Deathlike Silence Productions
{{short description|Norwegian independent record label}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox record label
| name = Deathlike Silence Productions
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| parent =
| founded = 1987
(as Posercorpse Music)
| founder = Euronymous
| defunct = 1994
| distributor = Voices of Wonder
| genre = Black metal
| country = Norway
| location = Oslo
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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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=B4sMAQAAMAAJ Resistance, #10–16], Resistance Records, 2000, p. 118. Helvete was the headquarters of DSP.Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Omnibus Press, 2010, "Mayhem".
History
The label was founded in 1987Mick O'Shea, Cemetery Gates: Saints and Survivors of the Heavy Metal Scene, Plexus Publishing, 2014, "Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin)." by Øystein Aarseth, also known as Euronymous, who operated the label until his murder in 1993.Chris Campion (20 February 2005): [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/20/popandrock4 In the Face of Death], guardian.co.uk, accessed on 21 April 2013. The name was derived from the Sodom song "Deathlike Silence" (from their 1986 release Obsessed by Cruelty).Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen: [https://www.vice.com/en/article/saga-true-black-metal-v15n5/ The Saga of True Norwegian Black Metal], vice.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.
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.[https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sigh/Scorn_Defeat/334 The album 'Scorn Defeat' by Sigh was produced by Deathlike Silence] Aarseth was considering signing Rotting Christ, Masacre (Colombia)Bård "Faust" Eithun: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823101907/http://www.thetruemayhem.com/interviews/previous/euro-badfaust.htm Interview with Euronymous], thetruemayhem.com, accessed on 21 April 2013. and Hadez (Peru) before his death.[http://www.blackmetal.com/cgi-bin/gold/category.cgi?category=search&item=HOLOCAUST011CD&type=store&template=archival Hadez: "...From the Graves"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201084415/http://www.blackmetal.com/cgi-bin/gold/category.cgi?category=search |date=1 December 2009 }}, blackmetal.com, accessed on 21 April 2013.
Before the label's demise in 1994, it was planned to release Monumentum's debut album In Absentia Christi.Garry Sharpe-Young: [http://www.musicmight.com/artist/italy/lombardy/milan/monumentum Monumentum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201214824/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/italy/lombardy/milan/monumentum |date=1 February 2014 }}, musicmight.com, accessed on 21 April 2013. 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.A Blaze in the Northern Sky (video interview), 2003. Voices of Wonder "took over Deathlike Silence Productions after the death of Euronymous."[https://web.archive.org/web/20080117111501/http://www.sighjapan.com/bio.htm Biography], sighjapan.com, accessed on 10 June 2013.
Releases on DSP
- Anti-Mosh 001: Merciless – The Awakening (1990)
- Anti-Mosh 002: Burzum – Burzum (1992)
- Anti-Mosh 003: Mayhem – Deathcrush (1993){{#tag:ref|Re-release of the original Deathcrush from 1987.|group="nb"}}
- Anti-Mosh 004: Abruptum – Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me (1993){{#tag:ref|Latin for The Call of Darkness Embraces Me.|group="nb"}}
- 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){{#tag:ref|Latin for In the Shadow of Evil I Will Walk, Forever in Dark Triumph.|group="nb"}}
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110216014627/http://home.online.no/~thomped/DLS.htm Deathlike Silence Productions discography]
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Category:Norwegian independent record labels
Category:Record labels disestablished in 1993
Category:1993 disestablishments in Norway