AXE VICTIMS - Another Victim (First Pressing) 12" Vinyl LP Album

- Genuine 1st pressing of the only album by the "Axe Victims" band

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).

Alfie Falckenbach, was a Belgian music producer and entrepreneur who helped wire the European heavy metal underground into something that could actually be heard outside its own rehearsal room. In 1982 he founded Mausoleum Records, the Belgian label that became a major launchpad for hard rock and metal across Europe, and he later built the wider Music Avenue universe, including Blues Boulevard for the blues side of his musical brain. I think of him as a rare breed: the businessman who still understood the sweat, the riffs, and the messy human part of making records, which is probably why he also performed as the frontman of Blues Karloff (vocals, 2014-2016). He died on March 1, 2016 after a long illness.

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.

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.