A Long Island Record Shop Selling Neo-Nazi Merch Gets Das Boot
“The Heretic’s Crypt,” the flyer reads in gothic script. “Long Island’s most extreme brick & mortar record store in over a decade! Specializing in underground metal, and whatever else we feel like!”
A death metal vinyl shop huddled in the corner of a cute antique store in Patchogue? For some of the metalheads in the area, this was a talker. The South Shore of Long Island is not exactly blast-beat country.
But when two locals showed up to score some records last week, they found that the underground metal on offer included a lot of neo-Nazi records and the “whatever else” included white nationalist band T-shirts.
“We start leafing through everything, and about a quarter of the way through the first box, it became really apparent that the only thing they were selling was National Socialist black metal [NSBM],” said one of the two, who asked that HuffPost withhold their names for fear of harassment. “There were scatterings of bands that weren’t associated, but the vast majority was the very sketchy Nazi-related stuff. It was disgusting.”
Each offending item, they said, was instantly recognizable as belonging to fringe neo-Nazi bands or other groups not tolerated in polite metal circles. In photos of the T-shirts and records and in the owners’ social media profiles, neo-Nazi iconography abounds — wolf’s hooks, black sunwheels, the hammer and sword, “everything short of a swastika.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/long-island-record-shop-neo-nazi-merchandise_us_5ae9bdaee4b022f71a03dd5a
Excellent. Fuck Nazis!
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Only knew of the term when I read the op. I need to get out of my little world, I guess.
that features ridiculously fast drumming (“blast beats”), tremolo picking (think of an almost Dick Dale/surf music guitar style, but heavily distorted and played even faster) and shrieking, raw, often distant vocals. And I mean RAW, like someone having their throat ripped out by a wolf in a snowy forest at midnight under a full moon. 
Black metal bands often wear “corpse paint” and have a very theatrical stage presence to further the thematic elements of the music, which usually deals with mythological or Satanic messages.
There are a bunch of sub-genres in black metal as well, like symphonic black metal or suicidal/depressive black metal (SDBM). Sadly there’s also the afore-mentioned National Socialist Black Metal assholes.
Come on, Initech, don't play with my mind like that! 
"Each offending item, they said, was instantly recognizable as belonging to fringe neo-Nazi bands or other groups not tolerated in polite metal circles."
