Editing National Socialist black metal (section)

== Ideology ==
NSBM typically melds Neo-Nazi beliefs (such as [[fascism]], [[white supremacy]], [[white separatism]], [[white nationalism]], [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremism]], [[antisemitism]], [[xenophobia]], and [[ethnic separatism]], with some [[National-anarchism|National-anarchist]] tendencies and admiration of [[Adolf Hitler]]) with hostility to "foreign" religions. Bands often promote ethnic [[Europe]]an [[paganism]], [[occultism]], or [[Satanism]]. Hendrik Möbus of Absurd described Nazism as the "most perfect (and only realistic!) synthesis of Satanic/[[Luciferianism|Luciferian]] [[will to power]], elitist [[Social Darwinism]], connected to Aryan [[Germanic paganism]]".<ref>Stormblast, Nr. 2-3, 1999. Cited in: [http://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak428/31.htm ak – analyse & kritik – zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis / Nr. 428 / 8.7.1999] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416055333/http://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak428/31.htm |date=2015-04-16 }}</ref> Members of the band Der Stürmer (named after the [[Der Stürmer|antisemitic newspaper]] edited by [[Julius Streicher]]) subscribe to [[Esoteric Nazism]], leaning on the works of [[Savitri Devi]] and [[Julius Evola]].<ref name="LEGEONES">{{cite web|url=http://www.thepaganfront.com/dersturmer/interviews/LEGEONES.html|title=Der Stürmer interview published in LEGEONES magazine|access-date=29 August 2017}}</ref> Famine of [[Peste Noire]] stated in an interview that he prefers [[Italian Fascism]] instead of [[Nazism]] as an ideology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lamesnieherlequin.com/2014/07/translation-of-the-kpn-interview-for-cercle-non-conforme/,%20https://www.lamesnieherlequin.com/2014/07/translation-of-the-kpn-interview-for-cercle-non-conforme/|title=La Mesnie Herlequin » English translation of the PESTE NOIRE interview for Cercle Non Conforme|last=Cercle Non Conforme|date=July 22, 2014|others=Translated by M.D.L. and L’Atrabilaire|access-date=2020-04-09}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

=== Anti-Christianity and antisemitism ===
Typically NSBM musicians regard Christianity as a product of an alleged [[Jewish conspiracy]] to undermine the [[Aryan race]] by eliminating their ''Artglauben'' and their "original" culture.<ref name="akweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak428/31.htm|title=ak 428: Unheilige Allianz|website=www.akweb.de|access-date=29 August 2017|archive-date=16 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416055333/http://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak428/31.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> These musicians usually reject the legitimacy of [[Christianity and antisemitism|Christian antisemitism]] as well as the [[German Christians (movement)|German Christians]] movement, which celebrated and promoted Nazi ideology in the context of an unorthodox [[Christian theology|Christian theological]] framework. Hjarulv Henker of the band Der Stürmer said:
{{blockquote|I don't think that a dogma like Christianity has a place in Aryandom. There is no way to make Christianity fit into the Weltanschauung of the Aryan [[Übermensch|Overman]]. Christianity teaches humbleness, the loss of National and Racial identity, and equality, things alien to our cosmotheory. You cannot combine Jesus with characters who represent Aryan ethics. ... Christianity is Christianity and it is Jewish by its very birth and conception, a vehicle in the Jewish world domination and designed as such.<ref name="LEGEONES"/>}}

=== White supremacy ===
NSBM musicians such as Varg Vikernes of Burzum and Famine of Peste Noire have expressed a white supremacist concern about "[[Miscegenation|race mixing]]" and preserving the purity of the [[white race]] and the traditional cultures of white European nations.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/interview01.shtml|title=Interview with Varg Vikernes|last=BG|date=August 12, 2004|website=www.burzum.org|access-date=29 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/horna-finnish-metal/|title=UPDATE: DTLA Bar Cancels Far-Right Black Metal Band's Gig|last=Stuart|first=Gwynedd|date=2019-03-28|website=[[Los Angeles Magazine]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref><ref>Dyck, Kirsten, 2017. pp. 59-60.</ref> Somewhat perplexingly, NSBM has been popular in Poland and other Slavic countries, despite the fact that, historically, German Nazis viewed [[Slavs|Slavic people]] as subhuman racial inferiors and intended to eliminate them.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patterson|first=Dayal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kIxCgAAQBAJ|title=Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult|date=2013-11-25|publisher=Feral House|isbn=978-1-936239-76-4|pages=362|language=en}}</ref> This contradiction is either masked, relativized or excused as a historical mistake. A conspiracy theory says the Jews would have prevented an alliance between Nazi Germany and other Eastern European countries.<ref>Unheilige Allianzen, page 239</ref> [[Knjaz Varggoth]], singer and guitarist of the Ukrainian band [[Nokturnal Mortum]], gives the following explanation for the contradiction: "Goruth of the Russian band Temnozor sees the Slavs and Germans as a part of a [[Hyperborea]]n Aryan race and nowadays differing due to its degeneration."

