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GRENDEL: Chemicals + Circuitry

Grendel

Artist: GRENDEL
Title: Chemicals + Circuitry - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi, limited digipak edition of 200 pieces)
Tracks: 11
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA 919
Release Date: 02/01/2010
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: 2,500 yen
Availability: available to pre-order


Tracklisting:

01. Chemicals + Circuitry
02. Shortwired
03. Serotonin Rush
04. Chemicals + Circuitry (Komor Kommando Remix)
05. Shortwired (Synthetic Dream Foundation Remix)
06. Chemicals + Circuitry (Dym Remix)
07. Shortwired (Statik Sky Remix)
08. Chemicals + Circuitry (Studio-X Remix)
09. Shortwired (Thomas Rainer Remix)
10. Chemicals + Circuitry (Modulate Remix)

BONUS TRACK FOR JAPAN:

11. Chemicals + Circuitry (Diabolic Art Remix)

GRENDEL is without doubt the biggest name in the electro-industrial scene: and the long-awaited ‘Chemicals + Circuitry’ is one of the most eagerly-anticipated releases ever for all fans of this genre.

Released worldwide by Infacted (Europe, 2009/11/27) DWA (Asia-Pacific, 2010/01/02) and Metropolis (North America, 2010/01/12), ‘Chemicals + Circuitry’ is the first new music from GRENDEL since 2007’s huge hit album ‘Harsh Generation’ (DWA 801).

And as with ‘Harsh Generation’, with ‘Chemicals + Circuitry’ GRENDEL presents another CD full of non-stop dance beats: destined to be another massive club favorite with DJs and clubbers alike!
3 brand new original tracks, plus remixes from the likes of KOMOR KOMMANDO, rising stars MODULATE and STUDIO-X!

Strictly limited to just 200 copies, DWA is proud to present a unique Japanese Limited Digipak Edition of 'Chemicals + Circuitry'.
Unlike the European and American jewelcase editions, the DWA version comes in luxurious 6-panel digipak format, complete with ‘obi’ and gatefold insert.

And in addition to the regular tracklist, the DWA edition features as an additional bonus track a remix from Japan’s own DIABOLIC ART: music project of top scene DJ Taiki (Black Veil: Osaka)!




PANIC LIFT: Witness To Our Collapse

Panic Lift

Artist: PANIC LIFT
Title: Witness To Our Collapse - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 12
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA 911 / NTK 032
Release Date: 31/10/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/NoiTekk (Black Rain)
Price: 2,500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. Prologue
02. Everything I Have
03. Failsafe
04. Hold On
05. Shelter
06. Witness To Our Collapse
07. Remnants Of A Dead Age
08. No Trace To Love
09. Seasons Change
10. Dawn Of Fate
11. Save Yourself
12. Butterfly Wings (My Only Hope)

At DWA, we are always looking for the best new acts from around the world: of which PANIC LIFT is most definitely one.
With its perfect production and memorable melodic hooks,‘Witness To Our Collapse’ is one of those rare albums where almost every track could be a single. All the more amazing when remembering that this is PANIC LIFT’s debut!

This is a harsh-EBM/dark electro album, certainly – and full of incredibly powerful tracks that would instantly fill any club dancefloor – but with so much variety that it keeps the listener’s attention fully engaged from start to finish.
Pounding beats and sequencers, aggressive distorted vocals – the trademarks of the harsh-EBM genre are all here.
But so too are trip-hop beats, piano and guitars, more reminiscent of NINE INCH NAILS.

Formed in New York in 2006, PANIC LIFT self-released an EP ‘Dancing Through The Ashes’ which quickly sold out, as the act moved swiftly to the forefront of the harsh-EBM/dark electro scene in America: playing with artists such as COMBICHRIST, AYRIA and MODULATE.

A US record deal with HIVE followed, leading to the American release in August 2008 of PANIC LIFT’s debut full-length album ‘Witness To Our Collapse’.

Later in 2008, PANIC LIFT was signed by German label Black Rain/NoiTekk for the European release of ‘Witness To Our Collapse’.

On May 29th 2009, PANIC LIFT were joined by Tom Z (GODHEAD, BILE) on drums, and were invited to appear at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany - the largest industrial/gothic music festival in the world.

On September 11th 2009, PANIC LIFT appear in the U.S. as special guests on the PSYCLON NINE/IMPERATIVE REACTION double-headline tour: and have begun work on their second album, scheduled for release in 2010.

DWA’s Japanese Limited Edition of ‘Witness To Our Collapse’ comes in a 6-panel digipak with 8-panel folding insert, complete with previously unpublished photos from the sessions for the US/European artwork.
Also included are the full lyrics of the entire album - also previously unavailable on any other version!
A true collector’s item: of a debut album that truly re-defines the dark electro/harsh-EBM genre!




JABBERWOCK: Sweet Limbo/Jabberwock

Jabberwock

Artist: JABBERWOCK
Title: Sweet Limbo/Jabberwock - 2CD Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 8-panel colour booklet + 16-panel booklet (BLACK RAIN), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 29 (14 + 15)
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA 910 / BR 054
Release Date: 31/10/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain
Price: 3,000 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

CD1 (Sweet Limbo)
01. Confusion
02. Fake
03. Faster
04. Obsolete
05. Clean
06. Brainbondage
07. Faith
08. Repeat
09. Illusions
10. Replay
11. Safe
12. Ignorants
13. Le Freak
14. Chicken

CD2 (Jabberwock)
01. Happy
02. Boxed
03. Off
04. Comfort
05. Devotion
06. Tense
07. Now
08. Bombzilla
09. Dirt
10. Sucks
11. Bombzilla (vx69 Remix)
12. Dirt (Punish Yourself Remix)
13. Boxed (Obe Remix)
14. Tense (Collapse Remix)
15. Happy (Wytlyt Remix)


JABBERWOCK is a unique and powerful rising force in the European alternative music scene, playing in July 2009 at the Dark Castle Festival in Paris with DIARY OF DREAMS, ALIEN VAMPIRES, AGONOIZE and SUICIDE COMMANDO.

Many acts claim that their music has a variety of influences, but few are able to mix those influences into something fresh and individual as effectively as this female-fronted French electro-punk 3-piece.

With their stunning second album ‘Sweet Limbo’, JABBERWOCK have created a work of incredible depth and diversity.
Yet it is also one where no track sounds out of place, and where every song sounds like JABBERWOCK – even the cold and sinister cover of CHIC’s ‘Le Freak’.

Danceable electro-clash that reminds of PZYCHOBITCH, high-tempo digital hardcore elements of ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, down-tempo melancholic guitar and bass – ‘Sweet Limbo’ is an amazing mix of alternative-music trends from gothic to industrial, from indie-rock to electro.
And all with perfectly polished production.

With the satirical lyrics of songs like ‘Obsolete’ and the frantic ‘Faster’, and their smart suits, JABBERWOCK mock the meaningless modern lives of the average office worker.

The unique music of ‘Sweet Limbo’ is complemented perfectly by a beautiful 16-panel booklet full of beautiful and surreal cartoon illustrations of the strange world of JABERWOCK: where ‘Every day = confusion’.

As a special bonus, DWA’s Japanese Limited Edition of ‘Sweet Limbo’ comes with the band’s debut album ‘Jabberwock’ as a 2nd CD. Packed with a further 10 tracks plus 5 remixes, ‘Jabberwock’ is an excellent album in its own right: and is presented complete with the original 8-panel booklet.

Packaged in a specially-designed 6-panel digipak combining elements of the artwork of both albums, and strictly limited to 100 copies, this 2CD Japanese Limited Edition is incredible value and an instant collector’s item.




VIGILANTE: Life Is A Battlefield

Vigilante

Artist: VIGILANTE
Title: Life Is A Battlefield
Format: DVD + CD (DVD-case, double-sided DVD jacket, 8-page DVD booklet)
Tracks: 21 (9 + 12)
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA 917 / BR 064
Release Date: 03/10/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain
Price: 2,500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

DVD:

LIVE:
01 Intro/Fire 6:17
02 Resistir (One Good Reason, Spanish Version) 4:35
03 Fair Fight 5:11
04 Juicio Final (The Other Side, Spanish Version) 4:16
05 In The Name Of God 4:10
06 Answers 4:42
07 Hardcore 4:42
08 El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara Cover) 2:56
09 Freedom 3:50

GALLERIES:
-Live
-Studio
-European Tour 2006
-European Tour 2007
-Covers
-Flyers & Posters

DOCUMENTARY:
-Vigilante Documentary 44:00

VIDEOS:
-One Good Reason 4:03
-The Other Side 3:37
-Fire 3:51
-El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara Cover) 3:09
-Freedom (European Tour 2006) 3:39
-Hardcore (European Tour 2007) 4:27
-Fire (Nine Inch Nails Concert 2008) 3:51
-Prison Break (Featuring Claus Larsen) 4:10

BONUS CD:

01 Intro/Fire (Live) 6:17
02 Resistir (One Good Reason, Spanish Version: Live) 4:35
03 Fair Fight (Live) 5:11
04 Juicio Final (The Other Side, Spanish Version: Live) 4:16
05 In The Name Of God (Live) 4:10
06 Answers (Live) 4:42
07 Hardcore (Live) 4:42
08 El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara Cover: Live) 2:56
09 Freedom (Live) 3:50
10 Prison Break (Featuring Claus Larsen) 4:10
11 The New Resistance 4:51
12 Still Alive (Die Krupps Remix) 5:11

Formed in 2005, in just a few short years VIGILANTE have already toured Europe twice, have had a ‘Best Of’ album released by major label Feria Music in their homeland Chile, and have played with acts such as NINE INCH NAILS, HOCICO and AGONOIZE.
As well as their own 2 albums ‘The Heroes Code’ and ‘War Of Ideas’, which have been released in both Europe and Russia, VIGILANTE are also prolific remixers: featured most recently on DWA releases in Japan on the smash hit DOPE STARS INC. album ‘21st Century Slave’ (DWA 912), SIVA SIX’s ‘Flesh And Will Resurrected’ (DWA 901) and the forthcoming sawDUST in me album ‘Decorated Doll’ (DWA 907).

