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Black Metal ist Klassenkrieg​!​!​!

by Antifascist Black Metal Network

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    Gildan Heavy Cotton t-shirts with Petit Metalleux's design on the front and the ABMN logo on the back. Red print on white t-shirt, printed with eco water-based inks.


    This will be a LIMITED RUN - we'll keep a pre-order open for about a month, produce the materials, and then they're gone!
    We'll try to keep shipping costs to a minimum by having different printing locations and shipping nodes in various parts of the world, taking advantage of being a transnational collective.

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A howl slits my throat This profound sorrow gets vivid Unfolding into tragic forms Overwhelming me I’m becoming one With the cold anguish I’m becoming one Drowning in eternal grief As a candle burning out Everything fades away In the gloom of an endless night Obscure shadows reign the mind Can’t evade this heavy mist I shall fall in abysmal ruin And all will come to decay I’m becoming one With the cold anguish I’m becoming one Drowning in eternal grief As a candle burning out in the gloom of an endless night Everything will decay Decay
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THUS FAR AND NO FURTHER: ONE SKYSCRAPER SETS THE LIMIT THE ELEVATOR'S CROWDED SICK WITH FUCKING STARVING FRAGMENTED MONOLITH NO ONE CAN SEE ITS ENTIRETY TANGLED ROOTS AND RUSTING STEEL HIDDEN WATCHERS PEER DOWN ON ME WHEN WILL THESE TOWERS FALL? THEY WILL BE HERE LONG AFTER US POWER FLOWS TO WICKEDNESS CAN WE INTERCEPT AND REMAIN UNCHANGED?
3.
El Roble Que Brota Indemne ¡En su savia recuerda! En Guernica hay un árbol, es sagrado y no arde La cuna del pueblo vasco, protegida por un roble Las bombas y las llamas, abrasaron a nuestra gente Perdonaron las colinas, sigue hirviendo nuestra sangre Guernica, Nubes de Aluminio Amenazan con exterminio Guernica, Escombros y cenizas Estela de mil heridas Las raíces incombustibles del roble Reaniman una horrenda memoria: Calcinados recuerdos insufribles De un pasado nebuloso sin gloria El roble de Guernica, En su savia recuerda Los vientos de Alemania Las mentiras de Salamanca. Guernica, Tu barro, triste musa Ladrillo de nuestra lucha En Guernica hay un árbol, atávico, endurecido A su gente ve morir, bajo lluvias del infierno Su musgo y su corteza le protegen del Averno Sobreviviente del bombardeo, ¡sigue vivo vuestro recuerdo!
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Swallowed whole By the beast We're the feast Thousand years We must pay We must stay Flooding from above Beings from other worlds Stolen from their lives To feed one parasite Slowly fed, nothing left Robbed of their fate From this I must escape In the dark I slash blind Cut inside The stench, so pungent I retch, still lurching Gagging on the fumes Searching for a light Hacking with my blade The wound makes my way Tumbling, white hot fire Acid, scorching pain I am out at a price My world, my life, gone The fiend lives, unscathed Feeding, ravenous I will be back And it will die With one or ten thousand, many This monster will be buried
5.
Es verbrennt sich doch erwärmt sich nicht Zitternde Hände zerreiben die Patina lagern den Staub um ordnen die Trümmer sammeln die Scherben kratzen an dem Firmament Es verbrennt sich dennoch erkaltet es Es verbrennt sich dennoch spürt es nichts Es verendet, lebt ab Es verwittert, stirbt ab Es verfällt gen Himmel stürzt sich hinauf will im Äther verglühen doch regnet herab Durch Partikelgewitter, durch Wolkenbruch Schlägt auf den Boden, wird Sediment Versandet und sinkt Verhärtet, gefriert Im Zwang nach unten zum Erdkern hinab Es versengt sich Es verbrennt sich Es verglüht doch gefriert
