Deathlike Silence Productions
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Deathlike Silence Productions (DSP) was a Norwegian independent record label founded in Oslo in 1987 (initially as Posercorpse Music) that focused on black metal. DSP supported the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 1990s.<ref>Resistance, #10–16, Resistance Records, 2000, p. 118.</ref> Helvete was the headquarters of DSP.<ref>Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Omnibus Press, 2010, "Mayhem".</ref>
HistoryEdit
The label was founded in 1987<ref>Mick O'Shea, Cemetery Gates: Saints and Survivors of the Heavy Metal Scene, Plexus Publishing, 2014, "Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin)."</ref> by Øystein Aarseth, also known as Euronymous, who operated the label until his murder in 1993.<ref>Chris Campion (20 February 2005): In the Face of Death, guardian.co.uk, accessed on 21 April 2013.</ref> The name was derived from the Sodom song "Deathlike Silence" (from their 1986 release Obsessed by Cruelty).<ref>Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen: The Saga of True Norwegian Black Metal, vice.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.</ref>
At first, the label mainly signed Norwegian acts, but as early as 1990 Aarseth had desired to establish a Swedish branch with Morgan Håkansson of Marduk, and towards its final years its also released an album by Japanese artist Sigh.<ref>The album 'Scorn Defeat' by Sigh was produced by Deathlike Silence</ref> Aarseth was considering signing Rotting Christ, Masacre (Colombia)<ref>Bård "Faust" Eithun: Interview with Euronymous, thetruemayhem.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.</ref> and Hadez (Peru) before his death.<ref>Hadez: "...From the Graves" Template:Webarchive, blackmetal.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.</ref>
Before the label's demise in 1994, it was planned to release Monumentum's debut album In Absentia Christi.<ref>Garry Sharpe-Young: Monumentum Template:Webarchive, musicmight.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.</ref> Darkthrone had threatened to release their second album A Blaze in the Northern Sky through Deathlike Silence when Peaceville Records would not due to their sudden change in genre.<ref>A Blaze in the Northern Sky (video interview), 2003.</ref> Voices of Wonder "took over Deathlike Silence Productions after the death of Euronymous."<ref>Biography, sighjapan.com, accessed on 10 June 2013.</ref>
Releases on DSPEdit
- Anti-Mosh 001: Merciless – The Awakening (1990)
- Anti-Mosh 002: Burzum – Burzum (1992)
- Anti-Mosh 003: Mayhem – Deathcrush (1993)<ref group="nb">Re-release of the original Deathcrush from 1987.</ref>
- Anti-Mosh 004: Abruptum – Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me (1993)<ref group="nb">Latin for The Call of Darkness Embraces Me.</ref>
- Anti-Mosh 005: Burzum – Aske (1993)
- Anti-Mosh 006: Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)
- Anti-Mosh 007: Sigh – Scorn Defeat (1993)
- Anti-Mosh 008: Enslaved – Vikingligr Veldi (1994)
- Anti-Mosh 009: Abruptum – In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo, in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebraum (1994)<ref group="nb">Latin for In the Shadow of Evil I Will Walk, Forever in Dark Triumph.</ref>