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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is an undercurrent of [[Romantic nationalism|Romantic]] or [[ethnic nationalism]] in black metal,<ref name="Gardell" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Trafford|first1=Simon|last2=Pluskowski|first2=Aleks|year=2007|editor-last=Marshall|editor-first=David W.|title=Antichrist Superstars: The Vikings in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal|url=https://www.academia.edu/521897|journal=Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|pages=64|isbn=978-0-7864-2922-6|archive-date=2022-01-03|access-date=2017-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103082057/https://www.academia.edu/521897|url-status=dead}}</ref> and racism is not uncommon in the scene even though most black metal and other extreme metal musicians disavow neo-Nazism and racist ideology.<ref name=":16">{{Cite book|last=Kahn-Harris|first=Keith|url=https://archive.org/details/metalrulesglobeh00wall|url-access=registration|title=Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-8223-4733-0|editor-last=Wallach|editor-first=Jeremy|location=Durham, North Carolina|pages=[https://archive.org/details/metalrulesglobeh00wall/page/n212 203]|language=en|chapter="You Are from Israel and That Is Enough To Hate You Forever": Racism, Globalization, and Play within the Global Extreme Metal Scene|author-link=Keith Kahn-Harris|editor-last2=Berger|editor-first2=Harris M.|editor-last3=Greene|editor-first3=Paul D.}}</ref><ref name=":17">{{Cite book|last=Tromp|first=Carline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTGbDwAAQBAJ|title=Northern Myths, Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|year=2019|isbn=978-90-04-39843-6|editor-last=Halink|editor-first=Simon|series=National Cultivation of Culture|volume=19|location=Leiden & Boston|pages=233|language=en|chapter=Apocalypse Now: Norse Gods and the End of the Nation}}</ref> Within the Scandinavian scene, several musicians made racist statements and utilized Nazi language and paraphernalia — yet, black metal is also highly performative, intentionally contradictory, and artistically transgressive, and some musicians cultivate an evil, ultra-right-wing image [[Nazi chic|as an aesthetic]].<ref name=":9" /><ref>Venkatesh; Podoshen; Perri; Urbaniak, 2014, p. 379-380</ref> Many of the artists who flirted with fascism, totalitarianism, and violence in their artistic themes did not find a political connection with that imagery.<ref name=":17" /> Still, a minority in the scene, in their opposition to Christianity and reverence for a pre-Christian past, stepped into fascist and racist ideas, particularly [[Occultism in Nazism|Nazi occultism]].<ref name=":16" /> Euronymous in a personal letter in the early 1990s made the sweeping claim that "Almost ALL Norwegian bands are more less nazis [sic]. Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, [[Arcturus (band)|Arcturus]], [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]], you name them."<ref name=":12" /> Similarly, scholar Kirsten Dyck has described the Norwegian scene's "[[Early Norwegian black metal scene#Helvete, ideology, and the "Black Circle"|Black Circle]]" as neo-Nazi. According to her, the Black Circle melded Nazi occultism, anti-Semitism and the [[conspiracy theory]] of a [[Antisemitic trope|Jewish plot for world domination]], homophobia, and [[xenophobia]] with [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean philosophy]], Satanism, and Scandinavian neopaganism, which then contributed to the violence perpetrated by some of the musicians.<ref name=":19" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dyck|first=Kirsten|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdnIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113|title=Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering|publisher=[[University Press of Colorado]]|year=2020|isbn=978-1-64642-003-2|editor-last=Boyce|editor-first=Travis D.|location=[[Louisville, Colorado]]|pages=113|language=en|chapter="They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction|editor-last2=Chunnu|editor-first2=Winsome M.}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is an undercurrent of [[Romantic nationalism|Romantic]] or [[ethnic nationalism]] in black metal,<ref name="Gardell" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Trafford|first1=Simon|last2=Pluskowski|first2=Aleks|year=2007|editor-last=Marshall|editor-first=David W.|title=Antichrist Superstars: The Vikings in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal|url=https://www.academia.edu/521897|journal=Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|pages=64|isbn=978-0-7864-2922-6|archive-date=2022-01-03|access-date=2017-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103082057/https://www.academia.edu/521897|url-status=dead}}</ref> and racism is not uncommon in the scene even though most black metal and other extreme metal musicians disavow neo-Nazism and racist ideology.