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When Victims of Society started playing together in 1992, they were a bunch of young and unexperienced kids, but in love with hardcore and dedicated to the bone. After a whole lot of rehearsing, the band started playing on a regular base with bands like UK Subs, Funeral Dress and others. They soon decided to record a demo and contacted Patrick Delabie of the wellknown 195 Studio in the Netherlands , who managed to give the boys an ultra fat sound on their first official demotape. Tapes were sended out and the band gets a phone call from the German Lost and Found records label. At that time, one of the biggest independent hardcore labels of Europe. Soon after, the debut ep ‘Way of life’ is released by that label. The response of both press and audience is great. VOS starts playing outside of Belgium on a more regular base. Enter 1997, VOS are preparing to record their next album, but the cooperation between the band and the label is stagnating, not to say ‘on the way down’. They decide to get rid of their labeldeal and Dieter, who is the drummer of the band, decides to start his own label, called Daybreak Records.
1998 is the year ‘Screaming alone’ is released on Daybreak Records and followed by some intense touring through Spain and the United Kingdom. Both live shows and album are received well, but there are a whole lot of things changing in the band. Longtime member Web decided to leave and is replaced by Hans from Up To Now and Dieter’s Daybreak Records is put to rest. Some other members have a lot of work and the band takes a break for about a year. Since 2000, new songs are written and VOS are back in full effect. The band takes a new start and begins to play a lot of shows in 2001. Since both the band and funtime records always had a great feeling working together, it’s nothing more than logical that VOS gets signed by Funtime Records.
The first result of this cooperation is the blasting ep ‘glasgow kiss’, filled with fast, raging and explosive hardcore. Released in april of 2002 and putting the band back on the map. Victims of Society have found a new breath and play out more than ever, including various festivals and some small tours. In november of 2003, VOS recorded their new album at Dé Studio, set for release in the spring of 2004.
Festival appearances : Funtime Festival, Ieper Fest, Fury Fest, Rock Herk and several other fests
Tours : Spain (several times), UK(with PN), Netherlands…
'Way of life', cdep, Lost and Found Records 1997
'Screaming alone' cd, Daybreak Records 1998
'Glasgow Kiss'cdep, Funtime Records 2002
'The Gloves Come Off'cd, Funtime Records 2004
