact that harkens to the dungeons of '80s true metal ala Manilla Road and Cirith Ungol – and the closing cover of Sacred Blade's "Fieldz the Sunshine" surely cemented their spiritual sphere. Heady stuff any way you cut it, but above all, KONTACT had the SONGS to back up this slow-burn addictiveness: Where so many young bands' reach is beyond their grasp, this power-trio knew exactly where they wanted to go, this early on. As such, First Contact stands as a unique snapshot of an ongoing odyssey that's totally and truly KONTACT!

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

Out 18th December

[DVP 403 Midnight Prey – Jenseitsritt LP/CD]

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



DVP 403 Midnight Prey – Jenseitsritt LP/CD
DVP 135 Midnight Prey - Uncertain Times LP special edition slightly delayed

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MIDNIGHT PREY's highly anticipated second album, Jenseitsritt, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It's been a not-very-long but very strange trip for Germany's MIDNIGHT PREY. Formed in 2012 in the Black Forest but eventually moving to Hamburg in 2015, the power-trio toiled away for their first decade until the release of 2019's Uncertain Times. Indeed aptly titled, MIDNIGHT PREY's debut album became something of a modern classic with its never-belabored, effortlessly cool mix of '70s hard rock, '80s traditional metal, and classic punk and speed metal. Then, in that cursed year of 2020, the band called it quits...for a couple years. Thankfully, when they returned in 2023, with the Black Cat / Sword and Shield EP (reprised on the Gathered Under Open Skies split with fellow Teutonic labelmates FIRMAMENT), all was good: MIDNIGHT PREY had not lost one step, and were more poignant than ever.

And that poignancy perhaps reaches its apotheosis with their long-awaited second album, Jenseitsritt. Here, MIDNIGHT PREY don't sound all that removed from their past – a clean-yet-dirty surge that's equal parts punk, rock, and metal – but it's all the little details that then add up to the overarching work that make Jenseitsritt such a unique and incredibly engaging listen. That (uniquely) kinda-clean tone the trio use is somehow more ethereal and heartstrings-pulling here, each strum and note-bend ringing resoundingly straight into the listener's soul. And yet, MIDNIGHT PREY rhythmically sound more restless across the seven-song / 37-minute album, their raw energy bubbling over into feral, unfiltered passion; Jenseitsritt is an album you quite literally FEEL. Maybe it's an increasingly accurate reflection of their wild, sweat-soaked live show, or maybe it's all those years spent away from the full-length front, but the electricity coursing through them carries a potent amount of urgency, and their melodies bend and break and rebuild in suitably breathless fashion. And yet...Jenseitsritt almost feels...relaxing in its poetic flow. One of the most unassumingly unique bands around have gotten even better: MIDNIGHT PREY return with impossible splendor and unbridled fervor!

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



DVP 404 Critical Defiance – Rivers of Blood LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present CRITICAL DEFIANCE's highly anticipated fourth album, Rivers of Blood, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2010, Chile's CRITICIAL DEFIANCE have become a dependably hateful thrash metal force. Built on speed, aggression, and technical precision, the band channel the violent spirit of old-school thrash metal through sharp riffing, restless structures, and a raw South American intensity. To date, their three albums – 2019's Misconception, 2022's No Life Forms, and 2024's The Search Won't Fall – have cemented the Valparaíso natives' place in the underground.

Now, CRITICAL DEFIANCE come storming out of the underground and return with their fourth full-length, Rivers of Blood. Compact, direct, and destructive, the eight-song / 32-minute album displays the band at their most focused, combining fast thrash metal violence with darker atmospheres, instrumental tension and a stronger sense of dramatic progression. All of this is heightened by Sebastián Palominos' clear & cutting production, which thankfully also retains an organic immediacy.

Central to the success of Rivers of Blood is its sequencing. "Red Omen" works as an ominous opening; "Innate to Kill" starts the first attack; "The Feeling Destroyer" showcases CRITICAL DEFIANCE's technique and compositional work; and "Rivers of Blood" lands with a slower form of thrash metal and liberating lyrics. "Valparaíso" opens Side B as the longest and most distinctive piece on the record, connecting the band's violence with the blood, memory, and decay of their own city. The second half of the album then moves from the intensity and darkness of "Dead Tongues" into the short instrumental passage "Ceremony of the Final Call," before closing with "Glorify War," a direct final attack that reinforces the tone of Rivers of Blood: violent, hateful, and destructive.

Rivers of Blood is not a nostalgic revival record. It is CRITICAL DEFIANCE sharpening their own language: violent, fast, hateful, dark, and restless thrash metal from the Chilean underground.

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



DVP 405 Watcher – Mistress of our Time LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Sweden's WATCHER, Mistress of Our Time, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Sweden, WATCHER was formed in 2023 by singer Viktor Gustafsson, initially as a one-man band. With Gustafsson handling everything, two recordings resulted in 2024: the rough 'n' ready debut album Key to the Unbreachable and the similarly styled EP Glory or Agony, which was released early the next year. Truer than true, these two recordings presented WATCHER as skillful disciples of first-wave Swedish heavy metal. In late 2024, guitarist Max Warnby and drummer Jakob Nilsson joined forces with Gustafsson, and WATCHER released a second EP, Chains of Crystal, in the spring of 2025 and soon afterwards played Muskelrock. In late 2025, second guitarist Timmy Lindgren joined the band, and the recording of a new full-length began.

If Chains of Crystal hinted at the fantasy-cloaked adrenaline that could flow through WATCHER's veins with a fuller lineup, then Mistress of Our Time takes that proposition to a big, velvety boil. Thankfully, the ingredients are pretty much the same – said first-wave-Sweden legends like Heavy Load, Gotham City, Axewitch, Torch, and even Hot Records-era Europe along with the equally cult likes of Ostrogoth, Grim Reaper, and Sortilège – but where previous WATCHER recordings aimed to take the listener back to 1984, Mistress of Our Time truly does time-travel there with some unique, mystical magick. Energy, hooks, and atmosphere are all in harmonious lockstep here (with the emphasis on ENERGY), and the quartet gallop into the fray with triumphant poise and copious power. Unlike the oncoming thrash era, though, WATCHER wisely don't try win the speed stakes; their swords & sorcery-bound anthems simply don't need that. Authenticity is the riddle of steel they've mastered, by Crom.

If WATCHER's goal has always been to keep the old heavy metal spirit alive, then Mistress of Our Time captures it with pinpoint poignancy!

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



DVP 407 Ludgar – Violent Visions LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Austria's LUDGAR, Violent Visions, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Let's get it out of the way: LUDGAR is originally an abbreviated word for Loup de guerre ("war wolf"), describing what was one of the largest trebuchet – or catapult, if you will – used in medieval times. We're basically talking about one giant destructive force used to crush opponents and villages alike, and it's quite a fitting analogy for what the band LUDGAR stand for.

Formed in 2024 in a dungeon in Linz, Austria by DEATH RACER guitarist S. Bruckner (here on bass) and VENATOR drummer J. Steidl alongside L. Höller on vocals and S. Bolda (also in Zepter) on guitar, this new outfit is deeply entrenched in the '80s yet refuses to label their music with the cliché "everyone brought to the table their own influences." One thing was made clear, though: the result had to be rough and brutal. And their first demo, 2024's Molochian Rites, was indeed rough-as-fuck.

So, what do the Austrians do? Make a debut album that's rougher-than-fuck! Enter Violent Visions, a record as fittingly titled as their moniker itself. Right from the beginning, you know you're treading on pure METAL: unfiltered, raw, and explosive (and, of course, deeply entrenched in the '80s). Dungeonic in atmosphere and breathless in urgency, these Violent Visions will draw parallels to Hellfire's Dominion-era Desaster, now-labelmates WITCHING HOUR, or a more blackened version of Hellish Crossfire, but the truth is that LUDGAR roar from a deeper and more malevolent pit – nay, DUNGEON – where all light is shun. To liken the album to "blackthrash" would be grossly missing the point, however; the usual tropes are NOT invoked, and the atmosphere and attendant sensations – unclean and unhallowed, lawless and lusting, a delirium that's devilish and addicting – elevate LUDGAR into such esteemed company as much as the songs themselves. More than anything, there's a true sense of danger that's been sorely missing for, well, forever. Open your eyes to Violent Visions!

– 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.



DVP 408 Skumstrike – FLawless Intrigue from Hell LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SKUMSTRIKE's highly anticipated second album, Flawless Intrigue from Hell, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Blazing a trail through the inferno, fists death-locked on the throttle, Montreal's SKUMSTRIKE strike back with their second full-length, Flawless Intrigue from Hell. Inspired by grand traditions of backstabbing and deceit, Flawless Intrigue from Hell combines a lethal dose of speed metal with the gunpowder roar of thrash and death metal. Cross-contaminating the wild fury of Japan's Sabbat with the abandon of early Slayer and Bathory, the Canadian power-trio deliver a raw and relentless affair over ten tracks that establishes their pole position in the relentless race to speed metal hell. If their Deadly Intrusions debut in 2022 came roaring out of the gates, then Flawless Intrigue from Hell fucking obliterates those gates!

Featuring redline ragers as well as slower, deeply poisonous dirges, Flawless Intrigue from Hell was recorded by Spectral Wound mastermind Patrick McDowell in the aftermath of SKUMSTRIKE's first European tour, and represents their first dangerous meeting with German powerhaus DYING VICTIMS. The album is crowned by an unhinged cover of Abigail's "Satanik Metal Fucking Hell," with possessed, skeletal artwork courtesy of Chris Kiesling of Misanthropic-Art (artist for Mortuary Drape, Hooded Menace, Grave Infestation). Fueled up and ready for violence, this latest effort from these northern raiders is sure to elevate SKUMSTRIKE to the top of the poser-killing pack!

How much ARRRGGGHHH can you take? Fuck around and find out with SKUMSTRIKE's Flawless Intrigue from Hell!

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



DVP 409 Axetasy – A Paranormal Duet MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AXETASY's new double single "A Paranormal Duet" on music cassette format.

Following their much acclaimed 2025 debut album "Withering Tides", German speed metal four-piece AXETASY are back with a new double single (enhanced with an intro and outro). They continue with their fast-as-a-shark heavy metal approach worshipping cult 80s acts while carving out their own identity. This release is very important to the band, as they for the first time took the complete process (writing, recording, producing) into their own hands. Get your fix of AXETASY while the band is already working on their 2nd album.

– MC edition with sticker, download code and button

[DVP 415 Witching Hour – ...and Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon LP/CD]

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




DVP 415 Witching Hour – ...and Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of WITCHING HOUR'S third album, ...and Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon, on vinyl LP and CD formats.

Originally released on Hells Headbangers in 2018, this album completed the transformation the evolvement of the band's sound from rough and straight forward black thrash to a more varied, multilayered approach to the genre. The fast and evil aspects are still present, yet the band managed to weave in their yearning, melancholic and ancient heavy metal atmosphere. Ancient heavy metal black thrash!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with 4 page booklet, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on black/brown marbled vinyl, with 4 page booklet, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 20th November



DVP 416 Whisper – Whisper / Liminal Spaces LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present to present the first two EPs of Spain's WHISPER, Whisper and Liminal Spaces, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Spain, WHISPER was born in 2022 as drummer José Vicente Aldeguer (IRON CURTAIN, Phantom Spell, War Dogs, Chantrice) started recording some ideas for a potential new project. After having three songs and a cover ready, WHISPER's self-titled first EP was released digitally in 2023, receiving pretty good reviews from national and international media. In January of the next year, the project performed its first live show, presenting also a new song off the upcoming EP, Liminal Spaces. With this stage experience established, Aldeguer pursued WHISPER as a fully-solo endeavor in the studio, recording everything himself.

Suitably impressed by Whisper, DYING VICTIMS now joins the three original tracks from that EP with the two new tracks on Liminal Spaces, all remixed & remastered. Totaling 40 minutes, WHISPER's two EPs provide a mystical, magickal landscape for adventurous listeners to freely roam. The band's base foundation is indeed prog and traditional metal – going from Diamond Head and Iron Maiden to Blue Öyster Cult and Asia, Demon and Mercyful Fate to even Opeth and Hallas – but with especial emphasis on cleaner-toned melodies and spacey vintage synths, Whisper / Liminal Spaces works its spell immediately even as the prodigous chops and epic song structures dazzle the senses. Proving that the best is yet to come, WHISPER conclude the collection with the selfsame "The Whisper," a 12-minute journey to splendorous, awe-inspiring locales...the destination is fully within the imagination!

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

Out 20th November



DVP 417 Obsidian Church – Stonebound LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present OBSIDIAN CHURCH's striking debut album, Stonebound, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in early 2024 and split between Palermo and Messina, Italy's OBSIDIAN CHURCH are a five-piece epic doom metal band born from a shared devotion to old-school heavy metal. What began as an organic process of composing riffs quickly evolved into a massive, focused musical vision, drawing inspiration from the traditional founders of the genre: early Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Solstice, Tiamat, Paradise Lost, Pentagram and Therion – and, of course, Black Sabbath.

