Blue Eyed Devils

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Blue Eyed Devils
General information
origin	Newark , Pennsylvania and Atlantic City
Genre (s)	Hatecore
founding	1993-1994, 2006
resolution	2003
Founding members
Electric guitar	Robert Huber
Drums	Ryan Huber
singing	Drew Logan
Electric bass	cliff
Electric guitar	Scott Hudson
Live and session members
singing	Drew Logan
Electric guitar (s), electric bass, drums	Guest musician

Blue Eyed Devils (BED) is a neo-Nazi American hatecore band, whose members come from the New York three-state metropolitan area . The band enjoys a high status within the neo-Nazi music scene and is considered the first band of the " White Power " movement to play NS-Hatecore .

style

Texts

The lyrics were written by Ryan and Robert Huber. While Ryan Huber wrote the texts that called for racist violence, acts of revenge and acts of terrorism against the state, or described violent fantasies against members of minorities and politically dissenters and rampages in the ghetto, Robert Huber wrote the texts that dealt with National Socialist philosophy . In the song Final Solution (Engl. For final solution ) he describes how Adolf Hitler the hated in the world scapegoat had to represent, which destroyed the Jews, so that the Jews allegedly subjugated German people could unfold. In the song, the band praised the war criminal Adolf Eichmann , who had the task of running the trains in the dark night so that Germany could wake up. The song Hate Filled Mind is about a right-wing radical skinhead who experiences the rejection of society for being hateful and making no bones about it, but he is asked for help by the same people who despised him as the whites of the blacks are terrorized, but the skinhead chooses to leave them to their own devices. In Flag Waver , the band makes fun of American patriots who believe that the country makes them strong. However, the band believes that the government will let the country go under, and concludes that it is the white race alone, not the country, that is the driving force. The song Assassin calls on the whites to hunt down black civil rights activists and shoot them . The song Beating & Kicking turns its hatred on whites who enter into relationships with colored people .

Musical implementation

Musically the band stays true to hardcore. The electric guitar, which doesn't sound melodious, plays quickly and simply. For the debut album Hate Crimes the guitarist of the neo-Nazi band Aggravated Assault Scott Hudson played the guitars together with Robert Huber, which enhanced the music in contrast to the upcoming albums. The bass is humming loudly in the foreground. The plucked instruments are accompanied by a set of drums in a fast rhythm, combined the music forms the accompaniment of the singer, who does not sing the lyrics, but roars into the microphone according to the text content.

The band's music is not about writing and playing melodiously demanding music. The music is only seen as a necessary vehicle to spread the hate messages. The focus is on the texts that arouse anger, hatred and anger in the listener and make them emotionally aggressive. The inspiration for the pure music of the Blue Eyed Devils are the Hatecore bands of the 80s, e.g. B. SFA and Yuppicide , which influenced the musical style of the band.

popularity

The Blue Eyed Devils' albums are very popular, especially in Germany. On the one hand, the band had a pioneering status, after bands like Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack had established rock with right-wing extremist lyrics as Rock Against Communism , which introduced a new style in the movement with the NSHC, which generated quite a response. On the other hand, the albums were not offered because of their illegal lyrics. Precisely such prohibitions nourished the interest of the rebellious youth. Similar to the banned CDs by Landser or Johnny Rebel , sales of BED's CDs flourished.The albums were circulated in small numbers directly at the band's concerts or had to be conspiratorially exported from the USA, which contributed significantly to the band's myth. Accordingly, the CDs were and are today the rare first pressings of the editions in great demand among collectors of right-wing extremist music albums. Another advantage was that no third-party label could impose regulations on the band. The albums have since been re-pressed by various right-wing rock labels and are sold on the Internet. The CD is ripped on the Internet and made available to other Internet users free of charge by Internet users on share hosts .

National Socialist Hatecore

The band produced the music under the umbrella term Hatecore. The term Hatecore is a modification of the term Hardcore (English hard core). Hardcore is a more aggressively played form of rock music . Hatecore refers to hatred . The NS-Hatecore used by the band, or NSHC, refers to the " Hate Crimes " (English: hate crime). Under Anglo-Saxon law, hate crimes is used to describe crimes that are committed against people on the basis of their alleged affiliation, including racist and anti-Semitic offenses. The classification of a crime as a hate crime has the effect of aggravating the penalty. After the founding, many right-wing radical bands followed the Blue Eyed Devils in the new music genre. These include Angry Aryans from Detroit , No Alibi from Buffalo , Plunder & Pillage from Minnesota . Hate Society from Bamberg , Race War from Schwäbisch Gmünd and DST from Berlin must be named among the first German representatives of the Nazi hatecore .

