Nazi punk

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Nazi punk refers to neo-Nazis who claim to be a part of the punk subculture.

Nazi punk music is similar to most other forms of punk rock, although it usually differs by having lyrics that express hatred for minority groups such as Jews, blacks, multiracial people, and homosexuals. Nazi punk bands have played several styles of punk rock, including Oi!, streetpunk and hardcore punk. Nazi skinheads who play music similar to punk rock or heavy metal are considered part of a separate genre called Rock Against Communism.

Nazi punks often wear clothing and hairstyles typically associated with the majority of the punk subculture, such as: liberty spike or mohawk hairstyles, leather jackets, boots, chains and metal studs or spikes. Nazi punks tend to incorporate Nazi imagery into their appearance, however some forgo these symbols in order to avoid stigma from anti-fascists, who make up the majority of the modern day punk scene.

Other names for Nazi Punks include: White Power Punks, WP Punks, National Socialist Punks, NS Punks, and Hate Punks. "Punk's Not Red!" is a slogan used by some Nazi Punks. It is a play on the expression "Punk's Not Dead!", which was popularized by the band The Exploited. This slogan is also used by some anti-political punks who want the punk subculture to be apolitical.

Contents 1 History 2 Nazi punk bands 3 Footnotes 4 Bibliograpy 5 See also

[edit] History

Although the numbers of Nazi punks have always been small, they may have existed since the beginning of the punk subculture.^{[citation needed]} The history of this faction within the punk subculture dates back as early as 1978, with an organization in England called the Punk Front. This group was a youth division of the racist National Front. Although the Punk Front only lasted one year, it was successful in recruiting several English punks, as well as forming a number of racist punk bands^[1].

The Nazi skinhead subculture took over as the leaders of the white power music movement following the demise of the Punk Front in 1979. However, the Nazi punk subculture sparked up worldwide soon after, and appeared in the United States by the early 1980s, during the rise of the hardcore punk scene.

The neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver started off as an apolitical punk rock band, although some accounts show that vocalist Ian Stuart Donaldson held racist views at the time^[2]. In the early 1980s, the white power skinhead band Brutal Attack transformed into a Nazi punk band^[3] The reason they cite is that they were hoping to get public concerts easier. This didn't work and shortly after they returned to being a racist skinhead band.

The punk band The Exploited has been accused several times of being Nazi punks, due to racist remarks and behavior of the singer Wattie Buchan, and because of alleged personal connections to members of the far right^[4]. However, none of the band's lyrics support Nazism or fascism.

[edit] Nazi punk bands

• A.B.H. (UK)^[5] - formerly white nationalists and have since changed their racist views^[6].
• Arma Blanca* (Spain)^[7]
• ChaoSS Hellas (Greece)^[8]
• The Dentists* (UK)^[9]
• The Dirty White Punks (USA)^[10][11]
• Ethnic Cleansing (USA)^[12]
• Fight For Freedom* (USA)^[13][14]
• Forward Area (USA)^[15]
• Midgårds Söner (Sweden)^[16][17]
• Skrewdriver (UK) - mostly known as a racist skinhead band, but started out as a non-racist punk band^[18].
• The Ventz (UK)^[19]
• White Pride (USA) - perhaps the first American Nazi punk band^[20].
• Warfare 88 (USA)^[21][22]

*There are other bands with the same names which have no connection to extremist politics.

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] Bibliograpy

• Punk Rock: So What? by Roger Sabin.
• American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush.
• The Punk Front: 1978-79. British National Front production.
• Memoirs of a Street Soldier: A life in White Nationalism by Eddy Morrison.
• Condemned Magazine issue #2.

[edit] See also

• Punk ideologies
• Punk-Skinhead
• Punk subculture
• Nazi skinhead
• National Socialist black metal
• "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" - song by Dead Kennedys
• Rock Against Communism

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