Panzerfaust Records
Template:Short description Template:Main other Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998. Named after a German anti-tank weapon,[1] the record label distributed the music of white power bands and organized concerts across the United States.[2]
At the label's peak around 2000, it was the main competitor of Resistance Records,[2] and they had grown close to the neo-Nazi group White Revolution.[3]
History
Panzerfaust Records was founded in 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson.[4][3] The organization had ties to a number of other groups, including Hammerskin Nation[2] (the "largest [US] skinhead group"[5]), Volksfront and White Revolution.[3] In 2003, Bryant Cecchini, aka Byron Calvert, joined the company.[2]
In 2004, the label launched Project Schoolyard, a United States-wide campaign to distribute free Panzerfaust sampler CDs to middle school and high school students.[6] In response, schools were notified and in some districts, CDs were confiscated or voluntarily turned over by students.[7][8] The anti-fascist record label Insurgence Records responded by offering a free downloadable compilation called Project Boneyard.[9]
Panzerfaust Records shut down in early 2005 after the arrest of Pierpont for drug possession upon returning from a sex tourism trip to Thailand,[10][11] and the emergence of evidence that Pierpont was of Hispanic descent and had dated transgender individuals and non-white women.[4][12][13] The company was reorganized without Pierpont to become Free Your Mind Productions but disbanded for good shortly after.[3] Pierpont has since supposedly moved away from racism and the white power movement.[14]
As of January 27, 2005, the Panzerfaust website was no longer operating.[15]
See also
References
External links
- The Well-Tanned Skinhead - SPLC Intel Report
- Panzerfaust collapses amid Aryan purity debate
- Panzerfaust Misfires
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