Straight edge

Bands from the Hatecore spectrum also concentrate on the abstinent lifestyle "straight edge" or sXe for short, which is common in the hardcore scene. In terms of abstinence from alcohol , drugs , meat products and promiscuity , Robert Huber was the only one in the band who lived this lifestyle, although some band members had at least approached the idea of ​​Straight Edge. In the song Stand Strong , the band describes the intoxicating effects of drinking alcohol as a pseudo-ecstasy known as idiocy.

history

Origin of the members and the beginning of the band

BED was founded in the early 1990s by the brothers Robert and Ryan Huber, who played in the right-wing rock band Nordic Thunder as guitarist (Robert) and bassist (Ryan). Nordic Thunder played mainly Oi music and sometimes hardcore in the genre . The lyrics were about violence, racism and skinhead parties. The band Nordic Thunder was associated with the Hammerskins , of which their singer Joe Rowan, called "Hammer Joe", was an active member. The brothers Huber, which at the University of Delaware each physics and psychology studied wanted to form their own band, which glorifies motivated only by hate crimes. The band name Blue Eyed Devils alludes to an anti- whites racist slur of the Nation of Islam .

As a singer Drew Logan, a member of the stepped in Atlantic City acting racist network "Atlantic City Skins" with the band and a bassist named Cliff.

Professor Skinhead

In March 2006, Robert Huber hit the headlines as "Professor Skinhead" when the media exposed a practicing Associate Professor from the University of Delaware as a former guitarist in one of the most extreme right-wing neo-Nazi bands in the world. Robert Huber gave lessons for the last semester of physics students , consisting of a community made up of European descent and students who corresponded to the band's racial and anti-Semitic enemy image. The article said, however, that the university and students had no idea of ​​Huber's convictions and that Huber, according to the incumbent university president at the University of Delaware, had not discriminated or insulted anyone, had not committed any hate crimes on campus and his private view of the world outside of campus protected by the first amendment to the constitution. Nevertheless, the president spoke out against Huber's right-wing extremist views. He promised the students at the university, which is participating in the crime -preventive Zero-Tolerance-for-hate-crimes program, that the concerned students and campus visitors can feel safe on campus by increasing the security on campus. To what extent and whether this project was implemented by the university is not known in the article. Huber himself was not available for an interview with the newspaper, but stated in an email he wrote and addressed to his students that he had allegedly long since abandoned his right-wing radical view of the world, which he indulged in in his fallible youth . He stressed that the things he believes in today are no longer the same things he believed in in his naive and fallible youth. However, the newspaper doubted this statement because, according to the police, he had organized a solidarity event for a right-wing radical group that same month.

Creative phase

Tri-State Terror and Final Stand Records

The band released all albums on their own music label . In 1994, Ryan Huber founded the Tri-State Terror label in Stroudsburg , Pennsylvania . The founding of his own label was necessary in order to have full control over the albums first from Nordic Thunder and then from the Blue Eyed Devils. Along with Resistance Records and Panzerfaust Records, it became one of the three major right-wing rock labels in the USA. TST produced 24 records between 1994 and 2000. The bands that were produced by TST include Nordic Thunder, Blue Eyed Devils, the Hatecore band Vaginal Jesus , Angry Aryans, Aggravated Assault and their successor band Chaos 88, Steelcap, Infantry and the side band from BED Sedition. The first CD that was produced was the 1994 Nordic Thunder CD Final War . When the label closed in 2000, Sedition's CD Already Dead was released as the last album by TST. As the successor to Tri-State Terror, Final Stand Records (named after a CD by Nordic Thunder) was founded by Robert Huber and his wife in Newark in 2003. The label released 17 CDs, which were released between 2003 and 2009. The first CD released by FSR was the last recorded CD by Blue Eyed Devils, entitled ... It Ends . The bands included the German Hatecore band Daily Broken Dream and their predecessor band Race Riot, Blue Eyed Devils, Teardown, Fear Rains Down, the Polish Hatecore band SOL (Save Our Land), the German Hatecore band Anger Within, Empire Falls and Vinland Warriors. The label didn't get on par with Panzerfaust Records or Resistance Records. In 2009 the last CD, a new edition of Hate Crimes, was re-released before the label and mail order business closed and the website deleted in 2012. The rights to the material produced were sold to various legal rock mail-order companies.

