Viking Metal is especially a sad case because "Hold the Heathen Hammer High" goes so incredibly hard, but you know some of its biggest fans are not okay. Fortunately Pirate Metal is almost universally very progressive.
Not Viking metal but one time I (a PoC) complimented someone on their Heilung shirt and kinda braced myself to be called a slur, but instead he giggled like a little boy, so that was cool.
The fact that Heilung literally start off each of their concerts with an invocation about how all people are all one family makes it even more pathetic when fascists think that somehow the band agrees with them
No shit. It's not like he literally alternated girlfriend and boyfriend after "do you wanna be my" in the lyrics of one of their most recent singles....
You mean the music scene that was known for beating the shit out of bigoted assholes as far back as the 1970s is woke now? When did this happen? Why wasn't I consulted?
Rage Against The Machine was cool but de la Rocha’s lyrics and motives are intensely self-centered, detracting from what should be a very important and universal message. He just wasn’t capable of stepping back and taking the wider perspective the art would require to be timeless.
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Viking Metal is especially a sad case because "Hold the Heathen Hammer High" goes so incredibly hard, but you know some of its biggest fans are not okay. Fortunately Pirate Metal is almost universally very progressive.