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Common neonazi symbols, an incomplete list. Correction: The sign listed as Pegida is not commonly used by Pegida but is used by the northwest Europe based neonazi Identity Movement.
Especially relevant for people moving within the Black Metal-Scene
Yes yes yes yes yes, while there are nazi’s in other music genres, they’re huge in metal and actually get booked at non-political metal festivals like it’s no big deal! Disgusting shit. Also keep an eye on:
- Album titles and band names that have two words both starting with the letter S.
- Nazi number symbolism (18 means Adolh Hitler, 88 means Heil Hitler, 14 means a lot of bullshit and the three get mixed together to make numbers like 1488, 8814 etc)
- Songs with nazi phrases like ‘blood and honour’, ‘ blood and soil’, ‘
My Honor Is Loyalty’
- References to German military units. If a band is called Panzerdivision… yeah…
There’s more but these are some obvious starting points to spotting nazi metal.
The iron cross is not a nazi symbol if it doesn’t have the swastika
IT’S BASICALLY GERMAN MILITARY HONOR-
All these symbols have other meanings too.
What they all have in common is that they are ALSO used by neonazis to recognize each others. As always, context matters.
If a person protesting against migration has an odal rune on their banner, they’re probably a nazi. If a person looking like a hippie sitting in the park has a dozen weird necklaces including an odal rune, they’re probably just a hippy.
If a person at a nazi metal band in France is wearing an iron cross, they’re probably a nazi. If an old guy at a veterans meeting in Germany is wearing an iron cross, they’re probably just militaristic trash getting paid to distribute violence for the state.
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