In January 2009, DWA released a special 2CD digipak edition of the current VIGILANTE album ‘War Of Ideas’ (DWA 903).
In June 2009, VIGILANTE was featured in GrindHouse Magazine alongside DOPE STARS INC. and LXT, as part of a profile of DWA’s top foreign acts.
And throughout June and July, VIGILANTE has been receiving daily airplay of various tracks from ‘War Of Ideas’ on USEN’s GrindHouse Channel!
(USEN440/SOUND PLANET: B/F-61 Channel - 'Modern Rock (GrindHouse)’)

On 2009/6/19 the video of VIGILANTE’s song ‘El Derecho De Vivir En Paz’ – a preview from the ‘Life Is A Battlefield’ DVD - was broadcast on Tokyo MX-TV: on the ‘GrindHouse TV’ show, introduced by legendary rock DJ Hiro Arishima.
Now, DWA is pleased to release the full DVD-debut of VIGILANTE – ‘Life Is A Battlefield’: with free bonus CD!

This DVD features the entire live performance of a VIGILANTE show in Chile (9 songs), plus all 5 music videos made so far by the band, and a further 3 tracks captured from their 2006 and 2007 European tours and supporting NINE INCH NAILS.
Also included is a feature-length documentary detailing the history of VIGILANTE, plus image galleries of album jacket art, flyers, photos from the studio and from previous European tours.

The bonus CD contains all 9 songs from the live show, presented in High Definition audio, plus 3 brand new tracks: a remix by scene-legends DIE KRUPPS, and 2 songs taken from the forthcoming new album ‘The New Resistance’ – including ‘Prison Break’ featuring Claus Larsen (LEAETHER STRIP) on guest vocals!

Feel all the power and intensity of Chile’s #1 industrial rock act!

‘VIGILANTE is one of the finest industrial bands to come out of South America’
(Baard Torstensen, CLAWFINGER)

‘On the dancefloors VIGILANTE will be a serious threat to even the biggest names in industrial music, with their enormous grooves and heartfelt lyrics’
(Jürgen Engler, DIE KRUPPS)




VARIOUS ARTISTS: A Compilation 3

A Compilation 3

Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: A Compilation 3
Format: 2CD (card-wallet + obi)
Tracks: 28 (14 + 14)
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA 916 / BR 049
Release Date: 03/10/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain
Price: 999 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

CD1:
01. DANDELION WINE – Stain Glass Colours
02. RISE AND FALL OF A DECADE – In The Time When
03. NOVALIS DEUX – Passing By
04. KILLING OPHELIA – Greed Machine
05. THE PUSSYBATS – Miss Purgatory
06. JESUS & THE GURUS – The Day Will Come
07. RELIQUARY – Dusk Falls
08. NARSILION – Desperta Ferro
09. ONYX EYES – Onyx Eyes
10. BRILLIG - Escher
11. ATOMIC NEON – Mein Kleid
12. DIE PERLEN – Beweg Dich Nicht
13. ASLAN FACTION – Bring On The Dying
14. OTX – To Die For A Lie

CD2:
01. JABBERWOCK - Boxed
02. DERMA-TEK – Corpus Technological
03. C-DRONE-DEFECT – Morituri Te Salutant
04. IWR – Ketamine Sedation
05. DISTORTED MEMORY – Disciples Of The Watch
06. PROSPECTIVE – Deadly Sins
07. DYM – Autonomy Of The Will
08. TYSKE LUDDER - Thetanen
09. FEINDFLUG - Ersatzteil
10. DAWN OF ASHES – Torture Device
11. FGFC820 – Killing Fields (Battle Of Nations Mix)
12. VIGILANTE - Fire
13. PANIC LIFT - Failsafe
14. XENTRIFUGE – Light Extinguished

Featuring 28 tracks from 28 different international bands, ‘A Compilation 3’ offers an incredible selection of the latest industrial and gothic music.
But at the amazingly low promotional price of just 999 Yen, this album is also an incredible bargain!

The current label sampler from leading German industrial/gothic label Black Rain/NoiTekk, ‘A Compilation 3’ includes tracks from 5 DWA releases: and is therefore a great introduction to both Black Rain/NoiTekk and DWA’s sound.

Earlier in 2009, DWA released 4 special 2CD titles from leading German label Black Rain:
VIGILANTE – ‘War Of Ideas’ (DWA 903)
TACTICAL SEKT – ‘Syncope’ (DWA 904)
FGFC820 – ‘Law & Ordnance’ (DWA 905)
and DAWN OF ASHES – ‘In The Acts Of Violence/The Crypt Injection’ (DWA 906).

Now, in October 2009, DWA releases a further 3 special editions of titles from the Black Rain Media Group:
VIGILANTE – ‘Life Is A Battlefield’ (DWA 917)
PANIC LIFT – ‘Witness To Our Collapse’ (DWA 911)
and JABBERWOCK – ‘Sweet Limbo/Jabberwock’ (DWA 910)

To promote all these releases, we are also making available 200 copies of ‘A Compilation 3’ at this special low price: but only while stocks last!




INERTIA: Interpret

Inertia

Artist: INERTIA
Title: Interpret - Limited 2CD Digipak Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + 12-panel booklet + obi, limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 21 (10 + 11)
Total Running Time: 56 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA 915
Release Date: 29/08/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Cryonica
Price: 3000 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

(CD1: INTERPRET)
01. Repent - Remixed by Armageddon Dildos
02. Pressure - Remixed by Diabolic Art
03. Paralyzed - Remixed by Die Krupps
04. Higher (Vertical Smile Mix) - Remixed by Youth (Killing Joke)
05. The Preacher - Remixed by Sins Of The Flesh
06. Repent - Remixed by Obszon Geschopf
07. Pressure - Remixed by Octolab
08. Higher (Keplers Cat Theory) - Remixed by Blue October UK
09. Paralyzed - Remixed by 2 Bullet
10. The Preacher (Single Edit) - Remixed by Inertia
11. MUSIC VIDEO: The Preacher

(CD2: INERTIA)
01. The Preacher
02. Paralysed
03. Pressure
04. Lost
05. Follow Me
06. Sister’s Moment
07. Higher
08. Le Cirque Noir
09. Repent
10. Finale

Another WORLD EXCLUSIVE release on Deathwatch Asia this summer: a Japan-only remix album from the legendary UK electro-industrial act INERTIA, EBM-project of KILLING JOKE keyboardist Reza Udhin.


‘Interpret’ contains 10 remixes of songs from the current album ‘Inertia’, plus the music video for ‘The Preacher’.
Remix artists include legendary names like DIE KRUPPS, YOUTH (KILLING JOKE) and ARMAGEDDON DILDOS: plus from Japan DIABOLIC ART (Syarman & DJ Taiki: ‘Infacted Asia’ - DWA 909), SINS OF THE FLESH and 2 BULLET.

Formed in the UK, INERTIA released their first MCD ‘Infiltrator’ on the German label Celtic Circle in 1995 to widespread critical acclaim.
As a result of the popularity of ‘Infiltrator’, between 1995-1996 INERTIA were invited to play across Europe - including an appearance at Wave Gotik Treffen 1996.
The success of their second MCD ‘Mind Energy’ and their debut album ‘Programmed To Respond’ (1997) in America led to INERTIA’s first full-length US tour, supporting DAS ICH.

Since 1997, INERTIA have returned to Wave Gotik Treffen (1999), have played several lengthy headline tours of the US (with support from acts such as TERRORFAKT and PROJECT-X), and have released a further 4 albums: ‘Negative Prime’ (1999), ‘Advanced Revelation’ (2002), ‘Black Ice Impact’ (2004), ‘Inertia’ (2007), plus 2 remix albums ‘Demagnetized/Remagnetized’ (1999), ‘Positive Angel’ (2000).

In 2006, the American label Cleopatra celebrated 10 years of INERTIA’s career in the EBM-genre by releasing a 2CD ‘Best Of…’ compilation ‘Decade Of Machines’: and INERTIA returned to the US to tour again, this time with legendary German electro outfit ARMAGEDDON DILDOS.

‘Interpret’ will initially be released EXCLUSIVELY in Japan by DWA: and subsequently worldwide and on digital download.
As the current album ‘Inertia’ – on which the remixes are all based – has never been released in Japan, in order to set the context for the remixes the first 100 copies of ‘Interpret’ come as a 2CD digipak Limited Edition set including ‘Inertia’ as a bonus disc.
The package also includes the original 12-page booklet for ‘Inertia’, as well as the 8-page booklet for ‘Interpret’ and obi.




BAK XIII: Best Of BAK XIII

BAK XIII

Artist: BAK XIII
Title: Best Of BAK XIII - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 222 pieces)
Tracks: 20
Total Running Time: 79 minutes
Catalogue Number: KAB-078
Release Date: 08/08/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Urgence Disk Records
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. Things Will Never Change – 4:18
02. Open The Borders – 4:07
03. Media Control – 4:42
04. 80's Are Back Forever – 3:24
05. Lost In Darkness (Guitar Mix) – 4:12
06. Ghouls And Ghosts – 4:26
07. Dance And Die – 3:39
08. Disco Armageddon – 3:50
09. Homo Disco – 3:39
10. Sad Song – 3:04
11. New Wave Party – 3:41
12. VSKMR – 4:00
13. Welcome To The Void – 2:51
14. Body Religion – 3:30
15. Lost – 4:01
16. Dead Again – 4:14
17. Nothing Left To Believe – 4:33
18. Where's The Party? – 3:47
19. Fuck You And Dance – 4:21
20. Manifeste – 3:44

BAK XIII is an EBM/New Wave powerhouse from Switzerland, combining modern industrial production with classic old-school EBM-sequencing: 21st Century music with punk attitude and a retro feel evidenced by song-titles like ‘80s Are Back Forever’ and ‘New Wave Party’.


In Europe, BAK XIII have toured with such top names in the electro-industrial scene as SUICIDE COMMANDO, FRONT 242 and DAS ICH: and have remixed or been remixed by top artists like PSYCHE, HIV+ and THE NEON JUDGEMENT.


In 2008, DWA invited BAK XIII programmer Baron Von Smock to Japan to present his ambient-industrial solo-project MUSIC FOR THE SPACE live in Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto: and as guest DJ for leading dark-scene event Tokyo Dark Castle in Shinjuku.


Now with ‘Best Of BAK XIII’ DWA is proud to present a world-exclusive Japan-only ‘Greatest Hits Collection’ of BAK XIII: celebrating the prolific musical career of Switzerland’s best-known electro-industrial act!


Originally formed as a duo by Baron Von Smock and DDDmix (vocals, programming) in Geneva in 2001, since 2003 BAK XIII has operated as a trio with guitarists Garf (2003-2006) and Tenebras (2007-2009) adding metal riffs to the mix.


