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[Dying Victims Productions]

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

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

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

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

[Dying Victims Productions]

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

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



DVP 179 Lucifuge – Infernal Power CD

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

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

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

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

– CD edition with sticker.

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




DVP 180 Insane – Victims LP/CD

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

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

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

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

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

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

– CD edition with sticker.



DVP 181 Bunker 66 – Beyond the Help of Prayers CD

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

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

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

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

– CD edition with sticker.

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




DVP-R 003 MP – Get it Now LP/CD

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

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

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

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

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

– CD edition with sticker.



Significant Point – Into the Storm T-Shirt

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

Two sided print on Gildan Heavy cotton shirts.

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





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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Out 30th July



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

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

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

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

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

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

– MCD edition with sticker.

Out 30th July



DVP-R 005 Breathless – Breathless LP/CD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– CD edition with sticker.

Out 30th July





DVP 189 Vulture – Dealin' Death MC

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

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

– MC edition with sticker and button.

Out 28th May.



DVP 190 Reaver – Butchery from Beyond! MC

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

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

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 28th May.

[Dying Victims Productions]

Dying Victims Productions is proud to announce the release of a massive amount of KILLER Metal:




DVP 171 Heavy Sentence – Bang to Rights CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS and Crypt of the Wizard are proud to present HEAVY SENTENCE's highly anticipated debut album, Bang to Rights, on CD and music cassette (DVP) as well as vinyl LP (CotW) formats.

One of the hottest propositions in the UK's resurgent traditional metal scene, HEAVY SENTENCE have kept the emphasis on quality over quantity since their formation in the mid-2010s. Just like the early days of the NWOBHM, HEAVY SENTENCE made their recorded debut with a two-song 7" in 2017, followed a year later by another two-song 7". Both graced with stark, gritty, but endearingly basement-level cover art, these two singles evinced an ageless verve and vivacity in stark contrast with the band's meager years. And yet, HEAVY SENTENCE include among their ranks scene veterans who do or have done time in labelmates AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR, Wode, Exxxekutioner, Sump, and Wóddréa Mylenstede among others, so perhaps that inherent wisdom should be no surprise.... Either way, with just four songs to their name and a clutch of raucous live gigs, anticipation has been feverish for a full-length.

At last, it arrives bearing the call-to-arms title Bang to Rights. Tight and taut at 10 songs in 37 minutes, HEAVY SENTENCE's debut album is a well-oiled machine of absolute ANTHEMS destined for classic status. No more but certainly no less, Bang to Rights is everything HEAVY SENTENCE have been since the very beginning: deceptively energetic mid-tempo HEAVY METAL roughened up by the spectre of punk, much like (again) those early days of the NWOBHM. Of course, the band are apt to kick into a gallop from time to time, but the emphasis is always on go-for-the-throat songwriting that only street-walking cheetahs with hearts full of napalm can produce. Of course, Motörhead's glorious works of the 1980s loom large here – from Iron Fist to Rock 'n' Roll, and even Another Perfect Day – but it's HEAVY SENTENCE's attitude and charisma which triumph over all. Equally back-alley belligerent and high-adventure fantastical, Bang to Rights is informed by early '80s Thin Lizzy as equally as prime Saxon, with HEAVY SENTENCE here continuing the lineal dots connecting Heavy Load, Omen, Lord Weird Slough Feg, and October 31 onward to the metalpunk revolution fostered by Midnight. In short, timeless and eternal and fucking unyielding.

A HEAVY SENTENCE is coming your way...'Cos you are BANG TO RIGHTS!

– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

* LP edition is delayed until August



DVP 181 Bunker 66 – Beyond the Help of Prayers LP

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

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

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

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

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





DVP 183 Eisenhand – Fires Within LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present EISENHAND's striking debut album, Fires Within, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

EISENHAND are a relatively new entity hailing from Austria. The band made their recorded debut in 2018 with the accurately titled Demonstration Tape and followed it with another demo, White Fortress, the following year. During that time, EISENHAND took to the stage, reveling in the raucous experience of live performance, and their two recordings to date ably captured that spirit. And while a couple of members have done time in more overtly black metal-styled bands, EISENHAND's sound stridently recalls the pre-thrash days of heavy metal: whether the style was early power metal or belatedly-applied epic metal or simply speed metal straight from the garage, subgenre delineations matter not when faced with such stout-hearted bravado and blanching passion.

Thankfully, all that rough-hewn promise and poise spill forth across EISENHAND's full-length debut, Fires Within. Indeed aptly titled, Fires Within absolutely brims with a fiery authenticity that's simultaneously ancient and fresh-sounding. Moody in their melodicism, bristling with electricity at every turn, and incredibly dynamic even with their bursting-at-the-seams execution, EISENHAND weave majestic tales of the supernatural and strange that get stuck in your head even when song lengths easily slot into the five-to-nine-minute range. But the seven-track/45-minute Fires Within is simply the format it needs to be, no more and definitely no less: "Steel City Sorcery," "Dizzying Heights" and the reprised "White Fortress" and "Ancient Symbols" are but some of those tales, each as crucial as the one before and the one to come... All is EPIC here, without being overstated about it – myth and magic and also modesty.

Names invoked include Gotham City, Bashful Alley, earliest Omen, Brocas Helm, Kat, Turbo, Magnesium, or early Slayer, as well labelmates like MEGATON SWORD, SANDSTORM, COLTRE, SOULCASTER and MIDNIGHT PREY, but on evidence of these Fires Within, EISENHAND are already on their way to lighting a new torch! Are you prepared to get burned?

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

– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.



DVP 184 Parish – God's Right Hand MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the striking debut EP of England's PARISH, God's Right Hand, on CD format.

PARISH are a proto-metal power-trio hailing from London.Despite forming just a few years ago, their sound is as ancient as it comes – as in deep, WAY DEEP, into the '70s. Their two-song Famine, War demo in early 2019 was but a foretaste of the archaic splendor to come. At twice as many songs, four-pronged just like its simple-yet-elegant cover art, God's Right Hand is PARISH hitting a peak enviously early in their career.

To say that the PARISH of God's Right Hand is indebted to earliest Black Sabbath is both accurate and misleading. While just about any doom-oriented band could be likened to the almighty Sabs, PARISH's resemblance is a literally spiritual one: their measured 'n' melancholic take on heavy ROCK bears an aeons-old fear of God and a pensive, even-pastoral expression of it – cranked to 11. Just witness the stomping opener "Apothecary" and the way PARISH wind the listener from the grimy backstreets all the way out to the barren countryside with mystical closer "By a Bandit's Knife." In between, the Sabbathian push 'n' pound opens up to include shades of Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar, and even Trouble. But the richly analog recording of God's Right Hand absolutely bleeds ancient-days authenticity, and wholly whisks the listener away from any sense of modernity...

The church bells toll and the mass is to begin...head to PARISH and witness God's Right Hand!

– MCD edition with sticker.



DVP 189 Vulture – Dealin' Death MC

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

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

– MC edition with sticker and button.



DVP 190 Reaver – Butchery from Beyond! MC

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

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

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.



DVP-R 004 Xandril – The Vision of Rotting Darkness: The Demos 1983-1988 2MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS/RELICS FROM THE CRYPT are proud to present the essential compilation of Germany's XANDRIL, The Vision of Rotting Darkness, on double cassette format.

After the more than beautiful CD and Vinyl LP edition on HMH Records, DVP and Xandril decided that also the tape maniacs should be able to dig into the short, yet fruitful history of German speed metal act Xandril. This double cassette compilation contains the complete Xandril demo anthology including the classic demos 'Rotting Paradise', 'The Vision', 'Perfect Darkness', 'Rehearsal '85', Demo I 1983 and Demo II 1983 plus additional tracks from the 'Rehearsal '85' session! 26 tracks of Teutonic speed metal!!!

– Double MC Jewelcase with insert, sticker, button.

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DVP 185 Nocturnal – Serpent Death LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the long-awaited fourth album of Germany's NOCTURNAL, Serpent Death, on CD, vinyl LP and music cassette formats.

A veritable institution, NOCTURNAL have been flying the flag of hate and inciting a riot of violence since the year 2000. Helmed by founding guitarist Avenger (whose other credits are far too vast to list here), NOCTURNAL set about their prolific course with a flurry of demo tapes and splits with the likes of Nunslaughter, Vomitor, Bestial Mockery, and Toxic Holocaust among others, all culminating in their momentous Arrival of the Carnivore debut album in 2005. Back then, hailing the old Teutonic gods of thrash – namely the "Big Three" of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction, but not withstanding Deathrow, Assassin, Exumer, Darkness, Violent Force, and Necronomicon as well as Razor and early Sepultura abroad – was rather unfashionable, but it was NOCTURNAL who had the last laugh, as the second worldwide thrash resurgence was about to begin, and there they stood, undaunted and defiant.
Thereafter, NOCTURNAL continued to honor the old underground ways with another flurry splits and vinyl EPs, before second LP Violent Revenge arrived in 2009. Thus far, NOCTURNAL's albums were more finely honed and better-produced expressions of those prolific UG releases, and they kept apace with that schematic through the release of their third LP, Storming Evil, in 2014. By then, lineup troubles had begun to plague the band and slow their momentum, and thereafter was all quiet on the Western front. But at long last, the ultimate revenge arrives with Serpent Death!

