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Paradise Lost’s
Medusa, The Plague Within, & Obsidian

Howe Abbott-Hiss

Nick Holmes, singer/songwriter for Paradise Lost.

1,054 words

For many rock musicians, the quality of their output tends to go downhill for good after a certain point. It is not clear whether this is due to age, or whether there is a limit on how many good original ideas one person can produce, but in any case, Paradise Lost is an interesting exception to this trend. Singer and songwriter Nick Holmes was 46 years old when the band’s 15th album was released, and it is their best work yet. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, doom metal, gothic metal, Howe Abbott-Hiss, Medusa, metal, North American New Right, Obsidian, Paradise Lost, The Plague Within | 4 Responses

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Mara Ros’ Hija de Europa

1,584 words

Mara Ros is a vocalist from Spain, someone whose heart is in the right place. She doesn’t have a public presence, which may well be sensible after their government has become increasingly globalist. I’ll assume that she’s a very private person, so I won’t speak of what little I do know about her. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Beau Albrecht, censorship, Hija de Europa, Mara Ros, North American New Right, originals, Patriotism, Spain, Spanish music | 14 Responses

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Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West

Scott Weisswald

1,420 words

Modest Mouse was formed in Issaquah, Washington, in the year 1992. Issaquah was formerly a sleepy community removed from the sprawl of the Seattle metropolitan area, but is now another far-flung bedroom town swallowed whole by the Microsoft and later Amazon-centered tech boom and its ensuing concreting of the Puget Sound Read more …

Published: October 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1990s, articles, grunge, indie rock, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, Seattle, technology, white dispossession | 6 Responses

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20 Years of Radiohead’s Kid A

Scott Weisswald

1,214 words

Kid A belongs on an end-times list of anti-modern records. How is that possible? Radiohead is, by any measure, one of the most successful recording groups in the world and also one of the most reliable when it comes to mainstreaming alternative and experimental music. Does it make sense to call a record like this one Read more …

Published: October 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, electronic music, Kid A, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Radiohead, Scott Weisswald, technology, the uncanny, the unknown | 3 Responses

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Ivan Zajc’s Nikola Šubić Zrinski

Hollósy Simon, Zrínyi’s Charge on the Turks from the Fortress of Szigetvár, 1896.

1,304 words

Nikola Šubić Zrinski is an opera written in 1876 by Croatian composer Ivan Zajc that retells the Siege of Szigetvár. It is Zajc’s most accomplished work and is considered the national opera of Croatia. An excellent recording of the opera was released in late July featuring the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, Croatia, heroism, Hungary, Miklos Zrinyi, national epics, Nikola Zrinski, North American New Right, opera, originals, Ottoman Empire, Patriotism, Siege of Szigetvar | 2 Responses

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Sabaton’s The Great War

Scott Weisswald

1,118 words

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 | Also tagged articles, consumerism, death, history, metal, North American New Right, originals, pop music, power metal, Sabaton, Scott Weisswald, World War I | 5 Responses

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Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft’s Alles ist gut

Scott Weisswald

1,349 words

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 | Also tagged art, articles, DAF, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, EBM, electronic music, Germany, globalization, identity, industrial music, language, modernity, 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 | Also tagged aesthetics, anti-modernism, articles, cultural appropriation, Jerome Reuter, martial industrial, 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 | Also tagged articles, Atlanta, blacks in music, chillwave, Ernest Greene, hip-hop, implicitly white music, 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

1,132 words

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 | Also tagged aging, articles, Bright Eyes, folk music, implicitly white music, indie music, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Scott Weisswald, the 2000s | 3 Responses

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Golden Gods & Guitars:
Led Zeppelin IV

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, Heavy Metal, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, mysticism, mythology, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Robert Plant, rock music, Sandy Denny, the occult | 26 Responses

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Steely Dan’s Aja

Scott Weisswald

1,222 words

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 | Also tagged articles, funk, fusion music, jazz, 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

1,474 words

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 | Also tagged Aaron Funk, articles, Bartok Bela, breakcore, drum n bass, electronic music, Gustav Mahler, IDM, Igor Stravinsky, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, sampling, Scott Weisswald, Venetian Snares | 3 Responses

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Joe’s (Wagnerian) Garage

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

2,519 words

As you can see. . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak. . . they all go together. . .