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As my soul and body broke their chains My childish wonderment has returned I travel in the endless seas of creativity My eyesight cuts through the fabric of the world To reveal the invisible dance within A multitude of entities and potentialities And I rage, because the sights I witness Do not reflect the order of the world Taught by the sages and kept by the sentinels Which I've been told is built upon them I sing then the song of Heresy It cuts through earth and skies in blasphemy All those who know but dare not speak Have gathered on my court And each of them has brought a stone For me to build a tower up so high To study the Arts and write a new decree To reveal the true Order to the world Sheltered and guarded by my faithful ones, I did Furiously I worked, to majestic spiritual heights Who waited of my guidance to wage revolt And great victories they had, bringing down false towers As mine grew larger and larger Until the eyes burned from the Sun Of anyone who tried to look at the top And my voice came down frail and blurry Translated to the people by the elders Who did not want to recognize the subtle shifts in tone And the dire warnings that turned to bloody curses Curse to you all men who seek for kings and sages! You will raise them to sky to turn them into relics To convince yourself there's someone Who won't ever fail you Your order will never be eternal But only eternally Everchanging Ι smite your crumbled thrones And spit at your baseless pride
7.
Retribution has been served No more do we suffer the world of old The flame extinguished The world of ash has been reborn Hidden beneath the crumbled brick and mortar There is one Chosen by the sages of old Freed from mindless philosophy Constructed to surpass newly found fealty The devotion to endure this new life To carry the hollow shell into the new light For darkness will carry us, light will guide us
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Carregas dentro de ti a morte, és túmulo vivo. Putrescencia de seus desejos Subjugando vidas Carcaça-maquinario de morte Caprichos em nome de uma vaidade escravista Esvair vidas por caprichos Seu interior é podre Mesquinho, vil Funesta vaidade Funesto desejo Desejas a vida sabotando vidas Amargo e rançoso, é seu espírito Corpo cemitério Corpo moldado em tortura Consome-te a sanidade Degrada-se em penitências Assoma o mundo com sua tirania Apodreça no seu ego Causas doença ao mundo Moldas um mundo de consumo Provocas dor Provocas o câncer Campo de concentração Travestidos de necessidades Não há culpa quando se camufla o crime You carry death within, a living tomb. Putrescence of your desires Subjugating Lives Carcass, machinery of death Caprices in the name of a slave vanity Empty lives by whims Its core is rotten Petty Dismal vanity Funeral desire You desire life by sabotaging life Bitter and rancid is your spirit Cemetery body A body wrought by torture Consumes your sanity Degrades in penances Take on the world with your tyranny Rot in your ego Causes disease to the world Shapes a world of consumption You cause pain You cause cancer Concentration camps disguises as necessity There is no guilt when the crime is camouflaged
11.
Come and see me at my worst And I will show you what’s beneath Come and see me come consume me Come and burn me from the inside Pray for midnight pray for sunrise Pray for the end of time Consequences follow me The blood in me begins to freeze Guide the blade Stay inside the lines A gut wrenching sound A gut wrenching sound A soul numbing feeling These days are eternal These days shatter me White knuckle grip on my heart Watch me pray in vain A gut wrenching sound A soul numbing feeling These days are eternal These days shatter me Come and see me at my worst And I will show you what’s beneath Come and see me come consume me Come and burn me from the inside My lungs fill with smoke My eyes begin to burn White knuckle grip on my heart Watch me pray in vain
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The blood-curdling hatred In those dead scarlet eyes His form: a serene menace Clad in black Here lies the corpse of Dracula His rest so preternatural Unlidded Eyes of Scarlet The Transylvanian Sadist The eerie stillness of his pale flesh Deathless hunger lies in wait The setting cold sun A paean of his reanimation Here lies the corpse of Dracula His rest so preternatural Black pupils cold as onyx The Transylvanian Sadist ... Cultum Draculesti!
14.
Behold, this is it, Will I survive, This feeling, So hopeless, Why lay down, For outdated structures. I deem blood as payment, For the fallen, Alone, I am. Image of lies, Poisons the mind, Masks ghosts of their past, I see the truth, A coffin left to burn, Don't leave me here. Hard to lose, Scent of their crimes, Habits die hard, Let them go, And we will suffer, We will be punished. Rising apologies, Linger in the cycle, No longer able, To forgive your sins.

