Tag Archives: Heavy Metal

Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977.

2,100 words

Someone told me there’s a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

— “Going to California”

Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from the flower-powered III. Read more …

Published: August 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, England, esotericism, Fenek Solère, folklore, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, music reviews, mysticism, mythology, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Robert Plant, rock music, Sandy Denny, the occult | 26 Responses

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Iggy & the Stooges’ Raw Power

Scott Weisswald

1,563 words

Iggy and the Stooges released the proto-punk slammer Raw Power on this day, February 7th, in 1973. It’s a raw, aggressive record that set the tone for genres as diverse in sound and era as punk, hardcore, grunge, and metal. Raw Power is also an early example of the importance of mixing and the dangers — or benefits — of studio control being handed to musicians. Read more …

Published: February 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, David Bowie, drugs, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, punk rock, Scott Weisswald | 10 Responses

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Metalocalypse Männerbünde

Buttercup Dew

2,064 words

Metalocalypse is a cartoon show created by guitarist Brendon Small and comedy writer Tommy Blacha which first aired in 2006 and continued for four seasons, concluding with a one-hour special “Klok Opera.” Read more …

Published: May 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Buttercup Dew, North American New Right, originals, television reviews, the Männerbund | 2 Responses

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High Voltage Heptarchy, Part 3
Ethereal & Eternal

Fenek Solère

6,029 words

Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here. Part 2 here.

‘Now We Rise and We Are Everywhere’ — Nick Drake (1948-1974)

And having now evoked the legend of King Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, and the Holy Grail, I can clearly recall driving one autumn morning down the A39 as it snaked its way through the Mendip hills. The Somerset Levels cloaked in thick fog with just the Tor floating above the ancient town of Glastonbury. Read more …

Published: November 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donovan, Fenek Solère, folk music, North American New Right, originals, poetry, popular music, progressive rock, Stefan George, white identity | Leave a comment

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High Voltage Heptarchy, Part 2
Solstice & Song

Fenek Solère

6,052 words

“There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West.”–“Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin IV

It was with the advent of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile (1762) that a direct link was first made between national culture and the simplicity of peasant life. Read more …

Published: October 12, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fairport Convention, Fenek Solère, folk music, graphic design, J. R. R. Tolkien, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Led Zeppelin, North American New Right, originals, popular music, progressive rock, white identity | Leave a comment

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Black Metal:
Revolución Conservadora en la cultura popular moderna

Alex Kurtagić

6,454 words

Traducido por S. Vera

English original here

Desde el punto de vista del nacionalismo racial, el género musical conocido como Black Metal es uno de los fenómenos más significativos en la cultura popular moderna de las últimas dos décadas. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, anti-modernism, articles, Black Metal, in Spanish, in translation, music reviews, National Socialism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, the Conservative Revolution, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | Comments closed

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Black Metal:
Revolução Conservadora na Cultura Popular Moderna

Alex Kurtagić

5,371 words

English original here

Do ponto-de-vista do nacionalismo racial, o gênero musical conhecido como Black Metal é um dos fenômenos culturais populares mais significativos das últimas duas décadas. Porém, ele pouco tem sido discutido por acadêmicos e comentaristas politicamente simpáticos. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, Black Metal, conservative revolution, in Portuguese, in translation, National Socialism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, popular music, reprints, Satanism, white nationalism, white subcultures | Leave a comment

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Video of the Day
And now for some Bulgarian Orthodox Nationalist Heavy Metal . . .

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time: 3:34 / 22 words

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Yevgeny Nikitin: Opera & Metal

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time: 10:00 / 350 words

White Rock

James J. O'Meara

Scott Walker in 1969

4,276 words

I’ll Have a White Rock, Please: Implicit Whiteness, Aryan Futurism, and the Godlike Genius of Scott Walker

“Was listening to this during a rocket attack at DaNang Vietnam in 71 . . . what a rush . . . after smoking 3 bowls of Thai Stick. Still get a rush to this day at age 64 . . . there was teeth, hair and eyeballs all around my barracks but we survived.” — YouTube comment on “Jim Dandy to the Rescue” by Black Oak Arkansas

Over the last year or two, the value or usefulness of popular music, and rock in particular, to the struggle to renew White Consciousness has been subject to debate. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, Black Metal, classical music, folk music, implicit whiteness, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Traditionalism, Varg Vikernes | 13 Responses

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The White Singing Voice in Rock & Pop

Julian Lee

8,961 words

Editor’s Note:

The following essay by Julian Lee was stimulated by the discussion of our reprint of his “In Praise of the White Singing Voice.” Read more …

Published: November 25, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julian Lee, Led Zeppelin, manliness, North American New Right, popular music, reprints | 37 Responses

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In Praise of the White Singing Voice:
Getting to “Beyonce” Overload

Julian Lee

Enya

6,701 words

I went through a phase when it pained me to hear my daughters sing.

For a spell their natural voices had became warped. Before it had been their pure, natural voices in the rooms yonder. Now, affectation, artifice, gimmicks. Voices not really theirs. I suffered and worried maybe a little more than I should have. Read more …

Published: November 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, Julian Lee, North American New Right, popular music, reprints, the Jewish question | 58 Responses

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Christopher Donovan on Heavy Metal

Christopher Donovan

705 words

Implicit whiteness, with pyrotechnics: Or, the night white people took over Washington, DC

The other night I saw AC/DC at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Read more …

Published: May 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Donovan, implicit whiteness, music reviews, North American New Right, popular music, reprints, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | 29 Responses

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Black Metal:
Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture

Alex Kurtagić

Franz von Stuck, “War,” c. 1894

5,603 words

Translations: Portuguese, Spanish

From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. Read more …