The [[Vietnamese-American]] band Vothana<ref>Vietnamese for "atheist"</ref> is unusual in that its members are not ethnically European, however the band’s lyrics (which are performed in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]) still express racialist and fascist viewpoints and the band has performed at festivals alongside NSBM bands.<ref name=hotshower>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/neo-nazi-music-shows-return-to-europe/|title=Neo-Nazi Music Shows Return To Europe|date=12 February 2024 }}</ref>

=== Paganism ===
{{see also|Pagan metal}}
As part of their anti-Christianity, anti-Semitism, and the idea that White Europeans should return to their "native" ways, most NSBM bands promote ethnic European paganism. Benjamin Hedge Olson argues that NSBM is "indelibly linked with [[Heathenry (new religious movement)|Asá Trŭ]] and opposed to Satanism, which gives it a '[[blood and soil]]' attraction to many young Neo-Nazis looking for identity in their distant, ancestral past."{{Sfn|Olson|2008|p=99}} Hendrik Möbus interpreted the church burnings in Norway as:
{{blockquote|[A] cultural atavism, a sudden and inexplicable plunge back into pre-Christian, medieval conditions in all but outward reality. Like the Swiss psychologist, [[Carl Jung|Carl Gustav Jung]], would have said: Ancient archetypes resurfaced from our collective unconscious and repossessed receptive minds – which were, as a rule, still developing and thus especially impressible. The thus affected teenagers found themselves with an archaic state of mind and like in a mass-hysteria, they induced their condition unto others. It goes without saying that a, say, 18 year old adolescent who suddenly felt out of tune with his environment lacked the insight for a self-analysis.<ref name="Möbus">Hendrik Möbus: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060107011622/http://www.thepaganfront.com/pf.php?show=articles&article=1 ''National Socialist Black Metal''], mirrored on ''[[Internet Archive|Archive.org]]''.</ref>}} He argues that later on they would have realized the meaning of these emotions, begun to identify with paganism and taken "an active interest in Nationalist politics designed to preserve and to cultivate this very heritage".<ref name="Möbus"/> The booklet of the Absurd EP ''Asgardsrei'' depicts the [[Knights Templar]], the [[Teutonic Order]] and the [[Waffen-SS]] as warriors of the "[[Wild Hunt|Asgardsrei]]", which the bands define as a term for an alleged godly and Germanic group of warriors.

=== Satanism ===
Besides pagan beliefs, part of the NSBM scene embraces an interpretation of [[Satanism]]. Satanism is a common theme even in apolitical black metal, but in NSBM [[Satan]] is depicted as an ancient Aryan counterpart to [[Tetragrammaton|YHWH]], the god of the Jews and Christians. This view is often called "[[Völkisch movement|völkisch]] Satanism"<ref>Wintry Night Nonstop/Aenaon Skotos Anosion, published around 2000: Frost/Sadorass [Interview with Sadorass]. Cited in: ''Unheilige Allianzen'', p. 202.</ref> or "Aryan Satanism". Chraesvelgoron of The True Frost sees Nazism as the political appearance of Satanism and the collective deification of man as a social animal, as godliness instead of humaneness.<ref name="true frost">Szene-Almanach 1998, page 48; Strength through War, issue 4, Summer 2003, o.S.: Frost. Interview answered by Chraesvelgoron. Cited in: ''Unheilige Allianzen'', p. 202.</ref> His bandmate Sadorass calls the same ideology a development of [[blood and soil]] ideology, diverse occult teachings, and the ideas of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] in connection to [[Darwinism]].<ref>Flagellation, No. 2, 2001, page 29. Cited in: ''Unheilige Allianzen'', p. 203.</ref> Greek black metal musician [[Magus Wampyr Daoloth]] (of [[Necromantia]] and [[Thou Art Lord]]) said in an interview for ''Lords of Chaos'': "If you consider that fascism and Satanism have a lot of similarities as they both advocate power, spiritual and physical excellence, responsibility, survival of the fittest, elitism, etc., it's logical that some bands advocate both".<ref>''Lords of Chaos'', p. 308.</ref> However, many pagan and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] bands see Satanism as a part of Christianity or Judaism.<ref>Gammadion, No. 1, 1997, o.S.: Capricornus. Cited in: ''Unheilige Allianzen'', p. 241.</ref>