Author Archives: Scott Weisswald

Scott Weisswald

Sabaton’s The Great War

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Sabaton is a Swedish metal band hailing from Falun. Their musical style, in the loose sense of the word, is mostly unremarkable power metal combined with a typically European harte vocal inflection courtesy of the group’s part-Czech lead singer, Joakim Brodén. Sabaton’s shtick, for lack of a more fitting term, is their use of “history” Read more …

Published: September 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, consumerism, death, history, metal, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, power metal, Sabaton, Scott Weisswald, World War I | 4 Responses

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Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft’s Alles ist gut

Scott Weisswald

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In memory of Gabi Delgado-López (April 18, 1958 — March 22, 2020).

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, more concisely known as DAF, is a German electronic music band from Wuppertal consisting of Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl. Their name contains a light touch of irony, rendered into English as “German-American Friendship.” Read more …

Published: September 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, articles, DAF, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, EBM, electronic music, Germany, globalization, identity, industrial music, language, modernity, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, the Cold War | 3 Responses

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Rome’s The Lone Furrow

Scott Weisswald

1,182 words

Rome is the project of Luxembourgish multi-instrumentalist Jerome Reuter. Genre-wise, one could call Rome “neofolk,” if one assumes that “neofolk” as a genre simply describes reedy guitars and deliberately vague attempts at mysticism. That describes the music of Rome to a T, a project that attempts to synthesize the often-complicated Read more …

Published: September 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, anti-modernism, articles, cultural appropriation, Jerome Reuter, martial industrial, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, posing, Rome, Scott Weisswald, Symbolism | 8 Responses

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Washed Out’s Life of Leisure

Scott Weisswald

1,221 words

Ernest Greene, the solo multi-instrumentalist behind Washed Out, was born in the state of Georgia. This extended play, Life of Leisure, is a drowsy chillwave mark that has impacted spheres far beyond its initial scope, most notably for the use of its “Feel It All Around” as the main theme for the television show Portlandia. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Atlanta, blacks in music, chillwave, Ernest Greene, hip-hop, implicitly white music, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, synth-pop, Washed Out | 1 Response

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Bright Eyes’ Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was

Scott Weisswald

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Believe it or not, there was once a time in the now-enviable 2000s in which Midwestern indie bands were considered the epitome of cool. If you wore plaid shirts (sometimes, with a t-shirt over said shirt), could play passable guitar, and had a just-so-slightly off-kilter voice with which you could sing about outsiderdom and ennui, Read more …

Published: August 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aging, articles, Bright Eyes, folk music, implicitly white music, indie music, music reviews, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Scott Weisswald, the 2000s | 3 Responses

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Steely Dan’s Aja

Scott Weisswald

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Steely Dan is a band composed of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Their biggest hits have a kind of eternal life, anthems that grace barbecues, bars, and band jams for their simultaneously irreverent, yet wholesome outlook on American culture. This is perhaps best expressed in the group’s own name Read more …

Published: August 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, funk, fusion music, jazz, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, rock music, Scott Weisswald, Steely Dan, the Jewish question, yacht rock | 19 Responses

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Venetian Snares’ Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

Scott Weisswald

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Venetian Snares is the working name of Canadian music producer Aaron Funk. Funk is best known for producing in the style known as breakcore, which comprises the bulk of this record. “Breakcore” is a semi-recent style developed when new possibilities afforded by sequencing and music production technology allowed artists Read more …

Published: August 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Aaron Funk, articles, Bartok Bela, breakcore, drum n bass, electronic music, Gustav Mahler, IDM, Igor Stravinsky, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, sampling, Scott Weisswald, Venetian Snares | 3 Responses

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Taylor Swift’s Folklore

Scott Weisswald

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Author’s note: Tomorrow marks one year of my writing for Counter-Currents.

Folklore is Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album. It joined the hallowed halls of other so-called “isolation records” on July 24, 2020, in a surprise release Read more …

Published: August 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commercial art, cottagecore, feminism, folk music, folklore, implicit whiteness, implicitly white music, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, popular culture, Scott Weisswald, Taylor Swift | 22 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part 4: What to Do?

Scott Weisswald

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

So, there are blacks with beats, heebs with chutzpah, and Swedes with serenity. What is a white dissident to do in an environment in which the talents of his people are so easily turned into springboards for cultural developments that annoy at best and brainwash at worst? Read more …

Published: August 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, culture, esotericism, folk music, mass media, music, North American New Right, originals, pop culture, pop music, Scott Weisswald, secrecy | 6 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part Three: Sweden, Yes

Scott Weisswald

Icona Pop performs at Summerburst Festival, Gothenburg.