As aptly titled as any NOCTURNAL full-length so far, Serpent Death slithers and strikes with a venomous menace. Arguably the band's best-produced as well as best-played record to date, Serpent Death loses not an ounce of power and poignancy; if anything, NOCTURNAL sound more energetic than ever, revitalized and ripping and defying their seemingly advanced age. Whereas the preceding Storming Evil perhaps leaned too much on the cleaner side of things, Serpent Death is robustly analog, flexing both muscle and clarity, all while remaining steadfastly analog. Further, there's more (but subtle) twists in the songwriting and dynamics, evincing an ageless metal wisdom whilst not sacrificing any urgency in the process. Avenger, as always, is an absolute riff-machine, firing off memorable lines right and left, but he's more-than-ably backed up by a blood-red-vital rhythm section in bassist Incinerator and drummer John Berry. New vocalist Invoker has a rougher and more hollering voice, perfectly suited for these classic metal-inclined tunes. So, less "sharp" pure thrash and more "warmer" traditional metal: it's a trade-off that pays in spades on Serpent Death.

Timeless, eternal, both behind the times and ahead of 'em – there's few bands with a body of work quite like NOCTURNAL. Even if it's another five-plus years between albums, Serpent Death handily satisfies with a sound that's so old, it's new!

– 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.
– Limited box set on ultra clear vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, download code, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, poster flag and metal pin. All housed in noble box limited to 100 copies.
– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 27th August



DVP 188 Hellcrash – Krvcifix Invertör LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HELLCRASH's striking debut album, Krvcifix Invertör, on vinyl LP format.

A power-trio hailing from Italy, HELLCRASH have been brewing their sick & sleazy delights in the underground for nearly a decade now. A couple demos and a split saw the dark of day during the years 2013-2015, but then silence ensued until the next strike was ready to reveal its expurse of sodomy. At long last, it arrives bearing the title Krvcifix Invertör.

HELLCRASH's long-awaited debut full-length, Krvcifix Invertör succinctly summarizes the HELLCRASH experience and then some. Crude and rude, the trio's fixations still remain firmly entrenched in very early Slayer and Venom, but deliriously dark new sensations spring forth here, giving HELLCRASH a foreign-yet-familiar aspect that works immeasurably in their favor. Heads bang, fists pound, pelvises throb, and the dirt of the earth gets bulldozed back and forth by their extremely simple yet extremely finessed compositions. Verily, Krvcifix Invertör is the metal of old: thrash when it was called "power metal," speed metal before thrash took over, metalpunk before that was even thought of or at least before domestic icons Bulldozer took a turn toward cleanliness, or just HEAVY METAL when that was everything that was loud and proud but not glitz and glam. Naturally, "evil" is everywhere, and so is EVIL, so wide-ranging is HELLCRASH's landscape between filth and fun. Whatever you want to call it, Krvcifix Invertör is timeless and untrendy and TRUE!   

– 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.

Out 27th August.



DVP 193 Stress Angel – Bursting Church CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, in conspiracy with STYGIAN BLACK HAND, is proud to present STRESS ANGEL's striking debut album, Bursting Church. DYING VICTIMS will handle the CD version while STYGIAN BLACK HAND will handle the vinyl LP version.

Out from the flaming kingdom of death arose STRESS ANGEL in 2020 with their eponymous debut demo. There, the NYC two-piece presented six songs of thrashing death metal that is classic without being retro, and uniquely dark and demented. An auspicious first start, no doubt, and almost effortlessly so. 

Now, STRESS ANGEL strike with their full-length debut, Bursting Church. Ever aptly titled, Bursting Church is indeed an archaic monument literally bursting – with feral energy, unholy passion, and RIFFS! In one sense, STRESS ANGEL here up-ratchet all of the previous demo's foremost characteristics – contorted riffery, pitiless battery, shrill screams, and frantic execution – and retain their still-new yet firmly-etched identity. But in another, perhaps-more-accurate sense, Bursting Church presents the duo in an altogether new light, where the classic metal elements underlining that identity are recast in more crazed and idiosyncratic colors: what's old is new, and vice versa, and anything resembling the "familiar" is ripped asunder into the realm of foreign. It's a record equally 2021 and 1987, if you will, and the finesse and charisma with which STRESS ANGEL charge through these 11 anti-anthems is utterly addicting. Whereas previous points of reference ranged Aura Noir to Autopsy, Sweden's Damnation to Sweden's Obscurity, Bursting Church reveals the band in rarefied, righteously rabid company, off on their own like nomads of the wasteland. No surrender, and no compromise! 

– CD edition with sticker.

Out 30th July.



DVP 191 Blitz – The Nachtmahr Sessions MC
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the awesome The Nachtmahr Sessions debut Demo by BLITZ on music cassette format. 

Rising from the ashes of recently defunct MIDNIGHT PREY and AGGREGATOR, this new Hamburg-based four-piece BLITZ has combined their different influences and forged their very own blend of Heavy Metal, Speed and Thrash Metal. Big melodies, high velocity, varied vocals and tastefully applied gang shouts merge into strong and concise material.

Despite this being their first sign of life, the band entered renowned Soundlodge Studio and laid down the three powerful tracks on The Nachtmahr Sessions that show that there is a lot to be expected from BLITZ!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 30th July

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Tons of new and restock LPs, CDs, Tapes added to the shop!

LP
Adolf Castle – Really Crazy Germans
AMBUSH - Infidel
AMBUSH - Desecrator
AMBUSH - Firestorm
Anael – Mare
Angel Sword - Neon City         
ASHBURY - Something Funny Going On 
AT WAR - Ordered to Kill 
Bewitcher – Cursed be Thy Kingdom   
BITCHES SIN - The First Temptation 
BLACK CURSE - Endless Wound
BLACK OATH - Behold the Abyss
BLACK HOLE - Land of Mystery
Blade Killer - Same   
CALIBOS – Calibos 
CAPILLA ARDIENTE - The Siege   
Chainbreaker – Relentless Night 
CHALICE - Trembling Crown 
CLOVEN HOOF - s/t   
CLOVEN HOOF - The Opening Ritual   
Deathhammer / Sabbat – Army of Death 
DELIRIUM TREMENS - Thrashing Warthogs
DEMON PACT - Released from Hell   
DESASTER -Hellsfire's Dominion
DESASTER - A Touch Of Medieval Darkness
DESASTER - Churches Without Saints
DESTRUCTION - Bestial Invasion of Hell   
DESTRUCTION - Live Without Sense   
DESTRUCTION - Release from Agony   
DIVISION SPEED - s/t
ETERNAL CHAMPION - Ravening Iron
Evil - Evil's Message 
Evil - Ride To Hell 
Evile -  Hell Unleashed
EXORCIST - Nightmare Theatre
GLACIER - The Passing of Time 
GRAVE MIASMA - Abyss of Wrathful Deities   
HÄLLAS – Connundrum 
Heat – Night Trouble 
HIGH SPIRITS - Another Night 
JAG PANZER - Tyrants
JAG PANZER - Chain of Command
JAG PANZER - Ample Destruction
Jaguar - Power Games
JAMESON RAID - Raiderstronomy
LEGENDRY - Mists of Time
LEGENDRY - The Wizard and the Tower Keep 
LORD VIGO - Danse De Noir 
Lucifer – Lucifer III 
MANILLA ROAD - The Deluge 
MANILLA ROAD - Crystal Logic
MANILLA ROAD - Open the Gates
Metal Church - From The Vault 
METALIAN - Vortex   
METALIAN - Metal Fire & Ice   
Midnight Dice - Hypnotized     
MILITIA - The Sybling Vinyl 
MORBID SAINT - Spectrum of Death   
MORTEM - The Devil Speaks In Tongues
MORTEM - Demon Tales
Mountain Witch –Extinct Cults
Nightfyre – Shattered Lands
THE OBSESSED - Lunar Womb
Oral - Oral Sex
POKOLGEP - Pokoli Színjáték
PORTRAIT - s/t
RAPTURE - Malevolent Demise Incarnation         
RAZOR - Shotgun Justice
RAZOR - Open Hostility
RAZOR - Custom Killing
RIOT - Archives Volume 1: 1976-1981
RIOT - Archives Volume 2: 1982-1983   
RIOT - Archives Volume 3: 1987-1988   
RITUAL - Valley of the Kings   
ROADWOLF - Unchain The Wolf   
SABIRE - Gates Ajar 
SATAN'S FALL - Final Day 
SAVAGE GRACE - Master Of Disguise 
SAVAGE GRACE - After The Fall From Grace 
SAX - Moravské nářez 
Scavenger – Battlefields 
SCHAFOTT - The Black Flame   
SHOCK TREATMENT - Binary Fall Out   
Skullwinx - The Relic
SLAUGHTERDAY - Nightmare Vortex         
SLAUGHTER MESSIAH - Cursed to the Pyre   
SLAUTER XSTROYES - Winter Kill Vinyl 
SPEED QUEEN - Still on the Road   
STALLION - Slaves of Time
Stälker - Black Majik Terror
Stälker - Shadow Of The Sword
STARLIGHT RITUAL - Sealed in Starlight 
TARANTULA – Mobilis in mobili 
TRENCH HELL - Southern Cross Ripper   
TWISTED TOWER DIRE - WARS IN THE UNKNOWN 
Urchin - Get Up, Get Out
VANGUARD - Vanguard 
Vektor – Black Future
VIKING - Do or Die   
VIKING - Man of Straw   
VISIGOTH - The Revenant King
VULTURE - The Guillotine   
Wayward – s/t 
WITCHTRAP - NO ANESTHESIA 
WOLF - Edge of the World 

