![]() This ambivalence was at first seemingly shared by Death In June, the band that in many ways was at the origin of what is now considered Neo-Folk and Martial Industrial.ĭeath In June has already been the subject of an article in datacide by Stewart Home.Īlthough the band’s name derives from the “night of the long knives” when the SA leadership and other elements in German fascism were liquidated by Hitler and the SS in June 1934, DIJ’s left wing origins as well as their collaboration with a number of musicians not suspected to have far right leanings seemed to suggest to followers of 80’s industrial that their use of fascist imagery had some sort of critical element to it. However, with Laibach the critique of totalitarianism became more ambivalent. In the 80’s there were agitational and critical bands such as Test Dept., Nocturnal Emissions and Bourbonese Qualk which were often associated with the ever broadening spectrum of “Industrial”. With SPK this was combined with a critique of Psychiatry and a presentation of extremes of the body and death. Similarly, Cabaret Voltaire were said to wage a “propaganda war against the propaganda war” (Industrial Culture Handbook). Burroughs and Brion Gysin and thus with strategies of liberation from brain washing. MUSIC PUB INVICTUS SERIALThrobbing Gristle already thematized concentration camps, serial killers, Aleister Crowley etc by using cut-up techniques of William S. Industrial as such was a direction that – parallel to Punk Rock – worked with the latest electronics in order to create an aesthetic of futuristic noise machines of the late 20th century and research extreme zones of contemporary society and history. Neo-Folk and Martial Industrial are two sub-categories of Industrial Music, which developed in the 1980’s. It builds a compelling case for why we should be more vigilant in response to fascist neofolk, and why we need a counter-culture of our own. The article below was originally published in Datacide Magazine and discusses how fascist neofolk operates and how it went under the radar for years. ![]()
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