Publications

In 1995, a year after Joe Rowan, the lead singer of Nordic Thunder, was shot and killed by an African-American after a conflict , the band released the first record in their band history on Tri-State Terror . It was a split album with the band Aggravated Assault from the Atlantic City Skins band . The common title of the album was Hate Crimes . The songs contained clear hate messages.

Nigger nigger

" Nigger , nigger! I've got my gun! Nigger, nigger! Gonna have some fun! Nigger, nigger! Gonna end your life! Kill your kids and your dirty brown wife! "

Skinhead In the cover version Skinheads of Condemned 84 it says in the original:

"The Union Jack is our flag, it makes us proud ... We're UK - Skinheads , who the fuck are you !?"

But Blue Eyed Devils sing:

"The Swastika is our flag, it makes us proud ... We're AC-Skinheads, you're a dirty Jew!"

After Hate Crimes five more albums followed in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2003. The albums which were released in 1996, 1997 and 1998 were still openly about terror, murder and fantasies of violence. z. B. it says in the songs:

Murder Squad

"Traitors are hung and others shot dead. Kill the Jew and cut his head. Destroy the enemy and his lies. Send the filth to an early demise. It's the same routine day to day. Murder anyone who gets in our way. A cleansing wind throughout this land. The final solution, the final stand. "

“The traitors are hanged and others are shot. The Jew is killed and his head is sawed off. Destroy the enemy and his lies. Sends the scraps to premature doom. It's the same routine day after day. Murder everyone who gets in our way. A cleansing wind blows through the whole country. The final solution , the ultimate resistance. "

Holocaust 2000

"We've heard your tales of persecution and we've listened to your lies. But this time it's for real, the final genocide ... ... You're the so called chosen race, the children of the lamb, demanding the world's sympathy, it's just a fucking scam. And even though your claws run deep we'll wipe this earth clean. The great judaic massacre, the worst you've ever seen. "

“We know your tales of persecution and we heard your lies. But this time they come true. The final genocide ... ... You are the so-called chosen people , the children of the Lamb demand the world's pity. It's just a trick. And even if your claws are deep, we clean the earth. The great Jewish massacre, the worst that you saw. "

Concerts

From 1996 onwards, the band performed in the Northeast and the Midwest of the USA on weekends , played at many concerts and made contacts with other right-wing North American bands of the White Power movement and right-wing celebrities.

The band also moved to Europe. Robert Huber met his future wife Karolina from Poland , who followed him to the USA as an illegal immigrant (a traditional enemy for neo-Nazis). Their status as an illegal foreigner changed with the marriage . Karolina Huber was firmly involved in the neo-Nazi skinhead scene in Poland and was able to support the band with the organizations and the communication barrier to the scene in Poland. The band often played in Germany. The band maintained good contacts with Blood & Honor Germany , to whose detached sub-group the " Chemnitz Skins" belonged, whose members also included the helpers of the NSU network. In Germany, BED gave their biggest concerts. While at home the concerts were attended by 30 to 60 people, several hundred concertgoers often came together at German gigs.

The last albums, released in 1999 and 2003, were lyrically designed in such a way that they can be sold more easily in Germany. The racist murder slogans were no longer used, the Holocaust was no longer an issue and National Socialism and its issues such as the Final Solution were no longer glorified. The new topics were conspiracies about the government, conspiracies against whites, songs about war, media and other things.

Sedition

Robert Huber founded in 1998 along with Drew Logan and unknown bassists and drummers Hatecore band Sedition (Engl. Rebellion ). The secondary band should offer an alternative to the openly racist main band Blue Eyed Devils. Probably one hoped for a possibility to be able to cross the borders of the racist skinhead movement in order to earn more money or to subvert the non-racist subcultures.

Musically, the hardcore style of music was adopted by Blue Eyed Devils, but no typical textual content related to the right-wing extremist scene was used for the texts that were written by Robert Huber alone at Sedition . The songs are about self-discovery, the incentive to recognize drug consumption as a mental swamp, to question the lies told on TV or not to believe, to commit one's actions with responsibility ... etc. but also about the fact that the listener should avoid negative people , People who pretend and glorify themselves through fashion trends or arrogance.

The straight-edge way of life also flows into some of Sedition's songs. In the song Suicide by cop , the band describes a fictional person who is shot by police officers at three o'clock in the morning when she breaks into a shop, forced by her tobacco and alcohol addiction, and is caught. According to the band, the person concerned chose this death by choosing to consume alcohol and tobacco and to make himself dependent on them, and therefore considers this death to be a suicide.

