Dying Victims Productions is proud to announce the following new Pre-orders:
DVP 315 Vitriolic – Black Steel Vengeance LP/CD
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s VITRIOLIC, Black Steel Vengeance, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records has already released the CD and cassette tape versions for North America.
Hailing from Tampere, VITRIOLIC raise high the iron fist of their homeland’s oft-overlooked blackthrash scene. From the paradigmatic likes of Urn and Flame on to the next generation of Evil Angel, Sadokist, and labelmates RAPID, the power-trio of VITRIOLIC have been fighting the metal fight for the past five years. Initially, the band self-released their first couple EPs and a live album, and then made their full-length debut in 2021 with Renegade Ascension via Headsplit. And while some songs from their second album were forecast in demo form the last few years, at last arrives Black Steel Vengeance.
No more perfectly titled, Black Steel Vengeance is VITRIOLIC are at their rowdiest and most powerful. Honed on the live front, Black Steel Vengeance is a ten-track assault of old-school, riff-driven METAL. Black, speed, thrash, separately or all at once: VITRIOLIC let loose and live lawlessly on this 41-minute firestorm. Truly, this album is a testament to the burning underground spirit – theirs, yours, everyone’s who believes in Hell’s heavy metal – remaining grounded in the dirt of the past but digging up new graves that smell rottenly unfresh. The flag of hate of the original Teutonic Big Three flies proudly here, but VITRIOLIC manage to twist the knife in different-yet-honorable ways. As such, Black Steel Vengeance is equally at home in 1985, 1999, and 2025, such is its timeless gallop ‘n’ thrust. Raise your sword!
– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on black/gold marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.
Out 17th January
DVP 316 Axetasy – Withering Tides LP /CD
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AXETASY’s highly anticipated debut album, Withering Tides, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Stuttgart, Germany’s AXETASY formed in 2020 with influences that belied their young age – namely, the speed metal, thrash, and black metal stalwarts of the ‘80s. Not for nothing is their furious, stubbornly obscure sound stuck there: while you’re busy checking the calendar year, AXETASY have already dragged you into the insane depths of morbid ecstasy!
Now, after a debut and a couple digital singles, AXETASY charge the gates of Hell with their full-length debut, Withering Tides. After the short, scene-setting intro, Withering Tides gallops away into heavy metal heaven with a sound that’s strikingly familiar yet somehow unique – strange magick, indeed! The four youngsters of AXETASY soon prove their mettle with a straightforward rush of just-black-enough speed metal dotted with tasty, atmospheric melodies and technically demanding passages. This is not the usual blackthrash trip; rare is it to find a modern band nailing the etched-in-time, Walls of Jericho-era Helloween sound with this much aplomb. As such, the production of Withering Tides totally befits their fun-yet-fiery, dark-but-not-completely chassis: gleaming and clean where it needs to be, and just dirty enough underneath. Nightmarish mayhem, for sure, and immediately memorable after just one listen…but you’ll surely be possessed by AXETASY to press “play” 666 times!
Swords of steel aloft, AXETASY’s Withering Tides comes heartily recommended for maniacs of labelmates HEXECUTOR and BLACKEVIL as well as former labelmates Sacrifizer, Cruel Force’s more recent work, and Brazil’s Evil Invaders – enter this “Fatal Maze” posthaste!
– 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.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.
Out 17th January
DVP 317 Time Rift – In Flight LP/CD
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TIME RIFT’s highly anticipated second album, In Flight, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
With minds towards the future and souls rooted in the history of rock, TIME RIFT is the rock ‘n’ roll time machine the world needs. Formed by Justin Kaye in 2014, with various line ups through the years, the band currently counts in its roster Terrica Catwood on drums (circa 2017) and Domino Monet on vocals (circa 2023). That doomed year of 2020 saw the DYING VICTIMS release of their debut album, Eternal Rock, and after the world re-opened, a plethora of dynamite shows in the American Northwest helped them hone their craft further.
Fast forward to today, and TIME RIFT is poised to kill. Witness their second album, In Flight. Taking influence from not just the greats of Motörhead, Led Zeppelin, The MC5, and Scorpions, but also stalwart singers such as Sinéad O’Connor, Grace Slick, and Doro Pesch, TIME RIFT deftly blend the power of heavy metal with the groove of rock. In Flight sounds so old and fresh simultaneously, you’ll continually be checking your calendar for which year it is – in either direction – throughout the album’s punchy & powerful 31-minute duration. The arrival of Domino Monet as frontwoman is momentous, as her tough-yet-tender vocals give the band an entirely new dynamic: a swirling cauldron of emotive mid-‘70s hard rock and early ‘80s metal, lean and mean and minimalist but BIGGER than ever. Be warned – TIME RIFT is In Flight!
– Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
– Special edition on creme colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
– CD edition with sticker and obi.
Out 17th January