Victory By Fire Records

Victory By Fire Records was a Dutch record label based in Delft, Zuid, Holland. It was founded in December of 2009 by Dennis Schouwenburg, who was also the owner of the death metal record label Ziekte Records (active since December of 2008). Dennis originally founded Victory By Fire Records as a sub-label to Ziekte Records, in order to release satanic raw black metal music. Over time however, Ziekte Records opened up its genre limitation and often released black metal as well. In early 2010, Victory By Fire Records co-released several albums with Meppel, Drenthe-based Dutch black metal and dark ambient record label Svartgalgh Records (active since February of 2008). This led to a friendship between Dennis and Svartglagh Records' owner Patrick Uiterweerd, who was already thinking of folding his own record label (Patrick operated a total of nine different record labels and a distribution company). On August 4th of 2010, for Dennis' birthday, Patrick gifted his record label to Dennis. Dennis then merged Victory By Fire Records into Svartgalgh Records and continued to operate the company strictly under the Svartgalgh Records name (making Svartgalgh Records a sub-label of Ziekte Records and putting the Victory By Fire Records name to rest). Later that year, Dennis also acquired Scotch record label Fall Of Eden Records and merged it into Ziekte Records. In March of 2011, Dennis acquired one of Patrick's other record label, Witte Dood Records. In June of 2011, Dennis announced the restructuring of his many record labels. He reactivated Victory By Fire Records (after being closed for almost an entire year) and merged the operation of all of his record labels under that name, including Ziekte Records, Svartgalgh Records, Fall Of Eden Records and Witte Dood Records. The new Victory By Fire Records company released many different music genres and flourished during the next year but ultimately announced its closure on May 16th of 2012. Starting in early September of 2012, Victory By Fire Records started to re-distribute their back catalog online. It was finally announced on January 18th of 2013 that Victory By Fire Records was fully active once again with a new logo. The record label released some exclusive label merchandise and put out a couple of releases between April and June, but it again stopped its activities in August of 2013. The last activity was the selling of its back catalog in October of 2013 on eBay. Dennis now operates a promotion agency named Absolute Hell.