The New Yorker, “Heavy Metal Confronts Its Nazi Problem”
by“The world is on fire,” Ben Hutcherson told an audience in Brooklyn, last month, before a set by his band, Glacial Tomb. He added,…
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Rolling Stone, “Brooklyn Anti-Fascist Metal Fest Was a Beacon for a Troubled Scene”
byA death-metal band dedicating a song to survivors of sexual assault. A vocalist screaming out lyrics about struggles with body image over her bandmates’…
Kim Kelly: “Why I Booked an Anti-Fascist Metal Festival”
byTomorrow marks the first day of Black Flags Over Brooklyn 2019, an anti-fascist, anti-racist extreme metal festival that I’ve been working on with a…
Vice, “Anarchist Black Metallers Dawn Ray’d Want to Spark a Revolution”
by“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, ‘Freedom.’ Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.” So said writer,…
NPR, “Run The Jewels On Empowerment And Shared Humanity”
byThe older I get, the more of an anarchist I become. And I don’t mean in the punk rock type of way where I…
Chicago Tribune, “‘Haymarket’ back for Underscore’s 2017-18 season”
byClosing out the season in May will be a revival of the folk-fueled “Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook,” inspired by true events surrounding the 1886…
The Atlantic, “29 New Albums to Listen to This Fall”
byGodspeed You! Black Emperor, Luciferian Towers The masters of the gorgeously ominous instrumental epic have an especially anarchist raison d’etre on their sixth album,…
Stereogum, “‘Tubthumping’ Turns 20”
byIn 1982, in the British town of Burnley, a bunch of former members of a band called Chimp Eats Banana formed an anarchist collective…
Pitchfork, “5 New Metal Songs Leading the Resistance”
byThis month, they cover the title track from the anarcho-punk band Aus-Rotten’s 1994 EP Fuck Nazi Sympathy to communicate a point that should seem…
Noisey (Vice), “A Brief But Very Informative History of How Fascists Infiltrated Punk and Metal”
byEuropean Liberation Front organizers like Troy Southgate, formerly of the Official National Front, sought to exploit the anarchist ideology associated with punk and metal…