Please note: Before adding any release here please check these labels:
SPV Records - for releases 1994 and earlier.
SPV Recordings - for releases 1994 and after.
There are a host of SPV GmbH sub-labels and 'partnership' labels (listed below) which will almost certainly need recording along with SPV GmbH.

SPV GmbH was launched on January 1, 1984, by its current managing director, Manfred Schütz. The company counts among Germany's four most eminent independent record companies and among the ten most successful record companies in Europe. SPV looks after a catalogue of over 6,500 products and in the 20+ years of its existence has been instrumental in the development of numerous trends (for instance Electronic Body Music or EBM for short).

SPV is home to numerous artists, also it operates as a service provider to other labels. SPV has current or historical distribution deals with labels as diverse as Big Maxx Records GmbH, Century Media, Code666, Earache, Giant Electric Pea, Impact Records (4), Inside Out Music, Khazad-Dûm, Osmose Productions, Königskinder Schallplatten GmbH, Mindbase Recordings , MTM Music, Naidoo Records, Napalm Records, No Remorse Records, Sanctuary Records, Snapper Music, Spectre Records and Sub Terranean.

Not long after its founding, SPV became the first German label to help create and influence the new heavy metal wave with it's Steamhammer imprint.

In May 2009, the year of its 25th anniversary, SPV filed for bankruptcy in order to find a way to continue the company.