Red & Anarchist Black Metal [and much more!]: Black Bloc

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Black Bloc - "No Innocent Civilians" (2010)

BLACK BLOC "No Innocent Civilians"

Year: 2010
Genre: Power Electronics / Noise
Country: USA

Track List:

White Torture
Just Beyond Those Street Lights There Lies A Dead End Road
No Innocent Civilians

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From our forum:

"Black Bloc is a death ambient/heavy electronics project I do that is overtly radical, with leaning toward anarcho-primitivism. Lyrics dealing with things such as sexual abuse, mental health issues, the nature of imperialism, psychological warfare and other stuff. I try to make things more personal than just the normal "smash the state" rhetoric bands always use.

This new album has just been put up online. 90 minutes, 3 songs that have taken shape over the last year and some weeks or months. The archive comes packed with full lyrics and thoughts about the topics discussed. A physical release by the end of the year will have a double cd, and 16 page zine full of collages, artwork, lyrics and essays"

In the next few days I'll post some more noisy stuff (I dunno if you like it or not, though), as well as some BM. Stay tuned!

9 comments :

UnknownJune 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Great posts these days! I have nothing against the more crust-oriented stuff but I do prefer more BM and industrial works. I'm specially happy about the Militia stuff because I "lost" my album at a party some time ago. Rome - maybe my favourite band these days - is getting more and more singer-songwriter-like with every release, but it's stil great. and I find it refreshig to have anarchist lyrics written in a high-standard poetical way more than the ususal punk in-your-face words... Another great NeoFolk project is Sieben from the UK. They are not a political band but Matt Howden says in the lyrics of "Rite against the Right": "... Using symbols to shock because your music is cock". He speaks of the nazi and nazi-looking idiots in the industrial scene.
Another great band is Eldar (now in Cold Meat Industry) from Barcelona. They do their own brand of Martial Industrial. I would not say that they are really an Antifa band but they tematized the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in the past, and did it from the side of the loosers. They also used images of political and war propaganda. Some people thought it was right-winged but all their images came from the CNT-AIT and different left-winged organisations. They also used the Internationalist star as a logo for a while. These guya are good friends of mine and I don't think they would like to see their music online to download for free...
Sorry for such a long comment. One last thing:
I did some anarchist industrial with a friend some years ago. We were called "Café Ulbricht" and did an album. We never wanted to release it properly because noone should pay or recieve money for it, not even in a no profit way... Feel free to take a look at:
http://cafe-ulbricht.brakeless.de/
It would be an honour to have it posted in your blog :) ... Love what you do. Greetings from Germany
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moonbowJune 18, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Hellish Greetz from Germany - I have no other way to contact you, so I just write an Comment - I would be interested in producing a Sampler with you - you have already made the great compilation on youtube about RnABM Bands and I have some experience with underground releases and compilations... so if you are interested (and also generellay to get into contact with me), write please an E-Mail: agony_or_lust@gmx.de

Greetz - moonbow
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Axis Sallyboy X.June 25, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Greetings my niggaz!!!!

would like to check out this record 4 sho'!!!

too bad I don't know what the fuck an "rar" file is or how to fuckin' open one. :(

Regardless, Hail Satan my niggaz and may the foulest of curses fall upon mankind: PEACE!!!!

P.S.--really digging this blog. RABM is the bomb-diggity-bobo 4 real!!!!
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AnonymousJuly 1, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Open with winrar which you can obtain free on the web.
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AnonymousJuly 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM
http://r-a-b-m.blogspot.com/2010/05/sentence-war-2002.html#comments
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AnonymousJuly 12, 2010 at 2:05 AM
http://www.wakingthedead.eshop-zdarma.cz/index.php?s=product&id=146
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B.K.July 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM
moonbow: sorry, but I can't send you anything... looks like you gave me the wrong e-mail :(

"The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please
double-check the recipient's email address for errors and try again.

: host mx0.gmx.net[213.165.64.100] said: 550 5.1.1
... User is unknown {mx008} (in reply to RCPT TO command)"
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AnonymousMay 15, 2014 at 4:25 PM
Реанимируйте ссыль, камерады, если есть такая возможность. Заочно признателен
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About the blog

After many years of activity, this blog is now put on hold since the majority of contributors have a lot of other important stuff going on in their lives. New music submissions should go to /r/RABM/ (note that the mods of /r/RABM/ don't have anything to do with this blog).

Most of the uploads here are band sanctioned. Anyway, if you for some reason don't want to see your music here, contact us using rabm (AT) gmx (DOT) com, and we'll consider taking it down.

Bottom note: there's probably a lot of broken English on this blog, since English isn't the first language for many of the contributors.

FAQ

Q.: Which kinds of music are featured on this blog?

A.: - (primarily) RABM or Red & Anarchist Black Metal: all kinds of black metal-related music charged with radical leftist (anarchist, libertarian socialist, eco-anarchist, etc.) political views. Some of the bands featured here may be not openly political, but all of them are RABM-friendly;

- blackened crust/hardcore/punk (only if it's openly RABM-friendly, or if it's just very good music; we have no intention to collect here all the blackened punk in existence);

- other kinds of political (anarchist, socialist, etc.) metal - death, thrash, post-metal, etc.;

- dark ambient, neofolk, industrial, dark electro, etc. - but only if it has some RABM-friendly ideology;

- regular punk/hardcore/crust, post-rock, conscious hip-hop, etc. - but only as a rare exception (so if you want to send us a demo in one of these genres, you're probably in the wrong place).