7"
KHAOS / KARLOFF - split
Midnight Dice / Hitter - Split     
Neptune Power Federation – The Dawn of the Magic Children
OZ - The Show Must Go On

CD
Altar - And God Created Satan to Blame for His Mistakes 
Atrophy – Chemical Dependency 
Atlantis - Atlantis 
Axe Crazy - Angry Machines
Axe Crazy - Ride On The Night
Axe Crazy - Hexbreaker
Bewitcher – Cursed be Thy Kingdom 
Biter -The Eyes Of The Biter 
Blasfemia -  Guerra Total
BLIND ILLUSION - The Likewise Sessions (Ultimate Anthology Vol 1) 
BONFIRE -  Into the Demons Flame 
Brainless - Brainless World 5x
Brutality – The Complete Demo Recordings 1987 – 1991 
Ceremony - Tyranny from Above 
Cloven Hoof - The Opening Ritual 
Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof CD   
Coldsteel - Freakboy
Crime / Sins Of The Damned -  God Is Not Here Today
Dark Omen – The End of Rage
Dark Quarterer - same   
DEAF DEALER - Journey Into Fear 
DESASTER - Churches Without Saints   
Devil's Poison -  Possessed by Lust and Fire
Dirges - Altares de Sacrificio
Dirges - Despues de la Devastacion
Disciples of Power – Power Trap
DISTRAINERS -  ENGLANDS´GREEN UNPLEASANT LAND   
ETERNAL CHAMPION - THE ARMOR OF IRE 
ETERNAL CHAMPION - Ravening Iron   
Evil - Evil's Message
Evil - Ride To Hell
EVOKED - Ravenous Compulsion
Expulsion - Certain Corpses Never Decay 
Faithful Breath - Skol 
Faithful Breath - Gold'n Glory 
Fast Evil -The Midnight Force   
Forbidden – Forbidden Evil 
Forbidden – Twisted Into Form 
GENERAL WOLF / MOSELLE - Rock Anthems - The Anthology 1982-1987 
GLACIER - Glacier 
Heat –Night Trouble 
Heir Apparent – Foundations I 
Heir Apparent – Foundations II 
Hellanbach - Now Hear This 
Hell Gun - Kings Of Beyond
Hellripper / Fetid Zombie: Prophecies of Ruin
Heretic Bastards – Kiss of the Cobra 
Gaskin - End Of The World
Gaskin - No Way Out
Incardine - Seeds of Doom
INCURSION - The Hunter
Iron Jaw - Chain of Command   
IRONSTRIKE -  Symbol of Unholy Power 
KGB – Смертью Восставший
Küenring - Neon Nights   
Legend – Legend 
Liquid Steel - Mountains Of Madness
Martyr - For The Universe 
MESSIAH FORCE - The Last Day - Special Anthology Edition
Midnight Dice - Hypnotized
Mountain Witch –Extinct Cults
MOUNTAIN WITCH –BURNING VILLAGE
MOUNTAIN WITCH – COLD RIVER
NEKROMANTHEON  - RISE, VULCAN SPECTRE
NEKROMANTHEON - The Visions of Trismegistos   
Nekromantie - Resurreccion Maldita
NUNSLAUGHTER - Black Death Phantom
Nightfyre –Shattered Lands
Possessed – Death Metal Demo 
PYÖVELI -  No Speed Limits 
Raijin - Wild Path
RAPTURE - Malevolent Demise Incarnation
RAT ATTACK - Rat Attack 
Retrosatan - Grito Mortal
Ritual Sacrifice - When Hope is Pain 
ROADWOLF - Unchain The Wolf   
Saber - Without Warning         
Sacrosanct – Truth is What is
Sacrosanct – Recesses for the Depraved
SCALPTURE - Eisenzeit
Scavanger – Battlefield
SCEPTER - I´m Going To Hell
Sick Desecration - Psychopathologies
SOLDIER -  Live Forces 1982
Sorcerer - Dire Prophecy
Sortilege – Sortilege 
STARLIGHT RITUAL - Sealed in Starlight 
Toxik – Wasteland
Tribulance - Trials & Tribulations
Urchin - Anthology 
V.A. - La Patria Sacudida
V.A. - Raped by Chains Split
Vodu - Endress Trip
Warhead - The Day After
WARTIME -  Vol 2 
Wayward –s/t 

MC
Booze Control – Forgotten Lands
Caustic - Arrowfire
Gallows Whisper – There is no Law
Hostile Faith – Last Remnants of Life
Hyena - First Strike 
Hyena - Bite of Heavy Metal
Invisible Hate - Holy Murder
Iron Spell – Live Magic After Midnight
LEATHER MISTRESS - Talk Dirty
Lightning - S/T 
Liquid Steel - Mountains of Madness 
Meurtrieres – s/t
Midnight Sacrifice - We are the bastards of rock 
Mindless Sinner – Master of Evil
Mindless Sinner – Turn on the Power
Mortuary - Final Mortuary of Souls
Queensryche - Queensryche 
Rosenfeld – Demo 1991
Sabire - Gates Ajar
Sacrificer - The first offering 
Scaffold - Codex Gigas
Sentencia – Hierro 
Sentinels – Trasciende 
Shadow Warrior - Live Session in studio + demo
Significant Point – Into the Storm
Sordid Blade – s/t
Sortilege – s/t
United Corpses - Dead lives matter

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DVP 192 Knife – Knife LP/CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated self-titled debut album of Germany's KNIFE on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2019, Germany's KNIFE have been one of the hottest insider tips in the metalpunk underground. The quartet's aim from the beginning has been to play fast and wild METAL, and they did exactly that with their two-song debut tape, Black Leather Hounds, in early 2020. Not long after, KNIFE released the four-song Locked In EP. Even more aptly titled than their first recording, Locked In saw the band bring all their influences together – from classic hard rock and heavy metal to first-wave black metal and punk, and more – into a throttling and nasty sound.

Now, forged in the hot winds, tempered by the shrieking sounds of Hades, a blade made of immortal steel rises from the depths to vindicate the souls of those who obey the true sound of METAL: KNIFE's debut full-length, simply self-titled Knife. At once comfortingly familiar but exuding a charisma and star power which elevates it into the halls of greatness, Knife goes from the throat right from the opener "Behold the Horse of War" and doesn't let go even after the last seconds of closer "Possessed" ring out. Neither strictly straightforward heavy metal nor retro-minded metalpunk, spanning both speed metal surge and fist-banging hard rock alike, KNIFE keep it lawless and loose across their debut album, cumulatively conveying their past, present, and definitely future. You like Exciter, W.A.S.P., Thin Lizzy, Bathory, Manowar, Discharge, and Kreator? Then KNIFE have all the blades you need, and they've sharpened them into 11 life-invigorating anthems (plus interlude) that are all wrapped in a gleaming 'n' powerful production.

Ferocity, power, and speed. Metal like a hammer blow! KNIFE is unleashed!

– 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.

Out 22nd October



DVP 194 Hexenbrett- Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi MLP/MCD/MC

DYING VICTIMS is proud to present a special new EP from TTERBNEXEH, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, on CD, music cassette and 12" vinyl formats.

It was but May of the cursed year of 2020 when TTERBNEXEH truly came into their own with their shockingly masterful debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten, courtesy of DYING VICTIMS. While the enigmatic duo of Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte had definitely turned heads with Erste Beschwörung EP in 2019, their debut album's idiosyncratic kaleidoscope of Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen emerged as completely unique and unlike little else around.

Predictably unpredictable, TTERBNEXEH return with a crazed 'n' crazy EP that's the result of canceled concerts and tours: the four-song Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi. As suggested by its titled, the record is no "Beschwörung" but, rather, an intermezzo. Because, for the first time in the brief history of TTERBNEXEH, this EP does not feature performances by Josto Feratu or Scarlettina Bolétte. Instead, the tracks were recorded by what had been the live line-up for 2020, but of course under the watchful eyes and ears of the clandestine couple.

Suitably, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi strays some from the TTERBNEXEH sound so far revealed whilst etching the band's twisted identity even further. With all songs and lyrics written by the duo of Feratu and Bollétte – except for a reverential cover of the early Misfits track "Return of the Fly" – the band's original material here displays new facets in TTERBNEXEH sound: heavier, weirder, more atmospheric and more aggressive. It's basically more of everything and the most accurate presentation of The Sound Of the Bloody Iris to date, and bloody fucking good no matter how you cut!  While TTERBNEXEH previous full-length record featured unexplainable additional sounds in the background of the tracks, the material on Intermezzo... had to be re-recorded many times as things got lost continuously.

It seems as if Feratu and Bolétte are still haunted from their past... But hark! Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi is no taster/teaser of the second TTERBNEXEH full-length. Those mysteries are only known to the duo.

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

– MCD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.

