SPV GO BYE-BYE
Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 12:15pm by Vince Neilstein
It’s always sad to see any metal label, let alone a reputable one, bite the dust. But you can’t say SPV didn’t have it coming. SPV put out plenty of quality records over the years, but it seems like recently we received in inordinately high amount of promos from head-scratchingly obscure European bands on SPV; I’m thinking, “these make you guys money? ok then…” After all, it is a business.
So is SPV really going away or what? Here’s the money quote in a recently released lengthy statement from the label:
“An ongoing international artist relationship and export business is planned…”
Translation: the label will continue on selling their catalog and repacking their most popular albums in special editions, box sets, compilations and greatest hits collections. And why not? It’s easy money. Sad to see the core label go, though.
-VN
It’s a shame but aside from some of the bigger, major label acts, metal was never a lucrative industry. It’s no surprise, then, that smaller labels with obscure artists are going under in the current state of wold economic recession.
noooo! We better be getting the new Skinny Puppy album planned for release in October!
In case you’re wondering, Devin Townsend has stated that he’s indeed still releasing the next three albums on InsideOut which is part of SPV.
and why is that your translation?
I think the only album off of SPV is Gamma Ray’s Land of the Free II.
But it’s damn good.