Racism in Metal
The New Wave of Indigenous National Socialist Black Metal
I’ve taken a closer look at the various ways the neo-Nazi black metal underground hides in plain sight before. For every band that has the word “aryan” in their name and a swastika in their logo, there are 20 others that hide their fascist tendencies behind a multilayered defense network of dog-whistles, wolf-symbology, cultural “celebration”,…
Read MoreEven More Signs That the Underground Metal Band You Are Listening to Might be Racist
Heavy metal has always been just a little too white for it to ever claim any level of racial enlightenment. And, when you take a genre that is already just a tiny step down from “new country” when it comes to concert-goer diversity, and ease it into the cesspool of burgeoning nationalist movements that have…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Most Homoerotic NSBM Album Covers
The genre of Heavy Metal is absolutely no stranger to homoerotic album covers. For every album cover featuring an un-erotically posed dragon or wizard, there are at least TWO covers featuring oiled-up, ridiculously over-muscled barbarian dudes, standing there, “sword” out, nuts tooched, and completely overshadowing any half-clothed women that might be wrapped around their legs…
Read MoreFive More Signs That the Underground Metal Band You Are Listening to Might be Racist
It’s been four years since I last posted about some of the subtle ways underground metal bands can mark themselves as a racist band, and I’m finally back to add another installment (of what will most likely be a lengthy series) of “STtUMBYALtMbR.” In the last four years, racist bands in the black metal underground…
Read MoreThe racist roots of the New Wave of Anti-Islamic Black Metal
No heavy metal sub-genre positions itself more firmly in opposition to Christianity than black metal–most famously seen in the wave of church burnings across Norway in the heyday of the early 90s second-wave scene. And, Kerrang sensationalism aside, black metal really does establish itself firmly against Christianity in the vast majority of its imagery and lyrical content. This, in…
Read MoreIO5M 17: The Top Five Signs That the Underground Metal Band You Are Listening To Might Be Racist
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. I can sometimes sail some dark waters in my quest for new, shitty-sounding underground metal. And it’s not a secret that some of…
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