National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM)

A picture of a Canadian NSBM band. Their faces are blurred. They are holding shields and swords. Some are wearing metal t-shirts. They are all standing in front of a Nazi flag adorned with a swastika.
A Canadian National Social Black Metal band. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Metallum.

A genre of music mixing the raw distorted sound and shrieking vocals of black metal, with racist neo-Nazi lyricism. While most black metal are not racist, and despite the existence of several explicitly anti-racist bands in the scene, the genre has been plagued since its inception by a non-neglible problem with racism. In recent years, several Canadian black metal labels have faced criticism for producing and selling music made by racist and neo-Nazi bands.

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