Deathlike Silence Productions

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.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): 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: 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.The album 'Scorn Defeat' by Sigh was produced by Deathlike Silence Aarseth was considering signing Rotting Christ, Masacre (Colombia)Bård "Faust" Eithun: Interview with Euronymous, thetruemayhem.com, accessed on 21 April 2013. and Hadez (Peru) before his death.Hadez: "...From the Graves" , 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: Monumentum , 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."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) Anti-Mosh 004: Abruptum – Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me (1993) 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)

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