As an avid listener of metal, something that frustrates me is the prevalence of chuds and reactionaries in metal (especially black metal). The visibility of guys like Varg and Famine of Peste Noire infamy has colored the public perception of extreme metal as being the domain of edgelord fascists. What are some metal groups that could be said to be socialist, anarchist, or leftist in some manner?
To start things off, I'd highly recommend the Panopticon album "Kentucky," which is a BM album about the state's history with labor organizing among coal miners, as well as the coal industry's destruction of the state's natural beauty. It's not a perfect album by any means but the way it mixes BM with bluegrass is cool, plus it has an incredibly redpilled message.
https://youtu.be/gSObRNcPAv8https://youtu.be/2zwxEKmoVD4Given this is the metal thread it seems the right place to post this metal news…
Earth, the American Doom / Drone metal band, have cancelled a concert they were due to perform in Bologna, Italy… all just because there was a Palestine flag on display at the venue and it triggered them.
They tried to argue with management to take the flag down, then removed their booking when management refused, and then tried to pretend it was the venue which cancelled on them.
The venue is called Teatro Polivalente Occupato, is run primarily by leftists and mostly hosts a range of experimental, drone, noise, and industrial-type acts.
And despite the fact it's a known left wing venue, Earth pulled this bs and then posted: "Apologies to the folks in Bologna, @tpo_bologna put politics above music." Because music has of course never been political…
Anyway if you like Drone metal pirate their shit rather than giving these triggered chuddy zionist fucks any money.
I listen to a lot of metal myself, especially in the black metal subgenres. Try "Prisoner of Depression" by Viselnik. Some of their songs are chill like "Dying Nature". They give me thoughts of being a fallen warrior in an unfamiliar world.
>>2485 Yet there's NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) with bands like M8L8TH and Nezhegol. Fascists are really begging for a grain of tolerance
Al Namrood, anarchist black metal with folk metal influences from saudi arabia.
Thlipsis, anarchist black metal from Greece
Check out red metal promotion on youtube. They have a ton of left wing metal from different genres and countries.
That‘s all I can contribute to the list, the rest has already been said.
Also, why do even liberals defend NSBM, the shittiest kind of black metal? The great names (Peste Noire, Carpathian Forest, etc) are the only ones to actually make good black metal sometimes. They destroy everything black metal stands for. I recently saw one commenting under a Non Est Deus video „why do you guy never criticize Islam, only Christianity?“