Mikołaj Żentara

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Mikołaj Żentara , known by his pseudonym "M" , (born November 5, 1981 in Krakow ) is a Polish black metal musician.

Life

Mikołaj Żentara was born in 1981 to the Polish actor and director Edward Żentara .

Act

In 1999 M. founded a one-man music project with Leichenhalle under the name Leichenhalle and released several music cassettes and CDs under his own label Dead Rats Produktions , which he later changed to DRSC.

In 2000 M. became the singer of the Polish black metal band Mgła from Kraków . With this he released several albums and EPs, as well as a split EP with Deathspell Omega and Stabat Mater . In 2002 Żentara founded the black metal project War Machine , which, along with M's other band, Mgła, has been described as one of the most important representatives of the second wave of Polish black metal. Between 2004 and 2018 he released several EPs and albums with Kriegsmaschine, as well as a split with the Polish band Infernal War .

criticism

Żentara is suspected of spreading or tolerating right-wing extremist ideologies . For example, the cassette Judenfrei of his first music project Leichenhalle, published in 2000 and containing a piece of the same name, was used to criticize possible anti-Semitic views. Furthermore, M. was involved in earlier album productions of the right-wing extremist black metal band Infernal War and can be heard as a guest singer in the song Axiom on the album of the same name by the same group. He also produced several albums for the band Voidhanger , the musical side project of the Infernal War musicians Warcrimer and Zyklon, most recently Dark Days of the Soul , released in 2018 . His band Mgła is also under criticism because of the record contract with Northern Heritage Records , the owner of which has already known himself to be racist and fascist and has signed several right-wing extremist metal bands. The fact that the Finnish musician Mikko Aspa from Clandestine Blaze , who is well-known in the Finnish NSBM scene, has already appeared as a live singer for Mgła sparked discussion. In the first three appearances of Mgłas in Finland this played two pieces by Aspa's band Clandestine Blaze, in which Aspa himself acted as a singer.

Żentara and Aspa were in contact with each other even before the band Mgła was founded, as both were involved in dark ambient and electronic projects in the late 1990s and each created a black metal magazine.

Discography

With Mgła

With a war machine

With morgue

  • 1999: Industrial Armageddon: Metal Becomes Flesh ( music cassette , Dead Rats production )
  • 2000: Judenfrei (music cassette, Dead Rats production)
  • 2001: Like a Bullet in the Forehead (music cassette, Dead Rats production)
  • 2001: Phoenix Rising (music cassette, Dead Rats production)
  • 2001: As Far as Children Go (split EP with Manifesto , DSRC, Noise, Filth and Fury Productions )
  • 2002: Unconcious N 'Bleeding (Split EP with Stegm , DSRC)
  • 2003: Bloodsoil (EP, DSRC)

Others (selection)

  • 2011: Darknessence by Deus Mortem (layout)
  • 2012: Feed Them to the Pigs by Voidhanger (guest vocals)
  • 2013: Working Class Misanthropy: Of Rapture And Disgust (album production and guest vocals)
  • 2015: Axiom by Infernal War (guest vocals in the title of the same name, album production)
  • 2016: Emanations of the Black Light by Deus Mortem (layout)
  • 2018: Dark Days of the Soul by Voidhanger (album production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Massimo Introvigne : Satanism: A Social History . Brill Academic Pub , Leiden 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-24496-2 , Satan the Musician: Black Metal and Satanism, pp. 494 (English).
  2. ↑ Accusations of anti-Semitism: Excitement before metal concert in Greller Forelle. DerStandard.de , April 29, 2019, accessed on April 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lords of the Nightrealm : Interview: Infernal War
  4. ↑ Keefy: Ghost Cult Mag : Infernal War Streaming “Transfigure”
  5. ↑ Marc Thor Bruges: Voidhanger - Dark Days of the Soul. Metal.de , February 23, 2018, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Marc S .: Time for Metal : Hell Over Hammaburg 2016 on March 4th / 5th, 2016 in the Markthalle, Hamburg
  7. ^ The influencers of the Finnish NS music scene part 3: Mikko Aspa of Northern Heritage, Clandestine Blaze, Vapaudenristi & Sarvilevyt. Varisverkosto.com, March 19, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  8. ^ A b Niklas Göransson: Clandestine Blaze - Northern Heritage. BardoMethodology.com, May 17, 2017, accessed April 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Żentara, Mikołaj
ALTERNATIVE NAMES "M" (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish black metal musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow