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Most black metal is not racist.
Good to know. I heard it was :/ i guess a lot of it must be, or it has a history of racism or something
There’s a movement within black metal that calls itself “National Socialist Black Metal” (NSBM). It’s what happens when any group of dickheads insert themselves into an existing scene or genre. Similar thing happened to skinhead punks in England in the 80s.
Some times it boils down to here’s a black metal band comprised solely of neo-Nazis and while they sing songs about trolls and despair they also do Nazi shit in their spare time. This only fuels the assertion you made earlier because a lot of times you can’t even tell they are NSBM from the music, you have to have read an interview, listened to their stage banter, or looked up a list of known NSBM-adjacent bands.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this -- I'm learning there is a lot more to it than i thought.
It's really unfortunate because Black Metal is one of the most expressive and expansive subgenres of metal, with a plethora of sub-sub-genres of its own and it's been co-opted by Nazis and various other racists as a platform for their hate.
They just openly ignore the fact that metal's foundational ideals are that of rebellion and speaking truth to power which makes it super fucking awkward when they then proceed to insert bootlicker politics like Nazism into their lyrics and imagery.
Like, guys... You're missing the whole fucking point. You're not welcome here.