Hey fellow lemmings, I’ve recently watched some documentries and read some articles that made me more aware of the existence of NSBM. I love metal, both the music and the culture but I don’t want to hear anything related to that specific scene.
I don’t want to dicuss the morality of the subject, I just wish to know how I can easily identify if a band I’m listening to is problematic.
I’m aware of Metallum, but that is not always reliable and easily accessible. I am also not able to detect the themes in the lyrics, tbh most of the time I can barely even understand what the vocalist is saying. Thank you all in advance
One way is search for ‘band name + controversy’ or ‘band name + nazi’ or something similar. It becomes second nature after awhile.
Conversely, seek out non-problematic black metal - antifascist black metal is a thing.
Yeah but that only works for bands that are popular enough that someone wrote an article about.
That sounds more to my taste haha, do you have any recommendations?
Loads :) some of these are not explicitly anti-fascist but they’re non problematic.
There’s also the Anti Fascist Black Metal YouTube channel which showcases antifa black (and other) metal - gets lots of new releases.
Thanks, I’ll make sure to check them out!