I say this as someone who listens to extreme metal almost exclusively

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    as if there aren’t several popular explicitly Nazi bands.

    There are?

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Mostly talking about stuff like NSBM, but there are also bands where members are nazis (see Pantera) without the music being nazi. Popular might be an overstatement, I guess accepted is another way to put it.

      It is far from the majority of metal, but they made up a significant enough amount and get fairly mild pushback by metal fans (at least back when I was meeting them on a regular basis, it might have changed). I remember people getting defensive about it as if it was a free speech issue, that they were just breaking taboos or that I just lacked the "edge" needed to appreciate it.