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qanglaagix
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:02 pm 
 

found at: https://antifascistblackmetalnetwork.bandcamp.com/releases

When we created the Antifascist Black Metal Network, we were fed up with how fascism, racism, LGBTQIA+phobia, sexism, ableism and other oppressions were pervasive in black metal and wanted to do something about it. Our first objective was to create a space in which leftist artists could publish their music without helping platform questionable ideologies and musicians, and our YT channel is gradually becoming a reference in that - at the time this text is being written, we have already uploaded bands from 24 different countries, with a lot more to follow.

However, we also wanted to fight fascism and stand for the exploited and oppressed in realms other than black metal, bridging fans and musicians of our beloved style and the struggle in reality. We are a collective of 20+ people of differing opinions and political lines, but some things are consensual, and one of them is helping the politically persecuted - those attacked with law, police and prison by the State of the ruling classes and its institutions for standing up for their communities. So this compilation, the first in what we hope is be a long sequence, is an opportunity for us to promote some of the bands that we uploaded, newer ones especially, but also to gather money to support two groups that are currently being targeted for their social activism.

One of them is Mexicali Resiste, a movement in Baja California, northern Mexico, that fights against the attempts at the takeover of the region's water by US brewery Constellation Brands. MR organized marches, encampments and boycotts against the privatization of the already strained Colorado River, suffered savage police repression and absurd charges, and after years of struggle were successful in pressuring Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to cancel the company's construction and water permits. In retaliation, the State Congress has decided to again sue the activists with slanderous charges.

The other people we want to help are three anarchists from Italy, Beppe, Robert and Natascia, that were the target of a police operation, "Operation Prometeo", and accused of terrorism. They were kept under arrest for years, suffering arbitrary transfers from one of the peninsula's prisons to another. The comrades were finally acquitted, but are now saddled with heavy debt due to defence costs, etc, much like Mexicali Resiste.

The tracklist is a small sample of bands that we have promoted here in these past months. Things begin very melodically with Nachtschwarz, Prosperity Gospel, Etxegiña and Tyrannus before going into an almost DSBM and atmospheric break with Kluizenaer, Spectral Lore and Grat Strigoi. The second half jumps to a rawer melodic line as Tumultuous Ruin, Winter Lantern, and Sofrimento say their parts, before shifting to a higher, at times epic tone with Bring Forth the Exodus, Lerna, Cultum Draculesti and closing with Iravu.

In this compilation, we have modern music and old-school music, bands with LGBTQI+ and POC musicians, hailing from three different continents. This is not a coincidence, as we obviously believe black metal must be open to diversity, but we also believe our genre must take a side in the struggle against capitalism, which is the side of the oppressed sectors, but also of the exploited classes, without reductionism; thus, "Black Metal Ist Klassenkrieg!!!" is a statement in itself, as well as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a phrase well-known in black metal.

Understand that all of this, involved in the beautiful art of our own resident Le Petit Metalleux Illustré, is only the beginning: we have come to take fire and frostbitten hell to fascism, capitalism and oppression of any kind.

Beware, o Nazis north and south, for our maces shall soon find thine skulls!

for more information about Operation Prometeo, refer to
: [url]malacoda.noblogs.org/post/tag/operazione-prometeo/[/url]
for more information about Mexicali Resiste, refer to: http://www.facebook.com/mexicaliresiste

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