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Album Production Information:
The album: "AXE VICTIMS - Another Victim" was produced by:
Jos Kloek, Axe Victims, Alfie Falckenbach, Stonne Holmgren & Leo Felsenstein
Sound/Recording Engineer(s):
Charly Schade
This album was recorded at:
Hermes Studios, Kamen, West Germany, December 1983l - January 1984
Album cover photography: Kroll Photo Design
Collector's notes:
Jos Kloek – Producer, Sound EngineerSee Jos "Speed Rat" Kloek in the credits and you know who was steering the session. Read more... Jos Kloek is the Belgian producer/sound engineer who put a hard edge on a whole slice of 80s European heavy metal. I keep seeing his name in the credits: producing Killer (1983-84, "Shock Waves"), Axe Victims, Fisc, Dark Wizard and Warhead (1984), and even signing as Jos "Speed Rat" Kloek on Warhead's "The Day After" (1986). He guided Crossfire through 1984-86 (remix work, then production), and in 1985 took the desk for E.F. Band while mixing Together's "Playing Games" EP. His peak run is 1985-87: producing/engineering TSA and then mixing, producing and engineering Kat's debut "Metal and Hell" (1986) and related releases into 1987. Later credits include Van Camp (1988), FN Guns (1990) and Asphyxia (1991, executive producer). Belgian metal mover, Mausoleum boss, and one of those label names I always notice in the sleeve credits. Read more... Alfie Falckenbach was a Belgian producer, label founder, and entrepreneur who gave European heavy metal a proper doorway instead of another damp rehearsal-room wall. I place him in the thick of the early 1980s, founding Mausoleum Records in 1982 with the label’s first run burning through 1982–1986 before its later revival from 1990–2016. Through Mausoleum he pushed bands such as Killer, Ostrogoth, Warlock, Anvil, Faithful Breath, Omen, and Nazareth into wider circulation. Later he built Music Avenue and Blues Boulevard, proving his ears were not welded shut at metal volume. He even stepped up as singer with Blues Karloff from 2014–2016. Not bad for a man usually spotted in the small print. I don’t think of him as a “front of stage” guy; I track him by the early-80s studio credits and label moves, especially around Mausoleum’s first wave (roughly 1980–1984) with bands like Killer, Crossfire, and Ostrogoth. Read more... Leo "Rockstone" Felsenstein, was a Belgian heavy metal behind-the-scenes lifer: co-founding Mausoleum Records in the early 1980s and then helping steer its sound as an A&R guy and producer when Belgian metal was trying to kick down Europe’s door. When I see his name, it’s usually attached to that first Mausoleum surge, working with bands in a very specific window: Killer (producer on early releases in the early 1980s), Crossfire (producer on "See You in Hell" in 1984), and executive/production credits tied to other Mausoleum-era acts like Faithful Breath and Dark Wizard (again, early-to-mid 1980s). Worth saying out loud because the internet loves a mess: he’s not the same person as the drummer nicknamed “Fat Leo” from Killer/Mothers of Track. As far as I can verify, his “performed with bands” footprint is mainly the studio-and-label side rather than being a credited band member on stage. I file him under “quiet architects”: the kind of person who doesn’t need a guitar solo to change the scene, because co-founding Mausoleum Records meant helping give Belgian heavy metal an actual launch ramp. Read more... Stonne Holmgren, was co-founder of the Belgian record company Mausoleum Records, and that alone tells me he was more about building the machine than standing in the spotlight. In my head, he belongs to that early-1980s moment when small, stubborn labels could turn local noise into something that traveled across borders and ended up in collectors’ hands decades later. When it comes to “performed with bands,” I mostly run into his name on the label side rather than in band line-ups; if he had a performing chapter, it’s not a widely documented one compared to his Mausoleum role. |
