Unholy alliances

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Unholy alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. ( ISBN 3-89771-817-0 ) is a book published by Unrast Verlag in 2005 , which deals with neo-Nazi tendencies in the black metal scene and their connections to the organized right-wing extremist scene .

The authors are the Düsseldorf social scientist Christian Dornbusch and the political scientist Hans-Peter Killguss. The book was preceded by a master's thesis (Dornbusch) and a diploma thesis (Killguss) on black metal in 2003. According to Prolog, both have been involved in the metal and rock scene since the 1980s and began in 1998, at the time when Hendrik Möbus , who was convicted of the murder of Sandro Beyer , was released early from prison by the band Absurd and began to develop his contacts started researching her book. Since both authors already had experience in dealing with the right-wing extremist scene, according to their own statements they moved cautiously in the black metal scene and tried to protect their privacy, but the authors are now "exposed with their pseudonyms" in this environment. After the book was published, they received specific death threats from the NSBM environment.

The book is divided into three sections: the first is dedicated to the history of the origins of Black Metal, the second to the scene, its image, its content and the respective appropriations by neo-Nazis. Finally, the third section deals with the so-called NSBM.

reception

Unholy Alliances was consistently rated positively by a large number of media, including the information service against right-wing extremism , the taz , Telepolis or Visions , and was described as being recommended. In the metal scene in the broadest sense, the book was also fundamentally positively received by various scene media such as the print magazines Rock Hard and Legacy and various webzines . The work can serve both as an argumentation aid and stimulate a long-ignored discussion about problematic content in parts of the scene.

The book is controversial in the pagan and black metal scene. The German pagan metal band Odroerir describes the book as “ trivial literature ” and “ trash ”, while the Austrian extreme metal band Summoning recommends the book. The book is "partly unscientific" and one-sided by not mentioning self-criticism within the scene. In addition, interview statements were taken out of context.

Other bands see themselves as unjustifiably branded right-wing extremist groups across the board due to private friendships among individual members or concert appearances with controversial bands. Because of such mistakes, people in the scene see the entire Black Metal scene as discredited right-wing radical or “right-wing open”. According to the authors, however, the scene does not “clearly differ between an apolitical one with clear demarcations and a right wing, but rather appears as a larger whole in which both factions get along more or less well”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arlette Huguenin: DORNBUSCH / KILLGUSS: There is also resistance , July 3, 2006, accessed on March 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Review in Legacy 01/2006, p. 78.
  3. ↑ a b Thor Wanzek: Interview with the authors in Legacy 03/2006, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Alexander Dluzak: Heidnischer Germanen-Metal , Polylux from April 27, 2006.
  5. ↑ Götz Kühnemund : Review in Rock Hard No. 226, March 2006, p. 24.
  6. ↑ Arlette Huguenin: DORNBUSCH / KILLGUSS: Unheilige Alliances - Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism , April 22, 2006, accessed on March 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Stefan: VA "Unholy Alliances. Black Metal Between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism" , accessed on March 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ Interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Danny Jakesch@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.legacy.de  
  9. ↑ Ralf Scheidler: Drumming in the Dark ... , March 3, 2006, accessed on March 10, 2013.
  10. ^ Letter to the editor from Legacy , by Johannes Paul Köhler
  11. ↑ Interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with the band Funeral Procession, by Johannes Paul Köhler.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.legacy.de  
  12. ↑ Letter pages from Legacy 04/2006 and 05/2006.
  13. ^ Unholy Alliances , p. 147.

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