<ref name=":16">{{Cite book|last=Kahn-Harris|first=Keith|url=https://archive.org/details/metalrulesglobeh00wall|url-access=registration|title=Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-8223-4733-0|editor-last=Wallach|editor-first=Jeremy|location=Durham, North Carolina|pages=[https://archive.org/details/metalrulesglobeh00wall/page/n212 203]|language=en|chapter="You Are from Israel and That Is Enough To Hate You Forever": Racism, Globalization, and Play within the Global Extreme Metal Scene|author-link=Keith Kahn-Harris|editor-last2=Berger|editor-first2=Harris M.|editor-last3=Greene|editor-first3=Paul D.}}</ref><ref name=":17">{{Cite book|last=Tromp|first=Carline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTGbDwAAQBAJ|title=Northern Myths, Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|year=2019|isbn=978-90-04-39843-6|editor-last=Halink|editor-first=Simon|series=National Cultivation of Culture|volume=19|location=Leiden & Boston|pages=233|language=en|chapter=Apocalypse Now: Norse Gods and the End of the Nation}}</ref> Within the Scandinavian scene, several musicians made racist statements and utilized Nazi language and paraphernalia — yet, black metal is also highly performative, intentionally contradictory, and artistically transgressive, and some musicians cultivate an evil, ultra-right-wing image [[Nazi chic|as an aesthetic]].<ref name=":9" /><ref>Venkatesh; Podoshen; Perri; Urbaniak, 2014, p. 379-380</ref> Many of the artists who flirted with fascism, totalitarianism, and violence in their artistic themes did not find a political connection with that imagery.<ref name=":17" /> Still, a minority in the scene, in their opposition to Christianity and reverence for a pre-Christian past, stepped into fascist and racist ideas, particularly [[Occultism in Nazism|Nazi occultism]].<ref name=":16" /> Euronymous in a personal letter in the early 1990s made the sweeping claim that "Almost ALL Norwegian bands are more less nazis [sic]. Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, [[Arcturus (band)|Arcturus]], [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]], you name them."<ref name=":12" /> Similarly, scholar Kirsten Dyck has described the Norwegian scene's "[[Early Norwegian black metal scene#Helvete, ideology, and the "Black Circle"|Black Circle]]" as neo-Nazi. According to her, the Black Circle melded Nazi occultism, anti-Semitism and the [[conspiracy theory]] of a [[Antisemitic trope|Jewish plot for world domination]], homophobia, and [[xenophobia]] with [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean philosophy]], Satanism, and Scandinavian neopaganism, which then contributed to the violence perpetrated by some of the musicians.<ref name=":19" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dyck|first=Kirsten|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdnIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113|title=Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering|publisher=[[University Press of Colorado]]|year=2020|isbn=978-1-64642-003-2|editor-last=Boyce|editor-first=Travis D.|location=[[Louisville, Colorado]]|pages=113|language=en|chapter="They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction|editor-last2=Chunnu|editor-first2=Winsome M.}}</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1994, [[Jan Axel Blomberg|Hellhammer]], the drummer for the Norwegian band [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]], said of the genre's links with racism: "I'll put it this way, we don't like black people here. Black Metal is for white people".<ref>''Lords of Chaos'', p. 351.</ref> When Mayhem re-formed after Euronymous's death, they began releasing merchandise bearing World War II-era [[Nazi symbolism|Nazi symbols]].<ref>[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mayhem-frontman-says-varg-vikernes-is-very-polite-and-kind/ Mayhem Frontman Says Varg Vikernes Is 'Very Polite And Kind']. [[Blabbermouth.net]]. 26 January 2010.</ref> However, in a later interview, Hellhammer said "I don't give a crap if the fans are white, black, green, yellow, or blue. For me music and politics don't go hand in hand".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thydoom.com/en/interviews/6.html |title=ThyDoom.com |publisher=ThyDoom.com |access-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dead </del>|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002121928/http://thydoom.com/en/interviews/6.html |archive-date=2010-10-02 }}</ref> In 1995, Gaahl described "niggers" and "mulattoes" as "subhuman" and stated his admiration for Vikernes and Adolf Hitler. However, he too has since distanced himself from these statements.