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Old 14th July 2005, 7:46pm   #55
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Oi grymm, first of all what the fuck is tr00 grym kvlt

secondly i dont care if your the biggest fan of black metal on the planet. This only proves the point of what I said earlier that it is a scene that puts up no resistance to racist/fascist elements within it. Can you name me any 'anti-racist' black metal bands, ie ones that would stand up and say 'these NSBM bands are scum.'

If you do think NSBM is 'good' (and I presume you mean in a purely musical sense) then I hope you dont pay for the music - the fascist/race hate movement worldwide thrives on merchandise operations. Resistance records in Canada for instance is one of the largest dealers of WP music in the world, and has sections of white power music from every available genre - country and western, metal, oi, folk, hardcore ... probably hip hop some day cos the worlds a fucked up place...

The point being, the money from this just goes to finance political organisations - books, leaflets, mags, a lot of whom target young people with the aim of getting them active, and fighting the 'racial holy war'... (I am struck at how similar the indoctrination of young fundamentalist muslims in britain seems to be to the white power stuff - two sides of the same racist coin.)

Now if you care about your scene, and if you are anti-racist as you say, then i would be concerned about black metal being used as a political tool... just like the NF targeted skinhead in the 70s/80s as predominately white working class youth, it only took a few years for the scene to be split right down the middle, and the right-wing getting more and more extreme. The difference is that in skinhead there was always an anti-fascist side as well which was prepared to fight fire with fire.

Now Black Metal as a scene seems pretty mental already with the whole church-burning, bandmate murdering thing (and this was about 10 years ago when i last took any notice), so i wouldnt be suprised if there was already a healthy cross over between the Scandinavian scene and organised political activity. Is there any opposition within the scene?

In the 80s and 90s skinhead and fascist/antifascist politics became a battle ground between left and right with many folk ending up dead or in jail as it escalated. (See the main photo of AFA vs Blood & Honour http://redaction.org/anti-fascism/contents.html) Now the nazi skin scene has pretty much died out, from outside attacks (Anti Fascist Action) and internal conflict (blood & honour vs C18) but the hardcore fascists will just have ditched the image and be looking for any available opportunity to get back into business - black metal to them will be just another opportunity to exploit.
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