Since 2003, BAK XIII have released a new studio album almost every year: ‘In Cauda Venenum’ (2003), ‘Post Lucem Tenebrae’ (2004), ‘Morituri Te Salutant’ (2005), ‘Vae Victis’ (2006) and ‘Ultima Ratio Regum’ (2008), plus the 2006 EP ‘Dead Again’. DWA’s ‘Best Of BAK XIII’ contains a massive 20 tracks from all 5 BAK XIII albums: all personally selected by the band themselves!


Under exclusive license from BAK XIII’s European label Urgence Disk Records, DWA’s ‘Best Of BAK XIII’ comes with an 8-panel folding insert detailing the entire recorded history of BAK XIII’s albums, plus 4-panel insert with Japanese linernotes about the band. And the first 200 copies of this unique album are presented in a 6-panel digipak, with artwork specially commissioned for this release!




DOPE STARS INC.: 21st Century Slave

Dope Stars Inc.

Artist: DOPE STARS INC.
Title: 21st Century Slave - Japanese Limited Edition Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 16-panel booklet + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 300 pieces)
Tracks: 14
Total Running Time: 67 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA 912
Release Date: 14/07/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. Omegadrones – 6:48
02. 21st Century Slave – 5:36
03. It’s Today – 3:26
04. When I See You Smile – 6:03
05. Digital Warriors – 5:25
06. Megacorps – 3:35
07. Criminal Intents – 3:33
08. Neuromantics – 4:43
09. Outlaw Thrones – 5:14
10. The World Machine – 4:34
11. It’s For You – 3:40

EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS FOR JAPAN:


12. 21st Century Slave (Remixed by VIGILANTE) – 2:33
13. Omegadrones - Another Game (Remixed by SINS OF THE FLESH) – 5:18
14. 21st Century Slave (Remixed by BAAL) – 5:33

DWA is proud to present the world exclusive first release of the amazing new full-length album from Italian cyberpunk sensation DOPE STARS INC., ‘21st Century Slave’ - available only in Japan from 7.14!

And in addition to the 11 tracks of the standard European and US versions of the album, DWA’s Japanese Limited Edition features 3 extra tracks exclusive to the Japanese release: remixes from Tokyo industrial rock act BAAL, Osaka-based SINS OF THE FLESH and South American superstars VIGILANTE!

DOPE STARS INC.’s first 2 albums ‘Neuromance’ and ‘Gigahearts’ achieved massive sales and media attention across Europe and the US, gaining chart positions in many countries.
Their 3rd album ‘21st Century Slave – eagerly awaited by their legions of fans across the globe – is their strongest ever.

In the midst of the current global economic collapse, blamed by most on the excesses of corporate greed, the timing could not be more appropriate for the socio-political message of ‘21st Century Slave’. Welcome to DOPE STARS INC.’s dystopian vision of the world of today: where we are either tools of technology and giant uncaring corporations, or where we embrace the system to fight it from within.

With ‘21st Century Slave’, DOPE STARS INC. take up the cyberpunk themes of cult authors like William Gibson and give them musical form. An awe-inspiring collision of programmed electronics, heavy rock guitars and punk aggression, ‘21st Century Slave’ is easily DOPE STARS INC.’s most powerful and wide-ranging work to date: an emphatic artistic statement, perfectly produced by charismatic frontman Victor Love.

From the throbbing industrial dance beats of the ominous opening call to arms ‘Omega Drones’, to the unexpectedly sweet acoustic-pop melodies of final song ‘Its For You’, the album twists and turns but never disappoints. Both diverse and decisive in it’s musical choices, ‘21st Century Slave’ embraces industrial, nu metal and electro influences, but always finds a convergence that is uniquely DOPE STARS INC.

The first 300 copies of DWA’s Japanese Limited Edition of ‘21st Century Slave’ come in a 6-panel digipak with 16-panel colour booklet, 4-panel insert with Japanese liner notes, and obi.
In the beautifully-designed artwork, Victor Love’s musical and lyrical vision is perfectly illustrated by digital artist Rhett Podersoo, whose depiction of our modern urban environment resonates with the visual aesthetic of Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’.
Dirty cityscapes and harsh neon oppress us as attack helicopters patrol the polluted skies…and DOPE STARS INC. and their star emblem oversee all from rooftops and TV screens.

Following the enormous worldwide success of the ‘Criminal Intents/Morning Star’ EP – released as a special Japanese Limited Edition on June 20 (DWA 908) – comes DWA’s world-exclusive first release of ‘21st Century Slave’: which looks certain to be the glamorous and rebellious DOPE STARS INC.’s best-selling album so far!




KOMOR KOMMANDO: Das EP

Komor Kommando

Artist: KOMOR KOMMANDO
Title: Das EP - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 7
Total Running Time: 34 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA 914
Release Date: 04/07/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Alfa-Matrix
Price: 2000 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. Love Your Neighbor – 5:14
02. State Of Destruction – 5:45
03. Triggerfinger– 4:31
04. Beat Around The Bushes – 5:38
05. The Beat That Goes Ping – 4:47
06. Das Oontz – 5:07
07. Antikrist – 4:31

The name of songwriter and producer Sebastian Komor needs no introduction to all fans of EBM/dark electro after his massive international success with ZOMBIE GIRL and ICON OF COIL.
Now he has a new solo project, KOMOR KOMMANDO: the most aggressive music he has ever made!

Just released in Europe by Alfa-Matrix, DWA is proud to announce the Japanese release of KOMOR KOMMANDO’s 7-track debut ‘Das EP’ on 7/04!

Of course no mere import, DWA’s Japanese Limited Edition comes in a striking 6-panel Japan-only digipak, remodelled from the original artwork: plus 4-panel Japan-only gatefold insert with Japanese liner notes, and obi…and is strictly limited to 100 copies!

The tracks ‘Love Your Neighbor’ and ‘Beat Around The Bushes’ have already been featured in several compilation albums of club music (Endzeit Bunkertracks - Act IV, Advanced Electronics Vol.7, etc), receiving heavy play at club events around the world.

‘Das EP’ includes ‘Love Your Neighbor’, ‘Beat Around The Bushes’ plus 5 brand new previously unreleased tracks: all killer tracks designed to take your head off on the dancefloor!
These are club industrial beats at their most brutal.
KOMOR KOMMANDO are here: and no prisoners will be taken.




DOPE STARS INC.: Criminal Intents/Morning Star

Dope Stars Inc.

Artist: DOPE STARS INC.
Title: Criminal Intents/Morning Star - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 200 pieces)
Tracks: 18
Total Running Time: 72 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-908
Release Date: 20/06/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. Criminal Intents – 3:33
02. Digital Warriors – 5:27
03. Morning Star – 6:08
04. Nothing Is Left – 3:21
05. Lost (Remix by KMFDM) – 4:29
06. Can You Imagine (Remix by Gothminister) – 3:43
07. Braindamage (Scumsuckers Remix by Mortiis) – 4:44
08. Bang Your Head (Remix by Reverend Hellbastard) – 3:53
09. Braindamage (Remix by Crossbreed) – 4:35
10. Can You Imagine (Remix by Violent Diva) – 5:02

Exclusive bonus tracks for Japan:

11. Multiplatform Paradise (Remix by LXT) – 3.13
12. Bang Your Head (Remix by Deflore) – 3.14
13. Braindamage (SmashMix by XP8) – 4:52
14. Beatcrusher (Remix by Adam Kult) – 3:41
15. Analog God (previously unreleased demo) – 2.50
16. 34 Hours (previously unreleased demo) – 4.07
17. Stay On Your Track (previously unreleased demo) – 2.09
18. You Make Me Upset (previously unreleased demo) – 2.42


The return of the Italian masters of cyberpunk rock! Japan-exclusive limited edition digipak version with extra artwork, Japan-only 8-page booklet and Japan-only bonus tracks!


Featuring 8 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT tracks to the European and American versions - ALL EXCLUSIVE and PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED - plus larger digipak and booklet, the Japanese Limited Edition of 'Criminal Intents/Morning Star' is surely a must-have collectors item for all fans of DOPE STARS INC.…with the added bonus that DOPE STARS INC. will SIGN all pre-ordered copies!


Mixing cyberpunk images with heavy rock guitars and electronic music, the amazingly good-looking DOPE STARS INC. arrived on the European alternative scene with their 2005 debut ‘Neuromance’ and ‘Gigahearts’ (2006) for German label Trisol, achieving massive interest from music magazines.

Between 2005-2008 DOPE STARS INC. performed at some of the biggest alternative music festivals in Europe such as Mera Luna, Wave Gotik Treffen, Amphi, and Summer Darkness: as well as playing with acts like COMBICHRIST, APOPTYGMA BERZERK and ASP, and having songs featured in the soundtracks of hit horror movies SAW 2, 3 and 4.

Now, after a 3-year break during which frontman and songwriter Victor Love has been using his production skills with fellow Italian act LXT/LATEXXX TEENS and his own side-project EPOCHATE, the self-styled ‘digital warriors’ have returned with a brand-new album-length EP ‘Criminal Intents/Morning Star’: a preview for their forthcoming 3rd full studio album ‘21st Century Slave’ scheduled for release on DWA (Japan), Metropolis (USA) and Trisol/Subsound (Europe) in July.


Running at well over 70 minutes of music, this version of ‘Criminal Intents/Morning Star’ includes a selection of new tracks and a massive bonus section of remixes of classic DOPE STARS INC. tracks by top names such as KMFDM, MORTIIS and GOTHMINISTER!

But DWA’s unique Japanese Limited Edition digipak of ‘Criminal Intents/Morning Star’ features no less than EIGHT different bonus tracks to the European (Trisol/Subsound) and US (Metropolis) releases - remixes by XP8, LXT/LATEXXX TEENS, DEFLORE and ADAM KULT - plus 4 previously unreleased demos never heard before!


DWA’s digipak is 6-panels landscape-format rather than the 4-panel portrait-format digipak of the Trisol European release: with additional artwork.

The DWA booklet is 8-panels instead of the 4-panel booklet of the Metropolis release - adding gorgeous additional photos of the band by Enrico Caputo.

All this, plus additional 4-panel gatefold insert with Japanese liner notes.


Strictly limited to 200 copies, we expect heavy demand for the digipak edition of this release to rapidly outstrip supply!
And to repeat: DOPE STARS INC. WILL SIGN THE BOOKLETS OF ALL PRE-ORDERED COPIES OF THIS RELEASE!!!


On general release from June 20th, pre-orders will ship on average 1 week prior to the release date.




