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/2zwxEKmoVD4There exists lefty music threads and other music threads, delete this one and stop being a fag by making new OPs for no reason
>>4921
Yeah, you know what a highly underused board needs? MORE GENERALS
RED AND ANARCHIST BLACK METAL
Spectral Lore
>antifascist Med Chad from Greecehttps://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/no-excuses-for-fascist-sympathy-book-of-sand-coverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDGEplx39wSkagos
>Canadian atmospheric black metal, anarchist and pro-indigenous rights (Wetsuweten, anybody?)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWshg65X2iUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65P2JsPu2voWolves in the Throne Room
>Cascadian atmospheric environmentalist black metal, hipster approvedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnfzWehaGghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkJamcKXNrwPanopticon
>anarchist blackened bluegrassy goodness (USA)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cUHHxlLOAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Fz87YDmhMPuna Terrori
>Finnish ML raw black metal with riffshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFEFwOkg1zEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVHEatH8Qi4Iskra
>black metal/crust punk from Canada, pioneers of RABM, music is available for free on their websitehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD25iFOw8WYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0p0r_1XW7kTresspasser
>Swedish black metal that is aggressive as fuck, Makhno anarchist and donates percentage of earnings to Rojava https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuB3uLcv5Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voce5Kt3sKkDawn Ray'd
>UK black metal, anarchist, one of the most popular RABM bands currently (along with Panopticon and WIITR)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avqo5JtksIchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p67gfG7UVRQSankara
>USA war metal, lots of OUGH's and low IQ caveman riffshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkrwMcOguc4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGITGOy490EProfecium
>the FIRST RABM band, true pioneers in a genre so caked with reactionary troglodytes, Argentinean (hail Posadas)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XMbMDHGH4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qOgI73fumkBook of Sand
>riff machine, anarchist, feminist, vegan if that is your thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCvdq0V7tg (just listen to the album, it's full of killer riffs)
Sorgsvart
>motherfucking anarchist vikings from Norwayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OId9YdqZcgUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0JQYM4-woViolet Cold
>pretty black metal from a one man Azerbaijani band, stuff that would get you called gay by narrow-minded metalheads, blackgazehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNPUBJVWp8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYnPb9ZilEQAncst
>black metal punk sludge whatever antifascists from Germany, anti-capitalist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hScuqTgj10chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvmK0IFStQOperation Volkstod
>German, debut full length is literally called "Anti-Fascist Black Metal", very self-explanatoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBuFji0lAMMystras
>Same guy as Spectral Lore. Explores themes of serfdom and peasant rebellion. Debut album is coming very soon. Super raw production.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTmfDnQTRf8Please feel free to add more. I didn't put Neckbeard Deathcamp because they are a meme band, however I do think that 'MAGAPHOBE' is actually a good song:
https://neckbearddeathcamp.bandcamp.com/track/magaphobe>inb4 x band is liberal or shit>>4947also here are some kinda RABM comps that are worth checking out:
Riffs for Reproductive Justice
>inb4 some fags complains about the name and message of this album, I don't care. Includes some noise, hardcore, and ambient tracks. My favorite is probably the Violet Cold song, maybe the cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off.https://blackflagsoverbrooklyn.bandcamp.com/releasesRussian Anarchist Black Metal
>some sludge, doom, and hardcore bands mixed in. My favorite song is the Nimrud one.https://imhotape.bandcamp.com/album/russian-anarchist-black-metalCosmic Collective: A Choir For the Dispossessed
>mostly black metal. My favorite song is DEFINITELY the Mystras one.https://rednebula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-collective-a-choir-for-the-dispossesedNoise for Standing Rock
>black metal and hardcore. Kinda mediocre, but the scene is fucking tiny anyways. The Zetkin song is pretty cool.https://thedarkskiesaboveus.bandcamp.com/Crushing Intolerance Volumes 1-5
>series of mostly RABM comps. Organized by the guy from Deafest IIRC.https://blackmetalalliance.bandcamp.com/music >>4947
>>4948
Nice one!
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>>4948
I don't really like the sound black metal that much, but I'm glad this exists. Why is there no radical leftist speed metal or something like that?