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White people are the undisputed masters of making catchy music. American and European pop songs make their way onto the airwaves of the entire world through a robust mechanism of economic globalization and sheer memetic power. But why is the music we make so catchy to just about all ears? And who doesn’t find our music appealing? It would be easy to chalk it up to the undeniable creative strength of our people, but like all endeavors in the arts in the modern world, songwriting has taken on the forms of science and cynical commercialism. Read more …

Published: July 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, education, music, North American New Right, originals, pop music, psychology, science, Scott Weisswald, Sweden | 14 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part Two: The Rubish Question

Scott Weisswald

Jay-Z and Rick Rubin.

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Part 1

Who is Rick Rubin?

If you asked in the early part of his career, he was a member of the provocative hardcore punk band, The Pricks. He would also stress that he was a nobody. Rubin’s purpose for being in the Pricks was, functionally, to piss off his rich Jewish father; Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, blacks in music, hip-hop, Jews in music, Jews in the media, mainstream media, music, New York City, North American New Right, originals, rap music, Scott Weisswald, subcultures | 19 Responses

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
Part One: Jungle Beats

Scott Weisswald

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As the country gets more diverse, the radio gets more homogeneous. I don’t mean this in the ethnic sense, of course; America’s rockstars are more colorful than ever! Instead, the songs that dominate the country’s charts are beginning to sound more and more alike. The average pop station tends to be an indistinct mass of the same noises Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Blacks in America, culture creation, culture distortion, hip-hop, Jews in music, music, music theory, North American New Right, originals, pop music, popular culture, rap music, Scott Weisswald | 33 Responses

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Death in June & The People’s Temple Choir

Scott Weisswald

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The Peoples Temple, the utopian death cult best known for the Jonestown Massacre, recorded a gospel album under the name of the People’s Temple Choir in 1973. Far from an amateurish production, the album He’s Able features slick studio trickery and a surprisingly talented backing band for the choir to swing cuts of pop songs, Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, cults, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, esotericism, Jim Jones, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, the occult, the Third Reich | 2 Responses

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Crystal Castles

Scott Weisswald

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Crystal Castles is a Canadian band, initially consisting of singer Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath. The two met each other because of their mutual connections in the large and prolific Toronto music scene, and collaborated on one track, the chaotic “Alice Practice,” as a mere experiment. The two never intended to form a full-time group Read more …

Published: June 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, history, music reviews, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, pop culture, pop music, Scott Weisswald, techno, youth | 3 Responses

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Brigitte Bardot’s B. B.

Scott Weisswald

1,920 words

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a famed French actress, singer, pop culture icon, and accidental provocateur. Bardot’s marks on pop culture include her popularization of the bikini, the eponymous Bardot neckline, and her collection of absurdly fun and often intriguing slices of French pop music that feel both timeless in their replay value yet Read more …

Published: June 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged animal rights, articles, France, integrity, jazz, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald, the 1960s | 6 Responses

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The Wild World of David Dees
(July 9, 1957 — May 31, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

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The world lost a truly insightful, thought-provoking, and daring artist on May 31st of this year. Mr. David Dees “illustrated” whole tons of Photoshop-core images depicting the ill deeds of the global elite as he saw it; a group that varyingly consisted of Zionist-occupied governments, vaccine manufacturers, lightbulb designers, Read more …

Published: June 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, conspiracy theories, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald | 5 Responses

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Imagine Music Without Black People

Scott Weisswald

2,453 words

If there ever was a time that whites and blacks have aired their grievances, then the past two weeks have been it. Cities are burning. People are being killed. “Justice,” as defined by one person or another, is being demanded. In so many ways, the true nature of blacks in the United States is being put on display for all to see. In fact, many blacks are expecting us to thank them for their mere presence. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Blacks in America, collaborationism, culture, culture distortion, hip-hop, Jews in music, multiculturalism, music, North American New Right, originals, rap music, Scott Weisswald | 26 Responses

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Joy Division in Retrospect

Scott Weisswald

1,528 words

On this day in 1977, a band from Salford, England called Warsaw took to the stage for the very first time in their career. They were supporting the Buzzcocks at the Electric Circus concert in Manchester.

“Warsaw” was the name chosen by a group of young men, namely Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Terry Mason, and Peter Hook, Read more …

Published: May 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, articles, Britain in the 70s, depression, ennui, Joy Division, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, post-punk, Scott Weisswald, white dispossesion | 10 Responses

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Remembering Florian Schneider
(April 7, 1947 — April 21, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

885 words

Florian Schneider, one of two founding members of Kraftwerk and its primary creative director for most of the band’s existence, passed away on April 21, 2020. Schneider was responsible for some of music’s most fascinating, technically impressive, and culturally significant developments being brought to broader audiences. Read more …

Published: May 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Kraftwerk, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, techno | 5 Responses

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Concept Albums as Gesamtkunstwerke

Scott Weisswald

1,496 words

Trahndorff-by-way-of-Wagner’s concept, Gesamtkunstwerk, refers to a work of art that incorporates all of art’s mediums in its final incarnation. The word in German literally means “altogether artwork.” Wagner’s later operas are often cited as approaching the realization of this ideal, and modern cinema is often evaluated upon this concept or used as a barometer for it. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald | 1 Response

