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Darker Than Darker Than Black: U.S. Black Metal Artist Galdr Rages Against Fascism
As I grew, and while my interest and activity within the subculture grew, my perspectives became increasingly shaped by the people around me as well as my involvement in various black metal networks. Growing up white in North Georgia didn’t quite provide me the diversity of viewpoints that I could have used, while elements of right-wing politics and language became increasingly normalized to me via underground black metal correspondence, zines, and the like. It got to the point where I couldn’t really recognize the blatant signs and dog-whistles of far-right associations. I thought of myself as entirely apolitical. Even the times when I had recognized those signs, my conditioning had allowed me to, at best, chalk it up to fantasy-shock-rock kind of stuff, or to justify that behavior as their right of freedom of speech in a sort of hypothetical open-forum of political debate. And at worst, absorb or parrot ideas and perspectives from that realm of thought. I was impressionable and enthusiastic about the scene and it encompassed my world.
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