OBSIDIAN CHURCH wasted no time on their first recording. Forgoing a demo, the Italians digitally released their debut album, Stonebound, earlier this year. So impressed by its solemn waves of emotion, DYING VICTIMS stepped in to release it physically. Driven by the rhythmic foundation of drummer / producer Antonio La Camera and the towering delivery of vocalist Vicar Nocturnus and flanked by bassist Jos Curtis and guitarists Sara Scavo and Giada Seidita, OBSIDIAN CHURCH here truly play as a band; each element is as important as the other, and their subtle interplay elevates this far beyond a simple genre exercise. To be sure, Stonebound is bound firmly to traditional metal, with a specific and passionate devotion to classic epic doom, but the band thankfully don't lean too hard on any one influence and, rather, allow their personality to come to the fore whilst honoring those revered traditions. Of especial note is the album's production: at once rustic and ethereally heavy, the soundfield itself fully conveys the lyrical themes of existentialism, loss, esoteric spirituality, and even finding beauty within the world. Step inside OBSIDIAN CHURCH and become Stonebound!

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

Out 20th November



DVP 418 Overture – The Final Straw MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new mini-album from Sweden's OVERTURE, The Final Straw, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

OVERTURE was founded during the summer of 2021 by lead guitarist and vocalist Adrian Tobar, with the goal of exploring heavy metal as a genre and pushing its boundaries. The next year, with the band's first stable lineup in place, they released Demo 2022.", which quickly gained cult status within the traditional heavy metal scene. Gigging locally and abroad followed, but Tobar disbanded OVERTURE shortly after the summer of 2023.

After two years of relentless touring with Adrian Tobar's own band, Eternal Evil, inspiration struck him at the most unpredictable moment. Adrian decided to start writing new material for OVERTURE, and the band was finally alive again. The result: the three-song Overture EP in early 2026, proving that the flame burned brighter than ever.

Now, that flame is about to become an inferno with The Final Straw! Taking the reinvigorated OVERTURE sound into the stratosphere, this five-song / 24-minute mini-monster absolutely EXPLODES with starpower at every turn. Indeed, the completely new lineup – Marlon Nachsel on rhythm guitar, Wilmer Jansson on drums, Adam Sjö on bass, and of course Tobar on lead guitar and vocals – struts and surges with precision and passion in equal measure, exuding a larger-than-life aura that vaults these anthems-in-waiting from dingy clubs to the biggest stages across the world. OVERTURE are nothing if not trad-minded Swedish heavy metal magick, but beyond the standard-bearing likes of Heavy Load, Overdrive, and Gotham City, one can more readily hear the melancholic melodicism of peak Dokken and early '80s Scorpions on The Final Straw, expanding the band's already-exemplary dynamics and making the mini-album an expansive experience despite its concise brevity. Catch a star with OVERTURE's The Final Straw!

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

Out 20th November



DVP 419 Living Sin – Volume One MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a compilation of LIVING SIN's complete recordings so far, titled "Volume One" on music cassette format.

LIVING SIN is authentic, high-octane rock 'n' roll heavy metal straight from the wild Australian hills, ready to kick your ass and steal your wallet to pay for the next round of shots. The roar of a red-hot engine tearing down the highway, the crunch of broken knuckles against the jaw of some drunk bastard at the local pub, and the glory of thunder in a sickly sky over the raging ocean... All this will blast your weak eardrums when you hear the raw, street-hardened fury of LIVING SIN — the only recent heavy rock/punk act worthy of the primal sorcery of Motörhead, Venom, Rose Tattoo and Tank.

– MC edition with sticker, download code and button

Out 20th November

[DVP 397 Rapid – Enter the Realm of Fire LP/CD]

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





DVP 397  Rapid – Enter the Realm of Fire LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RAPID's highly anticipated debut album, Enter the Realm of Fire, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It was but 2022 when RAPID released their debut mini-album, Blackstar Oppression Regime, via DYING VICTIMS. Here, the Finnish power-trio had sharpened their sound into something compelling and uncategorizable. The urgency of hardcore punk, the hook-oriented propulsion of speed metal, and the spidery aura of old-wave black metal all collided into something that was electric the second you pressed "play." Subtly unique, Blackstar Oppression Regime also suggested that RAPID had ever more in their tank.

Now, RAPID unload their fullest arsenal with the debut album Enter the Realm of Fire. Arriving over a decade since their original formation, this first full-length displays the patience and hard graft that should come with a band's debut album – one gauntlet grasping their foundational past, and a hand on the torch for the future. Indeed, that mini-album sported some lead lines that could've come from classic deathrock, but on Enter the Realm of Fire, they're in full bloom, connecting the dots from turn-of-the-'80s heavy metal to contemporaneous underground rumblings that should be immediately apparent to only true believers. That the hot-rockin' takes precedence in RAPID's current attack doesn't make their ancient musings any less urgent; rather, these more flowing and delayed-gratification constructions serve songwriting that's stronger overall and more charismatic than ever. To that, bassist Vincent Revenge's vocals have become both clearer and grimier, approximating an off-the-rails crypt-keeper narrating nefarious deeds; simply witness the epic closing title track for ghoulishly poignant proof. Or, really, dispense with the fancy words, Enter the Realm of Fire, and be mesmerized by RAPID's olde-worlde metal anarchy!

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 398 Deceptor – Reign of Terror LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of North Carolina's DECEPTOR, Reign of Terror, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Raleigh, DECEPTOR are death / thrash trio driven by the underground movement of 1988-1992. The band's led by vocalist / bassist Gabriel Earley, who is responsible for writing music and lyrics, graphic design, and production / mixing / mastering. A self-taught musician, Earley started DECEPTOR in his bedroom, largely crediting the band's creation to hearing the stories of bands like Anthrax and Metallica getting their start from Jon Zazula's influence and belief in their potential/success. Jon died shortly before Earley began taking the idea of starting a band more seriously, and eventually, he found some musicians to make that idea come to life. The lineup coalesced when guitarist Preston Lanier joined in June 2022 after Earley approached him at an Exodus show with a copy of DECEPTOR's first demo, Bound by Ritual; then, in October of that year, drummer Andrew Harper joined the band after witnessing their performance at a DIY house show. Together, the power-trio released the Bathed in Blood EP in 2023 and, the following year, the "Street General" digital single – both recordings setting the stage for their inevitable debut album.

Titled Reign of Terror, DECEPTOR's debut album is tour de force of classic deathrash, firmly (and authentically) situated between those years of 1988 and 1992. With influences ranging from old Sepultura, Whiplash, and Protector on the thrashier end of things to Viogression, Ripping Corpse, and early Gorguts on the deathlier – and then Coroner, squarely in between – DECEPTOR construct mind-melting labyrinths across the ten-song / 33-minute record. Speed is always front and center here, but effectively shifts gears from gallop to one-two blast to overdrive and plenty more in between. Likewise, the riffing of Lanier spans the blunt & barbarian to technical terror, effectively instilling both aggression and tension in their surprisingly dynamic songwriting. Earley's bass work adds especial heft to their skulking breakdowns, which could almost be a record in themselves, so ever-present and compelling as they are. And Harper delivers a performance that his hero Gene Hoglan would've loved; one could say his violent acrobatics Leave Scars. Perhaps what's most salient – beyond the era-authentic songwriting, that is – is the production on Reign of Terror, which sounds both throwback and refreshing, humidly raw and yet exceptionally finessed. Completed by Earley's '91-vintage death-growls – again, just the right amount of reverb here – DECEPTOR's first full-length stands as a reverential reinvigoration of archaic powers.

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



DVP 399  Teratum – Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare   MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TERATUM's highly anticipated debut mini-album, Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Upon the wretched annihilation of Beastiality in the cursed year of 2024, there arose from the smoldering ashes a force most terrible and divine: TERATUM. With a two-song promo tape the following year to announce their arrival, the Swedish quartet are now set to unleash their first widely available recording: Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare.

Whilst not ditching the blackthrashing mania of Beastiality entirely, TERATUM here conjure a sulfurous storm that runs parallel to their belligerent predecessor, asserting an iron-fisted identity all their own. Indeed, the thrashing is violent, but the BLACK deepens into a malodorous void. Spidery leads instill a sense of the ancient, and songwriting runs from the murderously swift to the moonlit entranced. No influences need be known, but rest assured that they're OLD – and that Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare actually brings something new to the idiom.

Maniacs for Nifelheim, Desaster, Zemial, Sweden's Morbid, and Germany's Poison will surely begin paying obeisance to TERATUM, on evidence of this four-song / 21-minute attack with spell. The conflagration that shall consume this forsaken earth is come!

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



DVP 232 Sexmag – Żelazna dziewica MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SEXMAG's enhanced "Żelazna Dziewica" demo on vinyl lp and cd formats. 

Originally released in 2022, these three tracks were originally intended to be an advance tape for their debut album. The Silesian black thrashers ended up writing completely new tracks which is why the long time sold out "Żelazna Dziewica" returns on vinyl and cd. As bonus, their 2025 single "Krwawa Wendeta" is included as well. The band has stirred quite some attention in the underground with their filthy and merciless mixture of ancient black, speed and thrash metal.

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 400 Pyromancer – Grimoire of Conjuration / The Old Curse MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present PYROMANCER's demo "Grimoire of Conjuration" enhanced with their split tracks from "The Old Curse" on music cassette format.

This French three-piece has been around for a few years, but hasn't released anything in physical form, so this needed to be rectified. Their explosive blend of black, thrash & speed metal as well as punk worships the eternal flame and the underground spirit. If you like Sabbat (Japan) check them out!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code



DVP 401 Silberpfeil –  Rock in Rot MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SILBERPFEIL's debut demo "Rock in Rot" on music cassette format.

The Asphalt is burning, chrome is shining, and the leather suits are creaking in this arena of speed and emotions evoked by SILBERPFEIL, a project worshipping the greatest racing hero in German history using the only music suitable for that mission: SPEED metal, influenced by Svage Grace, Exciter, Attacker, Helloween and of course british Oi! Music of the 80s. SILBERPFEIL contains members of SPORTSGEIST, SPIKER and SADISTIC GOAT MESSIAH among others.

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code



DVP 402 The Night Eternal – Cold Velvet  MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present THE NIGHT ETERNAL's third album "COLD VELVET" on music cassette format. Licensed from Metal Blade.

After establishing themselves as one of the most promising "young" heavy metal band in the current old school heavy metal scene and playing about every relevant festival in Europe, THE NIGHT ETERNAL release their first record on Metal Blade. Their sound keeps evolving and this 3rd album is filled to the brim with dark, melancholic heavy metal steeped in dreamlike unease.

– MC edition with sticker and button

[DVP 406 FVNERAL FVKK – Indecent Idols LP/CD]

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DVP 406 FVNERAL FVKK – Indecent Idols LP/CD
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present FVNERAL FVKK's highly anticipated second album, Indecent Idols, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Founded in Hamburg in 2015, FVNERAL FVKK consists entirely of musicians from the city's extreme metal underground. FVNERAL FVKK combine towering, epic doom metal with lyrics exclusively inspired by documented crimes, abuse, and corruption committed by religious institutions throughout history and into the present day.

Following the blasphemous acclaim of their debut EP, 2017's Lecherous Liturgies, and their first full-length sermon, 2019's Carnal Confessions, Germany's most notorious ecclesiastical doom metal congregation emerge once again with a new chapter of sacred obscenity: Indecent Idols. Musically, this equally aptly titled second album serves as a logical continuation of FVNERAL FVKK's established sound: solemn, cathedral-sized riffing, mournful melodies, and crushing heaviness merge with an atmosphere that oscillates between sacred grandeur and utter moral decay. Right from the austere opening choral notes into the senses-swarming chords of the record's first riff, Indecent Idols creates an all-enveloping and alternately dense / spacious experience; one could call it "monastic" if not for the heretical lyricism, but the strident march of it all says everything on its own. Likewise, Cantor Cinaedicus' clean tenor could be considered "heavenly" despite the dark nature of his themes, and the rest of the band's dynamic shifts straddle the line between those heavens and Hell in sweeping fashion.

Influenced by the epic tradition of classic doom metal while embracing an increasingly oppressive and emotional intensity, Indecent Idols expands both the scale and darkness of FVNERAL FVKK's previous works. Amen!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on violett OR brown marbled vinyl, with 8 pages lp sized booklet, poster, sticker, post card, letter of indulgance, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 23rd October



DVP 410 ARMORY – Echoes of the Astrolith LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated fourth album of Sweden's ARMORY, Echoes of the Astrolith, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Like a meteor plunging through outer space with one target in mind – Planet Earth – Gothenburg's ARMORY have been launching alien speed metal invasions across the globe since 2012. The fiery stars of Judas Priest, Agent Steel, and Slayer have been their guiding light, but ARMORY have magickally managed to make manifest their own unique, vast world across three albums and last year's Black Star EP.