Out 22nd October



DVP 195 SexMag – Sex Metal MLP/MCD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SEXMAG's striking debut mini-album, Sex Metal, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.

From the abyss of the filthy Silesian Streets emerges the Nasty Beast, just like in St. John's Apocalypse. Three sixes branded at the top of his head, and the prophecy predicts eternal tribulation and condemnation to those who betrayed and wear shackles. Seven chaplets and 11 horns encrust his neck, and his hand holds the key to the world unblemished by the lie. The sign of Hell worships the beast in black and his servant...SEXMAG!

Drawing their moniker from Poland's legendary Kat, SEXMAG arrive from the darkest past with a seven-track expurse of sodomy bearing the call-to-arms title of Sex Metal. Across the five primary curses and bookending intro and outro, the mysterious entity create a caustic and careening sound drawing equal strength from '80s proto-black metal and the vilest thrash. Names invoked include earliest Destruction, Sepultura, Venom, Tormentor, Sarcófago, Master's Hammer, and Violent Force, but with a fear-for-their-safety identity all their own. Or, put another way, think of the most garaged old New Renaissance release left rotting in the sun and covered in black-candle wax...that is Sex Metal!

No more and no less, no trends and no compromise, posers leave the hall when SEXMAG fuck you with their Sex Metal!

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

Out 22nd October

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

LP
ANGEL DUST – Into the Dark Past 
ANGEL DUST – To Dust You Will Decay   
ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth 
Atlain – Living in the Dark
Baphomet's Blood – Satanic Metal Attack
BLACK VIPER – Hellions of Fire
BLAZON RITE – Dulce Bellum Inexpertis
BLAZON RITE – Endless Halls of Golden
Bölzer – Aura
Bölzer – Roman Acupuncture
Bölzer – Soma
Brainfever – Capture the Night 
CENTURY – Demo MMXX 
Chainbreaker – Relentless Night
CHEVALIER – Dawn Of Battle 
Children of Technology – Written Destiny   
CORONARY – Sinbad 
CORPSEHAMMER – Metal de la muerte
Cross Vault – As Strangers we Depart
Cross Vault – Miles to Take
DEATH SS – Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon
DESTRUCTION – Tales of Morbid Brains
DESTRUCTION – Eternal Devastation
DESTRUCTION – Sentence of Death   
DIABOLIC NIGHT – Beyond the Realm   
ENTRENCH – Through the Walls of Flesh
Evilcult – At the darkest Night
EXUMER – Rising from the Sea
Hagzissa – They Ride Along
HELLISH CROSSFIRE – Bloodrust Scythe
HERZEL – Le Dernier Rempart
Hitter – Hard Enough
Iron Dogs – Free and Wild
JEX THOTH – Blood Moon Rise
LEGENDRY – The Wizard and the Tower Keep
LIVING DEATH – Vengeance of Hell
LIVING DEATH – Protected from Reality/ Back to the Weapons
LIVING DEATH – Metal Revolution
LUCIFER'S HAMMER – The Trip
LUNAR SHADOW – Far From Light
MYSTIK – Mystik
NASTY SAVAGE – s/t
NECRONOMICON – s/t
ORIGINAL SIN – Sin Will Find You Out
PHAETHON – Sacrifice Doth Call
PHARAOH – The Powers That Be
RAZOR – Escape the Fire
The Rite – Liturgy of the Black   
Rope Sect – Personae Ingratae
SACRAL RAGE Beyond Celestial Echoes
Sanctifying Ritual – Same
Shock – Heavy Metal We Salute You
Sithlord – From out of the Darkness
SLAUGHTER – Strappado
TOKYO BLADE – Night of the Blade
TRAVELER – Termination Shock
URN – The Burning" Special Packing
VENENUM – s/t
VENENUM – Trance of Death
Vomit – Invoker of the Past
VORTEX – Them Witches
VULTURES VENGEANCE – The Knightlore
WARRIOR – Resurrected
WITCH CROSS – Fit for Fight

7"
ATOM SMASHER – Age of Ice   
Scalare – Knights in Satans Service
Scalare / Skalar – Split
Scalare / Sadistic Goatmessiah – Split 

CD
AIR RAID – Across the Line
ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth
ARMORY – The Search
ASHBURY – Eye of the Stygian Witches 
Atomic Roar – Never Human Again   
BLACK VIPER – Hellions of Fire
BLAZON RITE – Endless Halls Of Golden
By Fire & Sword – Freedom Will Flood All Things with Light
BUNKER 66 – Screaming Rock Believers
Cannibal – Fire meets Steel
CAPILLA ARDIENTE – The Siege
Cherokee – Wakan Tanka Nici Un
CONVENT GUILT – Diamond Cut Diamond
Cross Vault – Miles to Take
Cross Vault – As Strangers we Depart
DEATH SS – Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon
EXORCIST – Nightmare Theatre
EXPULSER – The Unholy One
HERZEL – Le Dernier Rempart
Hrom –  Legends of Powerheart: Part II
INDIAN NIGHTMARE – By Ancient Force
Inferno – ... We Never Heard of You Either ... 
Legend – Death in the Nursery
LEGENDRY – The Wizard and the Tower Keep
LORD VADER – Goliath
MYTHRA – Still Burning
Pagan Rites – Pagan Rites
PHARAOH The POwers That Be
PROTECTOR – Echoes from the Past
Reaper – Unholy Nordic Noise
Reaper – The Atonality of Flesh
ROAD WARRIOR – Power
Savage Grace – After the Fall from Grace
Savage Grace – Master of Disguise 
Savage Grace – Ride into the Night + Demo 1983
Savage Grace – Demo 1991
Scalare – At the Edge of darkness
TOXIC HOLOCAUST / Evil Damn – Blasphemy, Mayhem, War
V.A. – Sound And Action
VENENUM – Trance of Death
VENENUM – s/t
VORTEX – Them Witches

MC
EXCORIATE  – On Pestilent Winds...
Legendry – Heavy Metal Adventure
Midnight Dice – Hypnotized
NOCTURNAL WITCH  – A Thousand Pyres
PENTACLE – The Fifth Moon
Starlight – Constellation
Tower – Tomorrow and Yesterday
TRIBULATION – The Horror
VAMPIRE – With Primeval Force
VAMPIRE – Rex

[Dying Victims Productions]

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code. (delayed at the pressing plant – out late August)
– Special edition sold out (delayed at the pressing plant – out late August)



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

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

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

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

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

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch. (delayed at the pressing plant – out late August)

– MCD edition with sticker.



DVP-R 005 Breathless – Breathless LP/CD

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

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

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

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

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

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


– Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special gatefold edition on olive green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch. (delayed at the pressing plant – out late August)

– CD edition with sticker.



DVP 191 Blitz – The Nachtmahr Sessions MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the awesome The Nachtmahr Sessions debut Demo by BLITZ on music cassette format. 

Rising from the ashes of recently defunct MIDNIGHT PREY and AGGREGATOR, this new Hamburg-based four-piece BLITZ has combined their different influences and forged their very own blend of Heavy Metal, Speed and Thrash Metal. Big melodies, high velocity, varied vocals and tastefully applied gang shouts merge into strong and concise material.

Despite this being their first sign of life, the band entered renowned Soundlodge Studio and laid down the three powerful tracks on The Nachtmahr Sessions that show that there is a lot to be expected from BLITZ!

– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.



DVP 193 Stress Angel – Bursting Church CD

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS, in conspiracy with STYGIAN BLACK HAND, is proud to present STRESS ANGEL's striking debut album, Bursting Church. DYING VICTIMS will handle the CD version while STYGIAN BLACK HAND will handle the vinyl LP version.

Out from the flaming kingdom of death arose STRESS ANGEL in 2020 with their eponymous debut demo. There, the NYC two-piece presented six songs of thrashing death metal that is classic without being retro, and uniquely dark and demented. An auspicious first start, no doubt, and almost effortlessly so. 

Now, STRESS ANGEL strike with their full-length debut, Bursting Church. Ever aptly titled, Bursting Church is indeed an archaic monument literally bursting – with feral energy, unholy passion, and RIFFS! In one sense, STRESS ANGEL here up-ratchet all of the previous demo's foremost characteristics – contorted riffery, pitiless battery, shrill screams, and frantic execution – and retain their still-new yet firmly-etched identity. But in another, perhaps-more-accurate sense, Bursting Church presents the duo in an altogether new light, where the classic metal elements underlining that identity are recast in more crazed and idiosyncratic colors: what's old is new, and vice versa, and anything resembling the "familiar" is ripped asunder into the realm of foreign. It's a record equally 2021 and 1987, if you will, and the finesse and charisma with which STRESS ANGEL charge through these 11 anti-anthems is utterly addicting. Whereas previous points of reference ranged Aura Noir to Autopsy, Sweden's Damnation to Sweden's Obscurity, Bursting Church reveals the band in rarefied, righteously rabid company, off on their own like nomads of the wasteland. No surrender, and no compromise! 

– CD edition with sticker.

