And, frankly, I would never deprive myself of creative work I enjoyed based on views held by the creator that aren't present to me in the work itself. It might make me less likely to check someone out, or less open to their work, but if something I already enjoy… I generally don't care if someone who creates something…

Haha, yeah, telling people to maybe look a bit further than the first article they read on the internet is so stupid.

Well, the Death in June one I know, 'cause it's on What Ends When the Symbols Shatter. I wouldn't have noticed any lyric changes, because I haven't heard the Jones' stuff. Which I guess I'll have to check out now. Pity him in Manson couldn't have done some sort of Battle of the Bands thing. Just heard the Ladytron…

I don't know what you're listening to, but I listen to a whole lot of sludge and black metal and it's all ugly and ugly views. Not to mention death and grind, and who knows what else I don't even know about. Not sure if that was a poor choice of words on your part, but metal would most certainly not be "stronger"…

Haha, I actually came across an old Ladytron CD-R a few days ago. Haven't listened to it yet (it's been a long ass time) That's an odd choice for a cover for sure, but just judging from the record I have, DIJ, or Pearce, write good songs. Although, I guess Jones is at least partially responsible for that one.

Haha, yeah, well Milo might have muddied the waters a bit with that argument. But, yeah, you should really have a clear-cut case before making those kinds of allegations. A lot of people aren't familiar or comfortable with subversive-type stuff to begin with, and moral condemnation is cheap and easy. We're kind of at…

And I don't have to take it seriously if you're a media site that covers music, but completely ignores metal except to talk shit about it. This dude's telling metalheads they need to kick the racists out of their scene? No, that IS something you need to earn. The metal fanbase is not quite as open to outside (and from…

Cool, I'll take you word for it.

Well, hopefully Lemmy didn't put too much thought into it either. I mean, I suspect it was a "looks cool" thing rather than some well-thought out identification with the whole thing. Maybe you missed my joke or I missed yours. Hard to say!

It's yet another article from a site that doesn't otherwise cover metal, zeroing in on a fringe element and covering it in a sensationalistic manner. That's what I'm commenting on. Was that not clear? And the reason I "came here" was to read the review and comments on an episode of Bojack Horseman I just watched. As I…

Actually, I'm a little more familiar with them than I realized. I know their record "What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?" quite well. I didn't know anything about them being Nazis when I got that, and I didn't know anything about them being Nazis after a couple dozen listens. The whole record's on YT, I suggest these…

There've been plenty of things/groups, etc, that have turned up on SPLC's site, and generally people don't actually read what they have to say (I can't seem to find DIJ on their site for whatever reason), but it shows up in headlines, people read headlines, and if SPLC covers anything in any manner, it's now Nazi,…

Did you only read the last sentence of my comment? Do you actually know any more about what this band is about than the guy I was addressing? And exactly how many of you are there?

That's… that's your contribution to the conversation?

The paragraph that ends the piece with "wouldn’t it be nice if they could pick up a record about death, violence, and apocalyptic doom without also worrying they’re supporting a bunch of racists?" Which, I think, directly illustrates the absurdity at play here. Yeah, this is music that deals in extraordinarily ugly,…

"I don't know if the band in question is metal"

I'm delighted to see some pushback on this, because I really seemed to be the only one concerned with the recent piece on the Slayer/snowflake thing, which felt pretty ill-informed to me. Guess that wasn't quite blatant enough :/

Oh, man. Glad I'm not the only one. It's bizarre.

And no mention of Lemmy Kilmister!? (Don't worry, I didn't read, just F5'd). Do an image search, dude was a full-on Nazi!

So… we're covering Metal now? Or is this more of a Nazi thing? You guys seem to have a severe blind spot when it comes to metal (look at any of your 'top records of the year' lists), This article is absolutely irrelevant to me, other than it being extraordinarily disappointing that the one article you publish about…