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The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser
Wisterias

Scott Weisswald

2,375 words

My father planted wisterias on the patio of our family’s home when I was nine years old. They refused to grow for a long time — in fact, their insistence on remaining low, depressing vines, drooping ever-downward to the grass, seemed like a personal insult to the handiwork of Mom and Dad. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2020 fundraiser | 4 Responses

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Crisis’ Holocaust Hymns

Scott Weisswald

1,257 words

Crisis was an English punk-rock band formed in 1977 in Surrey. Their initial lineup consisted of Insect Robin the Cleaner, Phrazer, and the most famous two who didn’t have absurd nicknames: Douglas Pearce and Tony Wakeford. Crisis was explicitly a Leftist band, appearing at various Rock Against Racism concerts and collaborating with artists and organizers from the Anti-Nazi League. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Britain in the 70s, crisis, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, post-punk, punk music, punk rock, Scott Weisswald | 1 Response

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Changes’ Fire of Life

Scott Weisswald

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Changes can be considered the very first example of a neofolk band. Formed in 1969 by cousins Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk, Changes has its roots in the earliest days of the folk revival and hippie scenes in the United States. Read more …

Published: April 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Changes, esotericism, Faust, Francis Parker Yockey, hermeticism, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, paganism, psychedelic music, Robert N. Taylor, Scott Weisswald, the occult | 1 Response

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Death in June’s Essence!

Scott Weisswald

1,519 words

Essence! is the most recent batch of material from Douglas Pearce’s Death in June, released on November 30, 2018. Essence! pulls from the earlier output of 90s Death in June, including its eclectic sampling work, noisy elements, and tastefully perverse whip-cracks for its compositions. Pearce brings the Death in June sound into the modern age, however Read more …

Published: April 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, folk music, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald | Leave a comment

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Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

Scott Weisswald

1,210 words

Rumours was recorded by putting five musicians who hated each other inside of the same room for two months. The results were immaculate.

This seems to be contrary to logic, however. Wouldn’t forcing several creative types — people infamous for their egos — who have major beef with each other to work on the same project end in disaster? Read more …

Published: April 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, infighting, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald | 6 Responses

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Sol Invictus’ In the Rain

Scott Weisswald

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Sol Invictus, fronted by Tony Wakeford, is one of the “neofolk” scene’s best-known groups, alongside Death in June and Current 93. Sol Invictus emerged following Wakeford’s departure from Death in June — and later departure from controversial Above the Ruins — with a sound that progressively became lighter and more classically-inspired than most of what can be considered “neofolk.” Read more …

Published: April 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Goth music, music reviews, mysticism, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, Sol Invictus | 8 Responses

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Current 93’s Swastikas for Noddy

Scott Weisswald

2,254 words

Current 93 is a neofolk group fronted by David Tibet. Its name is derived from Aleister Crowley’s numerological manipulation of the words Thelema and agape, the “93 Current” of the present age.

If that’s not weird enough for you, it gets better! Read more …

Published: April 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Boyd Rice, Christianity, Current 93, Douglas Pearce, esotericism, music reviews, neofolk, North American New Right, occultism, originals, religion, the occult | 7 Responses

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Cliff Martinez’s Contagion: Original Soundtrack

Scott Weisswald

1,661 words

There is a new infectious disease sweeping the planet, and those it doesn’t infect or kill, it locks behind closed doors. Modern man can’t sit still for longer than five seconds, so while we hide from the impacts of a lethal virus, we pass the time by watching movies about the impacts of a lethal virus. Torrenting numbers for Scott Z. Burns’ Steven Soderbergh-directed 2011 thriller Contagion are through the roof, Read more …

Published: April 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ambient music, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, soundtracks, techno | 2 Responses

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Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts V & VI: Together & Locusts

Scott Weisswald

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Nine Inch Nails released the albums Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts simultaneously on March 26th, 2020 with a whopping price tag of free. Trent Reznor, the group’s central creative member, announced the surprise records with a Tweet: “Anyone out there?” Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ambient music, articles, contemplation, COVID-19, depression, industrial music, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, solitude | 2 Responses

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Remembering Genesis P-Orridge
(February 22nd, 1950 — March 14, 2020)

Scott Weisswald

Throbbing Gristle. From left: Sleazy, Genesis, Cosey, and Chris.

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Visual artist, composer, singer, DJ, and general architect of chaos Genesis P-Orridge passed away on March 14, 2020. The Dissident Right shares a surprising amount of common ground with the counterculture icon — and owes some of its aesthetics and methods to them [1] as well.

Born February 22nd, 1950 in Manchester, Neil Andrew Megson adopted the name Genesis P-Orridge — a woo-ish corruption of the word “porridge” — while living in London. Read more …