White Power Music Groups news
Racists and anti-Semites, including well-known organized hate groups, increasingly use white power rock music to draw young people to their cause. According to one survey, more than 12 percent of young people in Sweden admit that they listen to this music. Resistance Records, the leading American hate rock record label and distributor, reportedly ships about 50 orders each day, with each order worth about $70. Owned by the American neo-Nazi group National Alliance, Resistance may gross more than $1 million this year. White power concerts in the United States regularly draw many hundreds of attendees, and similar concerts in Germany have attracted more than 2,000 people.
Lead singer Ken McLellan of Brutal Attack, performing in 2000 at the annual Hammerfest white power music festival in Bremen, Georgia.
Since the 1960s, when racist country music singer Johnny Rebel recorded songs such as "Nigger Hatin' Me," more than 500 white power bands have formed worldwide. Nearly all of these groups were formed after 1982, when the late British singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian Stuart Donaldson turned his band Skrewdriver into a mouthpiece for racial hatred. A significant number of the bands play or have played "Oi," a style of punk rock associated with Skrewdriver and other early white power groups (the term "Oi" was a common greeting in Cockney slang during the 1970s). Some bands fuse racism to other forms of punk (such as hardcore) and heavy metal (such as thrash metal and black metal). The genre known as NSBM -- National Socialist Black Metal -- has become popular in recent years, and its practitioners have been implicated in murders and other violent crimes in Europe.
Racists and anti-Semites, including well-known organized hate groups, increasingly use white power rock music to draw young people to their cause. According to one survey, more than 12 percent of young people in Sweden admit that they listen to this music. Resistance Records, the leading American hate rock record label and distributor, reportedly ships about 50 orders each day, with each order worth about $70. Owned by the American neo-Nazi group National Alliance, Resistance may gross more than $1 million this year. White power concerts in the United States regularly draw many hundreds of attendees, and similar concerts in Germany have attracted more than 2,000 people.
Lead singer Ken McLellan of Brutal Attack, performing in 2000 at the annual Hammerfest white power music festival in Bremen, Georgia.
Since the 1960s, when racist country music singer Johnny Rebel recorded songs such as "Nigger Hatin' Me," more than 500 white power bands have formed worldwide. Nearly all of these groups were formed after 1982, when the late British singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian Stuart Donaldson turned his band Skrewdriver into a mouthpiece for racial hatred. A significant number of the bands play or have played "Oi," a style of punk rock associated with Skrewdriver and other early white power groups (the term "Oi" was a common greeting in Cockney slang during the 1970s). Some bands fuse racism to other forms of punk (such as hardcore) and heavy metal (such as thrash metal and black metal). The genre known as NSBM -- National Socialist Black Metal -- has become popular in recent years, and its practitioners have been implicated in murders and other violent crimes in Europe.