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Daily Archives Wednesday, January 2008

Racism in Metal: The current state, and its philosophical underpinnings

In fact, in The Intelligence Report from the Southern Poverty Law Foundation, has revealed how hate groups often use Hate Rock (as they call it) strategically to market their racist organizations and agendas.

…Some links to actual albums (the music covers every possible genre, but it’s the metal and hardcore strains that frighten me most, given their violent and alienated nature and audience): Some offerings from the National Vanguard (now disbanded) bookstore (still running) Metal @ Resistance Records NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) @ Resistance Records

Posted 09 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction ‡ Comments (43) ° Tagged: ,

The Steppe at Night

I stood outside the doorway to our ger, toothbrush hanging from my mouth…. Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars.

Posted 09 January 2008 † Yuletide § Shorts ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Beginnings of a Metal Manifesto: The Buddhist Connection

If a being is wrathful on the outside and also angry in its heart, then it is a real monster — not a Buddha.

…And how it will be about Metal (as in, Heavy Metal) and Buddhism (as in om mani padme hum).

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