#at least it makes it very funny when people start clutching their pearls about rappers' alleged history of dealing drugs

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I finally found one of the “Is the metal band Nazis?” sites again.

Apparently Nazi bands have their own fun little acronym now? National Socialist Black Metal--NSBM--as opposed to Red and Anarchist Black Metal, or RABM.

The reason it can be a bit difficult to figure out sometimes, aside from a lot of the music being in languages you don’t necessarily speak and also growled/yelled/Gregorian chanted over half an orchestra and three drummers, is that it’s like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.  The fun new project you’ve found and really like can have completely innocuous music and aesthetics, but then you look it up and find out that 5/6s of the members’ main gigs are with Nazi bands. Which, you know, if the goal is “Do not give Nazis money”...

But the documentation section of the lists is fucking wild.  You’re going through it and it’s like:

“They had a Nazi guest artist one time but kicked them out once everyone was like ‘Hey, they’re a Nazi!’ and haven’t hired any known Nazis since then.”

“They claim to be apolitical and have made no political statements in their entire twenty-year history.  The band members have only ever been associated with this one project, which exclusively sings about a Cthulhuesque space slug they made up.”

“This band has only ever worked with this specific anti-fascist label, but their drummer is an admitted cannibal.”

“They say they’re not political but they keep collaborating with Nazis.”

“Their frontman stabbed a guy in a bar for looking at him funny, but not in a Nazi kind of way.”

“Well, uh, here’s their last album cover...” and it’s just “This image is blocked due to legal restrictions in your country! :)”

“Pinned top post on all their social media is ‘Nazi punks fuck off.’”

“Frontman is a convicted pedophile with no known opinions about white supremacy.”

“They’ve never said anything one way or another, but they’re signed with Nazi Record Label for Nazis.”

“Lead guitarist burned down a church one time but has consistently maintained that it was due to Satanism, not Nazism, and insists that Satan doesn’t discriminate on the basis of gender, sexuality, color, or ethnicity.”

“Last side project was doing main vocals for that guitarist who stormed the Capitol on January 6th.”

“Varg Vikernes.”