<ref name="rockhardgaahl">{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107859 |title=BLABBERMOUTH.NET – GORGOROTH Frontman Opens Up About His Sexual Orientation: 'I've Never Made Any Secret About It' |publisher=Roadrunnerrecords.com |access-date=2012-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121222135/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107859 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }}</ref> Vikernes also wrote some lyrics for the album ''[[Transilvanian Hunger]]'' by [[Darkthrone]], another key band in the Norwegian scene. It was released in 1994 with ''Norsk Arisk Black Metal'' ('Norwegian Aryan Black Metal') printed on the back cover, and issued a press release stating "If any man should attempt to criticize this LP, he should be thoroughly patronized for his obviously Jewish behavior."<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":20">{{Cite book|last=Kahn-Harris|first=Keith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwgd9y-Ww5UC&pg=PA152|title=Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge|publisher=[[Berg Publishers]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84520-399-3|location=Oxford and New York|pages=152|language=en|author-link=Keith Kahn-Harris}}</ref> After the ensuing controversy, Darkthrone claimed that "Jew" is simply a Norwegian word for "stupid" and that they were "not a Nazi band nor a political band".<ref name="MusicMight biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/kolbotn/darkthrone |title=MusicMight :: Artists :: Darkthrone |work=[[MusicMight]] |access-date=23 September 2012 |archive-date=11 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811061536/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/kolbotn/darkthrone |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":20" /> In a 2007 documentary, bandmember [[Fenriz]] claimed he was once arrested while participating in an anti-[[apartheid]] demonstration and later had a "phase of being really angry with&nbsp;... other races" before he became "totally unengaged in [political] shit".<ref name="billzebub2">Zebub, Bill (2007). ''Black Metal: A Documentary''.</ref> Scholar [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] argues that it is almost impossible to believe that Darkthrone did not know that a pejorative use of the word "Jew" was offensive, and the denials from Darkthrone that the members had racist or fascist sympathies was disingenuous, given the statements made.<ref name=":20" /> But, Kahn-Harris also notes that Fenriz has made more jocular references to racism and fascism, and has interacted well with black metal enthusiasts from Israel, so Kahn-Harris believes that the actions by Darkthrone were intentionally contradictory as a form of transgressive artistic discourse and not expressions of a sincere ideology.<ref name=":20" /> Axl Rosenberg from the website MetalSucks notes that after these offensive actions from the band in the mid-1990s, Darkthrone has not repeatedly demonstrated racist behavior. He opines that the band members are far older now and that "it’s feasible their worldviews have changed; it’s feasible they were being provocative for the sake of being provocative when they made ''Hunger'' and have since seen the error of such sophomoric behavior."<ref name=":12" /> After his release from prison, Faust stated regarding the arson and murder he committed that "I was never a Satanist or fascist in any way, but I put behind me the hatred and negativity. Those feelings just eat you up from inside."<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/faust_2.htm|title=Faust Interview - Conversation With The Legendary Black Metal Drummer|last=Bower|first=Chad|date=n.d.|page=2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503034123/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/faust_2.htm|archive-date=May 3, 2009|access-date=April 12, 2020}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1994, [[Jan Axel Blomberg|Hellhammer]], the drummer for the Norwegian band [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]], said of the genre's links with racism: "I'll put it this way, we don't like black people here. Black Metal is for white people".<ref>''Lords of Chaos'', p. 351.</ref> When Mayhem re-formed after Euronymous's death, they began releasing merchandise bearing World War II-era [[Nazi symbolism|Nazi symbols]].<ref>[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mayhem-frontman-says-varg-vikernes-is-very-polite-and-kind/ Mayhem Frontman Says Varg Vikernes Is 'Very Polite And Kind']. [[Blabbermouth.net]]. 26 January 2010.</ref> However, in a later interview, Hellhammer said "I don't give a crap if the fans are white, black, green, yellow, or blue. For me music and politics don't go hand in hand".