SPV reports:

SPV celebrate their 25th anniversary: the label from Hanover was launched 25 years ago, on January 1st, 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 companies 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.

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; Hall Of The Mountain King, Streets, Power Of The Night and Gutter Ballet by SAVATAGE; The Crucible Of Man (on double LP) by ICED EARTH 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

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

ACCEPT - Breaker

SAVATAGE - Gutter Ballet

KAMELOT - The Black Halo

UNLEASHED - Hammer Battalion

April 27th

MOONSPELL - Memorial

SAVATAGE - Streets

ROSE TATTOO - Pain (Double-LP)

ANNIHILATOR - King Of The Kill

June 2nd

MOONSPELL - Night Eternal

SAVATAGE - Power Of The Night

ROSE TATTOO - Blood Brothers

ANNIHILATOR - Refresh The Demon