>>4989
Most metal really doesn't have an explicit political agenda, it's mostly escapism. There was a phase in the late 80s when thrash bands started to introduce more grounded themes (mostly cold war related, some ecologism too), but it was more of an identity crisis than a real movement. Punk lends itself better to sloganeering, anyway. In fact, most political themes found their to metal through hardcore punk.
>>4947Great lists so far. Pretty sure Havukruunu and Summoning have made statements that push them left of center at the least. Convulsing also did a thing against fascism but I can't really recall what he said.
Havukruunu (Moonsorrow-esque black/folk, closer to them than Agalloch but in the same wheelhouse):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3f09fLK3wSummoning (classic):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vCaXXuUwykConvulsing (murky black/death):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp63DaGg0aA >>5233
>Havukruunu
finally, a finnish black metal band that isn't NS
>>5152This one's great too:
https://youtu.be/S29yDRwmDBA >>5240
remeber when darkthrone had "Norweigan aryan black metal" or something like that written in the back of their album covers lol good thing fenriz removed it and stopped being a le polface
>>1063Panopticon is godtier.
>>1064>>1063Yeah lol no generals pls lol a leftist music general is what we would need if we didnt have a music board
>>1065Damn Sankara is great. this is perfect, ive been trying to get into metal but ive only really been able to get into more cross genre concept stuff like Panopticon, and i was introduced to metal thru people into punk and jazz so im not really into the more glossy, goofy high fantasy viking stuff. no disrespect for it i appreciate the aesthetic, it reminds me of the goofy 90s/2000s rap aesthetic, but i like it grimier. even Burzum i do actually really like, i think i only listened to the album with the horn on the cover but i loved it, fascist shit aside
i also really fuck with Electric Wizard and Dopesmoker, if anybody has any sludgy metal recs i'd appreciate it.
Also, check out Nechochwen:
https://youtu.be/qmD0lqAAyjM?list=OLAK5uy_lO0D6o5iWRpH3_DUJ8U1v0UYprE2cF2cMNot explicitly leftist but its an indigenous group that's explicitly anti-colonial. "Folk metal" with a lot of crisp orchestral parts which might not be for everybody but the incorporation of native flutes and drums is very cool.
Also, anybody familiar with "Rez Metal"? Apparently there's a strong metal subculture in Navajo Nation, I'm very interested but haven't been able to find much actual music out of it.
Here's a great little documentary on Rez Metal:
https://youtu.be/a3AnyzzkDzA Rammstein has always been lefty.
>>1062>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 fascistsPost the basis for this or fuck off. I see and have seen the view you're describing exactly fucking nowhere and doubt it to be the mainstream view of BM or extreme metal in any capacity. You see neo-nazis and liberal degenerates claiming anything as neo-nazi and this is your conclusion? Neo-nazis have claimed vaporwave, punk rock, martial industrial, neofolk among other music for themselves before. They claim any and all culture as theirs, such as vidya and anime. It's what they do and it's nothing to cuck out about.
>What are some metal groups that could be said to be socialist, anarchist, or leftist in some manner?Black metal: Iskra, Sankara and Punaterrori are explicitly communist. 1914, Kanonenfieber, Minenwerfer and Ancst are anti-war, with Ancst being anti-capitalist if Metallum is anything to go by.
Industrial et al: probably the easiest to find leftist acts in. Militia and March of Heroes are anarchist and ML martial industrial bands respectively. Test Dept is probably most explicit in its leftism, but Die Krupps and Combichrist can probably be called such as well more often than not. Rammstein has been open about leaning to the left with Links 2 3 4.
>>1072Hey limpdick, your fake narrative is not impressive. Choke yourself.
Someone posted this awhile back
Its grindcore/death metal
Ethereal Shroud
anti fascist black metal/funeral doom(idk what this is) solo project, good music but long songs.
https://youtu.be/tjdEjeUe-SgSpectral Wound
Quebecois black metal, progressives, anti racist, anti fascist but generally apolitical in their music. Good music too
https://youtu.be/7IhRNtur6IgElision
Australian djent/progressive metalcore, minimal to no clean vocals, vaguely leftwing. ALSO good music.
Vidrel:Elision - The Wretched of the Earth
is any of this music scaruffi approved?
Given 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
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