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thydoom.com/en/interviews/6.html |title=ThyDoom.com |publisher=ThyDoom.com |access-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">usurped </ins>|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002121928/http://thydoom.com/en/interviews/6.html |archive-date=2010-10-02 }}</ref> In 1995, Gaahl described "niggers" and "mulattoes" as "subhuman" and stated his admiration for Vikernes and Adolf Hitler. However, he too has since distanced himself from these statements.<ref name="rockhardgaahl">{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107859 |title=BLABBERMOUTH.NET – GORGOROTH Frontman Opens Up About His Sexual Orientation: 'I've Never Made Any Secret About It' |publisher=Roadrunnerrecords.com |access-date=2012-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121222135/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107859 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }}</ref> Vikernes also wrote some lyrics for the album ''[[Transilvanian Hunger]]'' by [[Darkthrone]], another key band in the Norwegian scene. It was released in 1994 with ''Norsk Arisk Black Metal'' ('Norwegian Aryan Black Metal') printed on the back cover, and issued a press release stating "If any man should attempt to criticize this LP, he should be thoroughly patronized for his obviously Jewish behavior."<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":20">{{Cite book|last=Kahn-Harris|first=Keith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwgd9y-Ww5UC&pg=PA152|title=Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge|publisher=[[Berg Publishers]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84520-399-3|location=Oxford and New York|pages=152|language=en|author-link=Keith Kahn-Harris}}</ref> After the ensuing controversy, Darkthrone claimed that "Jew" is simply a Norwegian word for "stupid" and that they were "not a Nazi band nor a political band".<ref name="MusicMight biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/kolbotn/darkthrone |title=MusicMight :: Artists :: Darkthrone |work=[[MusicMight]] |access-date=23 September 2012 |archive-date=11 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811061536/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/norway/kolbotn/darkthrone |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":20" /> In a 2007 documentary, bandmember [[Fenriz]] claimed he was once arrested while participating in an anti-[[apartheid]] demonstration and later had a "phase of being really angry with&nbsp;... other races" before he became "totally unengaged in [political] shit".<ref name="billzebub2">Zebub, Bill (2007). ''Black Metal: A Documentary''.</ref> Scholar [[Keith Kahn-Harris]] argues that it is almost impossible to believe that Darkthrone did not know that a pejorative use of the word "Jew" was offensive, and the denials from Darkthrone that the members had racist or fascist sympathies was disingenuous, given the statements made.<ref name=":20" /> But, Kahn-Harris also notes that Fenriz has made more jocular references to racism and fascism, and has interacted well with black metal enthusiasts from Israel, so Kahn-Harris believes that the actions by Darkthrone were intentionally contradictory as a form of transgressive artistic discourse and not expressions of a sincere ideology.<ref name=":20" /> Axl Rosenberg from the website MetalSucks notes that after these offensive actions from the band in the mid-1990s, Darkthrone has not repeatedly demonstrated racist behavior. He opines that the band members are far older now and that "it’s feasible their worldviews have changed; it’s feasible they were being provocative for the sake of being provocative when they made ''Hunger'' and have since seen the error of such sophomoric behavior."<ref name=":12" /> After his release from prison, Faust stated regarding the arson and murder he committed that "I was never a Satanist or fascist in any way, but I put behind me the hatred and negativity. Those feelings just eat you up from inside."<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/faust_2.htm|title=Faust Interview - Conversation With The Legendary Black Metal Drummer|last=Bower|first=Chad|date=n.d.|page=2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503034123/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/faust_2.htm|archive-date=May 3, 2009|access-date=April 12, 2020}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar statements were also uttered by scene members from other countries. [[Michael W. Ford]] of the American band [[Black Funeral]] mentioned that [[Occultism in Nazism|Nazi occultism]] was very important to him,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> called his former band Sorath his "old SS Death squad"<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|url-status=dead|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=35|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> and claimed "you have to be white to play Black metal".