about

When we created the Antifascist Black Metal Network, we were fed up with how fascism, racism, LGBTQIA+phobia, sexism, ableism and other oppressions were pervasive in black metal and wanted to do something about it. Our first objective was to create a space in which leftist artists could publish their music without helping platform questionable ideologies and musicians, and our YT channel is gradually becoming a reference in that - at the time this text is being written, we have already uploaded bands from 24 different countries, with a lot more to follow.

However, we also wanted to fight fascism and stand for the exploited and oppressed in realms other than black metal, bridging fans and musicians of our beloved style and the struggle in reality. We are a collective of 20+ people of differing opinions and political lines, but some things are consensual, and one of them is helping the politically persecuted - those attacked with law, police and prison by the State of the ruling classes and its institutions for standing up for their communities. So this compilation, the first in what we hope is be a long sequence, is an opportunity for us to promote some of the bands that we uploaded, newer ones especially, but also to gather money to support two groups that are currently being targeted for their social activism.

One of them is Mexicali Resiste, a movement in Baja California, northern Mexico, that fights against the attempts at the takeover of the region's water by US brewery Constellation Brands. MR organized marches, encampments and boycotts against the privatization of the already strained Colorado River, suffered savage police repression and absurd charges, and after years of struggle were successful in pressuring Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to cancel the company's construction and water permits. In retaliation, the State Congress has decided to again sue the activists with slanderous charges.

The other people we want to help are three anarchists from Italy, Beppe, Robert and Natascia, who were the target of a police operation, "Operation Prometeo", and accused of terrorism. They were kept under arrest for years, suffering arbitrary transfers from one of the peninsula's prisons to another. The comrades were finally acquitted, but are now saddled with heavy debt due to defence costs, etc, much like Mexicali Resiste.

The tracklist is a small sample of bands that we have promoted here in these past months. Things begin very melodically with Nachtschwarz, Prosperity Gospel, Etxegiña and Tyrannus before going into an almost DSBM and atmospheric break with Kluizenaer, Spectral Lore and Grat Strigoi. The second half jumps to a rawer melodic line as Tumultuous Ruin, Winter Lantern, and Sofrimento say their parts, before shifting to a higher, at times epic tone with Bring Forth the Exodus, Lerna, Cultum Draculesti and closing with Iravu.

In this compilation, we have modern music and old-school music, bands with LGBTQI+ and POC musicians, hailing from three different continents. This is not a coincidence, as we obviously believe black metal must be open to diversity, but we also believe our genre must take a side in the struggle against capitalism, which is the side of the oppressed sectors, but also of the exploited classes, without reductionism; thus, "Black Metal Ist Klassenkrieg!!!" is a statement in itself, as well as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a phrase well-known in black metal.
Understand that all of this, involved in the beautiful art of our resident Le Petit Metalleux Illustré, is only the beginning: we have come to take fire and frostbitten hell to fascism, capitalism and oppression of any kind.

Beware, o Nazis north and south, for our maces shall soon find thine skulls!

credits

released January 7, 2022

All credits to each band

Thanks to YOU and through the 'Black Metal ist Klassenkrieg!!!' compilation, ABMN has donated to...

Mexicali Resiste: a movement in Baja California, northern Mexico, that fights against the attempts at the takeover of the region's water by US brewery Constellation Brands.
www.facebook.com/mexicaliresiste

"Operation Prometeo", three Italian anarchists who were kept under arrest for years accused of terrorism. malacoda.noblogs.org/post/tag/operazione-prometeo/

Alfredo Cospito: an Italian anarchist isolated and tortured under the Italian state's 41-bis prison regime, in violation of his human rights to a fair trial, private life and correspondence. anarchistnews.org/content/alfredo-cospito-i-am-ready-die

MECA, Middle East Children's Alliance, emergency support to Gaza: www.mecaforpeace.org

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