So, in other words, there can only be misogyny in the Beatles if they devote an entire album to it, but Disma is a Nazi band because a decade ago, Craig Pillard was in a one off project that had a swastika in the liner notes. Like I said, good to have clarity.

Craig Pillard's side project is unambiguously national socialist. It was also like, 10 years ago, so it may very well in no way reflect his beliefs now.

Gotcha. So misogynistic violence is ok as long as it's an album cut and you really like the band. That clears things up.

Now this is a shot in the dark and I have no evidence to back it up, but I'm guessing that no one who is still grappling with their personal experience of the Holocaust has ever even so much as heard of Disma. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain I'm not.

How about you slide off that moral high horse of yours and check out the lyrics to "You Can't Do That" or "Run for your Life?"

Sure puts, "Run for Your Life" in a different light though, no?

None of the bands cited in the article sing about "killing non-whites," hence the focus on album art, artist associations, side projects and interview statements. That's not to say there aren't metal bands like that (just as there are in punk, synthwave, noise and industrial circles), but those bands are farther to…

Yeah, but the clones are terrible and the first four Burzum albums are genre landmarks; it's not a one-for-one substitution.

What happened to separating art from artist? Do I have to burn my Beatles' albums because John Lennon was a wife beater? What are we to do with art from the 19th century and before, almost all of which was created by folks who held beliefs we'd find noxious today? How are we to respond to the grotesque sexism of…