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
Yeah, he thought Communism’s bigger bodycount* made it way more evil than the Nazis and thus cooler
*Citation needed
I also seem to remember reading he said something similarly bizarre about gay sex
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
Immortal was never involved in any nastiness AFAIK(please don’t anyone break my heart here) …if you don’t otherwise mind them essentially being the Manowar of black metal in terms of silly cheese
Havukruunu / Mare Cognitum / Spectral Lore / Yellow Eyes / Wolves in the Throne Room
There are some small labels like Syrup Moose Records that try to push lefty bands
If you don’t mind digging through underground stuff go look at releases with the “rabm” tag on bandcamp
There’s this list I found - written by an anarchist who hates “tankies”, but I suppose at least it tells what bands are cringe
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/HelloInquisitor/black-metal-bands-and-their-politics/
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