About three months ago, I was asked to give one of those “four recommendations” type interviews for an eminent publication (an old buddy’s blog) in the old country. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, American identity, articles, censorship, degeneracy, Frank Zappa, Gesamtkunstwerk, Joe's Garage, liberalism, modernity, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Richard Wagner, rock music, rock opera | 6 Responses

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Taylor Swift’s Folklore

Scott Weisswald

1,718 words

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 | Also tagged articles, commercial art, cottagecore, feminism, folk music, folklore, implicit whiteness, implicitly white music, North American New Right, originals, pop music, popular culture, Scott Weisswald, Taylor Swift | 22 Responses

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Singing in Secret:
William Byrd’s Catholic Music

1,256 words

Earlier this year, the Marian Consort, a vocal ensemble known for performing Renaissance music, released an album of Catholic sacred music by English composer William Byrd. The album, entitled Singing in Secret: The Clandestine Catholic Music of William Byrd, is one of the finest sacred music releases in recent memory. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, Anglicanism, anti-Catholicism, articles, Catholicism, North American New Right, originals, religion, the church | 5 Responses

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Angel of Avalon

1,746 words

“My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.”

— Robert Plant

I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. Read more …

Published: July 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Britain in the 1960s, England, Fairport Convention, Fenek Solère, folk music, Led Zeppelin, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, poetry | 9 Responses

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Death in June & The People’s Temple Choir

Scott Weisswald

1,444 words

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 | Also tagged articles, cults, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, esotericism, Jim Jones, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, the occult, the Third Reich | 2 Responses

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Crystal Castles

Scott Weisswald

1,719 words

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 | Also tagged articles, history, 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 | Also tagged animal rights, articles, France, integrity, jazz, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald, the 1960s | 6 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 | Also tagged art, articles, Britain in the 70s, depression, ennui, Joy Division, North American New Right, originals, post-punk, Scott Weisswald, white dispossesion | 10 Responses

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Reactions to Rammstein

826 words

Even on the waves there is fighting
Where fish and flesh are woven into sea
One stabs the lance while in the army
Another throws it into the ocean

— “Reise Reise” (2004) Read more …

Published: May 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white media, articles, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals, Rammstein, socialism | 15 Responses

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Hegel from the Ghetto

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,944 words

You’d rather see me in the pen
Than me and Lorenzo rollin’ in a Benz-o
Beat a police out of shape
And when I’m finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still getting swole off bread and water
I don’t know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down, and grabbing his nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun, they can’t get none.

— N. W. A., “Fuck tha Police.” Read more …

Published: May 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, alpha males, America in the 1990s, articles, black criminality, Blacks, Blacks in America, culture, Hegel, Hegelian dialectics, hip-hop, materialism, multiculturalism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, rap music, thumos, warrior ethos | 43 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 | Also tagged articles, Britain in the 70s, crisis, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, post-punk, punk music, punk rock, Scott Weisswald | 1 Response

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Arne Nordheim’s Draumkvedet

1,108 words

Arne Nordheim was the most celebrated Norwegian composer of the 20th century. He is known for both his avant-garde electronic works and his large-scale orchestral works and music dramas. Nordheim’s Draumkvedet (“The Dream Ballad”), a music drama based on the medieval Norse poem of the same name, fuses his modernist idiom with folk influences to great effect. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, Christianity, classical music, folk music, Norse mythology, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Alcest’s Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde

909 words

“Sure,” they say, “he flirted with far-right politics when he played in Peste Noire, but he’s changed.”

— Mainstream fans defending Neige’s musical heritage

French band Alcest is one of the premier exponents of the blackgaze scene. Read more …

Published: April 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Changes’ Fire of Life

Scott Weisswald

1,627 words

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 | Also tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Changes, esotericism, Faust, Francis Parker Yockey, hermeticism, 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 | Also tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, folk music, 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 | Also tagged articles, infighting, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald | 6 Responses

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Sol Invictus’ In the Rain

Scott Weisswald

2,035 words

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 | Also tagged apocalyptic folk, articles, Goth music, mysticism, neofolk, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, Sol Invictus | 8 Responses

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