Deathlike Silence Productions

{{short description|Norwegian independent record label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox record label  | name = Deathlike Silence Productions | image_name =  | image_size =  | image_bg =  | parent =  | founded = 1987<br />(as Posercorpse Music) | founder = Euronymous | defunct = 1994 | distributor = Voices of Wonder | genre = Black metal | country = Norway | location = Oslo }}

'''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>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B4sMAQAAMAAJ ''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>

==History== 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): [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/20/popandrock4 ''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: [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.</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>[https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sigh/Scorn_Defeat/334 The album 'Scorn Defeat' by Sigh was produced by Deathlike Silence]</ref> Aarseth was considering signing Rotting Christ, Masacre (Colombia)<ref>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.</ref> and Hadez (Peru) before his death.<ref>[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.</ref>

Before the label's demise in 1994, it was planned to release Monumentum's debut album ''In Absentia Christi''.<ref>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.</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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080117111501/http://www.sighjapan.com/bio.htm ''Biography''], sighjapan.com, accessed on 10 June 2013.</ref>

==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== * Lists of record labels

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110216014627/http://home.online.no/~thomped/DLS.htm Deathlike Silence Productions discography] * [https://burzum.org/eng/deathlike_silence_productions.shtml Deathlike Silence Productions @ Burzum.org]

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