Resistance Records

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Resistance Records is an American record company that primarily produces right-wing rock albums and sells them through its website. Resistance Records has been part of the National Alliance since 1999. Since then Erich Gliebe has been the manager of the record company. Resistance Records also publishes the irregular Resistance magazine, which Gliebe is the editor of.

history

The label was founded in December 1993 in Windsor, Ontario , Canada by the then neo-Nazi George Burdi from the band Rahowa . January 1994 also opened another branch in Detroit , Michigan . In January 1994, the music label was expanded to include the USA, and the first issue of Resistance magazine was published in the same year . “I was aware of the critical condition of white power music. Bands were at the end of their patience, waiting for money from studio recordings that never came. White youth all over the country had no idea where to buy a white power CD or cassette, ”wrote Burdi in the first issue. Among the groups initially signed to Resistance Records were Burdi's own band Rahowa, Bound for Glory and Angry Aryans . After the band Nordic Thunder had released their debut album Born to Hate on Resistance Records in 1993, their drummer Ryan Huber founded Tri-State Records in 1994 to self-publish his music. According to Ingo Taler, the reason for this was differences in content because Resistance Records “did not want to produce any extreme Nazi products”. For this reason, Aggravated Assault changed after their 1995 debut It Could Happen to You! , in which Resistance Records tried to cover up the "too obvious glorification of the Nazis [...] by the first pressing only containing the song SH as an abbreviated title" and not (as with the subsequent pressing) as Sieg Heil , von Burdi zu Huber, the categorically rejected this form of self-censorship and instead relied on extreme publications. The Resistance had a circulation of 13,000 copies in 1995. The magazine is still published today by the National Alliance.

In 1995, Burdi was arrested for kicking an anti-fascist in the face during a demonstration in May 1993 . He received a twelve-month suspended sentence, which he served in 1997 for violating his parole terms. Burdi's Canadian business partners Jason Snow and Joe Talic took over Resistance Records in 1996. Mark Wilson has been replaced by Eric Davidson (former editor of the US Blood & Honor magazine).

After initial success and from 1996 profit on sales valued at around $ 300,000, both the Detroit , Michigan branch of the label and Burdi's home in Windsor, Ontario, were each approved by the US and Canadian police on April 9, 1997 simultaneously searched; the computers, financial records, magazines and 10,000 CDs were taken away by the police. The searches were carried out simultaneously to prevent deletion of computer records. The search in the US was based on suspicion of tax evasion ; in Canada, Burdi was charged with hate crimes; Since the content of the music he distributes is not punishable in the USA, he had relocated the label there, but could still be prosecuted because of his Canadian citizenship. At the time of the searches, Burdi was serving his one-year prison sentence for assault. After Burdi's arrest, former Blood & Honor editor Eric Davidson took over.

In April 1997, the record company had to close briefly due to tax problems and a house search. The case was initiated by Canadian authorities because the publications violated Canadian anti- hate crime laws. At the time, the items in question were located in Milford , Michigan, from where Resistance Records continued its business. Federal agents, under the supervision of the Internal Revenue Service , examined the records and confiscated all inventory. Eventually, a minor penalty was imposed for tax evasion and the confiscated inventory was returned. The label no longer operated in Canada from then on. After Burdi had served his sentence, he left the white power scene and founded the group Novacosm .

In June 1998, Willis Carto , founder and leader of the Liberty Lobby, paid Burdi's bills. At the beginning he was not very popular within the movement and did not appear openly as a resistance leader; In the fall of 1998, however, he sent issues of the Liberty lobby weekly newspaper The Spotlight to Resistance subscribers to replace missing Resistance issues. In October, he moved the label to Etiwanda , California, and ran it with business partner Todd Blodgett . Eric Davidson quit after the sale and went to Minnesota, where he co-founded Panzerfaust Records . After Blodgett fell out with Carto, he decided to sell his shares and found William Luther Pierce III in March 1999 . from the National Alliance as a customer. This took over the label completely and relocated its activities in the vicinity of Hillsboro , West Virginia. He also took over the Swedish label Nordland Records . In 2000 he also took over the label Cymophane Productions of the then imprisoned Norwegian musician and right-wing extremist Varg Vikernes . In the same area, Hendrik Möbus from the German band Absurd began to help out Pierce after he had fled to the USA to avoid prison and was staying with Pierce; Möbus worked in the label's mail order business and wrote under the pseudonym “Hagen von Tronje” for the Resistance magazine, which also began to report on Black Metal . In 2002 the sub-label Unholy Records, which specializes in metal, was founded.

