SPV – A quarter of a century in the service of rock music, lots of retail and re-release campaigns in 2009

SPV celebrate their 25th anniversary: the label from Hanover was launched 25 years ago, on 1 January 1984 to be precise. What started with the sampler Soundtrack Zum Untergang and bands such as Toxoplasma, Slime, Sodom and Destruction soon threatened to burst the seams of the 100m² offices and 100m² storage rooms at Osterstraße. Today SPV operate from their own premises at Brüsseler Straße and have become one of the most important, successful and committed record labels in Europe. Since 1984, SPV have focused on metal and rock, supplying music to suit all tastes. To celebrate their anniversary, they have scheduled a whole range of exciting retail and re-release campaigns throughout 2009. Please check their website for the latest news here.

The SPV anniversary year will kick off with five download samplers, covering the themes Power Metal, Classic Rock Tracks Live, Thrash ´Em All, German Metal and Women In Rock. Starting on 25th January 2009, these samplers will be available at anniversary prices from all relevant European download stores. February will see the arrival of highly interesting LP releases (many of them available on vinyl again for the first time since the eighties, some of them out on vinyl for the first time ever), among them Accept’s Restless & Wild and Breaker; Savatage’s Hall Of The Mountain King, Streets, Power Of The Night and Gutter Ballet; Iced Earth’s The Crucible Of Man (on double LP) and Ghost Opera and The Black Halo by Kamelot.
In addition, there will be a large number of re-releases in 2009, by Axel Rudi Pell, Destruction and Sodom, among others, all of them remastered using state-of-the-art technology and featuring interesting liner notes as well as exciting bonus material. More campaigns under the “25 & Alive – SPV” logo will be available throughout the anniversary year.

Here’s an overview of the initial LP releases:

March 2nd / USA March 24th 2009
ACCEPT: Restless & Wild
SAVATAGE: Hall Of The Mountain King
KAMELOT: Ghost Opera (Double-LP)
ICED EARTH: The Crucible Of Man (Double-LP)

March 30th / USA March 24th 2009
ACCEPT: Breaker
SAVATAGE: Gutter Ballet
KAMELOT: The Black Halo
UNLEASHED: Hammer Battalion

April 27th 2009
MOONSPELL: Memorial
SAVATAGE: Streets
ROSE TATTOO: Pain (Double-LP)
ANNIHILATOR: King Of The Kill

June 2nd 2009
MOONSPELL: Night Eternal
SAVATAGE: Power Of The Night
ROSE TATTOO: Blood Brothers
ANNIHILATOR: Refresh The Demon

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Germany’s electropop legends Camouflage will be releasing their first ever DVD Live In Dresden on January 26 via Synthetic Symphony/SPV.

Live In Dresden goes beyond the scope of the usual live documentary many times over: Receptive fans as well as interested newcomers to the Camouflage fold will gain insights into the fascinating world of Camouflage on 2 DVD’s and a CD. The CD and 1st DVD contain a live recording of a concert which the band performed at Dresden’s Reithalle. It’s characteristic of the band that this concert didn’t turn into a pure “greatest hits” event, but contains, along with their most popular hits, selected highlights from 25 years of band history, such as ‘You Turn’ or ‘The Perfect Key’, which stylishly complement the overall picture and impressively document that Camouflage don’t just tell their story but continue to live intensely.

Their as much unpretentious as powerful performance is enhanced by the 2nd DVD, which contains not only all the band’s videoclips in chronological order, but also rare unplugged clips and a number of TV appearances which show quite plainly the changes the band has gone through during the past two decades.

A one-hour documentary about their Russian tour in 2006 rounds off the picture and allows their fans a glimpse behind the curtains, giving impressions of life on the road and allowing insights into their lives. Click ‘Read more’ below for the complete tracklisting of the 2DVD+CD package.

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Kreator’s new album Hordes Of Chaos is album of the month in the January/February issue of Aardschok magazine, the biggest rock & metal magazine in the Netherlands. The new album will be released on Steamhammer/SPV on January 19 in Europe (January 13 in the USA and January 16 in Germany). Hordes Of Chaos will be available in three different versions: as regular CD,  limited edition deluxe fold out digipak CD+DVD or gatefold LP. More info here.

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Belgium’s P magazine recently published this great Nashville Pussy review (in Dutch) for their DVD Live In Hollywood. We just had to share this with you. Click the picture for a bigger review.

Thanks to P magazine

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The Bulletin magazine from Belgium wrote exactly what a Motörhead show is all about! See the review below, click on it to see it even bigger!

Thanks to Chris Irons

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