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

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

12 December 2015: RABM festivals in US & UK

First off: thanks to everyone who decided to join this blog as a contributor after Hayduke has left. Looks like I shouldn't be afraid for the future of the blog any more... although let's wait until the end of the year and then see.

Second: the Haglaz Fest III has just ended, but it isn't the only RABM-friendly fest to be held in 2015. On 12th of December, the Black Metal Alliance plans to release the 3rd compilation in the Crushing Intolerance series of anti-NSBM samplers. The release party is planned to be held in the Borg Ward (Milwakee, WI). The lineup consists of bands that I never heard of before, but that's what is good about the BMA - their compilations help to discover a lot of obscure new acts:

Falter MKE - (WI)
Hardcore/Grindcore
http://falterhc.bandcamp.com/

Ashbringer - (MN)
Atmospheric black metal
https://ashbringermusic.bandcamp.com/

Winterbourne WI - (WI)
Atmospheric black metal
http://winterbourne1.bandcamp.com/releases

No Heroes - (MN)
Crust/Grindcore
http://noheroesmn.bandcamp.com/releases

Shadow Lake - (OH)
Black Metal
http://shadowlake.bandcamp.com/releases

Bib - (NE) Members of Bent Life/Powerslop
Punk/Hardcore
https://bibhc.bandcamp.com/releases

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On the same day, a similar fest is to be held in The Lughole (Sheffied, UK). It's called Ruins Fest and organized by Enfer du Nord and The Black Metal Alliance. Participants:

HERETOIR (Augsburg, DE)
Post-black metal. Melancholy, nostalgia, isolation and introspection.
https://heretoir.bandcamp.com/

THRÄNENKIND (Munich, DE)
Green anarchist, civilization-critical post-metal.
https://thraenenkind.bandcamp.com/

MOUNTAINS CRAVE (Leeds)
Intense atmospheric black metal.
http://mountainscrave.bandcamp.com/

MAR (Newcastle)
Bleak misery.
http://maruk.bandcamp.com/

DAWN RAY’D (Liverpool)
Black metal. Ex We Came Out Like Tigers.
http://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com/

NARAYANA (Leeds)
Negative grinding black metal
https://www.facebook.com/narayanaleeds

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P.S. And finally, check out this t-shirt design from Huldrekall / Einsamkeit Tapes:

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Haglaz Fest III @ AZ Mülheim, Germany

Until not so long ago, I didn't know there are any RABM festivals in Germany. Turned out there's one, which is going to be held for the 3rd time already: Haglaz Fest III, 16/17 October 2015, AZ Mülheim/Ruhr. Line-up:

Unru [black metal, Bielefeld]
http://unru.bandcamp.com/

Schattenlicht [black metal, Wien]
http://schattenlicht.bandcamp.com/

Paramnesia [black metal, Strasbourg]
http://paramnesiaxpa.bandcamp.com/

Shever [doom, Switzerland]
http://shever.bandcamp.com/

Beltez [black metal]
https://www.facebook.com/Beltez

Urmorth [black metal, Schloss Holte]
https://www.facebook.com/Urmorth

Groll [doom]
http://groll.bandcamp.com/

Elurra [black metal, Mülheim]
http://elurrabeltza.bandcamp.com/

Farson [post black metal, Göttingen]
https://farsonofficial.bandcamp.com/

Victims Of Classwar [dark crust, Leipzig]
https://victimsofclasswar.bandcamp.com/

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Autumnal Equinox open air: 22th of September

The same people that organized I & II Discomfort announce a new RABM-related open air festival for 22th of September. The event will take place in the vicinity of Moscow (the location will be specified later), and will be dedicated to the celebration of Autumnal Equinox. Expected line-up:

Fatum (metal punk, stenchcore / Moscow region)
Axidance (epic crust, black metal / Moscow-Tver-Ivanovo)
Kora (atmospheric black metal / Moscow)
Nimrud (melancholic post-metal / Moscow)
АНЮТИНЫ ГЛАНДЫ (sludge-doom-black-whatever metal, SPb)
Омут (one-man-band, depressive black metal, dark ambient / Ivanovo)
Diswarp (d-beat punk / Ryazan)
Vargtimmen (atmospheric black metal / Moscow)
Acid Vicious (Anti-Cimex worship / SPb)
Distonn (breakcore / SPb)

event page

Well, looks like we've finally got something to be proud of - in the 3 years we've built a sizable RABM-friendly community that's capable for organizing gigs on more or less regular basis (at least in Moscow and SPb). The general situation in the country is quite bad, though. Right now I'm way too tired, but tomorrow I'll try to shed more light on what's currently happening here (the consequences of PR trial, etc.)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

25 August 2012: Karelian Plague Fest

Despite all the political shit that's currently going on, Russian underground scene is still alive and well, and a big Petrozavodsk-based festival "Karelian Plague" is announced for this weekend. There are several Old Roots New Shoots bands in the lineup (including Axidance, Led By Fear and The Last Three Winters), along with several other projects that's worth seeing live: Life Is Your Death (dark hardcore, PTZ), Voodoo Puppets (horror punk, PTZ), Warta (neocrust, SPb), Nimrud (melancholic post-metal, Moscow), Omega SuperStars (satanic hardcore, PTZ), Minaret (excellent blackened powerviolence/screamo from Moscow, highly recommended to check out!), and many others.

event page on last.fm

Friday, October 7, 2011

Kalendae - live set (from "Evenings of Forests and Sorrow")

The 3rd event in the series of "Evenings of Forests and Sorrow" will take place in SPb on 19th of October. Line-up:

Kalendae (atmospheric black metal\ post-)
... и возвел их на гору (ambient)
Gray Bastion (death/doom metal)
Virosa (post-metal)

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Two tracks from the first live show of Kalendae (not even a demo, just a live recording; the upcoming demo may sound different. I'm putting it here only to give you an idea of what kind of music they're playing):

~~DOWNLOAD~~ (UPD: the demo is officially out)

And some more photos (credits to Julia Buryakova):

Sunday, September 25, 2011

26.09.2011, St.Petersburg - "An Evening of Forests and Sorrow", pt.2

One more event organized by our community - this time not quite RABM-themed, but there will be at least one band associated with RABM scene. The event will took place tomorrow in St.Petersburg, and it's called "Вечер лесов и грусти, vol.2" (which can be roughly translated as "An Evening of Forests and Sorrow/Sadness"). Line-up:

У меня всё хорошо, очень даже (drone doom, shoegaze, sludge)
Kalendae (atmospheric black metal/post-BM)
Not My Murder (sludge/metal)
Inter Arbores (ambient doom)

last.fm page / vkontakte

It's the second event in the line of "Evenings of Forests and Sorrow" - the first one took place at the same club in SPb month ago. The lineup consisted of Beauty Of Sirin (blackgaze) and Kalendae. Kora were also invited, but couldn't perform because one of their members was seriously injured.

This time the lineup consists mostly of sludge/doom metal and drone bands, but I hope EoF&S #3 will be more BM-oriented. None of these bands have released anything yet, but Kalendae are about to release a 2-track demo very soon. I've already heard their track called "Qliphoth", and it sounds very promising. BTW, they're members of "Old Roots New Shoots" association, along with such bands as Axidance and Kora (and their side projects: Our Last Rain, Дно, 66°33’39). The bands of O.R.N.S. have a lot in common with Cascadian BM bands, so I hope we'll see something comparable to Cascadian BM scene on post-Soviet space very soon.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Autumn Discomfort Fest II

So, the 2nd event in the line of Discomfort festivals is going on right now near Moscow! Just like the 1st Discomfort Fest, it's organized by the members of our RABM community. Line-up:

Moscow heretics:

Kora (atmospheric black metal/RABM)
AxidancE (neocrust (early), blackened crust/RABM (now))
Fatum (stenchcore/blackened crust)
Emancipation (old school crust)
Nimrud (post-metal)
Mutagen (hardcore punk)
Virulent Mass (hardcore/crust)
ConVince (d-beat/neocrust)
The Zavod (oi)
еГОр (psychedelic punk, cover band)
DJ Pizdec (electro-folk)
Fucking Paralytics (mystical noise)

Guests from SPb:

DJ Distonn (breakcore; samples from Wolfbrigade, Skitsystem etc.)
Krivda (raw black metal/crust/grindcore)
Откаты (raw black metal/sludge)
Adrianocelentano (booze d-beat)
Distündrum ("ravepunk")
Acid Vicious ("ravepunk")

event page on last.fm

As you can see, the lineup is big and diverse: there are RABM bands (sadly, not many - but they're headliners of the whole event), crusties, classic punks (including relatively well-known bands like Mutagen), and performers of extreme electronic music - both from Moscow and SPB. Finally, not only Colombians can have their own red&anarcho metal festivals ;) Good to see our RABM community grown so big and active within less than two years. If only our political situation would improve such fast...

(btw, not so long ago M.Verbitsky wrote an article which pretty much summarizes my own disappointment in politics and society. I'll translate it at least partly, if I'd have some free time tomorrow...)

P.S. Kudos to the designers of that flyer - it's the first time I see a punk or metal show flyer made in khokhloma style!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Russian Discomfort Fest (All Night Hell) - 4 June 2011

Another crust/RABM event by the same people who organized Black Monday in Moscow. Line-up:

Kora (RABM)
Axidance (neocrust (early), blackened crust/RABM (later))
Fatum (stenchcore, blackened crust)
Crucified By The Sun (RABM, True Pagan-Black Kvlt)
Drunken Fairy Tales (Moscow celtic punk)
Repression Attack (stenchcore/crust metal)
Nimrud (post metal)
Tender Branson (punk/hardcore)
Social Zero (fastcore/pv)
Yeltsin Youth (powerviolence)
Asthma (crust punk)
Егор (psychedelic punk, cover band)
The Завод (oi/streetpunk, not to be confused with Заводь)
Stillborn (metalcore)
Fucking Paralytics (mystical noise)
Virulent Mass (hardcore)
Unkind Revolt (streetpunk (early), neocrust (later))

More info on last.fm

Good to see our RABM community becoming more and more active. Not sure if we'd have audience big enough for a similar gig in any major city other than Moscow, but there's hope for such a gig in St.Petersburg this summer.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Black Monday in Moscow - Fatum, Axidance, Kora, XY, Virulent Mass, Katalonia

BTW, only 12 hours left until the beginning of a first RABM-themed gig in Moscow! Most of participating bands aren't black metal, but it's organized by our RABM community:

Line-up:

Fatum (anarcho-crust / stenchcore)
(A)xidanc(E) (crust)
XY (crust/sludge metal)
Kora (RABM from Moscow, here's one of their side projects)
Virulent Mass
Katalonia

I know nothing about Virulent Mass and Katalonia, but looks like they're playing anarcho-punk/hardcore. More info about the event...

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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.

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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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Saturday, October 17, 2015

12 December 2015: RABM festivals in US & UK

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Haglaz Fest III @ AZ Mülheim, Germany

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Autumnal Equinox open air: 22th of September

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

25 August 2012: Karelian Plague Fest

Friday, October 7, 2011

Kalendae - live set (from "Evenings of Forests and Sorrow")

Sunday, September 25, 2011

26.09.2011, St.Petersburg - "An Evening of Forests and Sorrow", pt.2

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Autumn Discomfort Fest II

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Russian Discomfort Fest (All Night Hell) - 4 June 2011

Monday, March 21, 2011

Black Monday in Moscow - Fatum, Axidance, Kora, XY, Virulent Mass, Katalonia

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