That EP, while still within the orbit of their characteristic sound, kicked things into overdrive – but with the imminent release of their fourth album, Echoes of the Astrolith, ARMORY truly kick things into an even higher gear. Fans will recognize the arrival of new turbo-laser vocalist C. Rostoff, who immediately makes his presence known. His dynamic & daring pipes rocket all across space here, narrating the dread tales of the album's nine primary tracks ("Omens" is a suitably titled instrumental). But more than Rostoff's vocal performance, arguably, the biggest change in ARMORY's cosmic armory is a decidedly darker, heavier, and perhaps even eviler sound: speed metal, yes, but more blitzing, barraging, and RELENTLESS than ever. Indeed, with song structures touching the technical and the players utterly locked-in, Echoes of the Astrolith seemingly zooms from one end of the starry void to the other with obscene zeal. To call this record a "speed metal U.F.O." would not be inaccurate. Enter ARMORY's menacing, pitch-black parallel universe only if you dare!

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

Out 23rd October



DVP 411 STREET JUSTICE – Rules are for Suckers LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present STREET JUSTICE's striking debut album, Rules Are For Suckers, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

After the breakup of Bavaria's SAVAGE—who released an EP and the DYING VICTIMS debut album Glory Riders, both of which were critically acclaimed—former members Pawel Nemkovic and Axel Warrior sought to further revive the era of mean heavy metal. It will now continue under the banner of STREET JUSTICE, and the first fruit of meanness is the band's debut album, Rules Are For Suckers.

Much like SAVAGE's Glory Riders was aptly titled, more so is STREET JUSTICE's Rules Are For Suckers. While the style and attitude remain the same, the songwriting and composition have evolved significantly, culminating in riffs, leads, and hooks rich in variety and authentically rendered by true maniacs: 1980s Los Angeles is well and truly alive here, and powerfully so. Indeed, much like their predecessor, STREET JUSTICE variously recall the likes of classic W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, and early Van Halen. But compared to SAVAGE, STREET JUSTICE amplify the sleaze in their sound, bringing to mind a heavier L.A. Guns during their late '80s prime.

Proving that Rules Are For Suckers, STREET JUSTICE look to an unlikely source for a cover song: Tina Turner's "One of the Living," unforgettably from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, which is given a suitably heavy (and sleazier) uplift here. More than that, this cover choice underlines the wasteland theme running through the album, from both the percolating pulse of the riffing to the wide-open atmosphere across the record's nine tracks. Imagine L.A. Guns' "Electric Gypsy" video with Mad Max warlords riding fast and free, and you're getting close to the experience of STREET JUSTICE.

Heightening that atmosphere—and, especially, the heaviness—is the technical collaboration with TYRAN's Sergej Dukart. Together, both band and producer reach a new level of clarity and depth on Rules Are For Suckers, bringing a larger-than-life aspect to STREET JUSTICE's "spacious heaviness." Imagine a modern analogue to W.A.S.P.'s Inside the Electric Circus: this record is literally HUGE.

Before Marcel Riedel of Surturian joined STREET JUSTICE as their permanent drummer, the drum tracks for Rules Are For Suckers were recorded by Tobias Kasper of Sweeping Death. With this new lineup and the album in tow, STREET JUSTICE will continue to rock the stage and present their music exactly as it should be: MEAN HEAVY METAL!

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

Out 23rd October


DVP 412 DET / CRITICAL DEFIANCE – Bloodsurge MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present Bloodsurge, a special split mini-album between DET and CRITICAL DEFIANCE, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Set to coincide with a joint tour this autumn, Bloodsurge pairs together two fierce & fiery forces from both the north and south: Finland's DET and Chile's CRITICAL DEFIANCE. DET are up first with three brand-new tracks that further prove why the power-trio are a "Destructive Elite Terror." Taking shape during the spring of this year, DET's vision here was to continue down the same vicious, chaotic path that their DYING VICTIMS debut album had laid out, "but we wanted to tighten the screws even further." And that tightening is indeed deliciously painful! Rounding out their offering is a suitably rowdy & evil live version of early demo banger "Death Knight," recorded at the Catalonia Extreme Gathering festival in Spain earlier this year.

CRITICAL DEFIANCE also offer three brand-new tracks plus an acoustic instrumental. As always, the Chilean thrashers go right for the throat, wasting no time with their razor-sharp & ripping attack. "These creations were not originally conceived to coexist," state the band, "yet this split provided the exact space they needed to acquire a shared identity – technical execution, acoustic contrast, the exploration of darker and more extreme territories, and the overwhelming drive of thrash metal in its most violent form." Of especial note is that instrumental, "Will of Steel," which poignantly honors thrash's oft-overlooked tradition of quieter contrast within an album context. Feel this Bloodsurge both on record and onstage!

– 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 23rd October



DVP 413 BAPHOMET'S BLOOD – In Satan We Trust LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of BAPTHOMET'S BLOOD's fourth album, In Satan we Trust, on vinyl LP and – for the first time – CD formats.

Originally released in 2016, this 10-year anniversary edition shows BAPHOMET'S BLOOD in their heaviest and darkest version so far. Their first 3 albums are rough n ready blue collar heavy speed metal, but their experience shows on In Satan we Trust, their most seamless album so far. Once again, 8 tracks including a cover of obscure Hungarian heavy metal act Fáraó can be found on this record.

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

Out 23rd October



DVP 414 SOLOMONAR – Demo 2026 MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SOLOMONAR's debut demo "Demo 2026" on music cassette format.

Inspired by romantic vampyrism, morbid visions, omnipresence of death, mysticism and heavy drinking, a new heinous act emerges from rotten caves of Moravian despair. Solomonar is a new occult metal punk band based in Brno, Czech Republic. This four-headed abomination consists of Spelukna collective and members of bands such as Mörghuul/Otras/Yossarian. Deeply rooted in oldschool metal, distorted by filthy punk atmosphere and energy, Solomonar spreads raw and chorus-infested occult warfare without any mercy!

– MC edition with sticker, download code and button

Out 23rd October



DVP 329 HYENA – About Rock n Roll LP

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

Out 23rd October

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[DVP 403 Midnight Prey – Jenseitsritt LP/CD]

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DVP 403 Midnight Prey – Jenseitsritt LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MIDNIGHT PREY's highly anticipated second album, Jenseitsritt, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It's been a not-very-long but very strange trip for Germany's MIDNIGHT PREY. Formed in 2012 in the Black Forest but eventually moving to Hamburg in 2015, the power-trio toiled away for their first decade until the release of 2019's Uncertain Times. Indeed aptly titled, MIDNIGHT PREY's debut album became something of a modern classic with its never-belabored, effortlessly cool mix of '70s hard rock, '80s traditional metal, and classic punk and speed metal. Then, in that cursed year of 2020, the band called it quits...for a couple years. Thankfully, when they returned in 2023, with the Black Cat / Sword and Shield EP (reprised on the Gathered Under Open Skies split with fellow Teutonic labelmates FIRMAMENT), all was good: MIDNIGHT PREY had not lost one step, and were more poignant than ever.

And that poignancy perhaps reaches its apotheosis with their long-awaited second album, Jenseitsritt. Here, MIDNIGHT PREY don't sound all that removed from their past – a clean-yet-dirty surge that's equal parts punk, rock, and metal – but it's all the little details that then add up to the overarching work that make Jenseitsritt such a unique and incredibly engaging listen. That (uniquely) kinda-clean tone the trio use is somehow more ethereal and heartstrings-pulling here, each strum and note-bend ringing resoundingly straight into the listener's soul. And yet, MIDNIGHT PREY rhythmically sound more restless across the seven-song / 37-minute album, their raw energy bubbling over into feral, unfiltered passion; Jenseitsritt is an album you quite literally FEEL. Maybe it's an increasingly accurate reflection of their wild, sweat-soaked live show, or maybe it's all those years spent away from the full-length front, but the electricity coursing through them carries a potent amount of urgency, and their melodies bend and break and rebuild in suitably breathless fashion. And yet...Jenseitsritt almost feels...relaxing in its poetic flow. One of the most unassumingly unique bands around have gotten even better: MIDNIGHT PREY return with impossible splendor and unbridled fervor!

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

Out 25th September



DVP 404 Critical Defiance – Rivers of Blood LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present CRITICAL DEFIANCE's highly anticipated fourth album, Rivers of Blood, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2010, Chile's CRITICIAL DEFIANCE have become a dependably hateful thrash metal force. Built on speed, aggression, and technical precision, the band channel the violent spirit of old-school thrash metal through sharp riffing, restless structures, and a raw South American intensity. To date, their three albums – 2019's Misconception, 2022's No Life Forms, and 2024's The Search Won't Fall – have cemented the Valparaíso natives' place in the underground.

Now, CRITICAL DEFIANCE come storming out of the underground and return with their fourth full-length, Rivers of Blood. Compact, direct, and destructive, the eight-song / 32-minute album displays the band at their most focused, combining fast thrash metal violence with darker atmospheres, instrumental tension and a stronger sense of dramatic progression. All of this is heightened by Sebastián Palominos' clear & cutting production, which thankfully also retains an organic immediacy.

Central to the success of Rivers of Blood is its sequencing. "Red Omen" works as an ominous opening; "Innate to Kill" starts the first attack; "The Feeling Destroyer" showcases CRITICAL DEFIANCE's technique and compositional work; and "Rivers of Blood" lands with a slower form of thrash metal and liberating lyrics. "Valparaíso" opens Side B as the longest and most distinctive piece on the record, connecting the band's violence with the blood, memory, and decay of their own city. The second half of the album then moves from the intensity and darkness of "Dead Tongues" into the short instrumental passage "Ceremony of the Final Call," before closing with "Glorify War," a direct final attack that reinforces the tone of Rivers of Blood: violent, hateful, and destructive.

Rivers of Blood is not a nostalgic revival record. It is CRITICAL DEFIANCE sharpening their own language: violent, fast, hateful, dark, and restless thrash metal from the Chilean underground.

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

Out 25th September



DVP 405 Watcher – Mistress of our Time LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Sweden's WATCHER, Mistress of Our Time, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Sweden, WATCHER was formed in 2023 by singer Viktor Gustafsson, initially as a one-man band. With Gustafsson handling everything, two recordings resulted in 2024: the rough 'n' ready debut album Key to the Unbreachable and the similarly styled EP Glory or Agony, which was released early the next year. Truer than true, these two recordings presented WATCHER as skillful disciples of first-wave Swedish heavy metal. In late 2024, guitarist Max Warnby and drummer Jakob Nilsson joined forces with Gustafsson, and WATCHER released a second EP, Chains of Crystal, in the spring of 2025 and soon afterwards played Muskelrock. In late 2025, second guitarist Timmy Lindgren joined the band, and the recording of a new full-length began.

If Chains of Crystal hinted at the fantasy-cloaked adrenaline that could flow through WATCHER's veins with a fuller lineup, then Mistress of Our Time takes that proposition to a big, velvety boil. Thankfully, the ingredients are pretty much the same – said first-wave-Sweden legends like Heavy Load, Gotham City, Axewitch, Torch, and even Hot Records-era Europe along with the equally cult likes of Ostrogoth, Grim Reaper, and Sortilège – but where previous WATCHER recordings aimed to take the listener back to 1984, Mistress of Our Time truly does time-travel there with some unique, mystical magick. Energy, hooks, and atmosphere are all in harmonious lockstep here (with the emphasis on ENERGY), and the quartet gallop into the fray with triumphant poise and copious power. Unlike the oncoming thrash era, though, WATCHER wisely don't try win the speed stakes; their swords & sorcery-bound anthems simply don't need that. Authenticity is the riddle of steel they've mastered, by Crom.

If WATCHER's goal has always been to keep the old heavy metal spirit alive, then Mistress of Our Time captures it with pinpoint poignancy!

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

Out 25th September



DVP 407 Ludgar – Violent Visions LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Austria's LUDGAR, Violent Visions, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Let's get it out of the way: LUDGAR is originally an abbreviated word for Loup de guerre ("war wolf"), describing what was one of the largest trebuchet – or catapult, if you will – used in medieval times. We're basically talking about one giant destructive force used to crush opponents and villages alike, and it's quite a fitting analogy for what the band LUDGAR stand for.

Formed in 2024 in a dungeon in Linz, Austria by DEATH RACER guitarist S. Bruckner (here on bass) and VENATOR drummer J. Steidl alongside L. Höller on vocals and S. Bolda (also in Zepter) on guitar, this new outfit is deeply entrenched in the '80s yet refuses to label their music with the cliché "everyone brought to the table their own influences." One thing was made clear, though: the result had to be rough and brutal. And their first demo, 2024's Molochian Rites, was indeed rough-as-fuck.

