An infamous figure in the black metal scene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes
He’s a gigantic neo-pagan nazi weirdo with absurdly baffling beliefs even for a nazi, initially got famous for church arson and murdering another black metal musician in the 90s
Good thing black metal isn’t known for having many Nazis besides that guy
You’ve got it all wrong, those bands just love traditional Slavic symbols
Varg is the ur-black metal nazi though. Though I guess at least the murder he committed wasn’t a hate crime but some dumb beef with another nerd
I’ve mentioned it before but Varg is such a dumbass he got his wife to film himself trying to swim across a river while wearing a chain mail hauberk and he almost drowned. He is a clown man without the makeup.
Funny thing about that Aarseth guy he murdered, he called himself a communist because he believed all the western propaganda about how evil commies are lol, there’s pics of him from either his apartment or his office with portraits of Mao and (iirc) Tito on the wall
It’s the most infuriating thing about the genre. It’s one of the only genres of music that helps my mental health because the anger and fierce riffs calm me down and then I find out one of the band members is a nazi. And suddenly I’m right back to being mad and uncomfortable.
Any other BM bands w/o nazi ties? I’ve listened to Naglfar and Panopticon and they’re both pretty solid, but don’t know much else outside the early Norwegian BM scene
That reminded me of r/rabm, that I used plenty to keep track of the nazis and get some good recommendations. To my surprise, there’s a 2 years old Lemmy community for it: !rabm@lemmy.ml
It’s in dire need of activity, but it exists.
That’s why I’m into EBM/Industrial. Aggressive, rhythmic, usually pissed off sounding and the likelihood of bad politics is comparatively low (even though there are some suspicious band names).
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of it, it being basically a fad of the years 1989-1991.
black metal, black sun, basically putting “black” in a name is a good way to make white supremacists latch onto it
And he tried to publish a racist Viking tabletop role playing game. It sucks.
According to another commenter he’s still shilling it to this day on this Twitter account
Ugh, even if you somehow ignore the racism he tries to simulate every little detail. If I wanted a war sim down to the second I’d play Phoenix Command.