[Dying Victims Productions]

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

LP
ACCUSER – WHO DOMINATES WHO
ACCUSER – The Conviction 
Amputation – Slaughtered in the Arms of God
ANGEL DEATH – Memoirs of death – The history 1986-1995
Annexation – Inherent Brutality
Ares Kingdom – The Unburiable Dead
ATTOMICA – Children's assassin
BLACK SOUL HORDE – Land of Demise
Blasfemia – Guerra Total
Blasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing The Purity
BLIZZARD HUNTER – Heavy Metal in the Vein
COBRA – Warriors Of The Dead
DEADLY BLESSING – Psycho Drama 
DEAF DEALER – Journey Into Fear
Detonator – Demo 1990
DEXTER WARD – RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY 
DOOMSWORD – Same
EGYPT – Egypt
Ereb Altor – Eldens Boning
Ereb Altor – Ulfven
ETERNAL CHAMPION – The Armor Of Ire
Evil – Possessed By Evil
Ewig Frost – Ain't no Saint
Ewig Frost – Dirty Tales
FCDN DUNGEON – Dungeon days 1982/1985
GARGOYLE – Gargoyle
HEAVY LOAD – DEATH OR GLORY
INCURSION – The Hunter
JONAH QUIZZ – Ultimate Anthology
LEADBREAKER – LeadBreaker
LEGEND – Before The Fjords
Malevolent Creation – The Ten Commandments
MESSIAH – Going Insane
Midnight Force – Gododdin
MILITARY SHADOW – Violent reign one sided
NECROWRETCH – Welcome To Your Funeral
Nifelheim – Servants of Darkness
NIGHT FIGHTER – Unholy Sepulchre
Nomenclature Diablerie – 888
NUCTEMERON – Posers mutilation 1989-1991
PARADOXX – Plan of Attak – The Complete Worxx
Pestilence – Consuming Impulse
Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
Pestilence – Spheres
Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients
Reactory – Collapse To Come
ROSENFELD – Demo 1991
SABATEUR – Vicious Circle
Sacred Rite – Same
STEEL ANGEL – Kiss Of Steel
STEEL ANGEL – ...And The Angels Were Made Of Steel
Trouble – Manic Frustration
Trouble – Psalm 9
Trouble – The Skull
Trouble – Trouble
Vendetta – Brain Damage
Vendetta – Go And Live... ...Stay And Die
Video Nasty – Video Nasty
WITCHHAMMER – Deliver Us from Evil – The Lost Tapes
Witches Hammer – Stretching into Infinty
Xantotol – Zhus spake Zarathustra

7"
Ewig Frost – Railroad To Hell
SNAKEPIT – Archives Vol. 2 BOOK + 7"

CD
Annexation – Inherent Brutality
Antioch – V
APOCALYPTIC FEAR – Dawn of the Ritual + Decayed Existence
ASSAULTER – Meat Grinder
BASTILLE – Electric Animation
BEZERKER – Lost
Blasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing the Purity
BLAZON RITE – Dulce Bellum Inexpertis E.P.
BULLDOZER – Neurodeliri
BULLDOZER – The final Separation
Butterfly – Doorways Of Time
Cemetery Lights – The Underworld
CHEMICIDE – Inequality
CHEMICIDE – The Act of Retaliation
CHEMICIDE – Episodes of Insanity
CRUMBSUCKERS – Turn back time: the early years '83/'85
Ereb Altor – Ulfven
EVILCULT – At the Darkest Night
Ewig Frost – No Dice
Ewig Frost – Ain't no Saint
GRAVEN RITE – The Summoner's Pit
HEAVY LOAD – Death or Glory
HEAVY LOAD – STRONGER THAN EVIL
HELLSTORM – Declaration of War from Satan
HERESY – Blasphemia
HEXECUTOR – Poison, Lust & Damnation
HIRAX – Assassins of War
HOLOCAUST – Heavy Metal Mania – The Singles
HÖWLER – Fallen but not Forgotten
JEWEL – Revolution In Heaven
JONAH QUIZZ – Ultimate Anthology
KONQUEST – The Night Goes On
MACE – Process of Elimination
MACE – The Evil in Good
MASS HYPNOSIA – Toxiferous cyanide
MAYHEM INC – Mayhem Inc
Meliah Rage – Solitary Solitude
MERCILESS ATTACK – Back to Violence
MIDNIGHT SPELL – Sky Destroyer
Mosh-Pit Justice – The Fifth Of Doom
MUTILATOR – Immortal Force
MYSTIC STORM – From The Ancient Chaos
Mystifier – Aleister Crowley
Mystifier – Wicca
NEMESIS – Atrocity Unleashed
NUCLEAR REVENGE – Dawn of the Primitive Age
NUCTEMERON – Posers mutilation 1989-1991
PARADOXX – Plan of Attak – The Complete Worxx
Phobia – Slaughterhouse Tapes
Proclamation – Execration Of Cruel Bestiality
Proclamation – Messiah Of Darkness And Impurity
Proclamation – Nether Tombs Of Abaddon
Reactory – Collapse To Come
REDSHARK – Evil Realm
REVENGE – Metal is addiction and obsession
REVENGE/TOXIC TRACE – Split
RED RAZOR – The Revolution continues
RIOT CITY – Burn the Night
Satanica – Resurrection Of Devil's Spirit
SCHIZO – Delayed death – 1984/1989 The years of collapse
SLAUTER XSTROYES – Winter Kill
SOFISTICATOR – At Whores with Satan
SPIRALSEA – Essence
THIRSTY DEMON – Unconscious Suicide
THYNN ICE – SAME
Tyrann – Djävulens Musik
Video Nasty – Video Nasty
VIRGIN STEELE – Guardians Of The Flame
WIKKYD VIKKER – Black Of The Night
WITCH – Still Alive?
Witch's Kiss – The Witching Hour
Xysma – Xysma

MC
Abigail / Barbatos – Sexual Fucking Holocaust
Amputation – Slaughtered in the Arms of God
Chapel – Satan's Rock N Roll
Cutthroat – Rape ! Rape! Rape!+ EPs 
Ewig Frost – Ain't no Saint
FROM BEYOND – Macabre And Absurd
GEHENNAH  – Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To Die
Guilliotino – Conuration
Hirax – EL ROSTRO DE LA MUERTE
Holocausto – BATISMO DE FOGO
INEPSY – Madness & Overkill
INSANE – Wait and Pray 
Mosh Angel – In The Sign Of Mosh Angel
Mystic Storm – From the Ancient Chaos
Nuclear Revenge – Dawn Of The Primitive Age
Paranoid – Out Raising Hell     
Phobia – Slaughterhouse Tapes
Proclamation – Execration Of Cruel Bestiality
Proclamation – Nether Tombs Of Abaddon
Rosenfeld – Demo 1991
Sarcofagus – Envoy
SCUMSLAUGHT – High On Death
Slaughtered Priest –  Eternal Goat Reign
Thrashfire -Thrash Burned The Hell
Tiger Junkies – Green Tea Or Die/Sick Of Tiger?
V.A. – Metal Deadness
Xantotol – Black Doom Metal

Miscellaneous
DVP – Logo Totebag
DVP – Tribute Totebag
Iron Fist Magazine 24
Iron Fist Magazine 23
Iron Fist Magazine 22
Iron Fist Magazine 21

[Dying Victims Productions]

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





DVP 196 Cherokee – Blood & Gold DLP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Germany's CHEROKEE, Blood and Gold, on CD and double-LP vinyl formats.

Hailing from Cologne, CHEROKEE was founded in 2014. Several lineup changes occurred until the first lineup was complete – guitarists Simon Siantidis and Alexander Beda Maria Kleusch, bassist Fabian Albert Dey, drummer Fabian Kampa, and vocalist Katharina Heldt – which recorded two demos, Ridin' Free (2015) and Mother Nature's Child (2016). Following the second demo, Heldt departed the band.

In 2017, vocalist Laura Vesprini joins CHEROKEE, and together the EP Wakan Tanka NIci Un Ep was recorded at Sculpt Sound Studio by Laurent Teubl (Chapel of Disease) and released in 2018. Many gigs followed, the band truly finding their latent power onstage, and in 2019 did a successful mini-tour commence with Canadian compatriots Freeways. But, that power was only simmering...

Indeed, it explodes across CHEROKEE's literally massive debut album, Blood and Gold. Comprising 15 songs in 75 action-packed minutes – truly, a double-album like the old days – Blood and Gold is the culmination of over a year's work of writing, recording, mixing, and mastering. More importantly, this recorded document is the grandest statement of the CHEROKEE aesthetic: moody, dynamic, and storytelling HARD ROCK chiseled from the stone of the '70s. Each song here is its own experience, its own heartstrings-pulling sensation and fist-shaking anthem. Although a handful of 'em are re-recorded/finessed versions of earlier songs, it's a foregone conclusion that these are the definitive issue: CHEROKEE wanted something special for their debut album and simply could not decide which songs to cut, and thus did thus they settle for a 15-song double-album. For them, it is honest, handmade guitar-driven music, a perfect mix of hard rock and blues, fun and power. The soundtrack for any situation in life, be it on your way to work, the soundtrack to an antisocial drinking night, road trips to festivals in the middle of nowhere – to cure post festival depression, or to spice up your next visit to grandma's house – Blood and Gold is the sonic travelogue to get you there and get you feeling GOOD.

