Don't quote me on it in case someone decides to get all Wayback Machine on me, but I'm almost certain that the extreme comparisons for Arghoslent's sound were from a time when the band was listed on the site as simply "death metal" and there was a very clear and strong dissonance between the expectations (you know, expecting death metal) and the music heard

Right? If only Arghoslent weren't so big and mainstream and known only by a small, niche group of metalheads...

What pisses me off the most (besides the racism, obviously) is that the cover to Incorrigible Bigotry is really fuckin' cool and now that artwork is so associated with Arghoslent that no one else can really get away with using it now.

Couldn't care less about their lyrical content even though i agree with them on quite a few points.

Which ones? Please tell us.

Well if you read some interview in the past they fault the white race for the state of things just as much as the mexicans or black people. To me the band has more of a misantrophic outview on things. Although i admit singling out a single group is highly suspicious move. But like most black metal bands (Satanic Warmaster for example) these things are often used to stir up controversy in my opinion. But i always separate the music from the artist. Since i'm interested in the music first and everything else is secondary to me.

I wonder how these types would view things if, say, they were Jewish, and someone recommends them a blatant NSBM album, 'because the music is so good'. Would they 'separate the artist from the art'? I find the above-mentioned 'I care only for the music' manifesto highly hypocritical.

Among Jewish black metal fans there are just as many people who listen to NSBM as there are among white black metal fans. Same with black black metal fans, Asian black metal fans, Hispanic black metal fans, the preferences are pretty much the same. In fact it's probably even more common, since non-whites aren't as offended by white people's history because they don't have the reason to be, they weren't the ones who did the holocaust, segregation, the KKK, apartheid, etc, our ancestors were the fuck ups who did that so obviously we're more sickened by it than the people who don't have grandparents responsible for those kinds of atrocities.

I wonder how these types would view things if, say, they were Jewish, and someone recommends them a blatant NSBM album, 'because the music is so good'. Would they 'separate the artist from the art'? I find the above-mentioned 'I care only for the music' manifesto highly hypocritical.

If there was there was an anti-Russian band which had cool music I guess I wouldn't mind. I also occasionally enjoy listening to one Islamic artist praising suicide bombers (Timur Mutsurayev).

Among Jewish black metal fans there are just as many people who listen to NSBM as there are among white black metal fans. Same with black black metal fans, Asian black metal fans, Hispanic black metal fans, the preferences are pretty much the same. In fact it's probably even more common, since non-whites aren't as offended by white people's history because they don't have the reason to be, they weren't the ones who did the holocaust, segregation, the KKK, apartheid, etc, our ancestors were the fuck ups who did that so obviously we're more sickened by it than the people who don't have grandparents responsible for those kinds of atrocities.

Well yeah you keep claiming it's "ridiculous" with absolutely zero evidence as if there's any burden of proof on me when already it's clear from the people posting in this thread, people reviewing the albums, people listening on last.fm, people talking on Facebook, etc that their fans come from around the planet. You throw some outlandish "I don't want it to be true therefore it isn't true" at me despite seeing everywhere that it's not just white skinheads or whatever listening to the band. I thought reality denial was limited to Donald Trump fan groups on Facebook but apparently it's impossible to escape these days.

Yeah, that's exactly the same. I didn't know being Russian was dangerous in other parts of the world. As a matter of fact I always thought the most dangerous thing for a Russian was having to live in Russia.

There are actually some places in the world where it was dangerous to be a Russian, at least during 90s. For example Chechnya which was de-facto independent in the 90s and some other ex-Soviet Muslim republics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cl ... n_Chechnya

Yeah, and the Russians did the same to the Chechens. That was the First Chechen War for you. Any other wars you want to report in order to claim it's the same being gay or black than being Russian?

These things actually started before the First Chechen War, and two wrongs do not make a right anyway. The original question was about being Jewish and having an NSBM album recommended to them. Being black is quite different since in that case this "feature" is instantly visible. I do not think that being Jewish or being Russian is more dangerous in the western/westernized parts of the world than being a German, British etc.

Every synagogue in Germany has it's own military detachment to protect it from terrorist attacks.

this is not true. I'm not going to take part in an ideological debate in a music forum (which is clearly what is happening here), but this statement is factually wrong and that's why I'm stepping in to say so.