Pest Productions

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Pest Productions
Active years since 2006
founder Deng Zhang, Wu
Seat Nanchang , Jiangxi , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
Website www.pest666.com
Sub-label Self-Destruction, Autumn Flood
Genre (s) Black Metal , Post-Black-Metal , Depressive Black Metal , Atmospheric Black Metal , Blackgaze , Pagan Metal , Folk Metal , Shoegazing , Dark Ambient , Post-Metal

Pest Productions is a record label from Nanchang , Jiangxi in the People's Republic of China , which opened in 2006 and specializes in all styles of Black Metal .

history

The music label Pest Productions, which opened in summer 2006, was founded in Nanchang in the Chinese province of Jiangxi by Deng Zhang and Wu by Be Persecuted and is considered the best-known record label for black metal in the People's Republic of China . According to Decibel Magazine , artists from all possible branches of Black Metal, from primitively rough to experimental, atmospheric and ambient Black Metal, are under contract with the label.

Founder Deng Zhang is active as a graphic designer and musician and runs two other music labels in addition to Pest Productions. Wu, the co-founder of the label, resigned from Pest Productions after the release of a demo of his band, so Deng managed the record company alone. However, the first year was associated with various bottlenecks, so that a closure of the music label could not be ruled out. Thanks to the help of musician friends, Deng was able to keep the company going. With the release of the album Afterimage of Autumn by the Chinese black metal band Zuriaake , the label succeeded in releasing a milestone on the national black metal scene.

The signing of the Blackgaze / Post-Black-Metal band Ghost Bath , whose real origin was unknown at the time , caused a stir . Since the Bandcamp platform required a location, the musician Dennis Mikula stated Chongqing . Inconsistencies later led to the announcement of the band's real origins in Minot , North Dakota . In 2014 the label released their debut album Funeral . It was said that the operator of the label wanted to get out of the contract with the group, but this decided after hearing the album for the first time to release it. The operator, however, referred to a person who supported Pest Productions in South America . This is said to have demanded that Ghost Bath be shown outside the door. Whether the label operator knew from the beginning of the actual origins of the musicians has not been definitively clarified.

Meanwhile, a number of groups from European and US-American countries as well as various multinational metal bands are under contract with Pest Productions. Well-known groups who have already published works at Pest Productions are Heretoir , Make a Change… Kill Yourself and Tear Child .

Bands

Pest Productions

Self-destruction

  • Heartless
  • Secretly in pain

Autumn flood

Publications (selection)

year title Artist format Catalog number
2006 Be persecuted Be persecuted Demo EP PEST-001
2007 Afterimage of Autumn Zuriaake album PEST-004
2008 Whispering Solitude forget Me Not album PEST-009
2009 Existence. Heretoir EP PEST-018
Victory of the Holocaust Skeletal Augury album PEST-027
2010 The wanderer over the Nebel sea Various Artists compilation PEST-036
Goodbye - our hope Heretoir, child of tears Split EP PEST-024
Weathered by Time Means to an End album PEST-037
2012 Suici.De.pression Thy Light EP PEST-074
Soundtrack of a Wasted Day Even Less album SAKA-002
2014 Funeral Ghost Bath album PEST-096
2015 Fri Make a change ... kill yourself album PEST-107
PEST-108
Make a change ... kill yourself Make a change ... kill yourself album PEST-096
2017 遺。 白 Dismal album PEST-154
... inhabited by corpses The glow of the dead EP PEST-157
Zeta reticuli Arkona album PEST-162
Inori Kanashimi album PEST-168

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mark Angel Brandt: Metal Hammer : The Beast In The East: Exploring China's black metal scene
  2. ↑ a b c d hongrui: Heavy Metal Tribune : Interview with Chinese black metal label, Pest Productions
  3. ^ Vince Bellino: Decibel Magazine : Label Spotlight: Black Metal Speed ​​Round
  4. ↑ a b Kim Kelly: Vice : Is Ghost Bath Really China's Answer to Deafheaven?
  5. ^ A b Dayal Patterson: Metal Hammer : Inside the mind of Ghost Bath's nameless leader
  6. ↑ a b Kim Kelly: Vice : From Velvet Cacoon to Ghost Bath: the Curious Anatomy of a Black Metal Hoax