If you feel good to the immortal Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Wishbone Ash, UFO, and Dire Straits or modern antecedents like the aforementioned Freeways, SANDSTORM, Haunt, MIDNIGHT PREY, and Savage Master, then CHEROKEE are guaranteed to be your new favorite band – and Blood and Gold your new favorite record(s)!

– Regular gatefold double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special gatefold double LP edition on blood red and golden vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button, download code.

Out 19th November.



DVP 197 Destructo – Demonic Possession LP/CD/Shirts

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present DESTRUCTO's striking debut album, Demonic Possession, on CD and vinyl LP formats. 

The sound, attitude, and execution of DESTRUCTO is similar to the band's moniker: destructive, merciless and total fukk-off-driven! Formed in 2018 as a side-project between erstwhile Dödsrit and Nuclear Devastation bandmates Soulcrusher and Motörphallus as a tribute to bands like Sarcofago, Syphilitic Vaginas, and Japan's Sabbat, DESTRUCTO delivered their debut demo in 2019 – 19 minutes of total & utter destruction! 

In the meantime, insanity, blasphemy, narcotics, and intoxication all played their part in inspiring DESTRUCTO's debut album, Demonic Possession. Here, the power-trio amplify those noble influences to a fever pitch while also bringing forward influences from Bathory, Hellhammer, and especially G.I.S.M. With ten songs spanning a skull-crushing 40 minutes, Demonic Possession is a wild fucking ride, even for those prepared to get on in the first place. Cacophonic screams, primitive riffs, bulldozing bass, and berserking D-beats all collide with vocals which approximate a gnarling demon on strict diet of whiskey and amphetamines, making the album best to be enjoyed with...whiskey and amphetamines! Put another way, DESTRUCTO make an even stronger case for being the bastard child of raw and chaotic first-wave black metal blended with an unhealthy dose of '80s speed/thrash metal mania, Motörcharged riffs & rock 'n' roll grooves that creates the Devil's Rock 'n' Roll! 

Armed with production that's slicing and slimy in equal measure and an overwhelming sense of danger both in songwriting and especially execution, the question remains: can you handle DESTRUCTO's Demonic Possession? ARGHHH!!

– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on transparent red /black marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker.
– Longsleeve
– T-Shirt.

Out 19th November.



DVP 198 Galaxy – On the Shore of Life LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present GALAXY's highly anticipated debut album, On the Shore of Life, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

GALAXY are a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia. Lost From the Start, their debut EP released in late 2019 by DYING VICTIMS, was a nod to the speed and traditional heavy metal of the 1980s, replete with the furious riffs and high-octane vocals one would demand from the genre. GALAXY are now set to release their follow-up, and first full-length album, On the Shore of Life. This time around, the band has spared no effort to make the music more dynamic and adventurous: the songs exhibit a greater sense of scope and take the listener to darker and colder climes. 

Songwriter Stu Callinan (who handles all guitars and bass) and vocalist / lyricist Phillip T. King are joined on the recording by legendary session drummer and special guest Simon Phillips, who over the years has stinted with the likes of Judas Priest, the Michael Schenker Group, The Who, and Jeff Beck. His special guest-performance has created a most powerful foundation for the music to layer upon, lifting GALAXY's new material to heights previously undreamt. And that new material melds Mercyful Fate and Megadeth-style riffing with the melody and song-based focus of Thin Lizzy and '70s Judas Priest and the adventurousness of early Fates Warning: On the Shore of Life, indeed!

In a post-covid world where the future of live music remains unpredictable, GALAXY will be back onstage as soon as possible. In the meantime, the spirited performances on this new record do well to propagate GALAXY's tales of joy and madness, of love and loss, of fear and courage... Join GALAXY at the next port of their journey, On the Shore of Life!

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

Out 19th November.

[Dying Victims Productions]

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

LP
ABYSMAL GRIEF – Blasphema Secta
ACID – s/t LP+7″
ACID – Maniac LP+7″
AMBUSH – Infidel
ASSASSIN – Holy Terror
ASSASSIN – The Saga of Nemesis
Atlain – Living in the Dark
ATOMKRAFT – FUTURE WARRIORS
ATOMKRAFT – QUEEN OF DEATH
ATROPHY – CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY 
AUDIOPAIN – Contagious
AUDIOPAIN – 1986
AVENGER – BLOOD SPORTS
AZATH – THROUGH A WARREN OF SHADOW 
BATTALION – Bleeding Till Death
BETRAYEL – Helpless Souls
BLACK CURSE – Endless Wound
BOLT THROWER –  IN BATTLE THERE IS NO LAW
CAPILLA ARDIENTE – The Siege
CEMITÉRIO – Cemitério
DEATHWISH – AT THE EDGE OF DAMNATION
Demilich – Em9t2ness Of Van2s1ing / V34ish6ng 0f Emptiness
DESTRUCTION – Infernal Overkill
DESTRUCTION – Mad Butcher   
DISMEMBER – LIKE AN EVER FLOWING STREAM
EXCORIATE – On Pestilent Winds
EXECUTER – Rotten Authorities
EXUMER – Possessed by Fire
Flame Keeper – Those Who Light The Fire
FLAMES – LAST PROPHECY
Grave Pleasures – Doomsday Roadburn
GROTESQUE – IN THE EMBRACE OF EVIL
HÄLLAS – EXCERPTS FROM A FUTURE PAST
HÄLLAS – HALLAS
Hecatomb – Horrid Invocations
HIGH SPIRITS – Another Night
INCINERATOR – Awakened by Evil
Iron Gypsy – Iron Gypsy
ISEN TORR – Mighty & Superior
JAGUAR – Power Games
KROSSFIRE – BURNING TORCHES
LEGENDRY – The Wizard and the Tower Keep
LETHAL STEEL – Running from the Dawn   
LUNAR SHADOW – TRIUMPHATOR   
Malicious – Deranged Hexes   
MANILLA ROAD – The Deluge
MANILLA ROAD – Crystal Logic 
NEKROMANTHEON – THE VISIONS OF TRISMEGISTOS
NIGHT – HIGH TIDES – DISTANT SKIES
NIGHT – SOLDIERS OF TIME
NIGHTWOLF – Unleash the Beast
Obnoxious Youth – Mouths Sewn Shut
Occult Burial – Burning Eerie Lore
OUTCAST – Outcast
PARADOX – THE DEMO COLLECTION 1986-1987
Paralex – Key To A Thousand Doors
PARANOID – HEAVY MENTAL FUCK-UP!
PORTRAIT – s/t
POSSESSED STEEL – Aedris
Possession/Spite – Passio Christ / Witch's Spell Split
PRIME EVIL – UNDERGROUND ORIGINS
PROCESSION – Death and Judgement
PROCESSION – Doom Decimation
PROCESSION – The Cult of Disease
PROCESSION – To Reap Heavens Apart
PROTECTOR – Golem
PROTECTOR – A Shedding of Skin
PROTECTOR – Leviathan's Desire
PROTECTOR – Misanthropy
RAZOR – Escape the Fire
Reverend Bizarre – So Long Suckers
REVERSED – Widow Recluse 
Saint's Anger – Danger Metal
SCALD – Will of the Gods is Great Power
Slutvomit – Copulation of Cloven Hooves
SOLSTICE  – PRAY
SOLSTICE – Death's Crown is Victory
SOLSTICE – To Sol A Thane
SOURCE – s/t
SPELL – FOR NONE AND ALL
STORM – Demo '82
TERMINAL DEATH – TERMINAL DEATH
THE OBSESSED – Lunar Womb
THUNDERDOME – The Man of Rolling Thunder 
TÖXIK DEATH – Sepulchral Demons
Transilvania – Of Sleep and Death 
VIKING – Do or Die
VIOLATOR – Scenarios of Brutality 
Vomitor – Prayers to Hell
Vulcain – Rock 'N' Roll Secours
WARFARE – MAYHEM FUCKING MAYHEM
WARFARE – METAL ANARCHY
WARFARE – PURE FILTH
WARLORD – Deliver Us   
Warning – The Demo Tapes
Warning – Watching From A Distance
WITCHFINDER GENERAL – DEATH PENALTY
WITCHFINDER GENERAL – FRIENDS OF HELL
WOLF – Edge of the World
WYTCH HAZEL – III: PENTECOST
Xysma – First & Magical 

7"
Bunker 66 / Salute – Nuclear Chasm
FARSCAPE/VIOLATOR – The Fall of Silence – split 
HIRAX/THE FORCE – Split 
NIGHT GAUNT – Jupiter's Fall