The advantage of the band was that they could be legally sold with the music in countries like Germany. The first album was released in 1998 under the title Conspiracy Theory , followed by five more albums by 2002. Before the band split up with Blue Eyed Devils.

National inspecting authority for youth harming media

In 1999 the album "Retribution" by BED was released (again with Ryan on drums), which was the first album to contain no discrimination or other text content under German law , which meant that this album was not included in List B of the BPjM , which the German judiciary recommends a ban on public dissemination in Germany and was therefore offered by the right-wing extremists on German soil. Business companies and dealers who offer goods that are on List B do not commit any criminal offense, but in the event of legal searches they must expect that the CDs will be confiscated and evaluated by the public prosecutor for criminal content, which is then used as evidence within the meaning of the Charges can be used against the dealer. However, the album was recorded later still in List A, which includes the recordings (and other types of support) that for young people under 18 are not suitable and therefore not allowed to be publicly advertised and only on presentation of a legally valid proof of identity may be sold .

Ryan's exit from the band

In 2000, songwriter, drummer and co-founder of the band Ryan Huber left the band after the release of Retribution , after he had gradually withdrawn since 1998. He also closed his Tri-State Records label and reportedly moved to Houston , Texas . Before the shutdown, Tri-State-Terror released the compilation album On The Attack with songs by the band, which had previously appeared on different samplers without exception. Ryan Huber not only ended his band membership, his business activities as a music publisher, he also broke off contact with his friends and acquaintances. Even his family no longer has any contact with Ryan, according to Robert Huber.

According to Robert Huber, Ryan should not have resigned himself to his brother's deradicalizing development. The former skinhead Robert Huber, who had long since grown his hair again, wanted to turn the Nazi skinhead band into a mainstream Hatecore band, which no longer uses the clichés of hate crimes to entertain racist skinheads, but rather anarchic ones and anti-racist set punk scene infiltrated . Because you could only address a small target group with the lyrics about racial hatred and neo-Nazism, but the band supposedly had the necessary potential to reach more people. The brothers are said to have had a conflict because Ryan saw the change as betraying the band's Nazi skinhead identity. As a result of the conflict, Ryans left the band and put the band down. This conflict also spread to the other band members, who were also dissatisfied with Robert Huber's ideas for the band. The band broke up.

In 2001 the German right-wing rock label Hatesounds published a compilation album entitled We'll Never Die with a selection of songs that had no criminal relevance under the criminal law. The band had no influence on the creative design and selection of the songs, but the label licensed this compilation for publication.

It ends

Robert Huber managed to persuade his brother Ryan Huber to join the Blue Eyed Devils one last time to work on a final album together and to end the history of the Blue Eyed Devils with an official closing chapter. The band sent the music to Texas so that Ryan Huber could add traces of his well-rehearsed drum work to the individual songs. The album was recorded under the succinct title ... It Ends and released in 2003 by Robert Huber's newly founded record label called Final Stand Records, which had taken over the copying and sales rights for the albums released by Tri-State-Terror.

After the release of … It Ends , the last chapter in the history of the Blue Eyed Devils was closed.

Teardown

Huber and Logan played with Dan on drums and Gareth on bass as Blue Eyed Devils at concerts in North America and in Europe and concentrated in a creative way on the bands Sedition and their successors band teardown (Engl. Demolition ), which was founded in November 2003 and specialized in metalcore . However, in contrast to BED, Teardown lacked any reference to National Socialism and racial hatred, as was the case with Sedition. Teardown's forte was centered on the quality of the music, not the lyrics. The band wanted to infiltrate the playground of the metalcore scene, which was dominated by commercially successful metalcore bands such as Hatebreed , Until The End and Throwdown . However, Teardown was immediately exposed and boycotted as a band run by right-wing skinheads and the makers of the Blue Eyed Devils. Even in the Nazi skinhead scene, the band with the apolitical lyrics was not very successful. Teardown's appeal was limited to the NSHC minority within the right-wing music scene dominated by RAC and ballad music. Teardown did not get out of the right-wing extremist drawer and accordingly only played at right-wing concerts. Before Teardown was broken up, the last of two albums was released in 2005. For this album, singer Ron took over the position of the singer, while Paul played bass and Sean took over the drums, who later worked as a drummer with Robert Huber in the band Fear Rains Down.

