Comrades, my girlfriend is considering writing a term paper on the depiction of paganism and vikings in Nazi Black Metal and we need some sources/names to conduct research. All help is welcome.
If it's specifically the paganism/viking/music/nazi nexus yr after, consider branching out from proper Black Metal into Neo-Folk as well; a lot of the Black Sun imagery etc which emerged in metal in the 90s is more current there nowadays.
A few I remember from my misguided days, which actually produced decent music:
Graveland (Pol) Doesn’t list it in lyrical themes but I’m like 95% sure they’re NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal)
Gontyna Kry (Pol) These last two really bum me out cause they’d make really fucking good anprim bands :-(
Legacies Unchain (Fin) another fucking bummer, awesome throwback almost hairmetal sound but the album “satan is strong and always near” (killer name) features a swastika fairly prominently on the cover art. Everything about the band seems incredibly ironic but that’s a hard irony-pill to swallow
Also, you can search lyrical themes in Metallum, and “national socialism” brings up nearly 750 results. It’s normally pretty hard to have conclusive evidence that someone’s a straight up nazi, but that lyrical theme is a pretty good indicator.
I swear you used to be able to find results with NSBM as a music genre, but that didn’t turn up anything just now
Graveland is definitely NSBM, another one to throw out now that you've jogged my memory is the french band Peste Noir (hate that fucking guy)
I love when these bands have name like "Goatmoon" Like that's just straight up ridiculous, unless its some translation error of something in fiish or whatever that doesn't exist in English. Or like that band "Forest of Grief" that got translated into english as "Mourning Woods"
As a counterpoint she should look up Enslaved. They are pretty much the OG "viking/black metal" band, and they hate NSBM and everything it stands for.
I'll try to come back to this thread if I remember any more but Satanic Warmaster is one of the most popular NSBM bands that still gets credit in Black Metal scenes. Lots of NSBM is (luckily) so musically terrible that it has no appeal outside of Nazi scenes.
Also worth noting is that Advent Sorrow, a band with incredible promise, was torpedoed because the lead singer was a Nazi shithead and got swastika tattoos on his gums. The band fell apart after that revelation.
Ahhh, Satanic Warmaster was one of the ones on the top of my tongue, very similar to graveland + goatmoon (shocker).
I had to look on the encyclopedia to see where they were from, and holy shit what an enormous discography. Imagine not just being a nazi, but one that puts out like 4 albums a year lol
That's a real bummer to hear about Neige. Alcest has been one of my favorite music projects to follow for the past decade. God damned Nazis.
I know Burzum is into that type of nazi/pagan/an-prim shit.
never paid much attention to the lyrics/meaning but the music is very good.
Idiocracy the movie that is slowly becoming a documentary!
lmfao these guys really think they've glimpsed behind the veil of the international jewish conspiracy
that is INSANE. he really took a picture of an odometer at 1488 lmao. if you cntrl+f "npc normies" you get like three results.
the guy used to at least be cool back in the 2000s...burning churches and shit.
Nachtmystium is an interesting case - they released an album on the "apolitical " half of an NSBM label, and claimed they didn't know about the other side of the label. Later, they had to cancel their spot on the Scion Tour because somebody at Toyota heard they were a "Nazi band." Wiki
I dunno if drudkh is nazi, but their politics are def sketch as all fzck
Barathrum from the netherlands are openly pagan and subtly nazi, the singer was in a doc about black metals about how muslims are the new inquisition
Nokturnal Mortum are NSBM and they use pagan imagery. A lot of their stuff is in Ukrainian but Weltanschauung has English lyrics on metal-archives
