How White Supremacists Are Using Black Metal to Promote Hate

Conservationist · Dec 23, 2013

From Tablet Magazine:

Twenty years on, black metal itself is inescapably influential and multifaceted but also embroiled in a kind of tumult exercised by the warring parts of the music’s trajectory; this struggle may be best exemplified by the simultaneous respect and scorn heaped onto the figure of Varg Vikernes, one of the founders of black metal’s Norwegian second wave. No fan of black metal underestimates the influence of Buruzm, Vikernes’ primary musical project, but just as frequently the man is mocked for his shifting philosophy and attempts at Viking play-acting on film and in interviews. Vikernes’ legacy has been intensely scrutinized, and while this one man takes the brunt of criticism, other actors have cemented a bridge between white nationalism and black metal more successfully (and more quietly) than he. National Socialist Black Metal, or NSBM, is parasite that feeds on that part of black metal steeped in bigotry and violence.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/156896/black-metal-antichrist-kramer?all=1
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Wow.

Asmodean · Dec 23, 2013

It doesn't feed on other black metal from my perception. Violence and bigotry was present in most black metal already before there was a NSBM subgenre so in that department NSBM can't ruin much for other black metal neither.

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