In any case, I think the left is too anti-nationalistic to really fit the mold of a totalitarian state. Orwell did already warn us about this, in the future, now, totalitarianism will come from the left, not the right. They even played a show named Hot Showers in Italy and that had a the word "fascist" in Italian on it. I personaly agree that Graveland's affiliations with the NSBM scene are quite obvious.
Now did the Antifa have the right and good reasons to protest at that show? I'm pretty sure they did. That obviously didn't satisfy the antifa, so these kids came when there was only 8 or 10 people in line and threatened them and physically attacked them when they had the upper hand in terms of number, and started chanting their typical victim chants when the police stopped them from hurting people who were calmly waiting in line. references to "the white hand" seriously doesn't count.) and that they didn't promote political ideas during the show, then Sepulchral didn't care. So Sepulchral chose to play the "apolitical card" and argue that they didn't care about what the musicians thought as individuals, and that as long as it wasn't racist content in terms of lyrics (and apart from one reference to a swastika, I don't know what Graveland have in their lyrics that could be considered racist. But Graveland are popular and would have brought in a lot of people. Sepulchral shouldn't have booked Graveland. Someone covered the Inquisition shit up there very well and Hellhammer does have a reputation of douchery (and his drum tech is supposedly a full-blown skinhead). Graveland got targeted because of lyrics that would take some serious mental gymnastics to say aren't white supremacist, releasing music on known white supremacist labels, performing at shows with the word fascist ON THE FUCKING POSTER, and throwing the sieg heil in an album booklet. Taake was targeted because their singer has performed with swastikas painted on his body and made comments about Muslims that I won't repeat because I don't participate in hate speech.
While I don't agree with their methods and I'd agree they are huge hypocrites for censoring people, they don't pick shows at random (that I know of).
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