his records aged really badly

Hysterical that the "separate the art from the artist" mantra that's flung about these parts to justify the proliferation of Nazism in metal is not applicable with this guy.

Hysterical that the "separate the art from the artist" mantra that's flung about these parts to justify the proliferation of Nazism in metal is not applicable with this guy

The difference is that nazis haven't ripped off a considerable amount of people while showing little (if any) remorse.

A great observation and great point.

Because that's way worse than blatant racism?

Because that's way worse than blatant racism?

Blake Judd is a prolific scammer who collects money for merchandise and does not send it. This became highly publicized in early 2013 when Yosuke Konishi, owner of Nuclear War Now! Productions posted an announcement on his label's forum stating that Judd had offered to sell him the dead stock from his then defunct label, Battle Kommand Records, consisting of several hundred CDs and two test pressings of an Archgoat LP. It was also revealed that Hells Headbangers Records paid him for 490 CDs on September 11, 2012 which the label never received. Many fans also stated that they had been ripped off by him.

Judd acknowledge these accusations in a statement in November 2013 in which he announced Nachtmystium's split-up and admitted to his scamming, stating "As for the merch issues and money stuff, yeah, I've fucked up with a lot of you and for this I'm terribly sorry."

On October 5, 2013, Judd was arrested and retained on grounds of theft unrelated to the aforementioned ordeals, forcing Nachtmystium to cancel several shows. He was released on November 1st. His mugshot was used on a "Blakecrush" t-shirt distributed by foes, with a banner that read "Battlekommand Silence" and his likeness crossed out and surrounded by the phrases "no reply / no package / no refund / no shame" - a parody of the classic Deathlike Silence Productions which reads "no fun / no core / no mosh / no trends." Blakecrush later became the name of group of 1000+ fans who sought to publicize his scamming.

In 2014, he collected money for many orders of a new Nachtmystium album and never fulfilled them, leading to an acknowledgement of this by his label, Century Media, who promised to send copies of the album to anyone who ordered from Judd and did not receive the album, as well as announcing that they would no longer be working with him.

the proliferation of Nazism in metal

Depends on what you mean by "blatant racism." If you mean simply having retarded drivel about wotan for lyrics, then undeniably. If you mean like actually going out and inciting and partaking in racial violence, then no. But AFAIK no nsbm band really does the latter. It's virtually all dumb, methed out infowars/Trump types who are scared of black people because they've never interacted with them on any meaningful level and/or take pride in their white skin because they have literally nothing else to take pride in.

I've always found Blake Judd's case fascinating, especially the general BM reaction to him. A major part of Black Metal's ideology is the glorification and empowerment of Self over everything else: fuck God, fuck society, fuck you.

In this sense Judd's ripping off customers, fans, labels etc fits perfectly. Anyone committed to this strain of BM as some kind of actual way of approaching human relationships cannot, without laughable contradiction, be legitimately angry. In fact you should praise him - he represents BM ethics perfectly. If he robbed you, its because you are a fucking dupe, so more fool you, you untermensch.

Nietzschean cry-babies.

I've always found Blake Judd's case fascinating, especially the general BM reaction to him. A major part of Black Metal's ideology is the glorification and empowerment of Self over everything else: fuck God, fuck society, fuck you.

As for "separate the art from the artist", is there actually anyone who has not done that in this case? I've never heard "don't listen to Nachtmystium because Blake Judd is a piece of shit". I guess some people - including me - would not buy his music even if it was a safe buy (e.g. digital), but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the art.

And as for NSBM, I just don't see a reason to not give a guy some money to show appreciation and encouragement if he has made good music just because he has some shitty views.

I've always found Blake Judd's case fascinating, especially the general BM reaction to him. A major part of Black Metal's ideology is the glorification and empowerment of Self over everything else: fuck God, fuck society, fuck you.

In this sense Judd's ripping off customers, fans, labels etc fits perfectly. Anyone committed to this strain of BM as some kind of actual way of approaching human relationships cannot, without laughable contradiction, be legitimately angry. In fact you should praise him - he represents BM ethics perfectly. If he robbed you, its because you are a fucking dupe, so more fool you, you untermensch.

NSBM will never have a real-world effect on anything ever. Any concern about it is moralizing, virtue-signaling nonsense. Raising this issue simply will not do a single bit of good from now until eternity.

I don't see how NSBM scene is a problem at all, if anything, being laughed at is the only achievement they could boast of, along with bronies and furries

The NSBM stuff is very insignificant, but if your conclusion is it's cool to listen to it because of that, I personally find that fucking ridiculous. No worth at all in that stuff to me.

I've always found Blake Judd's case fascinating, especially the general BM reaction to him. A major part of Black Metal's ideology is the glorification and empowerment of Self over everything else: fuck God, fuck society, fuck you.

In this sense Judd's ripping off customers, fans, labels etc fits perfectly. Anyone committed to this strain of BM as some kind of actual way of approaching human relationships cannot, without laughable contradiction, be legitimately angry. In fact you should praise him - he represents BM ethics perfectly. If he robbed you, its because you are a fucking dupe, so more fool you, you untermensch.