Q.: What are some RABM/blackened crust bands to start listening from?

A.: Here's an old compilation which I (B.K.) made in late 2009. Doesn't include a lot of good RABM bands that I didn't know of back then, but still recommended if you're new to RABM:

Check out this list as well, or this one.

Q.: How can I support a particular RABM band with my money?

A.: Most bands nowadays have a bandcamp page, where you can but their stuff online (usually for an arbitrary price). It's the most convinient way to support the band. If your favourite band don't have a bandcamp or bigcartel page, try to find out in which distro you can find their albums/merch. Of course, go to concerts if you have such opportunity.

Q.: How can I offer my financial support to this blog, or the RABM movement in general?

A.: Unfortunately right we don't have an opportunity to accept donations, but we hope we'll be able to set it up soon.

Q.: What is the connection between black metal and hardcore/punk/crust?

A.: It's a well-established fact that the connection between black metal and punk scenes existed since the early days of BM (think Venom, early Bathory, early Mayhem and early Sodom on one side, and Amebix, Discharge and Axegrinder on another). Recently this mix of BM and hardcore punk got a new life in the form of blackened crust (thanks to Black Kronstadt / Iskra in first place). And don't forget about Cascadian black metal bands with their radical environmentalist ideology, often to the extent of radical eco-anarchism or "pro-nature/anti-humanity" ideas.

Q.: What's your main ideology?

A.: This blog is generally written from a position of anarchism without adjectives; however, the RABM scene is very diverse ideologically. Let us end on this, as this blog isn't quite a right place for purely political debates; if you want to learn or argue about anarchism/other ideologies, there's a lot of specialized FAQs/blogs/forums for you.

Q.: Isn't black metal supposed to be apolitical?

A.: Supposed by whom? I personally don't think so, but if you think that political awareness should have no place in "true" black metal, you can feel free to call the bands featured on here "blackened punk" or whatever you want. It should be noted, though, that a lot of these bands doesn't openly talk about politics in their lyrics, exactly because they think it wouldn't be suitable for black metal. - B.K.

Q.: Isn't RABM just an "answer" to NSBM?

A.: While RABM is definitely against NSBM and any other kind of far-right crap in metal scene, it's most emphatically a self-sufficient movement and not any kind of "answer to NSBM". Similarly, while RABM is 100% pro liberation from any kinds of religious tyranny, it isn't a movement against any particular religion (Christianity, Islam, or any other).

Q.: What's your opinion on Satanism?

A.: The so-called "Hollywood Satanism", which is often found in black metal, is, in our opinion, nothing more than inverted Christianity, so we aren't big on it. Many of us are simply atheists, pagans of all kinds, gnostics, etc. We also don't share the notion that only genuine theistic Satanists / Devil-worshippers can play "real" black metal (this would exclude such bands as Venom, Bathory, Immortal, Summoning, and many many others). Additionally, the very term "Satanism" is quite vague, and can't be narrowed down to LaVeyan Satanism (which is heavily disliked by many black metallers), or whatever else. LaVey had some good points, but in general his philosophy can be described just as "Ayn Rand with some occult tinge".

Q.: What about misanthropy and nihilism?

A.: To put it in short: we don't hate everyone and everything (and we don't think there's anyone who truly does). We just hate these traits of humanity which make true anarchist society most likely infeasible in the foreseeable future.

Q.: Collectivism or individualism?

A.: There actually is no "hard" contradiction between these two terms. Individualism is simply an outlook emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and its right not to be oppressed by the state or some social group. It doesn't contradict at all with standing up for your rights along with a group of like-minded individuals. It also worth noting that the early black metal scene didn't promote individualism that much (see "black metal circles").

Q.: Who coined the term "RABM"?

A.: Hard to say, but there's an apparent similarity to RASH ("Red & Anarchist Skinheads"). Here's the very first mention of "RABM" we could find (August 2005). The term was popularized by our last.fm group (and later - by this blog) since 2009.

Q.: Do you know the ideology of the band X? It isn't obvious if they're NSBM or not...

A.: Sorry, we don't know, do your own research. It's often hard to say anything certain about a band's views, if the members themselves aren't open about it. We also don't advice using various "lists of nazi bands" etc. as a reference, as most of them are full of bullshit. Similarly, forum posts or blog comments (especially anonymous ones) generally aren't a reliable source for anything. In one particular case, we had an anonymous comment claiming that the members of Timebomb are now playing in a fascist band called SPQR. Later it turned out that it were members of a completely other Italian band with a similar name (Timebombs). Hopefully that'd be a good example of how important fact-checking is.

Q.: I've seen some of the albums posted here in the same distro with some albums by right-leaning bands...

A.: Unfortunately it's often the case with distros and labels that distribute stuff regardless of its political affiliation. Even Austin Lunn of Panopticon complained about Pagan Flames (the label which released his "Collapse" and "Social Disservices" LPs) having NSBM in their distro, so things like these are just unavoidable.

Q.: Some bands on this blog have Burzum on their list on influences. Isn't Varg Vikernes a nazi?

A.: See a good comment on this matter here.

Q.: Can I use some materials from this blog on my site?

A.: Of course you're welcome to do so (unless otherwise is specified), as we're against copyrights.

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