“Harshlizer,” the 2010 album by Italian EBM/industrial duo Alien Vampires, is heading to vinyl for the first time. The LP is due on 30 November 2026 through Alfa Matrix, in a limited run of 300 copies worldwide, and no repress is planned.
The vinyl edition is available now on the Alfa Matrix store for orders ahead of the release date. The digital version of the album, expanded with the “Industrializer” bonus disc, remains on Bandcamp.
An album that started a partnership
“Harshlizer” was the record that first brought Alien Vampires to Alfa Matrix in 2010, and it contains “See You In Hell,” their team-up with Suicide Commando. In February 2024 the label reissued it as a deluxe two-CD edition, pairing the album with “Industrializer,” a bonus disc of extra tracks and remixes from the same period.
A vinyl line for the label’s 25th year
The LP belongs to Alfa Matrix Essentials, a series of reissues tied to the label’s 25th anniversary that gives catalogue albums their first vinyl pressings. Star Industry’s “Last Crusades” is part of the same series and is announced for the same date. Alien Vampires have been on vinyl before: a limited LP, “Kinky To Hell”, was issued on solid red vinyl in 2022 by Alfa Matrix.
What goes onto the vinyl
Fresh artwork has been created just for the LP, and the ten tracks of the original album are divided between two sides.
Side A
- “No Way Back”
- “Evil Bloody Music”
- “She’s On Drugs (more than me)”
- “See You In Hell (feat. Suicide Commando)”
- “Harshlizer”
Side B
- “Lies”
- “Control The Universe”
- “Nothing To Lose”
- “Far Away”
- “Her Blood Into My Veins”
About Alien Vampires
The duo came together in Italy in 2003, when Nysrok Infernalien (guitars, keyboards) teamed up with Nightstalker (keyboards, drums); their sound sits between industrial, EBM and dark electro. The albums “Evil Generation” (Kold Finger, 2005) and “No One Here Gets Out Alive” (BLC Productions) came before the move to Alfa Matrix.
The most recent album, “Return Me To Hell” (2023), includes a Skinny Puppy cover, “Assimilate,” featuring Joey Jordison, the former Slipknot drummer, in one of his last recordings before he died. It followed “Fuck The Revolution Bring On The Apocalypse” (2018), “Evil Degeneration Offspring” (2017) and “Drag You to Hell” (2015), which brought in guests from Ministry, Mayhem and Psyclon Nine, along with EPs such as “Harsh Drugs & BDSM” (2014). More from the label can be found on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp.