Cross Stitched Eyes i like! Old punks just talking about their punk activity in the past and young punks only being active on myspace and consuming i don’t like. Big cities and parties not starting before midnight i don’t like. I am a small city guy and like to be in bed before 5 a.m. Maybe I am mentally old and tired at the moment but i know the fire/motivation will come back but for now i want to be in bed early and i shouldn’t leave home when i am unsocial and just go cause of social duties… Anyway, Happy Birthday Frank!!! 40 loud years and no end in sight!

Posted by: Stachel // April 21, 2009 // 9:20 am

I was shocked to see Relapse sells the label Drakkar Productions which
also releases NSBM records like Blackdeath which is even reviewed as
“Russian NSBM!” in the Relapse shop. Other explicit items are a CD of
Germany’s best known NSBM band Absurd, records of the far right,
anti-semitic band Grand Belial’s Key, polish band Graveland (A quote of Rob
Darken (born Robert Fudali) in an interview to Decibel magazine
“I do not think Graveland is an NSBM band. Graveland is regarded as a
NSBM band because of my political convictions, [which] most people would
call extreme right-wing National Socialist convictions.”) which are
released on No Colours records which is as Drakkar productions a label
that releases national socialist records next to so called apolitical
bands. Also in the shop is Nokturnal Mortum which is quoted as NSBM band
on Wikipedia. Nearly all details here come from Wikipedia so they might
not be 100% correct but give me enough of a picture of the tolerance
level of Relapse records nowadays. I am pretty shocked and disappointed
cause i have contact with some great people who work at Relapse and
even licensed the DISFEAR - Misanthropic Generation LP from them. Also a
shock was that it seems Swedish punk, metal and more distribution Sound
Pollution also carries stuff like Burzum and Drakkar production releases such as Blackdeath.
I am so tired of the Nazi tolerance in the metal scene, i don’t need
everyone being political activist or whatsoever but there should be a
common sense when it comes to Nazi bullshit. I would say no tolerance for
the intolerant. But it seems the so called apolitical/neutral people in
metal and also in punk nowadays have no problem with nazi tolerance and
cooperation (see a bigger band like Nachtmystium who are no Nazis but
seem to have quite some collaboration with right wing dudes). I am
really tired of all this, i don’t care about apolitical people but they
should behave apolitical and not collaborate with nazis and support
them with their “tolerance”. Nowadays it seems Burzum is cool, and NSBM
seems to be trendy no matter what assholes are behind. Also VICE magazin
wrote about Burzum just on a musical base and ignored all the
political background. All this troubles my enjoyment of metal.
I hope there will be a backlash on all this shit at one point and metal
zines and metal heads will start commenting/criticizing it again like in the 80s, early 90s and not
hyping it.

Posted by: Stachel // // 9:19 am

I posted the European tour dates of CRIMINAL DAMAGE, TRAGEDY, WASTED TIME and KYLESA. Look forward to see them live. Rock Out!

Posted by: Stachel // April 7, 2009 // 11:33 pm