Tag Archives: music reviews

Kate Bush, the Faerie Queene

Fenek Solère

2,285 words

In springing flowre the image of thy day;
Ah see the Virgin Rose, how sweetly shee
Doth first peepe forth with bashfull modestee
— Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Published: February 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, England, Fenek Solère, Kate Bush, North American New Right, originals, pop music | Comments closed

Supreme Avantgarde Death Metal:
The Metapolitical Struggle of The Monolith Deathcult

Buttercup Dew

1,335 words

The Monolith Deathcult are a three-piece extreme Death Metal band formed and led by Dutch high-school history teacher, Michiel Dekker. TMDC is a one-band musical vanguard for the coming inevitable National Populist cultural explosion of the European New Right. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Buttercup Dew, Death Metal, North American New Right, originals, popular music, The Monolith Deathcult | Comments closed

Wardruna’s Skald

Alex Graham

The album cover

1,044 words

Wardruna
Skald
Indie Recordings/By Norse Music, 2018

The Norwegian band Wardruna’s latest album, Skald, is a tribute to Old Norse poetry containing ten acoustic ballads performed live by the band’s co-founder, Einar Selvik. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Einar Selvik, Germanic paganism, North American New Right, Old Norse poetry, originals, Skald, Wardruna | Comments closed

Only the Pig Tastes Good:
Thoughts on Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young”

Spencer J. Quinn

2,352 words

Like a lot of kids in my town growing up, I was really into the music of Billy Joel. There was a period in my early teens in which I listened to almost no one else. I loved the attitude, the craft, the variety, the cleverness. And I have to give Joel credit for being the first pop star to whom I seriously listened and whose work I avidly collected. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Catholicism, anti-white propaganda, articles, Billy Joel, Catholicism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn | Comments closed

Music as Revolt Against the Modern World:
Envy’s Atheist’s Cornea

Archilochus

Envy’s Tetsuya Fukagawa

3,910 words

Opening remarks

οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ κινοῦνται μουσικῆς τρόποι ἄνευ πολιτικῶν νόμων τῶν μεγίστων (Plato, Republic 424c)

“The forms of music are not changed without the most significant socio-political mores and laws being changed with them.” So writes Plato in his chef-d’œuvre. This insight is borne out by history, and perhaps never more so than in our own time, the post-war twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archilochus, articles, Atheist's Cornea, envy, Japan, Japanese music, modern music, North American New Right, originals, Plato, Tetsuya Fukagawa, warrior ethos | Comments closed

Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina

Alex Graham

Christopher Ventris as Palestrina in the 2009 Bavarian State Opera production of the opera.

1,693 words

Hans Pfitzner
Palestrina
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Rafael Kubelík
Deutsche Grammophon, 1989

Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina is one of the unsung masterpieces of twentieth-century opera. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, composers in the Third Reich, German opera, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Hans Pfitzner, North American New Right, opera, opera reviews, originals, Palestrina, Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann | Comments closed

Taylor Swift’s Tarnished reputation

Claus Brinker

2,997 words

Taylor Swift’s latest album, reputation, came out on November 10th. She has become an iconic figure for the Alt Right in recent years, so a review seems appropriate. We must tread lightly because Ms. Swift has recently been flashing her litigious claws (clause?). Read more …

Published: November 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Claus Brinker, cynicism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, reputation, Taylor Swift | Comments closed

Janáček’s The Makropulos Case as Archeofuturist Opera

Donald Thoresen

From the San Francisco Opera production of The Makropulos Case, 2016.

2,721 words

Leoš Janáček
The Makropulos Case
English National Opera, conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras, Chandos, 2007

(Warning: This review contains spoilers for the plot of this opera.)

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) was a Czech composer known for his combination of folk music with a strikingly original modernism. There is no other composer who sounds remotely like him. He is as instantly recognizable as Vivaldi, Wagner, or Philip Glass. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2017 | Posted in music, North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, Donald Thoresen, Guillaume Faye, irony, Karl Čapek, Leoš Jánaček, North American New Right, nostalgia, opera, originals, vaporwave | Comments closed

The Music of Right Wing Death Squad Entertainment

Guillaume Durocher

1,874 words

There is much to be said about the inevitable rise of post-ironic Nazi hipsters.