V/A: Infacted Asia: Black Veil Club Selection

Infacted Asia

Artist: V/A
Title: Infacted Asia: Black Veil Club Selection (Nonstop Mix By DJ TAIKI)
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 333 pieces)
Tracks: 15
Total Running Time: 62 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-909
Release Date: 06/06/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia/Infacted Recordings
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: in stock


Tracklisting:

01. SCHALLFAKTOR - Aroused
02. STATE OF THE UNION - Stockbrecher
03. FROZEN PLASMA – A Generation Of The Lost (Lukas Boysen Rmx)
04. AQUALITE – Cutoff Baby
05. IRIS – Lands Of Fire (Datguy Mix)
06. LES ANGES DE LA NUIT - Reborn
07. LIQUID DIVINE – Technocracy (Tom Wax Remix)
08. RETRACTOR – The False Memory (Hermonic Mix)
09. GRENDEL – Hate This
10. SOMAN - Absolution
11. SOMAN – Detail
12. MODULATE – Digital Alchemy
13. SYNCROTEK – Hacker (Infacted Mix)
14. REAPER – Urnensand (by Schallfaktor)
15. HEIMATAERDE – O Grosse Lieb

Japan-ONLY exclusive! 15 tracks from leading German electro-industrial label Infacted Recordings, mixed for the dancefloor by Japan’s #1 electro-industrial DJ TAIKI!

In 2006, DWA released the first compilation album of music from the Japanese dark scene, the best-selling ‘Dark Waters’ album. Now, in another ground-breaking idea, DWA presents the first-ever commercial release of a mix-CD by a Japanese dark scene DJ: using an exclusive selection of tracks from leading German dark electro label Infacted Recordings!

Mixed live in Osaka by DJ TAIKI (Black Veil), ‘Infacted Asia: Black Veil Club Selection’ is a non-stop DJ-mix of 15 dance tracks from top Infacted artists such as GRENDEL, REAPER, HEIMATAERDE and SOMAN. The perfect introduction to the best of Infacted’s impressive catalogue of alternative club music: perfectly mixed by leading dark scene DJ TAIKI, organiser of Japan’s premier alternative club night ‘Black Veil’ at Shinsaibashi Club Neo since 2000.

A world-exclusive CD, produced only for Japan, the mix has been mastered by top European engineer Jan L (aka NOISUF-X/X-FUSION) of X-Fusion Music Production, whose extensive production and mastering credits include SIVA SIX (DWA901: Flesh And Will Resurrected), SUICIDE COMMANDO and GRENDEL.

Artwork for the 6-panel digipak and 8-panel insert features photography of DJ TAIKI by leading Japanese dark scene photographer and digital artist Tani Atsushi.

Music from Infacted Recordings, mixed by DJ TAIKI, mastered by X-Fusion Music Production, artwork by Atsushi Tani, produced and released exclusively by Deathwatch Asia: welcome to the hard-hitting club sounds of Osaka’s ‘Black Veil’!




DAWN OF ASHES: Acts Of Violence/Crypt Injection

Dawn Of Ashes

Artist: DAWN OF ASHES
Title: In The Acts Of Violence/The Crypt Injection- Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 2x8-panel colour booklet (NOITEKK / BLACK RAIN), limited edition of 200 pieces)
Tracks: 25 + video
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-906
Release Date: 25/04/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / NoiTekk (Black Rain)
Price: 3500 yen
Availability: in stock


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Tracklisting:

(CD1 - In The Acts Of Violence)
01. Abyss
02. In The Acts Of Violence
03. Flat-line
04. Diagnosis
05. Nightmare
06. Dark Reality
07. Killer Instinct
08. Naildriven
09. Disgraceful Treason
10. Maximum Damnation
11. Abyss (FGFC820 Remix)

(CD2 - The Crypt Injection)
01. A Blade In The Dark
02. Torture Device
03. Portrait Of Homicide
04. Inhuman Salvation
05. Psycho Therapy
06. Still Born Defect
07. The Crypt Injection
08. Slasher
09. Where Angels Die
10. Blood Shattered Cross
11. Vengeance (When There Is Nobody Left To Trust)
12. Still Born Defect (Aslan Faction Remix)
13. Portrait Of Homicide (XP8 Remix)
14. Portrait Of Homicide (Dioxyde Remix)
15. Torture Device - Music Video

Some groups like SIVA SIX have successfully switched to the electro-industrial scene from origins in black metal. Like PSYCLON NINE before them, DAWN OF ASHES seem to currently be moving in the opposite direction: from dark electro to death metal.

Currently recording what will be their third studio album ‘Genocide Chapters’, DAWN OF ASHES have now adopted SLIPKNOT-style masks and an expanded line-up featuring live drums, bass and guitar.
However, prior to this apparent change of musical direction they have been responsible for 2 of the electro-industrial scene’s most powerful recent albums - in the shape of their 2006 debut ‘In The Acts Of Violence’ (which reached #9 in the DAC German Alternative Charts), and the widely-praised follow-up ‘The Crypt Injection’ (2007: DAC #6!).

For the first time, DWA brings these 2 brilliant albums together: in 1 beautiful collector’s edition package.
Including remixes from FGFC820, ASLAN FACTION, XP8 and DIOXYDE – plus the music video for ‘Torture Device’ - this is a non-stop sensory assault of electro-horror.

Coming in an all-new 6-panel digipak modelled on the artwork of the original Noitekk releases, this strictly Limited Edition of 200 pieces comes with obi and Japanese liner-notes insert from DWA - plus the 2 original 8-page booklets and 2 CDs from the individual Noitekk European editions of both albums.




FGFC820: Law & Ordnance

SOTF

Artist: FGFC820
Title: Law & Ordnance - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 8-panel colour booklet (NOITEKK / BLACK RAIN), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 25
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-905
Release Date: 18/04/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Noitekk (Black Rain)
Price: 3000 yen
Availability: in stock


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Tracklisting:

(CD1)
01. Hello, Baghdad
02. Democracy
03. Killing Fields
04. Resolution 6
05. Ich Bin Ein Auslander
06. Vengeance
07. Momentum
08. Resolution 7
09. Emotion
10. Forsaken
11. Not The World I Remember
12. Resolution 8
13. Dream For Tomorrow
14. The Heart Of America

(CD2)
01. Children Of Decay (Remix by C-Drone Defect)
02. Anthem (Remix by Phil J of Steinkind)
03. Existence (Remix by Combichrist)
04. Democracy (Remix by C-Lekktor)
05. Killing Fields (No End In Sight Remix by Memmaker)
06. America (Remix by Distorted Memory)
07. Perfect War (Remix by SAM)
08. Children Of Decay (Stixmix by Northborne)
09. Democracy (Remix by Xentrifuge)
10. Killing Fields (Remix by Acylum)
11. America (Remix by Mesmer’s Eyes)

Formed in 2004 as a collaboration between 2 of New York City’s top DJs, Rexx Arkana and Dräcos, FGFC820’s debut album ‘Urban Audio Warfare’ (2007) spent 8 weeks in the German DAC Top 10: peaking at #2 behind SKINNY PUPPY. Now the hard-electro duo are back with their 2nd military-themed album ‘Law & Ordnance’: another angry and antagonistic onslaught of heavily-armed club anthems, full of hard beats and politically-charged lyrics.

Vocalist and lyricist Arkana is well-known as the founder of the scene supergroup BRUDERSCHAFT - featuring members of VNV NATION, COVENANT, ICON OF COIL and APOPTYGMA BERZERK – and has written lyrics and/or recorded vocals with the likes of THE RETROSIC, NEIKKA RPM and SUPREME COURT.

FGFC820 have also amassed an impressive client list as remixers: including artists such as DAWN OF ASHES, ICON OF COIL and WYNARDTAGE.

As veteran DJs, it is no surprise that with ‘Law & Ordnance’ FGFC820 have made an album full of fantastic beat-driven EBM. Weighing in at an impressive 66 minutes, the regular edition of this album would by itself be a fantastic addition to any DJ’s arsenal. But DWA’s deluxe 2CD digipak-package comes with a remix CD exclusive to Europe and Japan!

CD2 is a full-length remix-album of tracks culled from both ‘Law & Ordnance’ and ‘Urban Audio Warfare’. Featuring the likes of scene-heavyweights such as COMBICHRIST, C-LEKKTOR and SAM, this must-have disc is limited to 1000 copies worldwide.

The DWA version of ‘Law & Ordnance’ comes in an all-new 6-panel collector’s digipak remodelled by DWA from the artwork by Nathan Winter of IndustriArts (XP8, STATE OF THE UNION, DIE SEKTOR) for the original Noitekk European release. A strictly Limited Edition of 100 pieces, the digipak comes with obi and insert from DWA - plus the original 8-page booklet and 2 CDs from the Noitekk European Limited Edition!

As with TACTICAL SEKT’s ‘Syncope’, with ‘Law & Ordnance’ FGFC820 bring another high-tempo and melodic electro assault to dancefloors everywhere. Currently riding high in the Top 10 of the German Alternative Charts (DAC), 'Law & Ordnance' has already spent 10 weeks in the DAC Top 20 since its release! More music to make your body move.




SINS OF THE FLESH: F**k #1

SOTF

Artist: SINS OF THE FLESH
Title: F**k #1 - Extended Pleasure Pack
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + obi, limited edition of 222 pieces)
Tracks: 9
Total Running Time: 45 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-804
Release Date: 28/02/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: 2000 yen
Availability: in stock


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Tracklisting:

01. F**k Industrial Rock
02. F**k Mimetic remix by MIMETIC
03. F**k Technoise
04. F**k Disco
05. F**k 2Bullet remix by 2BULLET
06. F**k Electroclash
07. F**k You, And The Whores You Rode In On
08. Rotten To The Core
09. The World Won’t Wait

Freshly returned to Japan from their latest marathon European tour to promote the Russian release of the album ‘The Death Of The Flesh’, Osaka-based SINS OF THE FLESH have now completed the first of 2 concept mini-albums based on tracks from that album (a 2nd, ‘Go To Hell’, is scheduled for release June 2009).

Gorgeously-packaged in a 6-panel digipak with 8-panel folding insert, the ‘F**k #1 – Extended Pleasure Pack’ is a release aimed firmly at the dancefloor: with 5 radically-different takes on the original track from SOTF supplemented by versions from Swiss electronica legend MIMETIC and Tokyo electro-industrial outfit 2BULLET, and 2 bonus ‘b-sides’!