CD
Abigail  – Intercourse & Lust
ABYSMAL GRIEF – Mors Eleison
Anatomia  – Dissected Humanity
ANGUS – Track Of Doom
ANGUS – Warrior Of The World
ASPHYX – ABOMINATION ECHOES
ASSASSIN – Holy Terror / The Saga of Nemesis
BATTALION – Bleeding till Death
BATTALION – Empire of Dead
BATTALION – Tyrant of Evil 
BEWITCHED Rise of the Antichrist
BEWITCHED – At the Gates of Hell
BLOOD FEAST – Kill for Pleasure / Face Fate
BLOODLUST – Guilty As Sin
BLOODLUST – Terminal Velocity
BREAKOUT – Burning Lights
BUNKER 66 – Screaming Rock Believers
CANCER – DEATH SHALL RISE
CANCER – TO THE GORY END
Chapel – Satan's Rock N Roll
Coffins  – Buried Death
Dead Brain Cells – Dead Brain Cells
Dead Brain Cells – The Demo Anthology
Dead Brain Cells – Universe
DEELER – In Distant Mirrors
DESTRUCTION – Eternal Devastation
DESTRUCTION – Sentence of Death
DESTRUCTION – Infernal Overkill
Dexter Ward – Rendezvous With Destiny
EVIL CORPSE – Apocalyptic Future
EVOKE – SEEDS OF DEATH
FASTKILL – Bestial Thrashing Bulldozer
FIRST STRIKE – Call To Glory
Flame Keeper – Those Who Light The Fire
FRADE NEGRO – Midnight Sounds
FRADE NEGRO – The Attack of the Damned
FREEWAYS – True Bearings
GARGOYLE – Hail to the Necrodoom
HÄLLAS – EXCERPTS FROM A FUTURE PAST
Hard Action – Hot Wired Beat
HEADBANGER – Ready to Strike
Hecatomb – Horrid Invocations
HEDSTONE – Out Of The Crypt
HELLBRINGER Awakened from the Abyss
HELLBRINGER Dominion of Darkness
HELLISH CROSSFIRE – Bloodrust Scythe
HELLISH CROSSFIRE – Slaves of the Burning Pentagram
HYDRA VEIN – AFTER THE DREAM
HYDRA VEIN – RATHER DEATH THAN FALSE OF FAITH
HYPNOSIA – Extreme Hatred
Impurity  – The Legend of Goat
INSANE – Evil
Insanity Alert – Insanity Alert
INTRUDER – LIVE TO DIE – RELIVED
Iron Gypsy – Iron Gypsy
KATELLA – Shades Of Grey/Freakshow 47
LORD FIST – Wilderness of Hearts
LUCIFER'S HAMMER – The Trip
LUZIFER – Black Knight / Rise
MANIAC – Look out
MANIAC – Maniac
Master  – Slaves to Society
Mayhemic/Hellish – The Rising of Darkness
MILITIA – And The Gods Made War
MORBID SAINT – Spectrum of Death
MYSTIC STORM – From The Ancient Chaos
NASTY – Society's Knockin'
NIGHT PROWLER – No Escape
NIGHTSTRYKE – Storm Of Steel   
NIGHTWÖLF – Unleash the Beast 
NOCTURNAL – Storming Evil 
NOCTURNAL – Arrival of the Carnivore
NOCTURNAL BREED-No Retreat no Surrender
NOCTURNAL BREED-The Tools of the Trade
NOCTURNAL BREED-Fields of Rot
OCCULT BURIAL – Burning Eerie Lore
ONSLAUGHT – In Search of Sanity
OUTRE-TOMBE – Nécrovortex
PAGAN ALTAR – Lords of Hypocrisy
PAGAN ALTAR – Mythical & Magical
PALMISTRY – Behold!
PARANOID – HEAVY MENTAL FUCK-UP!
POSSESSED STEEL – Aedris
Possession/Spite – Passio Christ / Witch's Spell Split
Remains – Through The Eyes Of Death 
REVERSED – Widow Recluse
Sabbat  – Fetishism
Sabbat  – Karisma
SANCTUM – Believers
SCHAFOTT – The Black Flame
SHAKMA – House Of Possession
Silver Mountain – Before The Storm (Demo 1980)
Slutvomit – Copulation of Cloven Hooves
SPELL – FOR NONE AND ALL
SPELL – OPULENT DECAY
SPELL – THE FULL MOON SESSIONS
STARLIGHT RITUAL – Sealed in Starlight
Transilvania – Of Sleep and Death
UNDER THE CHURCH – UNDER THE CHURCH
VIKING – DO OR DIE
Vulcain – Rock 'N' Roll Secours
Vulcano  – Anthropophagy
VULTURE – The Guillotine + Victim to the Blade
WITCHFINDER GENERAL – FRIENDS OF HELL
WITCHING HOUR – Where Pale Winds Take Them High
WRATHSKELLER – Eve Of The End

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ABYSMAL GRIEF – Mors Eleison
Ambush – Firestorm
Ambush – Desecrator
Apostasy – Sunset Of The End
ASPHYX – ABOMINATION ECHOES BOXSET
Bulldozer – The Final Separation
CAULDRON BORN – Born of the Cauldron
Desaster – Satan's Soldiers Syndicate
ELECTRIC SHOCK – Trapped in the City
Exorcizphobia – Digitotality
Flame Keeper – We Who Light The Fire
Fortress – s/t
HAIL OF BULLETS –  III: THE ROMMEL CHRONICLES
HAIL OF BULLETS – ON DIVINE WINDS
IRON SLAUGHT – Crusading Metal Mercenaries
Malicious – Deranged Hexes
Mass Hypnosia – Vicious
NIGHT GAUNT – Night Gaunt
ONSLAUGHT – POWER FROM HELL
ONSLAUGHT – THE FORCE
Opprobrium – Discerning Forces
Opprobrium – Beyond the Unknown
Racer Steel – No Time to go Back
RAVENCULT – FORCE OF PROFANATION
RAZOR – 35 YEARS OF THRASH INSANITY
Sabbat – Sabbattical Demon
SOLSTICE – PRAY
SOLSTICE – SAME
Torturebitch – Inhuman Declaration of War
Transilvania – Of Sleep and Death
TRIBULATION – DOWN BELOW
Viper Queen – Surrender to the Bite
VOIVOD – WAR AND PAIN + DEMOS
VOORHEES – Chapter II
Witchburner – Final Detonation
WITCHY – Demo tape

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




DVP 185 Nocturnal – Serpent Death LP/CD/MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the long-awaited fourth album of Germany's NOCTURNAL, Serpent Death, on CD, vinyl LP and music cassette formats.

A veritable institution, NOCTURNAL have been flying the flag of hate and inciting a riot of violence since the year 2000. Helmed by founding guitarist Avenger (whose other credits are far too vast to list here), NOCTURNAL set about their prolific course with a flurry of demo tapes and splits with the likes of Nunslaughter, Vomitor, Bestial Mockery, and Toxic Holocaust among others, all culminating in their momentous Arrival of the Carnivore debut album in 2005. Back then, hailing the old Teutonic gods of thrash – namely the "Big Three" of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction, but not withstanding Deathrow, Assassin, Exumer, Darkness, Violent Force, and Necronomicon as well as Razor and early Sepultura abroad – was rather unfashionable, but it was NOCTURNAL who had the last laugh, as the second worldwide thrash resurgence was about to begin, and there they stood, undaunted and defiant.

Thereafter, NOCTURNAL continued to honor the old underground ways with another flurry splits and vinyl EPs, before second LP Violent Revenge arrived in 2009. Thus far, NOCTURNAL's albums were more finely honed and better-produced expressions of those prolific UG releases, and they kept apace with that schematic through the release of their third LP, Storming Evil, in 2014. By then, lineup troubles had begun to plague the band and slow their momentum, and thereafter was all quiet on the Western front. But at long last, the ultimate revenge arrives with Serpent Death!

As aptly titled as any NOCTURNAL full-length so far, Serpent Death slithers and strikes with a venomous menace. Arguably the band's best-produced as well as best-played record to date, Serpent Death loses not an ounce of power and poignancy; if anything, NOCTURNAL sound more energetic than ever, revitalized and ripping and defying their seemingly advanced age. Whereas the preceding Storming Evil perhaps leaned too much on the cleaner side of things, Serpent Death is robustly analog, flexing both muscle and clarity, all while remaining steadfastly analog. Further, there's more (but subtle) twists in the songwriting and dynamics, evincing an ageless metal wisdom whilst not sacrificing any urgency in the process. Avenger, as always, is an absolute riff-machine, firing off memorable lines right and left, but he's more-than-ably backed up by a blood-red-vital rhythm section in bassist Incinerator and drummer John Berry. New vocalist Invoker has a rougher and more hollering voice, perfectly suited for these classic metal-inclined tunes. So, less "sharp" pure thrash and more "warmer" traditional metal: it's a trade-off that pays in spades on Serpent Death.

Timeless, eternal, both behind the times and ahead of 'em – there's few bands with a body of work quite like NOCTURNAL. Even if it's another five-plus years between albums, Serpent Death handily satisfies with a sound that's so old, it's new!

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

– CD edition with sticker.
– MC edition with sticker, button and download code.





DVP 188 Hellcrash – Krvcifix Invertör LP

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HELLCRASH's striking debut album, Krvcifix Invertör, on vinyl LP format.

A power-trio hailing from Italy, HELLCRASH have been brewing their sick & sleazy delights in the underground for nearly a decade now. A couple demos and a split saw the dark of day during the years 2013-2015, but then silence ensued until the next strike was ready to reveal its expurse of sodomy. At long last, it arrives bearing the title Krvcifix Invertör.

