Death Pact International is a musical concept project created by legendary 'power electronics' and 'death industrial' project The Grey Wolves during the 1980s. The essential concept behind Death Pact International [DPI] is that anyone can produce music, perform live, or utilise any other media, under the name. All DPI material is open to use by anyone in any way as long as it remains under the banner of Death Pact International. It could be said that DPI is the first Open Source music project. Power electronics is the technology associated with the efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electric power by static means from its available input form into the desired electrical output form. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... The Grey Wolves are a British Industrial music group. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

Much of the output of DPI has aimed at challenging censorship and establsihed taboos. As such the DPI Manifesto warns that Death Pact International will often deal with the dark side of human nature and the associated murderous vibes will be offensive and sickening to a lot of people. Therefore please note that by choosing to use the name Death Pact International you are tarring yourself with the same brush as other individuals / groups / units who operate under the banner of Death Pact International and who may not hold the same viewpoints as yourself.

Over the years the DPI moniker has been used by members of The Grey Wolves, Wertham, and vidnaObmana among others. The Grey Wolves are a British Industrial music group. ...

DPI Manifesto

From the outset DPI used the following manifesto to promote it's ideas:

Death Pact International?

DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL?

Death Pact International (DPI) is a multi - media unit whose weapons are : aural assaults / artwork / text / recordings / information / performance art / film / the web, etc.

Death Pact International is a collaborative project involving many activists from various backgrounds. It is a unit working in the dark underground of electro / atmospheric / harsh / industrial / noise. It is a unit which plans from time to time, to leave this self imposed isolation and strike at an unsuspecting "world outside".

Death Pact International is an assault group that seeks nothing less than global recognition. Its aural and visual presentations are aimed at effecting and infecting the minds of millions. Here at the dawn of the 21st century, Death Pact International sees itself as an art guerilla movement that is moving across the landscape of a dead and dying world. Death Pact International will bury the stinking corpse of the corporate / elitist / ego art and give birth to a new creative monster that encourages collaboration. The combined efforts of many units under the banner of Death Pact International will unite us and therefore make us a much stronger and therefore more effective unit.

Death Pact International invites individuals / groups / units to become involved. That you have never before been in a group or unit involved with the aural or visual creative process is no barrier to becoming part of death pact international.

If you agree with the following points and want to be a part of Death Pact International , welcome!

Death Pact International does not believe in censorship. Many subjects will be touched upon or investigated and be made available as information or as confrontation by some of those working as death pact international. This subject matter could include material of an extreme sexual or political nature or could include material offensive to those with religious leanings.

No subject must be seen as taboo.

Multiple Name

MULTIPLE NAME

Death Pact International is a name that can be used by any person or persons who wish to use it.

Death Pact International will often deal with the dark side of human nature and the associated murderous vibes will be offensive and sickening to a lot of people. Therefore please note that by choosing to use the name Death Pact International you are tarring yourself with the same brush as other individuals / groups / units who operate under the banner of Death Pact International and who may not hold the same viewpoints as yourself.

When releasing recordings or publications under the name Death Pact International always make known somewhere on each release the words "no copyright" (for recordings) or "no copyright - reprint at will" for publications. This will help in the dissemination and distribution of Death Pact International works.

Death Pact International releases should be anonymous but if ego wins you over, can include the information "Death Pact International on this occasion were :___________"

Death Pact International releases can have specific titles, for example "Human kull - Death Pact International . C60 / cd Or "Brutal love" ( a Death Pact International publication) or the words " a manifestation of death pakt international" can be used on releases.

Releases will be free / releases will be sold. Whatever.

REMEMBER!

If you release anything under the name death pakt international, it becomes the property of anybody and everybody.

If you release recordings, these recordings can be used by anybody and everybody in any way they see fit. They can be included on compilations without permission, they can be remixed and released in other forms, they can be used on backing tapes at live events. The written word and collages/artwork etc can be used in other publications and rearranged with as seen fit by whoever.

The name Death Pact International must always be used when using Death Pact International material.

Warning! Dear parasites - those who use Death Pact International material and release it under their own names - you will be found out.

We are everywhere.

Strategy of Action

STRATEGY OF ACTION

Work alone or collaborate with someone else on recordings and release them in cassette form (one of the easiest ways to reproduce in your own home) or as singles/eps/lps/cd-rs or cds. Work on publications such as kommuniques / magazines / booklets / e-mails/ web sites / pranks / etc and let loose your words/your artwork out into the world. No one even need to know it is your own work if you don't want them to know. When asked you can say you are distributing it for the art guerrilla movement - Death Pact International.

Let there be scores of units operating under the name Death Pact International.

Get together with others operating within Death Pact International and organise art/mail art exhibitions - boycott those borguoise elitist galleries and use open spaces / abandoned buildings / public toilets / any place who will have you etc etc.

Organize on line forums, chats, performances; the web at the moment is the easier way to get the wider audience with less effort.

Let your imagination go.

Live Events

LIVE EVENTS

Organise live events and work out it out with others so that on a particular night/s there are Death Pact International events taking place at the same time in various towns/cities/countries. Perhaps at these events each Death Pact International unit uses the same backing tape and takes it from there. Nothing else is known apart from the backing tape, how each unit chooses to work with the backing tape is up to them. Let these events be mutimedia. Use of film / slide / video is encouraged

Spread the Noise

SPREAD THE NOISE

As well as sending releases to friends/allies/allied labels. Also send releases into the mainstream, send to radio and tv stations. Send to record labels and book publishers, send to multi national corporations, send to famous people in the film and the rock/pop world, send to famous people in the art world (it will let them know how shit they are and that things can operate and exist without big bucks) send to those you love, send to those you hate. The list is endless. Even if the receivers toss us into the bin. The name Death Pact International will be embedded in their brain in some place. Day after day we are bombarded with news and gossip from their glamour world. Lets infect that world with some of our virus. Last - make other plans of action.

DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL ARE ART GUERRILLAS. DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL IS CONVULSIVE BEAUTY. DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL HAVE IMPACT. DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL IS AN AURAL/VISUAL ASSAULT DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL IS A VIRUS,DESTROYING THE BORING / MUNDANE / MEDIOCRE / THE ARTYFARTY / ALL THAT IS SHIT DEATH PACT INTERNATONAL IS ENTERTAINMENT AND INFOPRMATION DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL KNOWS THAT 99% IS SHIT! DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL WILL BE EVERYWHERE. DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL = ZEITGEIST!

DEATH PACT INTERNATIONAL IS EVERYWHERE

SPREAD THE NOISE!

Releases

 DPI was born in 1985 and there have been a bunch of tapes and live actions done under this moniker. 

CASSETTES

DEATH PACT II ((KORM PLASTICS)

DEATH SENTENCE(OPUS DEI SOCIETY)

FEAR EATS THE SOUL (label unknown)

HUMAN KULL (label uknown)

MAILMUSIC (Death PAct Mail Music)

PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER (label unknown)

TERROR LEADS TO BETTER DAYS (KORM PLASTICS)

COMPILATIONS

THERAPIE COMPILATIE 2 (THERAPIE ORGANISATIE)

POWER ELECTRONIC 2000 (WMJ106)

PSYCHIC WOLVES OF MIDGARD (Strength Through Joy)

TRANSMISSIONS OF HATRED (Open Wound)

AN END TO MASTERPIECES (Primate Electronics)

External Links

• A DPI website
• DPI on Myspace.com
• The Grey Wolves founders of DPI
• Open Wound