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The famed Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh has returned. All Belong to the Night (“Всі Належать Ночі”), released on Friday, is Drudkh’s first studio album in four years and one of its strongest albums to date. Its potent blend of sorrow and defiant aggression provides a fitting soundtrack to the Ukrainian people’s fight against Russian imperialism. (more…)
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“I’ve just got a new record of Civil War music,” my brother recently bragged over the telephone.
He wanted some snappy tunes to listen to, and mentioned that the Nazi marches he is so fond of have been banned from YouTube. “I’ve discovered Italian Fascist marches,” he said. “They’re very melodic and . . . so operatic.” He referred to a long-ago record cover. “They’re so warm.” (more…)
Kaldrad Tribute (M8l8th, organizátor festivalů Asgardsrei, vyhlásil, že letošní /2019/ Asgardsrei bude věnován Kaldradovu odkazu)
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Kdo chce plně porozumět významu letošního festivalu Asgardsrei, musí plně pochopit dopad scény Blazebirth Hall a zejména jejího nejplodnějšího umělce Kaldrada na NSBM (nacionálně socialistický black metal) i na sound východoevropského black metalu jako takový.
Nikdy jsem se s Kaldradem nesetkal, ani neviděl žádné z jeho nemnoha živých vystoupení. (more…)
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Much could be said about Laibach (and has been, here at Counter-Currents). The name is the German form of Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital city. The language choice references their Austro-Hungarian past, and depending on who you ask, maybe some other era, too. Their sound is one of a kind, as unique as that of Laure LePrunenec. Laibach is best described as an industrial band with heavy martial and totalitarian influences. One notable characteristic of their unique presentation is walking a tightrope between fascist aesthetics and socialist realism. (more…)
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Na obalu debutového alba projektu Überfolk Music for Nations se mezi kopci vine stezka někam do dáli, symbol cesty k ideálu. Takováto cesta ale nevyhnutelně bývá nesnadná a vede prachem, blátem i trním pozemského života. Tento obraz dobře vystihuje hudbu recenzovaného dvojalbového projektu, jelikož Music for Nations skutečně vypráví o lidech s kořeny, lidech otevřených vizi, lidech spojených sdíleným původem i osudem. (more…)
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Man can work musically with his zeitgeist, analyzing it and then either accepting it as one’s own or radically rejecting it. Here I would like to deal with the latter in a certain limited territory where this phenomenon has occurred to a quite large extent: the Right-wing music scene in Italy. (more…)
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Golden Age nostalgia
STRFKR, short for “Starfucker,” is a Portland-based indie/electronica band. Their lead singer is a cross-dresser, but during performances they have an astronaut crowd surf in an inflatable raft, which is pretty cool, so you have to take the good with the bad. (more…)
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“Every act of beauty is a revolt against the modern world. “
Rome has stuck to the rule of releasing a new album every year. 2019 was no exception, and the band delighted some of us with the album Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro — some, because some will lose their illusions about the band after reading my article. (more…)
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When I first heard The Fall, I thought the music was annoying and incomprehensible. Then that was what became fascinating. — Stewart Lee, English comedian
Everyone who works for The Fall, you know, they’re just regular people. I wouldn’t pick them otherwise. I don’t want Fall fans in the band. — Mark E. Smith, lead singer of The Fall
Music has always played a big role in my life, as I am sure it has in yours. Recently, though, it has dropped off the scene a little. (more…)
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Rammstein was formed in 1994 in Berlin by six men who were originally from East Germany. Their name came from the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster. They created a new musical genre called Neue Deutsche Härte (New German Hard Rock), which was basically a combination of hard rock with elements of techno. (more…)
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I would like to introduce the Italian neofolk band Ianva (translated as Genoa) and their album La Mano di Gloria. Ianva started playing around 2003, bringing together different musical styles such as classical music, weird-sounding gothic, progressive rock, Black Metal, and music from the 1920s and ’30s. (more…)
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Today I would like to introduce the very popular fourth full-length album from the band M8l8th, Reconquista. The band itself has gone through three phases in their development, even though they have always played — and still play — true National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM). The first phase ran from 2003 to 2014, when the singer was arrested for racially-motivated assault (he claims it was self-defense) and subsequently convicted. (more…)