So, what do the Austrians do? Make a debut album that's rougher-than-fuck! Enter Violent Visions, a record as fittingly titled as their moniker itself. Right from the beginning, you know you're treading on pure METAL: unfiltered, raw, and explosive (and, of course, deeply entrenched in the '80s). Dungeonic in atmosphere and breathless in urgency, these Violent Visions will draw parallels to Hellfire's Dominion-era Desaster, now-labelmates WITCHING HOUR, or a more blackened version of Hellish Crossfire, but the truth is that LUDGAR roar from a deeper and more malevolent pit – nay, DUNGEON – where all light is shun. To liken the album to "blackthrash" would be grossly missing the point, however; the usual tropes are NOT invoked, and the atmosphere and attendant sensations – unclean and unhallowed, lawless and lusting, a delirium that's devilish and addicting – elevate LUDGAR into such esteemed company as much as the songs themselves. More than anything, there's a true sense of danger that's been sorely missing for, well, forever. Open your eyes to Violent Visions!

– 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 25th September



DVP 408 Skum Strike – Lawless Intrigue from Hell LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SKUMSTRIKE's highly anticipated second album, Flawless Intrigue from Hell, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Blazing a trail through the inferno, fists death-locked on the throttle, Montreal's SKUMSTRIKE strike back with their second full-length, Flawless Intrigue from Hell. Inspired by grand traditions of backstabbing and deceit, Flawless Intrigue from Hell combines a lethal dose of speed metal with the gunpowder roar of thrash and death metal. Cross-contaminating the wild fury of Japan's Sabbat with the abandon of early Slayer and Bathory, the Canadian power-trio deliver a raw and relentless affair over ten tracks that establishes their pole position in the relentless race to speed metal hell. If their Deadly Intrusions debut in 2022 came roaring out of the gates, then Flawless Intrigue from Hell fucking obliterates those gates!

Featuring redline ragers as well as slower, deeply poisonous dirges, Flawless Intrigue from Hell was recorded by Spectral Wound mastermind Patrick McDowell in the aftermath of SKUMSTRIKE's first European tour, and represents their first dangerous meeting with German powerhaus DYING VICTIMS. The album is crowned by an unhinged cover of Abigail's "Satanik Metal Fucking Hell," with possessed, skeletal artwork courtesy of Chris Kiesling of Misanthropic-Art (artist for Mortuary Drape, Hooded Menace, Grave Infestation). Fueled up and ready for violence, this latest effort from these northern raiders is sure to elevate SKUMSTRIKE to the top of the poser-killing pack!

How much ARRRGGGHHH can you take? Fuck around and find out with SKUMSTRIKE's Flawless Intrigue from Hell!

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

Out 25th September



DVP 409 Axetasy – A Paranormal Duet MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AXETASY's new double single "A Paranormal Duet" on music cassette format.

Following their much acclaimed 2025 debut album "Withering Tides", German speed metal four-piece AXETASY are back with a new double single (enhanced with an intro and outro). They continue with their fast-as-a-shark heavy metal approach worshipping cult 80s acts while carving out their own identity. This release is very important to the band, as they for the first time took the complete process (writing, recording, producing) into their own hands. Get your fix of AXETASY while the band is already working on their 2nd album.

– MC edition with sticker, download code and button

Out 25th September

[DVP 397 Rapid – Enter the Realm of Fire LP/CD]

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DVP 397  Rapid – Enter the Realm of Fire LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present RAPID's highly anticipated debut album, Enter the Realm of Fire, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It was but 2022 when RAPID released their debut mini-album, Blackstar Oppression Regime, via DYING VICTIMS. Here, the Finnish power-trio had sharpened their sound into something compelling and uncategorizable. The urgency of hardcore punk, the hook-oriented propulsion of speed metal, and the spidery aura of old-wave black metal all collided into something that was electric the second you pressed "play." Subtly unique, Blackstar Oppression Regime also suggested that RAPID had ever more in their tank.

Now, RAPID unload their fullest arsenal with the debut album Enter the Realm of Fire. Arriving over a decade since their original formation, this first full-length displays the patience and hard graft that should come with a band's debut album – one gauntlet grasping their foundational past, and a hand on the torch for the future. Indeed, that mini-album sported some lead lines that could've come from classic deathrock, but on Enter the Realm of Fire, they're in full bloom, connecting the dots from turn-of-the-'80s heavy metal to contemporaneous underground rumblings that should be immediately apparent to only true believers. That the hot-rockin' takes precedence in RAPID's current attack doesn't make their ancient musings any less urgent; rather, these more flowing and delayed-gratification constructions serve songwriting that's stronger overall and more charismatic than ever. To that, bassist Vincent Revenge's vocals have become both clearer and grimier, approximating an off-the-rails crypt-keeper narrating nefarious deeds; simply witness the epic closing title track for ghoulishly poignant proof. Or, really, dispense with the fancy words, Enter the Realm of Fire, and be mesmerized by RAPID's olde-worlde metal anarchy!

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 21st August



DVP 398 Deceptor – Reign of Terror LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of North Carolina's DECEPTOR, Reign of Terror, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Raleigh, DECEPTOR are death / thrash trio driven by the underground movement of 1988-1992. The band's led by vocalist / bassist Gabriel Earley, who is responsible for writing music and lyrics, graphic design, and production / mixing / mastering. A self-taught musician, Earley started DECEPTOR in his bedroom, largely crediting the band's creation to hearing the stories of bands like Anthrax and Metallica getting their start from Jon Zazula's influence and belief in their potential/success. Jon died shortly before Earley began taking the idea of starting a band more seriously, and eventually, he found some musicians to make that idea come to life. The lineup coalesced when guitarist Preston Lanier joined in June 2022 after Earley approached him at an Exodus show with a copy of DECEPTOR's first demo, Bound by Ritual; then, in October of that year, drummer Andrew Harper joined the band after witnessing their performance at a DIY house show. Together, the power-trio released the Bathed in Blood EP in 2023 and, the following year, the "Street General" digital single – both recordings setting the stage for their inevitable debut album.

Titled Reign of Terror, DECEPTOR's debut album is tour de force of classic deathrash, firmly (and authentically) situated between those years of 1988 and 1992. With influences ranging from old Sepultura, Whiplash, and Protector on the thrashier end of things to Viogression, Ripping Corpse, and early Gorguts on the deathlier – and then Coroner, squarely in between – DECEPTOR construct mind-melting labyrinths across the ten-song / 33-minute record. Speed is always front and center here, but effectively shifts gears from gallop to one-two blast to overdrive and plenty more in between. Likewise, the riffing of Lanier spans the blunt & barbarian to technical terror, effectively instilling both aggression and tension in their surprisingly dynamic songwriting. Earley's bass work adds especial heft to their skulking breakdowns, which could almost be a record in themselves, so ever-present and compelling as they are. And Harper delivers a performance that his hero Gene Hoglan would've loved; one could say his violent acrobatics Leave Scars. Perhaps what's most salient – beyond the era-authentic songwriting, that is – is the production on Reign of Terror, which sounds both throwback and refreshing, humidly raw and yet exceptionally finessed. Completed by Earley's '91-vintage death-growls – again, just the right amount of reverb here – DECEPTOR's first full-length stands as a reverential reinvigoration of archaic powers.

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

Out 21st august



DVP 399  Teratum – Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare   MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TERATUM's highly anticipated debut mini-album, Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Upon the wretched annihilation of Beastiality in the cursed year of 2024, there arose from the smoldering ashes a force most terrible and divine: TERATUM. With a two-song promo tape the following year to announce their arrival, the Swedish quartet are now set to unleash their first widely available recording: Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare.

Whilst not ditching the blackthrashing mania of Beastiality entirely, TERATUM here conjure a sulfurous storm that runs parallel to their belligerent predecessor, asserting an iron-fisted identity all their own. Indeed, the thrashing is violent, but the BLACK deepens into a malodorous void. Spidery leads instill a sense of the ancient, and songwriting runs from the murderously swift to the moonlit entranced. No influences need be known, but rest assured that they're OLD – and that Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare actually brings something new to the idiom.

Maniacs for Nifelheim, Desaster, Zemial, Sweden's Morbid, and Germany's Poison will surely begin paying obeisance to TERATUM, on evidence of this four-song / 21-minute attack with spell. The conflagration that shall consume this forsaken earth is come!

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

Out 21st august



DVP 232 Sexmag – Żelazna dziewica MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SEXMAG's enhanced "Żelazna Dziewica" demo on vinyl lp and cd formats. 

Originally released in 2022, these three tracks were originally intended to be an advance tape for their debut album. The Silesian black thrashers ended up writing completely new tracks which is why the long time sold out "Żelazna Dziewica" returns on vinyl and cd. As bonus, their 2025 single "Krwawa Wendeta" is included as well. The band has stirred quite some attention in the underground with their filthy and merciless mixture of ancient black, speed and thrash metal.

– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 21st August



DVP 400 Pyromancer – Grimoire of Conjuration / The Old Curse MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present PYROMANCER's demo "Grimoire of Conjuration" enhanced with their split tracks from "The Old Curse" on music cassette format.

This French three-piece has been around for a few years, but hasn't released anything in physical form, so this needed to be rectified. Their explosive blend of black, thrash & speed metal as well as punk worships the eternal flame and the underground spirit. If you like Sabbat (Japan) check them out!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code

Out 21st August



DVP 401 Silberpfeil –  Rock in Rot MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SILBERPFEIL's debut demo "Rock in Rot" on music cassette format.

The Asphalt is burning, chrome is shining, and the leather suits are creaking in this arena of speed and emotions evoked by SILBERPFEIL, a project worshipping the greatest racing hero in German history using the only music suitable for that mission: SPEED metal, influenced by Svage Grace, Exciter, Attacker, Helloween and of course british Oi! Music of the 80s. SILBERPFEIL contains members of SPORTSGEIST, SPIKER and SADISTIC GOAT MESSIAH among others.

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code

Out 21st August



DVP 402 The Night Eternal – Cold Velvet  MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present THE NIGHT ETERNAL's third album "COLD VELVET" on music cassette format. Licensed from Metal Blade.

After establishing themselves as one of the most promising "young" heavy metal band in the current old school heavy metal scene and playing about every relevant festival in Europe, THE NIGHT ETERNAL release their first record on Metal Blade. Their sound keeps evolving and this 3rd album is filled to the brim with dark, melancholic heavy metal steeped in dreamlike unease.

– MC edition with sticker and button

Out 21st August

[DVP 392 INTO DARKNESS – Route to the Other Side LP/CD]

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




DVP 392 INTO DARKNESS – Route to the Other Side LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the long-awaited debut album of Italy's INTO DARKNESS, Route to the Other Side, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Italy's INTODARKNESS have been a work in progress since their formation in 2011. Led by vocalist / guitarist Doomed Warrior from the very beginning, the band released a handful of demos, a couple splits, and a couple EPs during their first decade of existence. While all short-lengths, they certainly did not lack in quality. As time (and lineups) went on, INTO DARKNESS' primary influences – equally early Asphyx and Soulburn, Pentacle, Sinister, Gorefest, Dead Head, Phlebotomized, Acrostichon, and Thanatos among others – came more sharply into focus, aligning reverently within old-school Dutch death metal in style but with a unique lyrical focus: divulgative astronomy. Not astrology, not sci-fi, no Lovecraft – only and specifically divulgative astronomy, maybe poetically but definitely realistically.

Now, at long last, INTO DARKNESS are prepared to unleash their debut album. Tellingly titled Route to the Outer Side, the Italians' first full-length is a concept record about the outer solar system, which still considers Pluto as a planet and also includes Halley's Comet. As a power-trio, they unload a twisted, hulking mass of DEATH METAL – dark, doomed, but not without a special spark of astral atmosphere. Mind you, INTO DARKNESS still don't do "sci-fi" or "spacey" death metal; rather, the sweeping songwriting that overtakes the listener with an energetic-yet-patient pace spells out in subtler terms the band's lyrical conceits. Put another way, they show you rather than tell you about the vast, ominous majesty of space, leaving behind cliché sonic signifiers in favor of timeless death metal songcraft. Nevertheless, the trio possess prodigious chops, and are unafraid to often put them in service of the song – but when framed within the album's powerful & professional production, it all feels exceptionally organic and far from flashy.

A creative, passionate vision that's bloomed beyond their trademark tribute to classic Dutch death metal, INTO DARKNESS have finally arrived. Prepare for the Route to the Other Side!

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

Out 24th July



DVP 393 JORDSJØ – Pestkrønikene LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present JORDSJØ's highly anticipated new album, Pestkrønikene, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

JORDSJØ released their first tape in 2015. With the fourth tape, 2017's Jord, the band got a wider audience outside their native Norway and subsequently released full-lengths on such labels as Karisma, Pancromatic, and Apollon. The band works as a duo in the studio, but for the last eight years, they have played live as a quintet. JORDSJØ are led by multi-instrumentalist Håkon Oftung, who has been a part of Oslo's psychedelic, progressive, and heavy rock undergrounds for many years, and has played in Black Magic, Tusmørke, The Chronicles of Father Robin, Wobbler, Zenon, and labelmates FLIGHT to mention but a few. He's joined by longtime companion and childhood friend Kristian Frøland, who plays drums and percussion, and also produced and mixed Pestkrønikene.

