Anarcho-black metal (the abbreviation RABM - Red & Anarchist Black Metal [1] is also sometimes used, similar to Red & Anarchist Skinheads ) - the direction of black metal that appeared in the mid-2000s. thanks to the Canadian group Iskra , and is currently becoming increasingly popular. This style is ideological in nature - the texts of groups playing in this direction of black metal are focused on philosophical and political topics: anarchism and anarcho-communism [2] , objectivism , ecology , society , atheism , northern mythology .
| Anarchist black metal | |
|---|---|
| Direction | Extreme metal |
| The origins | black metal , blackened crust |
| Place and time of occurrence | Canada |
| Heyday | mid 2000s , present |
| Related | |
| Pagan Metal , Viking Metal , Atmospheric Black, Crust Punk , Crack Rock Stage | |
Content
Sound
The sound of anarcho-black groups often also differs from the classic tru-black: in most cases they play either a mixture of black and crust punk (this was the beginning of the development of the style), or atmospheric black with elements of post-rock (now plays in this style the most famous anarcho-black project is Panopticon [3] , there are also elements of pegan black and viking metal , there are also bands that play quite traditional tru-black.
Origin
Amebix laid the foundation for the emergence of anarcho-black back in the 1980s, adding elements of thrash metal and proto-black to the crust punk. With the release of the debut album of the Canadian band Iskra in 2004, the history of such a style as blackened crust began . By that time, in the Cascade Mountains region (which includes British Columbia - the birthplace of Iskra), there were already many bands playing atmospheric black with texts inspired by the nature of this region. Owing to such themes of texts, some of these groups easily accepted the ideas of green anarchism , and in addition, the territorial proximity to the place where the blackend crater appeared. That is why the majority of anarcho-black groups are either from Canada (British Columbia) or from the USA ( Washington , Oregon , northern California ).
Representatives
- Book of Sand ( USA ) [4]
- Filii Nigrantium Infernalium [5] ( Portugal )
- Panopticon [6] ( USA )
- Peregrine [7] ( USA , anarchist black death metal )
- Sorgsvart [8] [9] ( Norway )
- The Dead Musician [10] ( France )
- Wolves in the Throne Room [9] ( USA )
There are also groups ideologically oriented towards communism rather than anarchism — Agony [11] ( USA ), Profecium [12] (Argentina ) —but their total number is small.
Notes
- ↑ RABM
- ↑ See, for example, an interview Archival copy of April 10, 2009 on the Wayback Machine with the domestic group Rage of Marx on the website of the Bellum Gerite label. (eng.)
- ↑ Encyclopedia Metallum
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Metallum - Book of Sand
- ↑ Interview with the group leader. (eng.)
- ↑ Interview with the project leader Archived February 7, 2009. in the fanzine Boca Suja (English) ( Russian translation ) (Russian) .
- ↑ John Mincemoyer "Breaking Faces: Peregrine." Terrorizer, issue # 175, Sept. 2008
- ↑ Sorgsvart official website
- ↑ 1 2 Justin Davisson “ Extreme Politics and Extreme Metal: Strange Bedfellows or Fellow Travelers? Archived October 19, 2013 on the Wayback Machine ”, pp. 15-17
- ↑ Interview with Zinophrenia Fan Group Leader. (fr.)
- ↑ Encyclopedia Metallum
- ↑ Encyclopedia Metallum