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So what, then? Well, if Immortal
or Aeternus are nazis, then you shouldn’t buy their records at all,
since it’s morally repugnant to help a nazi out even if he’s hungry
and needs a bite to eat. Sometimes, though, you’re going to find a
metal band whose politics are suspect but whose records are just killer.
What you oughta do with bands like these, who kick out the frost-flecked
metal jamz ‘til the break of dawn but who might be total assholes,
is steal their records. Then, if you see them on the street, you should
beat
the shit out of them. But at the same time -- well, there’s this:
heavy metal, practically from its birth pangs, has been largely concerned
with being as evil as it can be. Death, murder, destruction, fire, natural
disaster, unnecessary surgery: they’re all fair tools for the metal
craftsman who wants to make his listener feel simultaneously thrilled &
repulsed. Why oughtn’t it, then, just go for the gold, and conjure
up the greatest evil of the 20th century? |
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