keep on rockin in the free world...

Last Sunday (January 22, 2006), the Guardian Online ran this long piece on the burgeoning neo-Nazi music scene. If you've found yourself questioning the contemporary relevance of some of the material I've been posting to this blog, this should serve as one answer. White off the scale They're loud, proud and everywhere from East Germany to West Virginia. Neil Mackay spends six months getting to know the white supremacist practitioners of Nazi Hate Rock Here's a sample... Neo-Nazis... are on the rise across Europe and in the United States. In Britain, the British National Party won more than 800,000 votes at the last European elections. In Germany, they have seats in state parliaments and are doing better, electorally, than at any time since the Second World War. Italy is also seeing a marked upswing in votes for the far right. Increasingly central to the political success of parties such as the German NPD - the political grandchild of Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party - and the BNP is white power music. Bands include Whitelaw, Strike force 28 and Grinded Nig (whose album Freezer Full of Nigger Heads features songs such as 'Jackhammered Nigger Pussy'). Their records are available from most neo-Nazi record distributors online. If you think that's heavy, try this -- if you have a strong stomach. Or this. Or this. Odin, Vikings, "the volk" (think Volkswagen, the Nazi "People's car"), and various Nordic and "Aryan" themes loom large in this world. As do, of course, those races that fall outside the holy bounds of white supremacy. And make no mistake, those boundaries are holy. These are religious views, spiritual values. Oh baby, what hath God wrought?

Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity

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