HELLCRASH's long-awaited debut full-length, Krvcifix Invertör succinctly summarizes the HELLCRASH experience and then some. Crude and rude, the trio's fixations still remain firmly entrenched in very early Slayer and Venom, but deliriously dark new sensations spring forth here, giving HELLCRASH a foreign-yet-familiar aspect that works immeasurably in their favor. Heads bang, fists pound, pelvises throb, and the dirt of the earth gets bulldozed back and forth by their extremely simple yet extremely finessed compositions. Verily, Krvcifix Invertör is the metal of old: thrash when it was called "power metal," speed metal before thrash took over, metalpunk before that was even thought of or at least before domestic icons Bulldozer took a turn toward cleanliness, or just HEAVY METAL when that was everything that was loud and proud but not glitz and glam. Naturally, "evil" is everywhere, and so is EVIL, so wide-ranging is HELLCRASH's landscape between filth and fun. Whatever you want to call it, Krvcifix Invertör is timeless and untrendy and TRUE! 

– 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.




DVP 173 Sandstorm – Desert Warrior MLP 2nd press

The ancient sounding warrior three-piece from Canada is back with 4 new epic Heavy Metal tunes.

Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on silver vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, alernative woven patch and download code

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DVP 186 Karloff – The Appearing LP

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

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

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

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

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



DVP 187 Fate's Hand – Fate's Hand MLP

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

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

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

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

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



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All pre-orders and orders until tomorrow evening will still ship this week. From 17th onward I will be on a vacation break. The shop remains open, but shipping resumes on 4th October.

[Dying Victims Productions]

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





DVP-R 006 Sacrifice – Total Steel LP

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a vinyl LP reissue of the cult second album of Japan’s SACRIFICE, Total Steel. Licensed from Carnal Beast.

From their humble beginnings in 1985 on to their super-cult debut album, 1987’s Crest of Black, Japan’s SACRIFICE have stood for uncompromising, world-eating, thrashy METAL. Let’s reiterate: thrashy heavy metal rather than pure thrash metal. Thick and viscous is their thrust, with straightforward songwriting and exceptionally mean delivery. However, it was with 1990’s Total Steel where they’d perfect that signature style.

Much like Japanese punk takes bog-standard tropes and upends them in unique ways, so, too, did SACRIFICE do such with crossover on Total Steel. Aptly titled in its dedication to rivetheaded ignorance-is-bliss, Total Steel is a nine-song/46-monster which mainlines then-contemporaneous Cro-Mags, Venom, Razor, Carnivore, the UK’s Sacrilege, Nasty Savage, The Exploited, and even early Celtic Frost into something that sounds like all those simultaneously and nothing like ‘em at all. Credit is due to the band’s bullheaded approach to riffing: hammer/hammer/hammer, hypnotically so, stripping everything down to its barbaric basics and then build ‘em up to towering heights. Literally, you DROWN in their crush here, as nearly every vocal-led track tops five minutes, allowing for maximal immersion. Likewise, SACRIFICE’s execution is creepy and sleazy in equal measure, spitting forth attitude even when the linguistic translations go astray. But, the closing couplet of “Don’t Wanna Be Back in Black Days” and “Cold Storm” perhaps perfectly underline their particular headspace.

Amazingly, Total Steel sounds as refreshing today as time-locked as it sounded in 1990. Fans of Power Trip and Iron Age on to maniacs for metalpunk and those who hunt for Combat Core, bow before SACRIFICE!

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

Out 17th December



DVP-R 007 Mad Butcher – Metal Meat LP

RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present a LONG-overdue reissue of MAD BUTCHER’s cult-classic second album, Metal Meat, on vinyl LP format.

While it would seem that MAD BUTCHER were inspired by Germany’s legendary Destruction, the truth is rather the other way around: MAD BUTCHER predated Destruction by a number of years, and began even earlier than Teutonic metal mainstays Accept, Steeler, Grave Digger, and Living Death. As such, they were one of the first real metal bands in Germany to pick up sonic influence from the burgeoning NWOBHM movement and the early US metal scene. And what they delivered with their ragged ‘n’ righteous debut album, 1985’s Lightning Metal Attack, stands immortal to this day even though it’s largely remained a cult curio among diehard metal collectors. RELICS FROM THE CRYPT reissued it on vinyl in late 2020, and now grants MAD BUTCHER’s equally electric second album, Metal Meat, the same treatment.

Originally released on the long-dormant Metal Enterprises in 1987, Metal Meat is both an intensification of that rough-around-the-edges but addictingly spirited debut and a smoother, more-finessed version of it. It’s imperative to understand that that Lightning Metal Attack was rather “behind the times” when it was originally released in 1985, given that MAD BUTCHER’s subgenre-defiant sound spanned ALL heavy metal of the day, from NWOBHM to the early ‘80s US sound, before speed metal and then thrash splintered forth from that wider stylistic pool. That they then kinda cobbled it together into an adrenaline rush strikingly similar to speed metal is no mean feat. By comparison – and, crucially, retaining the same lineup as the debut – Metal Meat’s speed metal songs cruised with confidence and ease, in no small part to the improved production, which was still considered “raw” by mainstream standards. However, it’s those hooky, vaguely “mainstream” strutters here that make Metal Meat such a wild and enduring spin. There’s never gonna be a moment where one would ever mistake MAD BUTCHER for a hair-metal band, but a great deal of this album sidles most sinisterly next to that oft-maligned idiom, the band’s more pronounced hard-rock swagger suggesting the Sunset Strip rather than the industrial wasteland of their native Ruhr. Put another way, Metal Meat is far closer to the dark & heavy sleaze of early W.A.S.P. or even Exciter’s way-ugly Unveiling the Wicked than, say, Poison or Ratt. And of course, MAD BUTCHER’s innate German-ness rings loud and clear here, with vocalist/bassist Harry Elbracht delivering an effortlessly creepy performance.

And while MAD BUTCHER would disband in 1990, after two officially released albums and a third posthumously released in 2020, their legendry among the true-metal faithful was forever etched with Lightning Metal Attack – and further etched into the annals of CULT with its inadvertently strange follow-up. Now, for posterity, RELICS FROM THE CRYPT will deliver this Metal Meat right to your table, on the format it so deserves: vinyl!

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

Out 17th December



DVP 199 The Night Eternal – Moonlit Cross MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present THE NIGHT ETERNAL’s highly anticipated debut album, Moonlit Cross on music cassette format.

It was but 2019 when THE NIGHT ETERNAL released their bolt-from-the-blue self-titled EP. For a first public recording, The Night Eternal was nothing short of masterful, revealing a depth and wisdom far beyond the band’s meager years. Across its three primary tracks and poignant cover of Judas Priest's “(Take These) Chains” did the German quintet concoct a supremely powerful and stirringly moody sort of heavy metal, both traditionally pure-steel in their dynamics yet also brimming with epicness and a sort of forlorn heroism. Not for nothing did it garner THE NIGHT ETERNAL a handsome amount of attention.

Now, with more eyes on them, THE NIGHT ETERNAL emerge from the shadows with their full-length debut, Moonlit Cross. Ever aptly titled, Moonlit Cross moves like a travelogue across the mysteries of the night – and of course, THE NIGHT ETERNAL’s namesake itself. Still night-prowling like that first EP, here on their first full-length salvo do the band reveal more (and more powerful, and moodier) shades of their epic sound, bridging both the epic end of traditional metal as well as the root variants which preceded it.

As the band explain, “In comparison to the self-titled EP, on Moonlit Cross we´ve included even more influence from various kinds of guitar-driven rock music, ranging from the ‘70s to the ‘80s, which shaped us as musicians. Combining it with our own sinister style of heavy metal allowed us to exactly create the music we’d been missing in today’s scene. We invite you on a journey to the lowest depths of our hearts.”

Indeed, the swagger THE NIGHT ETERNAL exhibit here owes more to early hard rock, invoking such names as Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Scorpions as well as heavier sounds reminiscent of Mercyful Fate and Black Sabbath´s Dio-era. Yet, familiar as these touchstones may sound, the darkness they so dramatically drape across their compositions puts Moonlit Cross on another realm altogether – and one, it must be said, that evades easy categorization, be it stylistically or chronologically. Simply, THE NIGHT ETERNAL are putting their proverbial hearts on their sleeves, and the music they create is an honest, authentic, and goosebump-inducing reflection of the incredibly vital blood pumping in those hearts.

Massive hooks, sweeping dynamics, high drama, and of course, the commanding vocals of frontman Ricardo, all wrapped in a rich ‘n’ robust production by Ralf Praekelt, with mastering by Chris Common at Twin Hills Recording – THE NIGHT ETERNAL have truly arrived with Moonlit Cross.

– MC with sticker, button and download code.

Out 19th November



DVP 200 Insight – Chapter I: Before the Trial MC

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present INSIGHT’s new ep, Chapter I: Before the Trial on music cassette format.

The Chilean Peñaflor/Santiago scene strikes again, this time with the eerie heavy metal act INSIGHT. This entity consists of (ex) members of acts such as Ripper, Hemisferio, Hellish or Armoured Knight (among many more). After some line up changes and switching from their Spanish mother tongue on their demo and debut ep to English on this new ep, the band has finally found their sound. Which is an unusual take on heavy metal, drawing inspirations from various old school metal styles and combining them into one complex, yet accessible unit. Above all throne the captivating vocals of Dante Dubo.

Chapter I: Before the Trial is the first in a series of three eps which tell the story of a higher being named Azael which studies the nature of humanity. Enter the universe of Azael and dive into Chapter I: Before the Trial!

– MC with sticker, button and download code.

Out 22nd October