The original version of ‘F**k #1’ was selected to appear on the coverdisc of #1 German gothic/industrial magazine ORKUS magazine in 2007, taken from SOTF’s ‘comeback’ album ‘The Death Of The Flesh’: released by Deathwatch Asia in 2007, and reissued in Russia by Shadowplay in 2008.

Since 2007, SOTF have travelled to Europe 3 times on tour, appearing in Germany, Holland, Finland, Russia and the UK with artists ranging from latest Avex signing AURAL VAMPIRE to rising stars of Canadian alternative rock THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE, and played at major genre festivals such as the UK’s longest-running Whitby Gothic Weekend and the headline slot at 3 nights of the Radio Inferno Festival (Helsinki, St Petersburg and Moscow).

In support of the August 2008 release of the Russian edition of the album (featuring an alternative section of bonus material to the original Japanese edition), SINS OF THE FLESH spent most of September 2008 in Europe on their longest tour so far. In total, SOTF rocked out in 9 different countries - Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and the UK – including festival appearances with FIXMER/McCARTHY, PROJECT PITCHFORK and SOMAN.

The 7 remixes included in the ‘F**k #1 – Extended Pleasure Pack’ transform the grinding industrial-rock original into a variety of alternative club styles, at an ever-increasing BPM.
The tempo is then dropped for ‘Rotten To The Core’ – a complete reworking of themes from ‘F**k #1’ – and ‘The World Won’t Wait’, described enigmatically by SOTF as ‘John Barry meets Death In June’.
The first 222 copies come in a strictly limited 6-panel collector’s edition digipak featuring photography by Kyo Nakamura of SOTF’s Jude with Polish fetish models Natasha and Izazella: plus full-colour 8-panel folding insert, obi and gatefold insert!

‘F**k #1’: a cynical, sneering hymn to hedonistic pleasure.
‘Sing along if you’re young, dumb and full of come’!




TACTICAL SEKT: Syncope

Tactical Sekt

Artist: TACTICAL SEKT
Title: Syncope - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 4-panel colour insert (NOITEKK / BLACK RAIN), limited edition of 200 pieces)
Tracks: 20
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-904
Release Date: 28/02/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / NoiTekk (Black Rain)
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: In stock

 

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Tracklisting:

(CD1 – SYNCOPE)
01. Syncope
02. Dark Sky
03. American Me
04. Awaken The Ghost (Final Awakening)
05. Waiting For The World To End
06. Bring Me Violence
07. Not Going To Work That Way
08. Chosen One
09. 4 Steps To Dysfunction
10. Not Entertained
11. Beslan
12. You’re Fired


(CD2 – RARE AND DELETED TRACKS)
01. Enslaved Existence
02. Siege Engine
03. Fleshcoated Technology
04. Rudimentary Abhoratien
05. Shadow Crawler
06. Future Dead
07. Dead Bodies
08. Stone Hard Agony

Continuing an import policy of ‘the best new’ and ‘the best ever’ albums from Europe, DWA is now proud to present the official Japanese release of the brilliant dark electro album ‘Syncope’ from TACTICAL SEKT.

TACTICAL SEKT is the harsh-EBM/dark electro outfit originally formed as a side-project by Anthony Mather of legendary UK industrial act ASLAN FACTION. ‘Syncope’ is TACTICAL SEKT’s seminal second full-length studio album, which reached #3 in the DAC (German Alternative Charts) on its original release in 2006/04.

Following the demise of ASLAN FACTION in 2003, TACTICAL SEKT released their debut album ‘Geneticide’, followed later that year by the EP ‘Burn Process’. The years 2004-2005 were spent touring and remixing acts such as PSYCLON NINE, SUICIDE COMMANDO, GRENDEL and FEINDFLUG: before the eventual release of TACTICAL SEKT’s masterwork ‘Syncope’ came in 2006.

Lauded by press and fans alike as TACTICAL SEKT’s finest and toughest work to date, ‘Syncope’ (the title refers to a loss of consciousness caused by a sudden reduction in blood to the brain) consists almost exclusively of non-stop killer dance tracks. In this respect, it is as relentless a dance album as GRENDEL’s ‘Harsh Generation’…yet ‘Syncope’ offers a more diverse feel and variety of BPM.

Melodic and catchy music, distorted vocals and clever dialogue samples fused to brutal dance beats: ‘Syncope’ is an absolute classic album of the harsh–EBM/dark electro genre, packed with club-friendly tracks, which easily eclipses the efforts of better-known acts such as COMBICHRIST.

Available for the first time in an all-new 6-panel collector’s digipak modelled on the artwork of the original NoiTekk release, in a strictly Limited Edition of 100 pieces: plus obi and insert from DWA, and the original insert from the Noitekk European edition.

CD2 of this Japanese Limited Edition contains 8 rare and deleted tracks from the original bonus CD of the European Limited Edition of 'Syncope':sold-out, deleted and massively in demand by collectors worldwide since 2006!
Re-pressed as a strictly limited edition of 200 retail copies only, with new artwork corresponding to the DWA digipak, this disc is destined to become a major collector's item!

A must-have title for anyone who bought the DWA Japanese Limited Editions of GRENDEL’s ‘Harsh Generation’ and REAPER’s ‘Hell Starts With An H’, TACTICAL SEKT’s ‘Syncope’ is another high-tempo and brutal non-stop dancefloor assault. Music to make your body move.




OBSCENITY TRIAL: That Night

Obscenity Trial

Artist: OBSCENITY TRIAL
Title: That Night - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 8-panel booklet (MAJOR), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 12
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-807
Release Date: 28/02/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Major Records
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: In stock

 

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Tracklisting:

01. Personal Daemon
02. That Night
03. Go Away
04. Lecture (No Club Mix)
05. My Mind Your Mind
06. Cinderella’s Palace
07. What Is It For
08. So Easy
09. This Place
10. Wenn Du Fällst
11. Inside Out
12. Just Another Bad Dream

DWA goes pop!

After 2 highly successful CDs for Infacted Recordings - ‘Here And Now’ (2006), the ‘Daydream’ EP (2007) - ‘That Night’ is the second full-length album from German synthpop sensation OBSCENITY TRIAL: and their first album for new label Major Records (home of IAMX, LADYTRON, MESH).

Debut album ‘Here And Now’, produced by Olaf Wollschlaeger (MELOTRON, IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, SEABOUND) reached #20 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC), and won ‘Best Pop Album’ of 2006 in the German Rock and Pop Awards. That same year, OBSCENITY TRIAL appeared as support band for AND ONE’s 13-date sold-out ‘BodyPop’ European tour.

In 2007, the ‘Daydream’ EP - featuring remixes from AND ONE and SPETSNAZ - reached #8 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC), and OBSCENITY TRIAL appeared live at both the Wave Gotik Treffen and Amphi festivals in Germany, and as support to SINS OF THE FLESH (Radio Inferno festival, St Petersburg) GRENDEL and SIVA SIX (Dark City festival, Edinburgh).

In 2008, OBSCENITY TRIAL released ‘That Night’ and have just spent 2 months undertaking a massive 26-date tour of the US to promote the album, together with SPETSNAZ.

Already known for dance music, ‘That Night’ marks a departure into more commercial territory for both OBSCENITY TRIAL and DWA: with songs such as ‘My Mind Your Mind’ providing a perfect dose of electropop along the lines of DEPECHE MODE.
Presented in a luxurious Japan-only 6-panel digipak, containing gatefold insert with Japanese linernotes and obi, plus CD and 8-panel booklet from the standard European release, the Japanese Limited Edition of ‘That Night’ is a true collector’s item for all fans of synthpop: strictly limited to 100 pieces!




LXT (LATEXXX TEENS): Death Club Entertainment

LXT

Artist: LXT (LATEXXX TEENS)
Title: Death Club Entertainment / Moloko + Ultraviolence - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 12-panel colour booklet (DECADANCE), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 19
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-902
Release Date: 31/01/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Decadance Records
Price: 3000 yen
Availability: in stock

 

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Tracklisting:

(CD1 – DEATH CLUB ENTERTAINMENT)
01. Also Sprach Zarathustra
02. (P)Resident Evil
03. Hey God
04. Maschine Zeit V2.008
05. Long Way To Ruin (feat. Victor Love of DOPE STARS INC.)
06. L.S.D.
07. Natural Born Chaos
08. Filth & Fury
09. Against
10. Millennium
11. W.A.R.
12. Stardust
13. XIII

(CD2 – MOLOKO & ULTRAVIOLENCE)
01. Genesis Of Te(chn)ocrazy
02. Millennium Nightmare (United Shit Of America)
03. (S)aint (R)evolution
04. Viral SublimiNation
05. Maschine Zeit
06. Requiem For A Dream

‘Death Club Entertainment’ is the first full-length album from Italian industrial/glam/punk band LXT (Latexxx Teens), released in Europe on Halloween - which has just entered the Italian Alternative Charts at #8!

Produced and arranged by Victor Love (singer of cyber-metal act DOPE STARS INC.), LXT features DOPE STARS INC. guitarist La Nuit, and are a self-described mix of ‘pop, electro beats, rock attitude and metal violence’.

Formed in Italy in 2003, and inspired by acts like SHOTGUN MESSIAH, MARILYN MANSON, WHITE ZOMBIE, SEX PISTOLS and MURDERDOLLS, LXT’s 5-track CD-R demo ‘Latex (De)Generation’ (2004) brought them to the attention of Italian label Decadance Records – and a deal for the band’s Victor Love-produced debut 6-track mini-album ‘Moloko & Ultraviolence’ (2006).

With Victor Love once more in the producer’s chair, LXT now return harder and heavier than ever before with a brand new studio album - ‘Death Club Entertainment’.
Including LXT’s version of the KILLING JOKE classic ‘Millennium’, plus ‘Long Way To Ruin’ featuring guest vocals from Victor Love himself, ‘Death Club Entertainment’ picks up where ‘Moloko & Ultraviolence’ left off…and takes the LXT sound to another dimension: including a supercharged makeover of ‘Maschine Zeit’ from ‘Moloko & Ultraviolence'!

Presented exclusively for Japan by DWA in a Japan-only 6-panel digipak, the Japanese Limited Edition of ‘Death Club Entertainment’ also includes DWA's world exclusive re-pressing of ‘Moloko & Ultraviolence’ as a bonus CD2, with new artwork and exclusive to this edition!