Pestkrønikene is a part of JORDSJØ's 10-year anniversary, and their ninth release overall. The record started out as a compilation of studio outtakes from 2020-2025, but then took on a form of its own, with the songs linked together thematically. Lyrically, those themes reflect war, upheaval, the fall of kings and the rise of a new dawn, and cults and sects. Sonically, Pestkrønikene encapsulates the JORDSJØ experience as well as extends beyond it. Mythical and magickal, the album honors the band's background in hard rock and heavy metal, and combines this with their own analog and organic blend of progressive / psychedelic folk rock. To say that band and record, both in general, blend '70s heavy rock like Deep Purple, Rush, and Ashbury with the progressive landscapes of Gentle Giant, Høst, and Landberk somewhat undersells JORDSJØ's particular headspace. The soothingly otherworldly atmosphere sounds incredibly era-authentic but, more so, exists in a parallel universe worth revisiting over and over again; truly, new details and vistas open up with each spin, even with the soundfield being lushly Spartan. To make that anniversary all the sweeter, JORDSJØ are here joined by a few amazing guests: Jon Henriksen from Black Magic, Kristian Valbo from Obliteration / Aura Noir, and Andreas Prestmo and Lars Fredrik Frøislie from Wobbler. Sonic alchemy, Pestkrønikene is.

Succinct yet deceptively expansive at just 36 minutes, Pestkrønikene is a generous feast of fantastical, extra-dimensional exploration. While not "heavy" in the usual DYING VICTIMS sense, JORDSJØ honor the old ways – handmade, honest, even heroic.

– 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 24th July



DVP 394 TORPOR – Ɖungeon Ɖescent LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Poland's TORPOR, Ɖungeon Ɖescent, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

TORPOR were formed in Warsaw by three school friends and music fans under the huge influence of Bathory. While recording their first release, Burning Realms / Behold the Spell of Black Fortress, in dusk of 2017, the band were laying their music foundations inspired by the epic side of black and the haunted / melancholic side of early '80s heavy metal.

Since their last release – 2021's The Ancient Tales EP, which was actually recorded in 2019 – TORPOR parted ways with their drummer, who alongside Mike Magister I.V. and Franciszek Archont, was a founding member of the trio. Upon the arrival of a new drummer and long-time friend, Bloodhammer, they recorded their debut album. It marks the result of their work and path undertaken.

"We knew it was our direction to follow and polish, so now, after some time, we can happily present our debut album, Ɖungeon Ɖescent," the band state. "It is our first real record that pictures our vision exactly how we liked to. After years of wandering around basement rehearsal rooms and two self-released demos, we are finally coming out of our lairs with this LP under the banners of DYING VICTIMS."

Their past connections with fellow labelmates ARMAGH and FUKKIN' VENGEANCE somewhat explains TORPOR's link to the idiosyncratic side of ancient heavy metal, which has taken far more prominence on Ɖungeon Ɖescent over the first-wave black metal side – but that's only part of the picture. Some might call it "cleaning up," others might liken it to a harnessing of feral energies, but TORPOR's emphatic-yet-stoic strut conveys equal amounts of energy and mystery, finesse and fine-tuning. Of course, the power-trio can kick into high gear when they want to, be it heroic gallop or even hypnotic blast, but their sense of movement from one moody segment to the next imparts a narrative flow that's part and parcel of their lyrical imagery. Or, perhaps it's true swords & sorcery metal without belaboring the point – no "COOL IMAGERY DUDE" without the music & atmosphere to back it up, more specifically – that harkens to a glorious, sadly bygone era.

However you approach this Ɖungeon Ɖescent, TORPOR have surely delivered a cult classic in the making. Passion, authenticity, the reverberating ring of truth...ancient powers arise from time immemorial!

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

Out 24th July



DVP 395 Witching Hour –  Where Pale Winds Take Them high... MLP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of WITCHING HOUR'S mini-album, Where Pale Winds Take Them High..., on vinyl LP format. Under license from Evil Spell Records.

Originally released in 2014, this 6-track mini-album continued the evolvement of the band's sound from rough and straight forward black thrash to a more varied, multilayered approach to the genre. On this record, Witching Hour still concentrated on shorter, more to the point song writing, whereas their following albums began to see more expansive and atmospheric tunes.

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

Out 24th July



DVP 396 Baphomet's Blood – Metal Damnation LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of BAPTHOMET'S BLOOD's third album, Metal Damnation, on vinyl LP and – for the first time – CD formats.

Originally released in 2009, BAPHOMET'S BLOOD continues their roughneck approach to real underground heavy and speed metal. Their Italian Steel may not be sharp, but nonetheless hard hitting. 8 tracks + a cover of Belgian heavy metal cult act Killer can be found on this record.

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

Out 24th July

[DVP 387 Iron Kobra – Eternal Dagger LP/CD/MCDVP 26 Iron Kobra – Dungeon Master LP/CDDVP 57 Iron Kobra – Might & Magic LP/CD]

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




DVP 387 Iron Kobra – Eternal Dagger LP/CD/MC
DVP 26 Iron Kobra – Dungeon Master LP/CD
DVP 57 Iron Kobra – Might & Magic LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present IRON KOBRA's highly anticipated third album, Eternal Dagger, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Additionally their two previous albums will be re-released at the same time.

Formed in 2008, Germany's IRON KOBRA began with a noble mission: to bring heavy metal back to its unpolished, rough, and weird roots. Influenced by heroes of old like Iron Maiden, Cirith Ungol, Living Death, Manowar, and Tank with a sprinkle of punk, the band brewed up a venomous concoction of catchy-yet-speedy heavy metal with maximum potential for engagement – whether it was singing along to, banging your head, and / or raising your fist! Their first few years were busy, releasing the Cult of the Snake demo in 2009 and the Battlesword EP the year after. After playing extensively all throughout Europe and earning a reputation for being a force to be reckoned with live, IRON KOBRA teamed up with DYING VICTIMS in 2012 for the release of their momentous debut album, Dungeon Masters, and three years later for their more refined second album, Might & Magic. The years after – especially those around the pandemic – brought the band's external momentum to a crawl. But behind the scenes, they were still writing and playing select shows, even venturing as far as Japan.

Now, at very long last, IRON KOBRA return to stake their claim as kings of swords & sorcery metal with Eternal Dagger! Granted, the characteristically amazing cover artwork suggests a sci-fi bent, but the timeless HEAVY METAL the Germans unleash here is vintage IRON KOBRA: immediately recognizable as them, but still reflecting on (and refining) their past, incorporating influences from their favorite bands to result in something that will be YOUR favorite soon enough! Aided by the gleaming & glorious production of Stefan Castevet (Vulture, Luzifer), Eternal Dagger explodes with excitement at every turn, its nine songs ranging speed metal tracks like "Trembling Dungeons" to NWOBHM-fueled rockers like "Shibuya Nights" and epics like "Mountains of Madness." It goes without saying that IRON KOBRA's arsenal here offers a wide variety of pure metal gold, evoking the likes of Exciter, Brocas Helm, Diamond Head, and early Running Wild but, of course, with their undeniable personality and panache.

So strap yourselves to your seats, maniacs: the Cult of the Snake is back, bringing you heavy hymns that will pierce your eardrums like a heavy metal drill!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– Limited Box set on blue/silver galaxy vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag, vinyl slipmat and download code.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.
– MC edition with sticker, button, download code
– T-Shirt

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

Might & Magic:
– 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 patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 19th June



DVP 388 Cutthroat – Invoking Terror MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present Invoking Terror, the highly anticipated debut mini-album of Ireland's CUTTHROAT, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

The island of Ireland may not appear often when it comes to underground bands...yet when it does, it strikes hard and swift! Witness CUTTHROAT, the goriest addition yet, who are now delivering their debut mini-album following two demos in 2023 and 2025, respectively. Aptly titled Invoking Terror, this five-song / 25-minute blast of filth & fury delivers violent, thrashing DEATH METAL that worships the underground's forgotten days of old. For sure, CUTTHROAT may be "new," but they definitely sound OLD here: think early / best Possessed, Morbid Angel, Merciless, and Necrovore and you're within the power-trio's wheelhouse. And no, they don't intend to reinvent that wheel any time soon; the wheel that is Invoking Terror simply rolls over you – FAST – and the only recourse is to submit and headbang like a fucking maniac or summarily get flattened like the wimp that you are.

The modern underground has yet to see such unbridled violence since the glory days of the aforementioned bands, and indeed is that CUTTHROAT's aim on Invoking Terror. There is no story, no fashion, no trends – this is simply audial torture sent to invoke terror over all who listen!

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

Out 19th June



DVP 389 Hyena/Risingfall – Heavy Metal Heroes MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present Heavy Metal Heroes, a special split EP between Peru's HYENA and Japan's RISINGFALL, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Heavy metal is living a global explosion, driven by underground bands that keep alive the legacy of those Heavy Metal Heroes who created eternal anthems. This titular mini-album brings together two bands separated by a great distance but united in an undying thirst for true metal.

From Cajamarca, Peru's HYENA return after touring worldwide in support of their DYING VICTIMS debut album, About Rock and Roll. Carrying forward the spirit that defined their first record, the Peruvians deliver two brand-new tracks as the first strike from their forthcoming second album. Raw and bloodthirsty, the band bring their turn-of-the-'80s style to a boil here, more anthemic and charismatic than ever.

From Tokyo, Japan's RISINGFALL continue their ascent with new material following 2022's DYING VICTIMS debut album Rise or Fall and last year's self-released EP Dungeon's Call. After their performance at Germany's Keep It True Rising Festival, the band has established itself among today's true torchbearers of heavy metal. Their two brand-new tracks here bring a dazzling display of old-metal values filtered through that uniquely Eastern lens.

Heavy Metal Heroes stands as a statement of real underground heavy metal: forged in tradition, carried across continents, and kept alive by those who remain faithful to its sound and spirit. In support of the release, HYENA and RISINGFALL will join forces for a co-headlining triple strike of shows in Tokyo in June.

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

Out 19th June



DVP 390 Witching Hour –  Past Midnight... LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of WITCHING HOUR'S sophomore album, Past Midnight..., on vinyl LP and CD formats. Under license from Evil Spell Records.

Originally released in 2011, as well as on tape through Dying Victims in 2012, this album introduced the evolvement of the band's sound from rough and straight forward black thrash to a more varied, multilayered approach to the genre. The fast and evil aspects are still present, yet the band managed to weave in the early version of their yearning, melancholic and ancient heavy metal atmosphere. Ancient heavy metal black thrash!

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

Out 19th June



DVP 391 Baphomet's Blood – Second Strike LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of BAPTHOMET'S BLOOD's sophomore album, Second Strike, on vinyl LP and – for the first time – CD formats.

Originally released in 2008, the Italians definitely continued in the same vein: rough speeding heavy metal hailing the old goods of NWOBHM and 80s speed metal. Beer drinkers and hell raisers though and through, this one is for the backwards leaning blue-collar metal maniacs.8 tracks + a cover of German heavy metal cult act Tyrant finished of this Second Strike.

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

Out 19th June

[DVP 367 ZERRE – Rotting on a Golden Throne LP/CDDVP 368 ZERRE – Scorched Souls CD]

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



DVP 367 ZERRE – Rotting on a Golden Throne LP/CD
DVP 368 ZERRE – Scorched Souls CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ZERRE's highly anticipated second album, Rotting on a Golden Throne, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

From the cellars of Würzburg, Germany, ZERRE have been keeping the torch of old-school thrash metal burning while carving their own vicious path. Their sound draws on the razor-sharp aggression of classic Metallica and Exodus and the stomping groove of early Faith No More: no frills, no mercy. Their third full-length, 2024's Scorched Souls, tore through the scene and earned critical acclaim for its searing riffs and unflinching energy.

Now, ZERRE take a decisive step forward with Rotting on a Golden Throne. Darker, more overtly political, and more aggressive than its predecessor, this fourth full-length dives headfirst into the rot of power, corruption, and human decay – a brutal soundtrack for a world teetering on the edge. Onstage, ZERRE embody the chaos of their music: riff-driven assaults, breakneck tempos, and a raw intensity that leaves no room to breathe. On record, while those influences still remain, but the DNA has been splintered into something more unique and definitely more powerful: thrashing, yes, but within a crossover framework that feels titanic. The production is razor-sharp, but with ominous atmosphere to spare; the execution is even sharper, as the drumming especially pulses like a dread locomotive; and vocals spit forth venom, raging against a machine fatted by suffering.

 As the throne collapses, ZERRE deliver the anthem of its fall. Keep on Rotting on a Golden Throne!

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



DVP 369 AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR – Come Creeping Fiends LP/CD
DVP 129 AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR - Havoc at the Midnight Hour LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR's highly anticipated second album, Come Creeping Fiends, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Released in 2019 via DYING VICTIMS, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR's Havoc at the Midnight Hour debut album introduced this British power-trio with no small amount of sleazy, Satanic fanfare. While their background may jointly lie in black metal, the three un-gentlemen of AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR held high heavy metal done the ancient way: classic Tank, early Raven, Warfare, and of course the almighty Venom as well as modern torchbearers like Midnight, Whipstriker, and Power From Hell. Unsurprisingly, the album garnered international acclaim.