Resistance Records belong to other smaller subsidiary labels, the best known are probably the black metal labels Cymophane Records and Unholy Records . Both labels released the US versions of the Burzum albums. The label also included an internet radio.

Merchandise

Resistance Records now has an online shop that sells a little over 1,000 CDs and also sells merchandise from various bands. Two computer games, Ethnic Cleansing and the sequel White Law , were created by the label, both with extremely racist and anti-Semitic content.

The right-wing extremist songwriter Saga, the girls' duo Prussian Blue and Max Resist are probably among the best-known groups . Also on the label were the German band Absurd (new edition of the EP Asgardsrei ), the Polish band Honor and the now defunct Bound for Glory.

Publications (selection)

at Resistance Records
  • 1993: Nordic Thunder - Born to Hate
  • 1993: Rahowa - Declaration of War
  • 1994: Bound for Glory - The Fight Goes On
  • 1995: Aggravated Assault - It Could Happen to You!
  • 1995: Rahowa - Cult of the Holy War
  • 2000: Honor / Graveland - Raiders of Revenge
  • 2001: Fortress - Into Legend
  • 2001: Iron Youth - Respect / Defend / Create
  • 2001: Blue Eyed Devils - Holocaust 2000
  • 2002: Absurd - Asgardsrei (re-release)
  • 2001: Aryan Terrorism - War
at Ancestral Research Records
  • 2000: Thunderbolt / Kataxu - Black Clouds over Dark Majesty / Roots Thunder
  • 2000: Thor's Hammer - May the Hammer Smash the Cross
  • 2001: Pantheon - Vargrstrike
at Unholy Records
  • 2002: Vaginal Jesus - Affirmative Apartheid (re-release)
  • 2002: Various Artists - Visions - A Tribute to Burzum
  • 2002: Nocturnal Fear - Sterilize and Exterminate
  • 2003: The Shadow Order / Grom - Sons of Zeus
  • 2005: Nokturnal Mortum - Eleven Years Among the Sheep

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Deafening Hate. (No longer available online.) Anti-Defamation League, archived from the original on June 20, 2010 ; Retrieved July 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  2. ^ A b c d Shaun Walker: The Growth of White Power Music. March 4, 2006, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 ; accessed on February 17, 2010 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 264 .
  4. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 219 f .
  5. ^ Hate Groups Use Tools of the Electronic Trade. In: The New York Times . March 13, 1995, accessed July 8, 2010 .
  6. ^ Record Company Takes Extremist Message to the Masses. (No longer available online.) DMNews, May 8, 2000, archived from the original on October 29, 2007 ; Retrieved July 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dmnews.com
  7. ^ Burdi Sentenced to One Year in Jail. In: The Canadian Jewish News , May 18, 1995.
  8. ^ White Supremacist Record Company of Oakland, Michigan Raided in Tax-Fraud Probe. In: The Detroit News (copy on Shofar FTP Archives). April 11, 1997, accessed July 8, 2010 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e HateCore Music Distributor, Resistance Records, Has Troubled History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 12, 2010 ; accessed on February 17, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  10. ↑ a b c Resisting Arrest. Southern Poverty Law Center , 1998, accessed June 14, 2010 .
  11. ↑ a b c d Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 265 .
  12. ↑ a b Resisting arrest. (No longer available online.) Southern Poverty Law Center , 1998, archived from the original on February 27, 2009 ; Retrieved July 8, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.splcenter.org
  13. ↑ a b c d e f Willis Carto leading anti-Semite takes ownership of Resistance Records. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2010 ; accessed on February 17, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  14. ^ National Alliance Takes Charge. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 ; accessed on June 14, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  15. ^ Adam Cohen: All You Need Is Hate. In: Time . Retrieved June 14, 2010 .
  16. ↑ a b Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 265 .
  17. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 280 .
  18. ^ Games Elevate Hate to Next Level. Wired.com , February 20, 2002, accessed July 8, 2010 .

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