A recent example has been the very talented musical project Right Wing Death Squad Entertainment (RWDS), which has been producing various Far-Right parodies of mainstream pop, rock, indie, etc., songs. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Durocher, humor, irony, North American New Right, originals, parody songs, popular music, Right Wing Death Squad Entertainment, satire | Comments closed

Siouxsie & the Banshees:
Two Pop Songs for the Alt Right

Spencer J. Quinn

Siouxsie Sioux

1,420 words

As universal as pop music tries to be, there are some songs which cut into profit margins by drawing distinct lines between large groups of people and cast aspersions or judgment across those lines. And depending on how sanctified or protected the victim group is — or how known or unknown the singer/songwriter is — the song might actually become popular. For example, Mick Jagger made a career out of doing this to women, and Bruce Springsteen to the wealthy. But very rarely does pop music draw lines along racial barriers. Read more …

Published: June 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arabian Knights, Arabs, bestiality, homosexuality, Hong Kong Garden, misogyny, North American New Right, originals, pederasty, political correctness, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Spencer Quinn. pop music, the Chinese, the Muslim question | Comments closed

Don’t Want No Black Messiah

Spencer J. Quinn

1,275 words

Any tight-knit and cohesive community needs a common culture to help bind it. For us on the Alt-Right, much of this is racial and therefore political. What do most of us have in common? Well, the three biggees are that we are white, we are race-realists, and we would like to solve our current host of troubles with a white ethnostate. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Messiah, North American New Right, originals, popular music, race realism, reggae, Spencer Quinn, The Kinks | Comments closed

“Make Rome Great Again”
Rienzi in Berlin

1,906 words

On Friday, March 11, I saw the Deutsche Oper in Berlin’s production of Rienzi, Richard Wagner’s third opera. Rienzi is a Grand Opera in the Parisian style, an approach Wagner eventually rejected. Although Wagner excluded Rienzi and his first two operas from the canon of the Bayreuth Festival, Rienzi remained his most popular opera throughout his lifetime. Wagner came to find Rienzi “quite repugnant,” but Gustav Mahler characterized it as nothing less than “the greatest musical drama ever composed.” Read more …

Published: March 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, classical music, Cola di Rienzi, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, opera, originals, Philipp Stölzl, Richard Wagner, Rienzi | Comments closed

Bowie’s Blackstar

1,488 words

David Bowie
Blackstar
Columbia, 2016

Blackstar will inevitably serve as Bowie’s last will and testament whether he meant it to or not. Certainly the writing of much of the material would have preceded his awareness of his terminal illness and his confrontation with imminent death. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blackstar, Christopher Pankhurst, David Bowie, North American New Right, originals, popular music | Comments closed

New Order’s Music Complete

777 words

“What can you buy, that lifts a heavy heart up to the sky?” This question, the opening words of New Order’s Music Complete, is meant to be rhetorical. But there’s a straightforward and rather obvious answer: you can buy Music Complete itself, one of New Order’s most joyous and compelling creations.

Published: October 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Greg Johnson, Joy Division, Music Complete, New Order, North American New Right, originals, Peter Hook, popular music, post-punk | Comments closed

Suicide & Obscurity:
A Very Brief Introduction to Oswald Kabasta & Franz Berwald

Donald Thoresen

2,937 words

Carl Eldh, Berwald, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, 2011

On February 6, 1946, the Austrian conductor Oswald Kabasta “wrote a poignant letter . . . to the Mayor of Munich, thanking the orchestra and audience for their great enthusiasm and loyalty, Read more …

Published: July 30, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, de-Nazification, Donald Thoresen, Franz Berwald, Franz Schubert, National Socialism, North American New Right, occupied Germany, originals, Oswald Kabasta | Comments closed

The New, Weird Britain:
Some Reflections on Colin Liddell’s “Sympathy for Their Satanic Majesties”

James J. O'Meara

1,593 words

I’m very happy to take WN’s suggestion and add a few words to Mr. Colin Liddell’s excellent article on the Rolling Stones’ classic Their Satanic Majesties Request — which I was glad to see since, for some reason, I seem to have not done Satanic Majesties justice in my own past ruminations, although on reflection, inspired by Mr. Liddell, it seems to have a large enough role. Read more …

Published: February 27, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, blues, Bob Dylan, British identity, Colin Liddell, Donovan, England, folk music, James J. O'Meara, Led Zeppelin, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Animals, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request | Comments closed

Sympathy for Their Satanic Majesties

Colin Liddell

1,908 words

Their Satanic Majesties Request is, to my mind, the most British and therefore the most authentic of all Rolling Stones albums. Their characteristic hard-driving blues is put on the back-burner and suffused through a veil of psychedelia and English whimsy with which the band were seldom associated.

Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn

Kate Bush, 2014

2,447 words

Outside London’s Eventim Apollo the sign reads: “The KT Fellowship Presents: Before the Dawn: Sold Out” There is no mention of the name Kate Bush, but it fools nobody because news of her return to live performance has been so high profile and has often spilled over into hysteria. The conceit of anonymity is only part of the story. Before she had released a record, Bush played a series of gigs at various London pubs as part of the KT Bush band. The KT Fellowship sounds like a nostalgic throwback to such carefree times before she had even thought of the Tour of Life. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Before the Dawn, Christopher Pankhurst, concert reviews, Kate Bush, North American New Right, originals, popular music | Comments closed

Death in June in New York City

800 words

Recently my new nomadic, couch-surfing existence took me to New York City, where I saw Death in June on Saturday, May 31 at Webster Hall in the Village. (In case you were wondering, I was the white guy dressed in black.) Read more …

Published: June 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Death in June, Greg Johnson, implicit whiteness, neo-folk music, North American New Right, originals, popular music | Comments closed

Laibach’s Spectre

Colin Liddell

1,111 words

Laibach
Spectre
Mute, 2014

There have always been doubts about just who Laibach are and what they are up to. First who are they? The band is a collective so it is never too clear where “who” ends, Read more …

Published: March 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Colin Liddell, industrial music, Laibach, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Spectre | Comments closed

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

James MacMillan

1,457 words

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is an orchestral work by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. It was premiered at the 1990 BBC Proms where it drew instant and enduring acclaim. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, James MacMillan, North American New Right, originals, paganism, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, witchcraft | Comments closed

Death in June in San Francisco

1,030 words

It was one of those clubs where you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry, and you want to die. But Death in June was playing there, and I had never seen them in concert. So I decided to temporarily interrupt my exile from California (roughing it in Jackson Hole) and descend again to the sinful cities of the plain.

I very much enjoyed seeing Death in June live. Read more …

Published: September 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Death in June, Douglas Pearce, Greg Johnson, neo-folk music, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

Black Metal:
Revolución Conservadora en la cultura popular moderna

Alex Kurtagić

6,454 words

Traducido por S. Vera

English original here

Desde el punto de vista del nacionalismo racial, el género musical conocido como Black Metal es uno de los fenómenos más significativos en la cultura popular moderna de las últimas dos décadas. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, anti-modernism, articles, Black Metal, Heavy Metal, in Spanish, in translation, National Socialism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, the Conservative Revolution, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | Comments closed

Fire & Ice’s Fractured Man

1,047 words

Insofar as Fire and Ice’s music can be described as “folk” it is the folk music of the ancient skalds and scops, far antecedent to the recent folk revival even if elements of tradition are latently present in that revival. Insofar as it is “gothic” music it is so in the sense described by Edred Thorsson in “The Secret of the Gothick God of Darkness” — Read more …

Published: February 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asatru, Death in June, Fire and Ice, Fractured Man, Goth music, Ian Read, neo-folk music, neo-paganism, neopaganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, popular music, Rudyard Kipling | Comments closed

Dead Can Dance, Berkeley, August 12, 2012

1,081 words

After we had dinner at Jupiter pizza, our Sikh cab driver deposited us outside the Greek Theatre in the Berkeley hills. We spread a blanket high on the lawn and looked out past the campanile on the Cal campus, watching our home town across the bay slowly submerging in a sea of fog. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 4AD, article, Dead Can Dance, Goth music, Greg Johnson, implicit whiteness, North American New Right, originals, popular music | Comments closed

Video of the Day
Jerome Deppe, “Dead Horses”/Review of Songs of Love, Hate, & Fear

time: 3:30 / 158 words

Published: August 10, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged Greg Johnson, Jerome Deppe, neo-folk music, originals, popular music, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

Rammstein’s “Amerika”

Rammstein drummer Christoph Schneider plants Old Glory on the next planet over

1,254 words

In 2004, the German “New Hard Rock” band Rammstein released their fourth and greatest album, Reise Reise (Arise, Arise). The second single from Reise, Reise is “Amerika,” which was released on September 13, 2004 and immediately leaped into the top 10 charts across Europe. The video of “Amerika,” directed by Jörn Heitmann, was filmed August 6–7, 2004 at a ruined cement factory near Berlin.

Published: February 22, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American imperialism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Laibach, nationalism, North American New Right, popular music, Rammstein, videos | Comments closed

Rammstein’s “Stripped” & “Links 2-3-4” Videos

2,236 words

The “Stripped” Video

In 1998, the German hard rock band Rammstein covered “Stripped” (1986), by the English electronic/New Wave band Depeche Mode, for a Depeche Mode tribute album called For the Masses (1998). Later pressings of Rammstein’s second disc Sehnsucht (Longing) include “Stripped” at the end as a “hidden” track, i.e., it is not listed on the cover. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Claire Berlinski, Depeche Mode, German Nationalism, Greg Johnson, Leni Riefenstahl, Links 2-3-4, music reivews, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, Rammstein, Richard Kruspe, Stripped, the Third Reich, Till Lindemann, Triumph of the Will, videos | Comments closed

Rammstein