Eclipsing that feat is the band's second album, Come Creeping Fiends. Truly titled once again, Come Creeping Fiends comprises nine tracks of heavy metal for the insane, forged in the Manchester morgue. Raging like a ravenous beast, summoning ancient ones, and agonizing with morbid doom, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR cover a lot of ground here, but like the rotting undead that inspired it, this second album somehow holds together. The same black magic that made Havoc at the Midnight Hour a highlight six(-six-six) years ago is here again, only this time with a higher kill count and hit rate. Cleaner and crisper in execution but somehow darker and dirtier in its content, Come Creeping Fiends offers highlights at every crooked turn; tunes like "Strange Companion," "Fiend in You," and lead track "Dead Undead" will have all the witches dancing. Needless to say, fans of maniacal, EVIL heavy metal music and horror movies will find a lot to love.

The wait for AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR's second album might have been long, but Come Creeping Fiends will prove to be worth it...find the "Fiend in You"!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Colored edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on pink & violet/purple cloudy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 370 MIDRYASI'S KULT – Italian Dark Sound LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MIDYRASI'S KULT's highly anticipated debut album, Italian Dark Sound, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

MIDRYASI'S KULT are revolutionary and uncompromised. Featuring veterans from such Italian doom stalwarts as Doomsword, Midryasi, Agarthi, and Fiurach, their unique blend of elements from the NWOBHM, doom metal, and early black metal – all fused in their distinctive national dark-sound tradition, which includes such cult legends as Black Hole and Death SS – results in an obscure, hypnotic, and exciting formula.
In March 2025, after just one week on Bandcamp, MIDYRASI'S KULT were intercepted by Caligari Records, who released on cassette their debut demo, Mountain Devil. Featuring three songs in a concise 15 minutes, this demo reaped international acclaim for its originality and attitude.

But that was but a foretaste of darker delights to come. Witness the first full-length of MIDRYASI'S KULT, Italian Dark Sound. Truly titled, Italian Dark Sound is an intoxicating spelunk into catacombs both idiosyncratic and indefinable. Totaling 32 time-/mind-expanding minutes, the eight primary tracks here – the outro is titled "The Lost Son of Sylvester Anfang," which should offer an obvious clue to the black-metal-minded out there – each offer something different from the next, and yet all add up into a shadowy experience that's both rocking and atmospheric. In fact, if one were to single out an aspect between the demo and album, it's that MIDYRASI'S KULT exude more energy on this full-length without sacrificing any of their occult aura. But, just like that demo, Italian Dark Sound features supremely pro production – gritty, earthy, and yet kaleidoscopic in texture – under the guidance of Gabry "The Way" Strada, head of RDF Studio and who's now collaborating on the upcoming Doomsword new album. In the vein of an open artistic project, all the artwork is made by vocalist / bassist Geilt himself, and up to 11 musicians have been involved in these recordings.

Love Pentagram, Danzig, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, AND Jacula? Then you absolutely must hear MIDYRASI'S KULT's Italian Dark Sound ASAP!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on dark purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on yellow/orange spinner vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 371 WITCHING HOUR – Rise of the Desecrated LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of WITCHING HOUR'S debut album, Rise of the Desecrated, on vinyl LP format. This marks the beginning of vinyl reissues of all of the band's albums, under license from Evil Spell Records.

Originally released in 2009, as well as on tape through Dying Victims in 2011, this album has not lost any of its juvenile enthusiasm for raw and evil thrash metal. While the band developed a more complex style of blackened heavy thrash throughout the years, this debut album is pure and straightforward black thrashing madness. Clocking in at just over half an hour, the album perfectly represents the Teutonic (black) thrash revival of the mid-2000s.

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

[DVP 377 SANDSTORM – Dungeon of Death MLP/MCD]

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DVP 377 SANDSTORM – Dungeon of Death MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new mini-album from Canada/Sweden's SANDSTORM, Dungeon of Death, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Imagine three black-clad warriors galloping across the battlefield at full speed towards you, with weapons held high and the clash of thunder overhead... but instead of a swift, merciless death, what assaults you is the charming heavy metal of SANDSTORM!

SANDSTORM was formed in 2017 by Swedish brothers Stevie Whiteless and Reptile Anderson, and joined by Canadian drummer PJ "The Butcher" LaGriffe. Inspired by underground Swedish metal, the NWOBHM, shining studs and black leather, SANDSTORM are the perfect embodiment of what real HEAVY METAL is all about.
Ever since the twin releases of Time to Strike (2019) and Desert Warrior (2021), both released to international acclaim by DYING VICTIMS, true metallers have been craving a new SANDSTORM record – and it seems that those prayers are about to be answered with yet another mini-album, Dungeon of Death!

The format is truly suiting to the power-trio, as their punchiness is amplified further, giving an immediacy to their largely patient march & gallop. Compared to its predecessors, Dungeon of Death sees SANDSTORM bringing out the rock 'n' roll roots of ancient heavy metal even more than before. And when paired with the cleaner production style – warm, vintage, and very nearly time-traveled from 1982 – a certain mystical atmosphere arises from that dungeon...and with it, medieval metal might! SANDSTORM bring you back to life – tonight!

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 379 Witching Hour – Descending ... Where Time Has Ceased To Exist LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated fourth album of Germany's WITCHING HOUR, Descending... Where Time Has Ceased to Exist, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It's been a long, strange trip for WITCHING HOUR. Formed in 2006 in the southwest of Germany, the band's earliest work tended toward paradigmatic blackthrash, particularly the Teutonic iteration of it. And while releases have been patiently sparse during that time, they've been of uniformly high quality, all leading up to 2018's pivotal third album, ...And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon. Here, WITCHING HOUR staked their claim as some of thrash metal's strongest songwriters with a narrative flow that was almost dream-like and a sound quite elevated from their humble beginnings. A career highpoint, to be sure, but silence then ensued...

So it goes with WITCHING HOUR, patience is rewarded with their long-awaited fourth album, Descending... Where Time Has Ceased to Exist. Much like its towering predecessor, Descending... comprises five epic tracks (plus instrumental intro) and, this time, exceeds the length by two minutes for a total of 44: a journey indeed awaits. In fact, the band recorded, mixed, and mastered the album at Journey into Eternity Studios, which is owned by drummer Sascha Bastian.

Ancient metal mysticism is the atmosphere that cloaks WITCHING HOUR's fourth album like ethereal chainmail. The grit of its predecessor has been slightly shined to a rustic gleam, of sorts, as the songwriting suitably grows more diversified and complex – and, even more uniquely, possessing a paradox of density and spaciousness. As each composition winds and wends on paths that are alternately mysterious, gloomy, and triumphant, the power-trio gallop with a confidence that's compelling to the extreme; the narrative flow is more fluid than ever, drawing the listener deeper into the all-encompassing experience. That their riffing has grown even more (gloomily) melodic and the leads burn brighter than before simply underlines the band's traditional metal foundations, particularly that of the NWOBHM.

To summarize and say that Descending... Where Time Has Ceased to Exist marries prog-rock structures to ancient heavy metal riffing & melody and draped in the atmosphere of pioneering German thrash and earliest black metal only explains half the brilliance of WITCHING HOUR at this juncture – but it'll perhaps encourage you to begin that journey!

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 380 Night Spectre – s/t LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present NIGHT SPECTRE's striking debut album, Night Spectre, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

NIGHT SPECTRE was forged in 2024, when a group of stubborn metalheads united with one goal: to unleash pure old-school heavy metal, burning with passion and true devotion. From the very beginning, the band's vision was clear – to compose, rehearse, and record the strongest debut possible before stepping into the world. After relentless dedication and countless hours of hard work, NIGHT SPECTRE's self-titled debut album is finally ready to be revealed.

Comprising eight tracks in 45 minutes, Night Spectre roars across the full spectrum of heavy metal, with straightforward songwriting channeling the essential roots of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and the NWOBHM scene through the U.S. steel of bands like Riot and Jag Panzer to the epic grandeur of Manowar, Bathory, and Manilla Road. At times, NIGHT SPECTRE's attack – be it march, gallop, stomp, or surge – sounds like all those bands at once and then like nothing else entirely; to be sure, there's some strange magick brewing in their cauldron. Which underlines how important that songwriting is, that what you bring to a tradition and then build upon is what actually makes such tradition so vital – and in this sense, NIGHT SPECTRE exude a wisdom far beyond their still-young years as a band. Lyrically, the album delves into themes of occult fantasies, historical heroes dying fighting, horror movies, and defiance of societal norms, all with an overarching atmosphere of classic swords & sorcery.

Completed by powerful production – gleaming and clear but not without blood or grit, highlighting the heroism and bravado so central to their sound – NIGHT SPECTRE's self-titled debut is a bold first statement: delivered with reverence, under the band's vision of raw, rebellious, and untamed HEAVY METAL.

– 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 22nd May


DVP 381 Deathstorm – Cascophonies LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated fifth album of Austria's DEATHSTORM, Cascophonies, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

A veritable institution by now, DEATHSTORM have been flying the flag of hate since 2010, releasing albums on such well-regarded labels as I Hate and High Roller as well as delivering The Gallows EP to DYING VICTIMS in 2015and later on, 2020s' For Dread Shall Reign. With but the Swarming demo quietly released in 2022, the question still remains: does the DEATHSTORM still rage? You better fucking believe it!

Witness Cascophonies, DEATHSTORM's long-awaited fifth album. Wasting no time whatsoever, the Austrians kick in and lay waste to all that lay before them. As always, the spectre of classic Kreator looms large over DEATHSTORM still – and why should it not, when you're STILL doing deathtrash this devastating? – but with Cascophonies, the band bring forth a whole host of new ideas as twisted as the album's title suggests. While there's (many) moments that are DEATHSTORM at their fiercest and fastest yet, Cascophonies contorts through myriad corridors, all of them dizzying, but always with a clear trajectory. Hooks and heavy metal leads crop up amongst the hammering riffs, riffs, RIFFS! Tempos speed up and slow down, or slow down and speed up – or, quite often, speed up to hyperspeed! Moshes and marches are also among DEATHSTORM's arsenal here, along with a deadly production that's organically clear yet cutting like the sharpest razor. And at 29 lean 'n' mean minutes, the record makes you beg for more!

Ever wanna hear late '80s Slayer and Dark Angel filtered through a Teutonic thrash lens? DEATHSTORM bring it to you with Cascophonies!

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 382 Fable – Long Hath The Night Dwelt MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the striking debut EP of Spain's FABLE, Long Hath the Night Dwelt, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

FABLE started as a solo-project by Jose Soler (Phantom Spell, Chantrice) influenced by '70s and '80s hard rock and heavy metal – a list as varied and idiosyncratic as Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Pagan Altar, Ashbury, and Hällas – along with hints of old US metal. Duly girded, the band bring forth their public debut, Long Hath the Night Dwelt.

An actually-narrated prelude sets the stage for a cautionary tale about class struggle and revolution, FABLE indeed using fables and stories as a medium to tell an expansive story of the woodsfolk dominated under the iron claw of "The Owl." Despite that, the band's debut EP is exceptionally compact at five tracks in 22 minutes, moving with a simmering patience that's heavy on mood and dynamic in its restraint. Never overdriven nor busy, warm and intimate but with a psychic distance that seems impossibly ancient, FABLE very much evoke the perhaps-centuries-old folklore that seems so central to their rustic rock; the wise-sage vocals almost seem an afterthought when the narrative flow of the music starts winding and wending like smoke from a tavern fireplace, so illustrative is its hushed power. However, each element here is equally important, and all work together to form a totality that's unfussy but hewn with class and care.

And this is just the start of this FABLE: discover for yourself how Long Hath the Night Dwelt!

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 383 SHEWOLFF – WE'RE ALL GONNA FUKKIN' DIE MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS in conspiracy with DE PANKRAKER RECORDS is proud to present SHEWOLFF's highly anticipated debut mini-album, We're All Gonna Fukking Die, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Hailing from Belgium, SHEWOLFF emerged from the underground as a solo-project of K. Von Shewolff, which eventually formed into the solid three-piece band it is today. They find their origins in raw, punk-driven blackness galore, faithfully returning to the old-school spirit of making music by modest and primitive means. A five-song digital-only demo was released in 2023 – songs which contain absolute fury towards the known and long-overdue established order, existential live-or-die sentiment, and a small tribute paid to the old-school believers who came before them.

Now, SHEWOLFF blend all that together on the debut mini-album We're All Gonna Fukking Die. With six new tracks pushing towards a final and inevitable end, this bleakly titled record is actually invigorating and inspiring: railing against the dying of the light with a paradoxically dark metalpunk sound, familiar in its stomping swagger but exuding cantankerous charisma that's all their own. The aesthetic signposts are planted firmly in the ground – think Hellhammer, pre-Viking Bathory, Darkthrone's record-nerd era, early Midnight, the almighty Venom, or even labelmates like KARLOFF, HELLCRASH, and Germany's LUCIFUGE – but SHEWOLFF manage to stir some diabolical little twists into the bubbling brew, with K. Von Shewolff's vocals in particular imparting a femininity that's fierce, frightening, and fucking going for the throat. In fact, "going for the throat" is the best way to describe We're All Gonna Gie, so embrace it, ye fukks!

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 384 Baphomet's Blood – Satanic Metal Attack LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the much-needed reissue of BAPTHOMET'S BLOOD's debut album, Satanic Metal Attack, on vinyl LP and – for the first time – CD formats. This marks the beginning of reissues of all of the band's four albums.

Originally released in 2006, the Italian act went all in with their pure and authentic love for the old metal scene of the 80s. The aim was never to reinvent the wheel and bring new influences into classic speed metal. These maniacs represented a new generation which wanted to continue and blast out heavy metal in the old way, with the same spirit. 7 tracks + a cover of Italian legends Fingernails take this debut album just over the half an hour finish line.

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

Out 22nd May



DVP 385 HENKER – s/t MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to announce the release of HENKER's self-titled debut album on music cassette format.

This obscure 4-piece act from East-Germany delivers a gritty monument to pure, unpolished 80s heavy metal tradition. Appearing onto the scene out of nowhere, HENKER delivers 8 classic heavy metal tunes recorded in their rehearsal room surrounded by stacks of empty beer cases, overflowing ashtrays & obscured by greasy & dark factory smoke.

– MC comes with sticker, button, download code

Out 22nd May

[DVP 362 PAGAN ALTAR – Mythical & Magical DLP/CD]

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DVP 362 PAGAN ALTAR – Mythical & Magical DLP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated reissue of PAGAN ALTAR's Mythical & Magical album on CD and double vinyl LP formats. Side 4 contains a beautiful etching.

Featuring songs mostly written between 1977 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar's third release. This grandiose, ancient-sounding album is a mixture of heavy Doom Rock and mournful English folk—and is without a doubt the pinnacle of their career. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar's back catalogue available again.

– Regular 3 sided + etching double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Colored 3 sided + etching double LP edition on beige vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special 3 sided + etching double LP edition on ultra-clear, brown marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch. – Slightly delayed until mid march
–CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 363 HARROWED – The Eternal Hunger LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HARROWED's highly anticipated debut album, The Eternal Hunger, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

HARROWED are a maggot-ridden death metal band from the Stockholm sewers. Rising from the hallowed ashes of Swedish death metal outliers Morbus Chron, the band comes as the creation of vocalist / drummer Adam Lindmark, who has teamed up with guitarist Tobias Alpadie (VAK, ghost department of Tribulation). A demo and subsequent split arrived in 2021 and '22, respectively, setting forth HARROWED's harrowing foundation: classic Autopsy, Entombed, Obituary, and Death Strike "funneled through a garbage disposal," accurately stated Adolf Vondkra of Tones of Decay festival.

The time has now come for HARROWED to make their full-length debut with The Eternal Hunger. Sharper but not without their signature stench, The Eternal Hunger sees the duo offering a more nuanced listening experience – but don't think for a second they've gone soft! Surely, HARROWED have gestated into a twisted mass of putrid filth, incorporating elements of old-school American and Scandinavian death metal, a lethal dose of punk riffage, and mind-bending weirdness (and even some shattered shards of skewed melody, if we're counting). The songwriting on The Eternal Hunger thusly exhibits more variety both in the micro and macro, with each of these eight tracks possessing the potential to rupture ear drums, crack skulls, and have you plunge head-first while maniacally screaming into the darkened abyss of crushing riffs, doomsday drumming, and nightmarish horrors.... The production on the album is stellar, as HARROWED teamed up with Robert Pehrsson (Death Breath, ex-Runemagick) in his Studio Humbucker during the summer of 2025 and created an authentically physical sound that's clear and concise whilst keeping a vintage raw edge. As such, The Eternal Hunger stays true to the original spirit of death metal without being yet another washed-out-copy of the HM2-sound. The album also features musical guest appearances from Nicke Andersson (Entombed, Death Breath) and Scott Carlson (Repulsion, Death Breath), among others, so you can bet this stuff is the real deal.

With the addition of a live lineup consisting of fellow creeps Dag Landin (ex-Morbus Chron, Tøronto) on bass and Estefan Carrillo (Hazemaze, Morbid Breath) on guitar, the HARROWED lineup is fully armed and diseased — ready to drag their decomposing death metal across stages and into your nightmares. Are you ready to submit to The Eternal Hunger?

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



DVP 364 BURNING PATH – s/t LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present BURNING PATH's highly debut album, Burning Path, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Born from tragedy, BURNING PATH is the continuation of Chile's beloved heavy metal heroes LUCIFER'S HAMMER. In late December 2024, founding member Andre Adasme, AKA Hades, was murdered by a stranger. His brother Rodrigo, AKA Titan, had a difficult task ahead of him. But eventually, Titan decided to keep Andre's legacy alive along with longtime guitarist Hypnos, and BURNING PATH was (re)born. Titan decided to retire the LUCIFER'S HAMMER moniker "because there is no other who can replace my brother's leading role and character, who will forever be the signature of LUCIFER'S HAMMER music."

However, those whose hearts keep it true will be thrilled to hear the direction of BURNING PATH – "the same traditional heavy metal essence that has been our call for the last 13 years playing with LUCIFER'S HAMMER," Titan humbly states. Witness the band's "debut" full-length, Burning Path. With absolutely accurate artwork gloriously adoring its cover, BURNING PATH's self-titled debut picks right up where 2024's Be and Exist left off: like an iron fist lined with velvet, a deceptively silky surge that drives deepest into the heart of mid '80s metal. With Titan taking up the vocal duties as well as drums and guitar – and Hypnos, in kind, handling guitar, bass, and keyboards – the duo create a pistons-pumping juggernaut of melodic-yet-moody METAL, conveying electricity and energy no matter the tempo. In fact, much of Burning Path hovers near a strutting mid-tempo, and is all the better for it: BURNING PATH are equally powerful when illustrating heroism or heartache. As such, Be and Exist's trace elements of prime Dokken, Heavy Pettin', Diamond Head, Europe, Witch Cross, Virgin Steele, and even '80s KISS at their most metal are resurgent here, once again rearranged and reformed into anthems entirely their own.

Hades may be much missed, but he'd be honored by the BURNING PATH his former bandmates are on!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on orange triple spinner vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 365 CHALICE – Divine Spear LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland's CHALICE, Divine Spear, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2016, the Helsinki-based CHALICE have quickly become a beacon of esoteric heavy metal. Featuring current or former members of such bands as Ranger, Satan's Fall, and Vincent Revenge, CHALICE released an opening demo and then subsequent EP in 2017 and '19, respectively, before their decisive debut album, Trembling Crown, in 2020. Reaping widespread acclaim, CHALICE's first full-length weaved high drama and dynamic metal into a tapestry of wonder and weightiness.

Now, CHALICE return with a record that eclipses that feat: Divine Spear. Presciently titled, Divine Spear is a carefully crafted, razor-sharp package that nevertheless reveals a bounty of sonic and psychic treasures. Forged in the freezing winds of the Finnish winter, here do CHALICE further refine their deceptively elegant sound, combining the pure spirit of classic European metal in a unique blend with cinematic progressive influences and the dark aura of their northernmost melancholy. Sometimes slow-burning in its doling out of details but duly benefiting patient listeners, Divine Spear paints a picturesque landscape of both light and dark, offering deliverance to those seeking beyond the boundaries of the so-called "new wave of traditional metal" movement. Of especial note are the poignant shifts into cleaner, quieter territory, truly heightening the drama that so earmarked their debut album; CHALICE are nothing if not master craftsmen in this regard, utilizing their prodigious chops in the service of literally awe-inspiring songwriting and beckoning listeners to lose themselves in their narrative flow.

Completed by wholly suiting production – clean and crisp, and yet somehow warm and natural – Divine Spear dives into deeper depths than what meets the eye...raise this CHALICE!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on neon violet vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on blue/white/grey marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 366 VENTHIAX – Rites of Ra MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present VENTHIAX's highly anticipated debut mini-album, Rites of Ra, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

Hailing from Sweden, VENTHIAX are a speed / thrash metal band that was formed in March 2021 with the goal of becoming the loudest and most ruthless metal band in the region of Huskvarna / Jönköping. The band consists of bass-player Wendy Juneström, who also creates and distributes the old-school thrash metal fanzine Black Pages since 2019; guitarist Viggo Heinonen, who also played in the black metal band Pyrrha; and drummer Emil Borg, who is recognized as the roaring percussionist, embracing the true old-school spirit when whipping the toms. Thus armed, VENTHIAX let free a flurry of releases, including a first demo, EP, and not one, but two live albums.

Keeping that iron burning hot, VENTHIAX strike with their meanest and most assured recording yet: the mini-album Rites of Ra. While those prior short-lengths indeed laid their noble foundation – old Slayer, Sodom, Nifelheim, Celtic Frost, Death, Agent Steel, Törr, and Blessed Death – on Rites of Ra is where VENTHIAX blaze beyond the gates with maximum efficiency...and maximum overdrive! Said influences might mostly reside in the '80s, and there's certainly no disputing the power-trio's authenticity, but VENTHIAX exude the sort of charisma and songwriting acumen that elevates Rites of Ra above another retro-retread exercise. Dungeonic in its atmosphere but fighting tooth & nail to emerge from those dungeons with righteous plunder aplenty, this six-song / 21-minute record rips forth with a memorability that commands repeat plays – and repeat possession. Not for nothing is one of the mini's most emblematic songs titled "Speed Metal Mayhem"!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on transparent orange black splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

[DVP 373 TOXIKULL – Turbulence LP/CD]

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DVP 373 TOXIKULL – Turbulence LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TOXIKULL's highly anticipated fourth album, Turbulence, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2016, Portugal's TOXIKULL have established themselves as one of the most unrelenting forces in the European heavy metal scene. Known for a high-energy blend of traditional heavy metal and speed metal, the band is rooted in the classic '80s spirit but delivers it with an aggressive, contemporary edge.

After building a strong reputation through explosive live shows and uncompromising attitude, TOXIKULL solidified their status with the release of 2019's Cursed and Punished  and 2024's critically acclaimed Under the Southern Light. Their momentum continued to build with the 2025 release of the live album Echoes of the Arena, a testament to their live power that crashed into the Portuguese Top 100 music charts.

Now arrives TOXIKULL's hotly anticipated fourth full-length, Turbulence, the band's highly anticipated third full-length album. Turbulence represents a maturity in the quartet's songwriting, blending the raw aggression of speed metal with the melodic grandeur of classic heavy metal. An album forged in fire and resistance, exploring themes of inner struggle and the unconquerable spirit of the metal warrior, the 10-song / 39-minute record bursts at the seams with electricity and excitement, continuing the arena-ready swagger of its predecessor proudly. From the high-octane opener "Midnight Fire" to the bountiful anthemic choruses, Turbulence proves that TOXIKULL arenot just paying homage to the past; they are forging the future of traditional steel – bigger, bolder, and better than before. With a production that cuts like a blade (courtesy of Jamie Gomez Arellano, who's worked with Ghost, Mayhem, Opeth, Behemoth, Angel Witch, Moonspell, and many others) and a performance tighter than ever, this album is a call to arms for maniacs worldwide.

For those who somehow slept on Under the Southern Light, TOXIKULL carry the noble torch of Judas Priest, WASP, Accept, and Manowar but with a distinctly southern European flair. "We raise our chalices to the all the Toxikheads, the believers, the dreamers, and those who keep the eternal flame of heavy metal burning," state the band, "this record is dedicated to you. It is your passion that fuels our engine and makes this journey possible. Turbulence stands as a testament to our journey, proof that every scar can be turned into art, and every struggle into power – to the lessons learned and to the people who were the catalyst for the themes of this record."

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

Out 24th April


DVP 374 LYNX – Trinity of Suns LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Germany's LYNX, Trinity of Suns, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Gießen, Germany's LYNX formed in 2020 and promptly released their first single, Grey Man, on 7" vinyl that same year. The following year, the band released their debut album, Watcher of Skies, on the well-regarded No Remorse Records. The record received due acclaim for its modern recasting of '70s hard rock in the orbit of Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, and Blue Öyster Cult.

Of especial note was the addition of Amy Zine in 2022 as vocalist and synth player, expanding LYNX to a quintet. In 2025, original vocalist & guitarist Marvin Kiefer left the band, and one Janni (Eyemaster, ex-Speedbreaker) joined as vocalist & guitarist. In November of that year, the band entered Fat & Holy Studio to record their second full-length.

Recorded live, Trinity of Suns is the "now" sound of LYNX – and one that's still authentically, powerfully old. That addition of Zine has proven fruitful, for she takes on the majority of the vocals across the album, giving the record a tender-yet-tough touch that deepens the quintet's already estimable dynamics. To that, LYNX focused on expanding their strengths – longer tracks, more varied songwriting, and nuanced arrangements – rendering Trinity of Suns a kaleidoscopic song cycle steeped in the '70s. For sure, they can still rock as hard as anyone, but with increasingly deft pacing – both in when to pull back (and push forward) as well more-emphatic folk embellishments – the moody emotion that's been simmering in the LYNX sound all along truly takes flight. The shift from Marvin to Amy, coupled with the decision to record live, gives Trinity of Suns a remarkably fresh touch.

