• GhostOfChuck [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Not from what I can tell. Your comment actually made me look into it more and I came across this interview where Dagon vehemently denies being a Nazi. But, of course most people would deny that. https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2015/07/10/inquisition-frontman-dagon-i-m-not-a-nazi/

      Granted Dagon has a side project called 88MM, but claims it was named after the munition. I am only familiar with Inquisition and not his side project though, and from what I can tell Inquisition focuses on themes of cosmic horror and "Space Satan". So there might be some Nazi shit in his side project, I really don't know.

      That being said, an unfortunate amount of Black Metal bands have NS leanings and it pains me that the genre is so closely associated with Nazisim. I still don't entirely know how to feel about listening to bands/artists that have really dogshit beliefs when the art they create doesn't reflect their beliefs at all, you know?

      Like, Burzum's first 4 albums are amazing and Filosofem is one of my favorite albums of all time... But Varg is a gigantic fucking asshole with abhorrent beliefs. But at the same time, none of those opinions make their way into the lyrics or themes of those albums, and I sure as fuck haven't paid him any money as I pirated all of those albums.

      • GhostOfChuck [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        Oh jesus fuck. Apparently Dagon got charged with the possession of Child Pornography a couple of years ago. God damn. I take back what I said in my previous post. He's most definitely a piece of shit. Thanks for bringing that to light for me. I had no idea, I hadn't been keeping up with them for the past few years. Going to keep this up though incase anyone else didn't hear about that.