<ref name="killyourself-p36">{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|url-status=dead|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> He was the American leader of Cymophane, an organisation started by Vikernes.<ref name="killyourself-p36"/> He would later disassociate himself from Nazism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmp666.com/moonlight/blackfun2.html|title=Interview with Michael Ford|author=Eosforos|editor=Thorns|publisher=[[Full Moon Productions]]|language=en|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beyondthedarkhorizon.com/BlackFuneral.html|title=Black Funeral|author=Blissfulviolet|access-date=2023-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704073005/http://www.beyondthedarkhorizon.com/BlackFuneral.html|archive-date=2007-07-04}}</ref> According to the authors of ''[[Lords of Chaos (book)|Lords of Chaos]]'', in 1995, three Swedish black-metallers (including Mika "Belfagor" Hakola of the band [[Nefandus]]) went on a "niggerhunt" in [[Linköping]]. Wielding an axe and two machetes, they "terrorized" a black man.<ref>''Lords of Chaos'', pp. 308–309.</ref> Nefandus were later "considered to be Nazi sympathizers", though Belfagor explained: "This could not be further from the truth, but I guess this has to do with some of the controversial comments I made in various magazines in my youth, when I still aspired to play in the most hated band in the world. I used a lot of provocative language back then. But to sort things out: I associate with people of all creeds and colours. ... So to be labeled a Nazi or a racist is very offensive to me".<ref>Terry Demeter: ''Ofermod''. ''Breath of the Dragon''. In: ''Unrestrained Magazine'', no. 39, p. 74.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar statements were also uttered by scene members from other countries. [[Michael W. Ford]] of the American band [[Black Funeral]] mentioned that [[Occultism in Nazism|Nazi occultism]] was very important to him,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> called his former band Sorath his "old SS Death squad"<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|url-status=dead|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=35|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> and claimed "you have to be white to play Black metal".<ref name="killyourself-p36">{{cite magazine|last=Lahdenpera|first=Esa|date=1995|title=Embrace The Sounds Of Grim Medieval Vampiric Black Metal...|url=http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|url-status=dead|magazine=Kill Yourself!!! Magazine|issue=4|page=36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314233544/http://paganbelial.awardspace.com/?p=841|archive-date=2013-03-14|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref> He was the American leader of Cymophane, an organisation started by Vikernes.<ref name="killyourself-p36"/> He would later disassociate himself from Nazism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmp666.com/moonlight/blackfun2.html|title=Interview with Michael Ford|author=Eosforos|editor=Thorns|publisher=[[Full Moon Productions]]|language=en|access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beyondthedarkhorizon.com/BlackFuneral.html|title=Black Funeral|author=Blissfulviolet|access-date=2023-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704073005/http://www.beyondthedarkhorizon.com/BlackFuneral.html|archive-date=2007-07-04}}</ref> According to the authors of ''[[Lords of Chaos (book)|Lords of Chaos]]'', in 1995, three Swedish black-metallers (including Mika "Belfagor" Hakola of the band [[Nefandus]]) went on a "niggerhunt" in [[Linköping]]. Wielding an axe and two machetes, they "terrorized" a black man.<ref>''Lords of Chaos'', pp. 308–309.</ref> Nefandus were later "considered to be Nazi sympathizers", though Belfagor explained: "This could not be further from the truth, but I guess this has to do with some of the controversial comments I made in various magazines in my youth, when I still aspired to play in the most hated band in the world. I used a lot of provocative language back then. But to sort things out: I associate with people of all creeds and colours. ... So to be labeled a Nazi or a racist is very offensive to me".<ref>Terry Demeter: ''Ofermod''. ''Breath of the Dragon''. In: ''Unrestrained Magazine'', no. 39, p. 74.</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>imported>GreenC bothttp://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=National_Socialist_black_metal&diff=3226673&oldid=previmported>JPHC2003: /* German */ Fascism template.2025-10-30T04:39:51Z<p><span class="autocomment">German: </span> Fascism template.</p>
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