A New Fear Rains Down

Since Teardown could not achieve the hoped-for success, Robert Huber founded the German-American Hatecore band Fear Rains Down in 2008 together with the drummer Sean von Teardown and two members of the Rostock NSHC band Path of Resistance and the singer of the Magdeburg NSHC band Daily Broken Dream ( English fear is raining down). A band whose members are Nazi-minded, but neither use racist slogans, nor call for violence, nor address the skinhead scene or National Socialism. The texts written by Robert Huber build on the texts of Teardown and deal with the philosophy of an alternative life, exercise social criticism, reflect on the meaning of life, address self-discovery of identity and try to draw the listener's attention to his tunnel vision.

Neither Teardown, nor Sedition, nor Fear Rains Down could catch up with the legally neutral texts with the level of awareness of the Blue Eyed Devils and were hardly noticed.

comeback

Although the final chapter of the Blue Eyed Devils has already been written, Drew Logan opened the cover in 2006 when he agreed to perform with guest musicians as the Blue Eyed Devils at a major concert in Belgium . This comeback caused confusion in the right-wing extremist Internet forums , rejection categorized as money-cutting , but also for anticipation within the right-wing extremist music scene. Robert Huber, who is also still active in the right-wing rock scene, had no objections that the band was reactivated by the singer with strange musicians without him and his brother, as he is pleased that Drew Logan has given his life a task, although he is in In this context, said that he himself will no longer be available as a musician for Blue Eyed Devils. Since then, Drew Logan has been playing several times a year at concerts in North America and Europe with alternating guest musicians from other local right-wing rock bands. The performances will be announced on the concert flyers directly under the name Blue Eyed Devils.

However, Drew Logan categorically rules out the release of new albums by the Blue Eyed Devils. The band, usually booked as a headliner , only plays songs that have already been released and the cover versions of the songs of other right-wing rock bands at the concerts .

Discography

Split albums

• 1995: Hate Crimes ( Splitalbum ) (Blue Eyed Devils / Aggravated Assault) ( CD , Tri-State Terror )
• 1998 Tri-State Terror presents: East vs. West (Mudoven / Blue Eyed Devils / Dying Breed / Stronghold / Pure Rampage) ( EP , Tri-State Terror)

Albums

• 1996: Murder Squad (CD, Tri-State Terror) ( Indexed , List B, Federal Gazette number 142 of July 31, 2004)
• 1998: Holocaust 2000 (CD, Tri-State Terror) (Indexed, List B, BAnz. Number 60 from March 31, 2005, BAnz AT 07/28/2017 B5 )
• 1999: Retribution (CD, Tri-State Terror) (Indexed, List A, BAnz. Number 20 of January 29, 2005)

Mini albums / EPs

• 1997: Blue Eyed Devils ( 7 ″ -EP, Tri-State Terror)
• 2003: ... It Ends ( Mini-CD , Final Stand Records )

Individual contributions to compilations with other bands

• 1997 Keep It White , Volume 2 ( Subzero Records )
• 1997 Foier Frei ( promotional sampler of the Chemnitzer Rechtsrock / NS- Skinhead - Fanzine Foier Frei ( Sic! ), Self-distribution )
• 1998 White Pride World Wide , Volume 4 (CD, Nordland ) (Indexed, List A, BAnz. Number 120 from June 30, 2006)
• 1998 Tri-State Terror , Volume II (CD, Tri-State Terror), (Indexed, List B, BAnz. Number 20 of January 29, 2005)
• 1999 This is War (CD, Iron Eagle Division (The two songs by BED have already appeared on albums Hate Crimes and Murder Squad )
• 2002 Final Attack, Volume 1 - The Final Destruction (CD, Ohrwurm Records ) The song already appeared on the compilation CD Keep It White, Volume 2 )
• 2019 DST - Twenty-five (CD, (Gigantopak-Version) Gjallarhorn Klangschmiede )

Compilation albums

• 1999: On The Attack (CD, Tri-State-Terror) (CD with all exclusively released songs of the band that have not appeared on albums)
• 2001: We'll Never Die (CD, Hatesound Records ) (selection of already published songs that did not meet the criminal relevance for publications in Germany)

Unauthorized bootleg releases of the band's songs

• Year unknown NS Sampler , Volume 8 ( CD-R , Bootleg ) Volume 8 (The song appeared on the album Hate Crimes )
• 20 ?? NS Sampler , Volume 13 (CD-R, Bootleg) (The song appeared on the mini album ... It Ends )

Web links

• Blue Eyed Devils at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gwhatchet.com/2006/03/23/delaware-u-prof-a-former-skinhead/
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