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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.
it’s really very important for anyone reblogging this list to pay particular attention to the addendum at the end of this. a great deal of these symbols exist outside of nazism and operate independently of that bullshit. it’s really important for people to observe carefully before making your conclusions.
So what about the band kiss? The band name has the ss. But the lead singer is Jewish and his mother is a Holocaust survivor??
Kiss been criticized for their logo a lot and they’ve had to explain many times that the resemblance is a pure coincidence and they never intended to make it look like the SS logo. They’ve considered changing it but in the end they liked the logo too much. They do, however, publish all their albums with a different logo in Germany and Israel, where the lighting-bolt SS are illegal.
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