VIGILANTE: War Of Ideas

Vigilante

Artist: VIGILANTE
Title: War Of Ideas - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 20-panel colour booklet (BLACK RAIN), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 23 + 1 video track
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-903
Release Date: 17/01/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Black Rain
Price: 2500 yen
Availability: in stock

 

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Tracklisting:

(CD1 - WAR OF IDEAS)
01. Fair Fight
02. In The Name Of God
03. Fire
04. Forever
05. Get In The Ring
06. Victims
07. Black Day
08. Hardcore
09. Time To Kill
10. Justice
11. El Derecho De Vivir En Paz
12. Music Video – Fire

(CD2 - Bonus Remixes)
01. Fair Fight [UBM remix]
02. Fair Fight [The Dreamside remix]
03. Fair Fight [Lamia remix]
04. Forever [Lucia Ponticas remix]
05. Fair Fight [Reel remix]
06. Fair Fight [Sophya remix]
07. Fair Fight [Amateur God remix]
08. Fair Fight [Container 90 remix]
09. Fair Fight [Forgotten Sunrise remix]
10. Fair Fight [Deadcell remix]
11. The Other Side [Alien Produkt remix]
12. Fire [Neikka RPM remix]

Bursting onto the scene in 2005 with their debut album ‘The Heroes Code’, VIGILANTE swiftly shot to international recognition - leading to a European tour in 2006 which culminated in an appearance at the world’s largest goth/industrial festival Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany.

The EP ‘Juicio Final’ (2006) and further live shows in both Europe and Chile with acts like HOCICO and AGONOIZE followed, as VIGILANTE began to be featured on a steady stream of compilation albums in Germany, the US and South America.

Finally, in 2007 VIGILANTE delivered the album ‘War Of Ideas’ which would be universally praised in the music press as their most accomplished work to date. Incorporating VIGILANTE’s trademark social and politically conscious lyrical message delivered over heavy guitar riffs, breakbeats and pounding EBM sequencers, this landmark release swiftly invited comparison to legendary acts like DIE KRUPPS and SWAMP TERRORISTS by reviewers.

Now at work on their first DVD release, VIGILANTE has just been the subject of a ‘Greatest Hits’ release ‘Resistir’ (2008) by major label Feria Music in Chile, has supported NINE INCH NAILS in Chile and headlined the inaugural New Blood Festival in Peru, and continues to be much in demand as a remix artist for the likes of TYSKE LUDDER, DIE KRUPPS and most recently SIVA SIX (DWA-901: ‘Flesh And Will Resurrected…’).

Now, in collaboration with leading German industrial/gothic label Black Rain, DWA is proud to present a Japanese Limited Edition of VIGILANTE’s essential hit album ‘War Of Ideas’ from 2007 – in an all-new 6-panel luxury collector’s digipak, plus bonus remix CD and 20-page booklet from the European first edition!
This Japanese Limited Edition of ‘War Of Ideas’ is the perfect introduction to South America’s greatest industrial rock sensation, a crossover fusion of breakbeats and metal sure to appeal to fans of BAAL, FEAR FACTORY or DIE KRUPPS!








SIVA SIX: Rise New Flesh/Flesh And Will...

Flesh And Will

Artist: SIVA SIX
Title: Rise New Flesh / Flesh And Will Resurrected - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: 2CD (6-panel digipak + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), + 12-panel colour booklet (DECADANCE), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 25
Total Running Time: n/a
Catalogue Number: DWA-901
Release Date: 10/01/2009
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Decadance Records
Price: 3000 yen
Availability: in stock

 

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Tracklisting:

(CD1 - Rise New Flesh)
01. Fire Walks With Me
02. Streetcleaner
03. In Extremis
04. Another Dead World
05. 120 Days (In Slavery)
06. Awayk
07. Nihil Before Me
08. Deep Black Well
09. Nexus 6
10. Become Untrue

(CD2 - Flesh And Will Resurrected...)
01. See The Six [remixed by Victor Love - Dope Stars Inc.]
02. Deep Black Will [remixed by Noisuf-X]
03. Fire Walks With Me [remixed by Dark Soho]
04. Mister [remixed by Dyspraxia]
05. See The Six [remixed by Soman]
06. Her Eyes Black [remixed by Aes Dana]
07. Opponent [remixed by Blood]
08. Her Eyes Black [remixed by Mono No Aware]
09. 120 Days (in Slavery) [remixed by Niadoka]
10. Now It's Dark [remixed by Kami Plastik - Latexxx Teens]
11. Streetcleaner [remixed by XP8]
12. Nexus 6 [remixed by Diabolic Art]
13. See The Six [remixed by Vigilante]
14. Line In Line Down [remixed by Despair]
15. Pig [remixed by Alien Vampires]

After the enormous international success of their last album ‘Black Will’, Greece’s #1 electro-industrial act returns with a double-CD featuring remixes from top Japanese underground acts DESPAIR, BLOOD and DIABOLIC ART (featuring DJ Taiki: Black Veil Osaka)…plus a host of international star names like SOMAN, XP8, VIGILANTE, DOPE STARS INC. and NOISUF-X!

Characterised by harsh EBM sounds, SIVA SIX’s pounding beats and dark oppressive soundscapes should have immediate appeal to all fans of acts like HOCICO, GRENDEL and SKINNY PUPPY.
Since 2004, SIVA SIX have played live around the world with the likes of TYPE O NEGATIVE, SOMAN, GRENDEL, 32CRASH and XP8.
SIVA SIX launched this new 2CD release by appearing live at the Elektrostat Festival in Oslo, Norway 11/08 - with the legendary FRONT 242 and Norway’s own GOTHMINISTER!

CD1 is the long-awaited reissue of the sold-out debut album ‘Rise New Flesh’.
Mastered by John Rivers (SOPOR AETERNUS, DEAD CAN DANCE etc), on its original release in 2005 ‘Rise New Flesh’ enjoyed a 4 month stay in the Italian Alternative Chart, and generated rave international reviews thanks to its combination of fantastic production values and powerful music.

CD2 is an all-new remix album featuring tracks from both ‘Rise New Flesh’ and Italian Alternative Chart #1 ‘Black Will’ (2006), transformed by leading industrial and EBM artists from around the world such as NOISUF-X, SOMAN and MONO NO AWARE (Germany), XP8, LXT and DOPE STARS INC (Italy) - and from Japan DESPAIR, BLOOD and DIABOLIC ART!
This CD was mastered by Jan Lehmkamper (X-FUSION, NOISUF-X), whose extensive previous mastering and production credits include SUICIDE COMMANDO and GRENDEL.

In collaboration with leading Italian gothic/industrial label DECADANCE RECORDS, DWA is proud to present an exclusive Japanese Limited Edition digipak of ‘Rise New Flesh / Flesh And Will Resurrected…’.
The first 100 copies of this release come in a luxury collector’s edition 6-panel digipak with gatefold insert and obi from DWA - plus the 2 CDs and 12-panel booklet from the Decadance Records European release (2008/11/28).

Already wildly popular in the Japanese industrial scene following their live debut in Osaka in 2007, ‘Rise New Flesh / Flesh And Will Resurrected…’ is guaranteed to consolidate SIVA SIX’s position as a top foreign underground act in Japan!
Demand for this digipak Limited Edition will almost certainly outstrip supply - order now to avoid disappointment!


 


NECRO STELLAR: Pulsing Zero

Pulsing Zero

Artist: NECRO STELLAR
Title: Pulsing Zero - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (6-panel digipak + 8-panel insert + 4-panel insert + obi (DWA), limited edition of 200 pieces)
Tracks: 14
Total Running Time: 74 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-806
Release Date: 13/12/2008
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Shadowplay
Price: ¥2500

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Tracklisting:

01) Lucifer Suddenly Rising
02) Pulsing Zero
03) Novena
04) Satellite Of Satan
05) Medio Circulo Cruas
06) On The River
07) The Last Autumn Of Hellen Griss (Germany 1914-1946)
08) Chavajoht - Over The Boundary Of The Red
09) Equation Of An Autumn Equinox
10) Reflection (Russia 1917-1988)
11) Over Grave Immortality
12) Red Beast - DESPAIR REMIX
13) Tachyon Spiral - AURAL VAMPIRE REMIX
14) Only Moon - DEMONOID 13 REMIX

NECRO STELLAR are the first and leading Russian dark-electro act.
The description ‘Voodoo Electro’ perhaps captures their musical marriage of old-school analogue electronics and dark ritualistic imagery.


Since their 1993 live debut at the first Russian gothic party in Moscow, they have given over 1500 concerts, and have released 3 highly-individual and widely-praised albums ‘Saturating Cemetery’ (2005, 2CD re-issue 2008), the retrospective collection ‘Pulsing Zero’ (2006) and ‘White Tranquility’ (2007) on Russia’s Shadowplay label.


Never previously available in Japan, Deathwatch Asia is now proud to present the Japanese Limited Edition digipak release of ‘Pulsing Zero’ - inclusive of an all-new bonus section of remixes by some of Japan’s finest dark-electro artists: Aural Vampire (by kind permission of AVEX), Demonoid 13 and Despair!


Comprising all the band’s earliest recorded works prior to ‘Saturating Cemetery’, ‘Pulsing Zero’ is the perfect introduction to the inspiration of Russia’s dark scene: NECRO STELLAR!






DEMONOID 13: Death To The Vulgar Lord

Death To The Vulgar Lord

Artist: DEMONOID 13
Title: Death To The Vulgar Lord
Format: MCD (4-panel digipak, obi)
Tracks: 6
Total Running Time: 27 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-803
Release Date: 13/07/2008
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1500

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Tracklisting:

01) Sacrifice 03.25
02) The Hidden Justice 04.17
03) Slaughter In Heaven 03.55
04) Infernal Forces 04.49
05) Iconoclast 05.03
06) Master Of D (2008 version) 05.22

One beauty of the J-Goth scene is its diversity: that no 2 bands are making quite the same music.
Nagoya’s DEMONOID 13 is the only Japanese act currently producing tracks in the predominantly European/North American ‘Terror EBM’ style: a combination of hard dance beats/electronics fused with horror film themes.

After nearly a 2-year wait, DEMONOID 13 finally return with the long-awaited follow-up to their super-heavy debut ‘GATE OF DEATH’.
Released through Deathwatch Asia at the end of 2006, ‘GATE OF DEATH’ has now almost sold out its original pressing, with only limited stocks remaining.

The first pressing of new CD ‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ is issued in a beautiful gatefold digipak, featuring dark artwork from Nagoya tattoo artist Ryuji (Ryuji Tattoo Design): and limited to 500 copies.