LYNX draw from a deep well – the golden era of rock and metal to early proto-metal acts, progressive rock legends such as Genesis and Pink Floyd to early blues- and folk-infused hard rock – and what they bring up is veritable gold. Bask in the glow of Trinity of Suns!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Colored edition on opaque orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on light-blue & yellow galaxy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 24th April


DVP 375 WHIRLWIND – 1640 LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present WHIRLWIND's highly anticipated second album, 1640, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

WHIRLWIND was originally conceived as a studio-project by Mark Wild, from Körgull The Exterminator among other extreme metal bands, to satisfy his will to make a classic heavy metal album, a style that changed his life during his childhood – influenced mostly by '80s German metal bands like early Running Wild, early Helloween, Accept, Heaven's Gate, Gravestone, Tyrant, Grave Digger, Steeler, and Stormwitch among others, but also all kinds of classic heavy metal like Mercyful Fate, Manowar, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.

In 2022, WHIRLWIND released their debut album, 1714, marking the band's beginning. WHIRLWIND also established a live lineup to bring their songs to life onstage, with musicians from other known bands, like Redshark, joining as permanent members of the band. The album immediately generated a big buzz in the underground scene and led them to perform at some of the best-known festivals in Spain like Pounding Metal Fest and Skulls of Metal, alongside such bands as Visigoth, Attic, Omen, Tentation, Mindless Sinner, Witchtower, IRON CURTAIN, and Phantom Spell.

Now arrives WHIRLWIND's second album, 1640. Like its predecessor, the album is focused on historical and epic episodes of their homeland; specifically, this album revolves around the Thirty Years War that took place around Europe and the inner conflicts within Spain. Musically, WHIRLWIND deliver a masterclass in cruising, classy Teutonic metal, running from more traditional-minded mid-tempo stompers to surging, up-tempo gallops of glory. Riff and lead form a lethal tandem, balancing both energy and color, while the rhythm section stays locked in no matter the dynamic. The production, too, of 1640 honors the mid '80s with authenticity – underground in spirit, Big League in execution. All told, the album is true heavy metal for true heavy metal people: no more, but definitely no less. By the blood in their veins, WHIRLWIND are marching to victory, ready to explode!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on opaque red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on transparent red/grey cloudy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 24th April


DVP 376 DEMON SPELL – Blessed be the Dark LP/CD
DVP 302 DEMON SPELL – Evil Nights MLP repress

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present DEMON SPELL's highly anticipated debut album, Blessed Be the Dark, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

After the cursed EP Evil Nights in 2024, the coven of DEMON SPELL returns, unleashing a vision of dark, occult heavy metal born from dust, bone, and shadow. Appropriately titled Blessed Be the Dark, the Italians' debut album is a descent into ritual fire and ancient doom, where the echoes of the grave sing once more. This is music for disciples of the timeless art of darkness.

With Blessed Be the Dark, DEMON SPELL deepen their devotion to a shadowed form of heavy metal rooted in the classic tradition yet veiled in occult and arcane tones, all performance with a provocative theatrical presence. Wholly untouched by modernity, their sound draws from the primordial essence of early heavy metal; one can imagine the cutoff year at 1985, or perhaps earlier. The record presents a more mature and refined vision of the band's sound as first displayed on the quick-hitting Evil Nights, here exploring darker, more occult atmospheres while also offering raw, energetic passages that bring moments of levity and drive.

Listening to DEMON SPELL in full-length form feels like entering an endless Sabbath, where past and present dissolve and the flame never dies. Blessed Be the Dark stands as a testament to heavy metal as ceremony—timeless, solemn, and possessed by the Spirit of the Night.

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Color edition on opaque bone vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on grey/blue marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.

Out 24th April


DVP 378 PRAEFATOR – The First Call of Magick MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to release PRAEFATOR's first ep 'The First Spell of Magick' on music cassette format.

Hailing from the Netherlands, Praefator presents 5 original tracks. Raised from their cold graves to spread their curse upon the masses, the four-piece delivers old school occult heavy metal inspired by the likes of Mercyful Fate, Venom, Blitzkrieg and Heavy Load among many other cult acts.

– MC edition with sticker, button, download code

Out 24th April

[DVP 357 Pagan Altar – Lords of Hypocrisy DLP/CD]

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



DVP 357 Pagan Altar – Lords of Hypocrisy DLP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated reissue of PAGAN ALTAR's Lord of Hypocrisy album on CD and double vinyl LP formats.

Featuring songs written between 1976 and 1983, Lords of Hypocrisy is a timeless classic of macabre Heavy/Doom Metal, centered around man's inhumanity to man and its ultimate demise. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar's back catalogue available again.

Heavy rocking DOOM metal pioneers!

– Regular double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special double LP edition on ultra clear/blue marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.



DVP 358 Barbarian – Reek of God LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated sixth album of Italy's BARBARIAN, Reek of God, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Truer than true, Italy's BARBARIAN have almost become a subgenre unto themselves during the past 16 years. Although, let there be no confusion: BARBARIAN are HEAVY METAL. A power-trio of not just metal maniacs but actual MUSIC maniacs, of all persuasions, BARBARIAN integrate all kinds of crude-yet-refined DNA into their particular palette, almost effortlessly resulting in something that's dieharder than anything around and yet elevating heavy metal to an artform worthy of the fanciest museum. Or, quite the opposite: denim and leather, spikes and chains, swords and sorcery, ugly men and beautiful women, each dawn they die... Either way, to experience BARBARIAN is to imbibe the essence of heavy metal, infused with personality and panache, killing with power and charisma. Posers don't need to leave the hall because they wouldn't be able read the map to it in the first place.

Now, following a trio of hailed albums for Hells Headbangers – Cult of the Empty Grave (2016), To No God Shall I Kneel (2019), and Viperface (2022) – BARBARIAN join forces with longtime fans DYING VICTIMS for the Italians' sixth full-length, Reek of God. Like clockwork, it's another three years between albums, and BARBARIAN deliver the goods. And yet, this is also a new chapter in their series: "retrogarde metal," chronologically after "total metal," "absolute metal," "obtuse metal," and "regressive metal." As such (and in possession of exactly 98 riffs in 35 minutes), the ten central songs comprising Reek of God are shorter and more to-the-point but basically with no classic rock structure of verse / chorus. BARBARIAN's characteristic sound – in the simplest of terms, raw speed and epic metal meets even rawer proto-extreme metal – has here been enriched with a vein close to mid '80s death metal and even metal-tinged punk, but with a flow of tempo-changes and riffs to be found only in late '80s / early '90s developments of extreme metal. BARBARIAN are nothing if not studious acolytes; they know their shit, and then make records about it.

Still, Reek of God has its own surprises. Of course, the album's lyrics strike at everything that is religious. But special mention must be made for "Shit He Forgives," which is based on the lyrics of "Reality Asylum" by anarcho-punk pioneers Crass, and "Crossburn," which is a political statement that places the band on the opposite side of the spectrum regarding the KKK connection the title might suggest. Deepening the record-nerd'dom, the album's "Warning" intro is a take on the Ice-T intro of the same name on the legendary rapper's Home Invasion album from 1993. Likewise, BARBARIAN's cover here of the Los Angeles L7's "Freak Magnet" is one featuring their typical Hellhammer-ish atonal riffs – which were atypical for L7, drawing an otherwise-overlooked throughline of aesthetic symbiosis – and inspired by the 1992 version produced by Butch Vig (on the Everglade EP) rather than the 1994 version produced by Gggaarth (on Hungry for Stink). Wait...Crass, L7, and Ice-T on a BARBARIAN album?! Believe it, comrade: this is the Reek of God!

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



DVP 359 Karloff – Revered by Death LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present KARLOFF's highly anticipated second album, Revered by Death, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Germany, KARLOFF formed in 2018 initially as a means for erstwhile Graveyard Ghoul member Tom Horrified to blow off some punk-oriented steam with a couple close comrades. While their first Demo '18 and then subsequent Raw Nights mini-album presented them as a more gutter-level Midnight, it was 2022's debut album, The Appearing, where the true form of KARLOFF took shape. Recasting the band in a totally new, altogether more unique light, The Appearing strutted forth to a rich, robust, and rippingly muscular sound not unlike ancient-days metalpunk; think Carnivore, Best Wishes-era Cro-Mags, or even early Nasty Savage, and you're in KARLOFF's wheelhouse.

Turning that wheel yet further, KARLOFF return with their second full-length, Revered by Death. For sure, Revered by Death follows logically from The Appearing. That same lead-heavy stomp is present and accounted for here, but the paces KARLOFF go through are undeniably moodier and murkier; if there wasn't a sense of stifled violence here, it would almost be accurate to call LP#2 "sludgy." No amount of energy is sacrificed, thankfully, as KARLOFF's olde-worlde evil goes in an even-darker direction while the tempos, in kind, feel slightly more reined in. Fleshing out that darkness further are chorus FX, once again tastefully applied and suggesting still a post-punk influence that could blossom in the future; just witness the deathrock-in-glue instrumental "On Weathered Altar" for poignant proof. As the present stands, Revered by Death more than lives up to its lofty title, with KARLOFF's heaviness coming not so much from the volume or distortion they employ but, rather, from the overall feel of their songwriting: punchier, but portending a deeper doom & gloom.

Ghouls and ghosts, thugs and thieves: KARLOFF are back and calling upon you to be Revered by Death!

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

Karloff – Die Wiederkehr der Dunkelei
– Longsleeve with 3 prints
– Woven Patch
– Metal Pin



DVP-R 14 Bad Lizard – Power of Destruction LP/CD

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to reissue BAD LIZARD's cult debut album, Power of Destruction, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

One of those great "one and done" curios in the classic metal canon, Belgium's BAD LIZARD began life in 1980 with a more hard rock-oriented sound on their first single (originally released in 1982) before shifting gears up to proto-power-leaning heavy metal a year later on their next 12" EP. However, it was their 1985 debut album, Power of Destruction, where BAD LIZARD laid down an etched-in-time underground classic and then promptly disappeared as their lineup fell apart and promising tours had to be cancelled. A heavy metal dream lost at the time, but its memory is now being resurrected for a new generation of true metallers hungry for the cultest '80s European sounds.

Released by a young Roadrunner Records, BAD LIZARD's Power of Destruction bore some pretty recognizable similarities to much-bigger bands – the dual-guitar interplay of Judas Priest, the harmonic gallop of Iron Maiden, the cool, dark cruise of Accept – but the way they assimilated these influences spoke volumes about the vitality of the metal underground at the time. Totaling 10 songs in 41 minutes, the album was bursting at the seams with SONGS: each one distinct from the other and imparting a particular mood or texture or tempo, and each one absolutely memorable and passionately played. For a record that wasn't quite in metal's "big leagues" at the time, the production is incredible – heavy, atmospheric, and each instrument and especially vocals sizzling with presence and vitality – and that variety of songcraft and the subsequent pacing of the tracklisting made Power of Destruction an album you want to experience beginning to end. Beyond that, BAD LIZARD's chops here were expertly utilized in service of the song, with the band's overall execution giving the album a power metal feel despite the taxonomy actually reading "juiced-up traditional metal" more often than not.

As so often happens with a young band, BAD LIZARD began splitting at the seams as touring became too stressful and a suitable replacement for vocalist Eddy Termote could not be found. Even so, the band opened up for the likes of King Diamond, Manowar, Helloween, Destruction, and Agent Steel among others, and the album's subsequent release netted many positive reviews worldwide, altogether ensuring that BAD LIZARD's legacy wasn't a total wash. And now, again on vinyl and for the first time officially on CD, this reissue of Power of Destruction will continue that legacy, receiving a robust remaster courtesy of Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony: "Far Away From Home" no longer!

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


DVP 360 Syrion – Symphony of Horror MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to release SYRION's first ep Symphonies of Horror on music cassette format. Additionally, the Keeper of Souls demo is included as well.

Syrion is a Belgian heavy metal band which formed in late 2023 with the aim to pay tribute to the glorious NWOBHM period as well as classic speed metal acts. Across the 5 tunes (which stem from of 2 different recording sessions) this young group of maniacs delivers very promising, rough'n'ready old school compositions.

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.



DVP 361 Savage Sword – Demo 2026 MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to release SAVAGE SWORD's first demo "Demo 2026" on music cassette formas.

This Swedish four-piece formed in late 2022 and after some line-up changes is now ready to present its first sign of life. Embedded in the fantastical themes of Conan the barbarian and beyond, the band recorded four heavy metal tunes which intertwine traditional metal with captivating melodies, up-tempo outbursts and a general nod in the direction of Mercyful Fate, Running Wild, Omen among many more.

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.