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Originally Posted by Bicorn Halfelven
After a quick google search for Dead Reptile Shrine, I was quickly greeted with a DRS cassette cover featuring an unmistakable Nazi eagle logo prominent on the cover. Didn't pick up on the song title "Exekutioner of the Final Solution" until seeing the record cover.
Looks like DRS is pretty blatantly NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal). I was thinking about posting this to my blog, but now I'm having reservations. The record is musically excellent... raw, crude, unhinged... unlike any other BM I've heard. Pretty unique. But i can't support the politics involved.
It's one thing to support a band such as Burzum, who's Varg Vikernes is an avowed white supremacist, but keeps the politics out of his music... There are quite a few NSBM bands who, for some reason, label themselves as NSBM but do not appear to involve their political message within their releases, either via artwork or lyrics.
Still, I can't support this kind of stuff.
Bummer, I thought they were cool...
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I can understand you're not wanting to endorse that sort of thing - I was the same for a while - but throw a stone in the annals of music and you'll find someone with reprehensible opinions. Personal choice thing, but I find it harder and harder to muster up the energy to protest. I also find it very easy to download records, rather than buy and directly endorse, bands whose opinions may be politically motivated to the extent of money from the records going to militant organisations - I quite like Prussian Blue, but there's no way they're getting my money, as a for instance.