Fans of ‘GATE OF DEATH’ will not be disappointed: as ‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ picks up musically where ‘GATE OF DEATH’ left off.
Yet ‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ is also a development: opening with the slower, more experimental ‘Sacrifice’ before building through ‘The Hidden Justice’ to stand-out hard-dance track ‘Slaughter In Heaven’.
From here on in, we are in familiar DEMONOID 13 territory, as the brutal beats continue unrelentingly through ‘Infernal Forces’, live favorite ‘Iconoclast’ and a 2008 re-working of the classic ‘Master of -D’ (from ‘GATE OF DEATH’).

Already wildly popular outside Japan, DEMONOID 13 have been featured in #1 German alternative magazine ORKUS, and in September 2008 made their European live debut as the headline act of Eastern Europe’s largest industrial-gothic festival: ‘Chorna Rada’ in Kiev (Ukraine).
‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ will cement DEMONOID 13’s position as a force to be reckoned with in the international industrial/EBM scene!








REAPER: Hell Starts With An H

Hell Starts With An H

Artist: REAPER
Title: Hell Starts With An H - Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (10mm jewelcase, 8-panel colour booklet (INFACTED), inlay/obi/2 colour postcards (DWA), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 17
Total Running Time: 75 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-802
Release Date: 05/07/2008
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Infacted Recordings
Price: ¥2000

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Tracklisting:

01) INTRO 01.12
02) URNENSAND 04.06
03) DAS GRAUEN 04.59
04) TWISTED TROPHY HUNTER (featuring MARK JACKSON of VNV NATION) 06.02
05) ALTUM SILENTIUM 05.34
06) EXECUTION OF YOUR MIND 03.47
07) WELTFREMD (featuring SUICIDE COMMANDO) 03.48
08) ROBUSTE MASCHINE 04.21
09) MEMENTO MORI 04.06
10) TOTENGRÄBER 07 04.02
11) ANCIENT TRAGEDY 04.41
12) TWISTED TROPHY HUNTER 2.0 (featuring NVMPH) 03.56
13) URNENSAND by SAM 04.21
14) EXECUTION OF YOUR MIND by MODULATE 05.05
15) URNENSAND: DÄMONIE - REMIX by >PAINBASTARD< 05.19
16) TWISTED TROPHY HUNTER by XP8 04.50
17) URNENSAND by SCHALLFAKTOR 04.05

REAPER is the pounding dark-electro project of Vasi Vallis (FROZEN PLASMA, NAM NAM BULU), who recently hit #1 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC) with latest single 'The Devil Is Female'.

'Hell Starts With An H' is the awesome full-length debut album:
featuring collaborations with guests such as SUICIDE COMMANDO and Mark Jackson (VNV NATION), plus remixes from the likes of SCHALLFAKTOR, PAINBASTARD and MODULATE.

In collaboration with leading German industrial label INFACTED RECORDINGS, DWA is proud to present a special Japanese Limited Edition of 'Hell Starts With An H'.

Limited to 100 copies, this release re-packages the original Infacted CD and 8-panel colour booklet with all-new tray-card, obi and 2 heavyweight collector's postcards (220gsm): redesigned by DWA from the original artwork.

And to commemorate the start of this historic relationship between Infacted and DWA, this release is made available at the incredibly low introductory price of only 2000 Yen!

A 'must buy' for collectors, this CD is already almost SOLD OUT!






GRENDEL: Harsh Generation

Harsh Generation

Artist: GRENDEL
Title: Harsh Generation- Japanese Limited Edition
Format: CD (10mm jewelcase, 8-panel colour booklet (INFACTED),
inlay/obi/2 colour postcards (DWA), limited edition of 100 pieces)
Tracks: 10
Total Running Time: 39 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-801
Release Date: 05/07/2008
Label: Deathwatch Asia / Infacted Recordings
Price: ¥2000

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Tracklisting:

01. Intro 0.22
02. Harsh Generation 03.54
03. Void Malign 04.42
04. The Judged Ones 04.41
05. Remnants 04.40
06. B.A.A.L. 04.39
07. Dirty 04.17
08. Hate This 04.18
09. New Flesh 04.24
10. Outro 02.54

GRENDEL is a dark dance sensation from the Netherlands.

Following 2 highly successful albums ('Inhumane Amusement', Prescription: Medicide') and EPs ('End Of Ages', 'Soilbleed') for German label NOITEKK/Black Rain, GRENDEL signed to leading industrial label INFACTED RECORDINGS.

With their INFACTED debut 'Harsh Generation' GRENDEL have had their greatest success so far: hitting #3 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC), and staying in the 'Top 5' for many weeks.

In collaboration with Infacted, DWA is proud to present a special Japanese Limited Edition of 'Harsh Generation'.

Limited to 100 copies, this release re-packages the original Infacted CD and 8-panel colour booklet with all-new tray-card, obi and 2 heavyweight collector's postcards (220gsm): redesigned by DWA from the original artwork.

And to commemorate the start of this historic relationship between Infacted and DWA, this release is made available at the incredibly low introductory price of only 2000 Yen!

A 'must buy' for collectors, this CD is already almost SOLD OUT!






VARIOUS ARTISTS: Darker Waters

Dark Waters

Artist: V/A
Title: Darker Waters
Format: CD (6-panel digipak, obi)
Tracks: 16
Total Running Time: 67 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-707
Release Date: 07/06/2008
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥2000
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Tracklisting:

01/ UTEROZZZAAA - Unknown Terrorist Reverse 01.44
02/ 2BULLET - Forest Of Traps 04.04
03/ BAKI -SHO-JI - Kyorai 04.20
04/ THE ROYAL DEAD - The Common Betrayal [Of Girlfriends] 03.48
05/ GOTHIKA - Fata Morgana Android 04.03
06/ gadget. - Lost Avalon - Darker Waters Version 05.00
07/ STRAWBERRY SONG ORCHESTRA - Boku No Ita Chizu 06.05
08/ SUNAO INAMI - Farm Machines And Implements 05.41
09/ sawDUST IN ME - Tiny 03.25
10/ consume - Alberta Eugenics Board [Redneck Biatch Remix] 04.36
11/ BAAL - Vermin [Destroyed RMX's Rule Version] 04.16
12/ THE NEUTRON EGO TAPE - Fake Aberration 03.43
13/ LILLIES AND REMAINS - The Fake 04.04
14/ SINS OF THE FLESH - [How Can I] Smile? 05.16
15/ DESPAIR - Gash 04.56
16/ UTEROZZZAAA - Ultimate Torture Regurgitator 02.00

Volume 2 of the innovative J-scene compilation series: the best-selling DARK WATERS!


'DARKER WATERS - Deeper Into The Japanese Underground' takes the original DARK WATERS concept to new heights...or should that be '(previously unplumbed) depths'?


Casting the net wider than before, DWA has sought out a diversity of new and well-established artists representing the Japanese underground scene in all its myriad musical forms: from the theatrical flavour of Kyoto's STRAWBERRY SONG
ORCHESTRA 'Boku No Ita Chizu' to the industrial noise terror of Osaka's UTEROZZZAAA 'Ultimate Torture Regurgitator'/'Unknown Terrorist Reverse', the alternative rock style of Tokyo's GADGET. 'Lost Avalon' to the experimental electronica of Kobe's SUNAO INAMI 'Farm Machines And Implements'.


And of course DARKER WATERS is also awash with brand new material from DEATHWATCH ASIA artists like DESPAIR, SINS OF THE FLESH and sawDUST IN ME, other artists familiar to European audiences from touring like BAAL, THE ROYAL DEAD and GOTHIKA...and the debut recordings from new acts like LILLIES AND REMAINS and THE NEUTRON EGO TAPE!


Proof-positive, as if any were needed, of the vibrancy and variety of the Japanese underground scene in 2008!



More acts, more styles, more sumptuous digipak-packaging!
And once more: almost entirely EXCLUSIVE tracks available ONLY on this compilation!







DESPAIR: Rewired Riot Technology

Rewired Riot Technology

Artist: DESPAIR
Title: Rewired Riot Technology
Format: MCD (4-panel J-card, obi)
Tracks: 9
Total Running Time: 39 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-706
Release Date: 03/10/2007
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1500
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Tracklisting:

1. MPD CONFLICT: A New Model (4.33)
2. JARRING GOD: Rebel Action Remix (4.11)
3. MECHANICAL RABIES: No Vaccine For Your Machines (2.58)
4. MPD CONFLICT: Mind Control Mix (3.38)
5. JARRING GOD: The Devil Built My Beatbox (4.11)
6. LONG PIG (6.29)
7. JUNK WHORE (3.43)
8. MPD CONFLICT: A New Machine (3.35)
9. BECOMING GOD (5.42)

Rieu’s bleak-yet-beautiful original visions ripped apart in a remix tour-de-force from Jude.


From the atmospheric ambience of LONG PIG and sinister BECOMING GOD to the frankly funky REBEL ACTION REMIX and dancefloor-friendly A NEW MACHINE, this epic 9-track EP twists and turns in totally unexpected musical directions while maintaining the visceral punch and haunting qualities that DESPAIR’s audience has come to expect.

4-to-the-floor EBM dancebeats fuse effortlessly with breakcore and breakbeat elements to create a CD with a pleasing unity…yet no 2 tracks the same.


Crystal-clear production, presented in a beautiful full-colour gatefold maxi-jacket: an essential addition to every DESPAIR fan’s collection.







sawDUST in me: Mortification Made Me

Mortification Made Me

Artist: SAWDUST IN ME
Title: Mortification Made Me
Format: MCD (4-panel J-card, obi)
Tracks: 6
Total Running Time: 18 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-705
Release Date: 04/08/2007
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1000
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Tracklisting:

1. DEFINE 3.00
2. ENVY 3.36
3. MY WAY OUT 3.03
4. THIRTEENTH 3.28
5. SUBSTITUTE 2.47
6. HEAVEN 2.49

MORTIFICATION MADE ME is SAWDUST IN ME’s debut EP, slickly polished by the production-skills of Jude (DESPAIR/SINS OF THE FLESH), and includes all the band’s best-known dance tracks such as THIRTEENTH and DEFINE (completely re-recorded and re-worked from the demo versions originally downloadable from MySpace): plus the slower controlled-aggression of SUBSTITUTE and the haunting instrumental HEAVEN.


A combination of driving EBM, distorted breakbeats and powerful violent vocals, SAWDUST IN ME are already receiving widespread club-play from Japanese DJs and being invited to play at major events around the country. MORTIFICATION MADE ME is certain to bring them the international interest and recognition they richly deserve.


A female duo hailing from Osaka, SAWDUST IN ME only formed in 2005: yet have already produced a startling amount of catchy and dynamic material, and seem set only to improve still further with time. Definitely one to watch for the future!


MORTIFICATION MADE ME’s pink-and-chocolate exterior, adorned with cakes and appealing animals, conceals a sweetly-savage content. Although there is an undeniably poppy and appealing element to SAWDUST IN ME's music, it is a primal and industrial experience. Their dancefloor-friendly sound should appeal to fans of DEMONOID 13, while the digital-hardcore elements and atmospheric ambience are more akin to DESPAIR.


Overall, an essential addition to the DEATHWATCH ASIA roster: available at the ludicrously-low introductory price of just ¥1000 / €7.00!







SINS OF THE FLESH: The Death Of The Flesh

The Death Of The Flesh

Artist: SINS OF THE FLESH
Title: The Death Of The Flesh
Format: 2CD (12-page colour booklet, inlay, obi)
Tracks: 28
Total Running Time: 140 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-701
Release Date: 02/02/2007
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥2000
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Tracklisting:

CD1: THE DEATH OF THE FLESH

1. JUDAS KISS 4.50
2. CUTTER 4.40
3. GO TO HELL 4.33
4. F**K #1 4.52
5. DEATH WISH 5.57
6. IMAGE IS EVERYTHING 4.26
7. FOLLOWING (IN THE COMPANY OF SHADOWS) 4.02
8. THE DEATH OF THE FLESH 5.22
9. (SONG FOR) THE LONELY ONES 5.08
10. THE SWEETEST POISON 4.11
11. WORMWOOD 3.23
12. ABOUT TIME 4.34

BONUS TRACKS FOR JAPAN

13. SHIKAN 5.00
14. WOMAN'S HEART 5.24
15. THE ONLY THING CERTAIN IN LIFE IS DEATH 4.51


CD2: BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE FLESH

1. BE MY ENEMY 4.15
2. THE UNKINDEST CUT 5.47
3. MAKE BELIEVE 5.33
4. F**K #2 3.47
5. A 1000 TIMES 4.53
6. IMAGE IS NOTHING 6.40
7. STILL FOLLOWING 5.13
8. THE DEATH OF THE FLESH PT. II 5.32
9. THE PATRON SAINT OF SUICIDES 5.22
10. FADE AWAY 3.40
11. FOOD FOR WORMS 5.12
12. 1 MORE TIME 6.54
13. THE DEATH OF THE FLESH PT. III 5.38

The breathtakingly eclectic new album: a sound which is both classic and contemporary in equal measures: a musical tribute to the best of the scene itself, both past and present, nailed together into a completely modern production.


Limited-edition double-CD format, with full-colour 12-page matt-finish booklet featuring front-cover artwork by renowned UK illustrator Matt Vickerstaff, and naturally including all the fabulous lyrics in full.


CD2: BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE FLESH is nothing like the lame obligatory remix albums produced as an afterthought by most acts these days: developed in parallel with CD1, most of the (per)versions of the original CD1-material on this disc have been completely re-recorded, expanding the breadth and scope of the songs on CD1 still further into the orchestral and electronic territories also favoured by SOTF.


28 tracks, 140 minutes of brand-new material...at an absolute BARGAIN price.
An instant classic.








DEMONOID 13: Gate Of Death

Gate Of Death

Artist: DEMONOID 13
Title: Gate Of Death
Format: MCD (4-panel J-Card, obi)
Tracks: 5
Total Running Time: 25 minutes
Catalogue Number: MFR-001
Release Date: 09/12/2006
Label: Morbid Force Records/Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1500
Availability: in stock

 


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Tracklisting:

1. REFLECTED LIGHTS 4.58
2. HYPOCRITICAL SOULS 5.08
3. SINISTER CIRCLE 4.55
4. MASTER OF -D 5.21
5. SATANIC PANZER UNIT 4.47

Extreme death-rave from Nagoya!


Originally released in a home-produced ink-jet jacket, DEATHWATCH ASIA is proud to present this fully professionally-packaged reissue of DEMONOID 13's devastatingly-heavy debut from 2005.


5 tracks of relentless horror-EBM from the basement of Hell, GATE OF DEATH is quite simply the most powerful dance-music the J-Goth scene has produced to date: unsurprising given that frontman Fixer-D is probably the hardest DJ in Japan.


Featuring the original version of SATANIC PANZER UNIT, as remixed by SINS OF THE FLESH on the DARK WATERS compilation!







DESPAIR: Deserted Technology Riot

Deserted Technology Riot

Artist: DESPAIR
Title: Deserted Technology Riot
Format: MCD (4-panel insert, inlay, obi)
Tracks: 5
Total Running Time: 20 minutes
Catalogue Number: BSL-001
Release Date: 02/12/2006
Label: Brainscan Laboratory/Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1500
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Tracklisting:

1. JARRING GOD 3.44
2. MPD CONFLICT 4.08
3. FILTH PIG 5.19
4. JUNK WAR 4.47
5. MECHANICAL RABIES 2.13

DESPAIR produce the most extreme form of industrial music in existence in Japan today.


New 5-track EP 'Deserted Technology Riot' redefines the brutal vision first laid out in 2004's debut 'Beautiful Japanese Sight', with track speeds reaching the 180-220bpm mark.


First vomited forth by a stagnant Japanese music scene in 2001, DESPAIR quickly rose to prominence thanks to an uncompromisingly aggressive sound and dynamic stage presence.


In 2005, DESPAIR made their European debut with dates in the U.K. and at 'Wave Gotik Treffen', sharing the stage with such luminaries as Psyclon Nine and Haujobb.
Guitar, bass and drums - the traditional tools of a rock band - have been abandoned in favour of a totally technological approach.


All original and found sounds are mangled and re-processed into a brutal industrial sound-collage which recalls the structural approach of classic Skinny Puppy, punctuated by periods of ambient tranquility reminiscent of a melancholy film score.
This musical style is mirrored in the lyrics, where the intentionally-scrambled English forms new rhythmic patterns of meaning akin to the cut-up texts of William Burroughs, delivered in the twin primal screams of front-duo Rieu and Ana.


DESPAIR - the greatest hope of Japan's emerging industrial scene.


DESPAIR - the cyberpunk soundtrack of 21st-century Tokyo's disaffected underground.







VARIOUS ARTISTS: Dark Waters

Dark Waters

Artist: V/A
Title: Dark Waters
Format: CD (6-panel insert, inlay, obi)
Tracks: 12
Total Running Time: 61 minutes
Catalogue Number: DWA-1006
Release Date: 30/10/2006
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1500
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Tracklisting:

1. 2BULLET Drain Peoples Blood (Cold War Remix) 5.23
2. DEMONOID 13 Satanic Panzer Unit (Sins Of The Flesh Remix) 6.38
3. AGENT MURDER Ballet Of The Unhatched Fools (Re-Hatched) 4.03
4. PSYCHO DREAM Psycho Dream 3.31
5. SATANYANKO Little Abandoned Cat In The Dark 3.48
6. JET PEPPER TOWER Nocturnal Cabaret 7.31
7. BAAL On The Surface 2006 (Start The New Brutal) 6.08
8. DESPAIR Junk War (Riot Command Remix) 3.07
9. DESTRUCT SYSTEM Destruct System 3.44
10. SINS OF THE FLESH Death Wish (Mayan Sacrifice Mix) 6.15
11. AURAL VAMPIRE Bad Movie Disko King 5.17
12. SPEECIES Future By Future 4.42

A flagship release for DEATHWATCH ASIA and a historical document of the J-Goth scene in 2006!


Representing the finest and most popular underground acts from across the country: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Kobe. And including ONLY material never previously available on CD!


Featuring:


- the final recorded work of Osaka Batcave legends SATANYANKO...


- exclusive new and previously unreleased remixes of DESPAIR, AGENT MURDER and DEMONOID13...


- a brand new track from AURAL VAMPIRE...


A fantastic demonstration of the variety of sound and depth of talent the J-Goth underground has to offer: and the best way to experience it without coming to Japan for yourself!








SINS OF THE FLESH: Death Wish

Death Wish

Artist: SINS OF THE FLESH
Title: Death Wish
Format: CD-single (2-panel J-Card, obi)
Tracks: 6
Total Running Time: 29 minutes
Catalogue Number: SOTF-0505
Release Date: 21/05/2005
Label: Deathwatch Asia
Price: ¥1000
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Tracklisting:

1. DEATH WISH [something to believe in] 4.45
2. DEATH WISH [a higher purpose] 4.20
3. HEARTS AND SOULS 4.58
4. DEATH WISH [reborn, unrecognised] 5.48
5. ALL MY COLOURS 4.04
6. DEATH WISH [all my failures] 5.00

The first commercially-available CD from SINS OF THE FLESH in 10 years:
a 6-track maxi-single featuring 4 remixes/alternative versions of DEATH WISH (a track from the forthcoming THE DEATH OF THE FLESH album) exclusive to this release, and 2 extra exclusive non-album tracks.


The classic dark melodic pop, eerie electro-industrial synthscapes and orchestral arrangements that define the SOTF sound.


New Release:

Panic Lift
PANIC LIFT:
Witness To Our Collapse
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain)
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Jabberwock
JABBERWOCK:
Sweet Limbo/Jabberwock
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain)
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Vigilante
VIGILANTE: Life Is A Battlefield
(Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain)
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A Compilation 3
VARIOUS ARTISTS: A Compilation 3
(Deathwatch Asia/Black Rain)
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INERTIA: Interpret
- Japanese 2CD Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia / Cryonica)
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BAK XIII
BAK XIII:Best Of BAK XIII
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia / Urgence Disk)
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DOPE STARS INC.
DOPE STARS INC.:21st Century Slave
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia)
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KOMOR KOMMANDO
KOMOR KOMMANDO:Das EP
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia / Alfa-Matrix)
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Dope Stars Inc.
DOPE STARS INC.: Criminal Intents/Morning Star
(Deathwatch Asia)
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Infacted Asia
V/A:Infacted Asia: Black Veil Club Selection
(Deathwatch Asia / infacted Recordings)
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Coming soon:

Grendel
GRENDEL:Chemicals + Circuitry
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia)
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Aesthetic Perfection
AESTHETIC PERFECTION:
A Violent Emotion
- Japanese Limited Edition -
(Deathwatch Asia)
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sawDUST in me: Decorated Doll
(Deathwatch Asia)
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