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Deradicalisation of Czech Pagan Black Metal : Decrease of militant anti-Christianity and far right tendencies
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Kapitola v knize |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | During the 1990s Paganism became an influential discourse and religious orientation in the second wave of Black Metal. In Norway, there emerged radical and militant Pagans tied to arson, assault and murder - a specific ideological focus was burning churches. Pagan-oriented Black Metal has spread across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. It is in these areas that there have been strong and resilient Far Right tendencies in Pagan Black Metal (e.g. Graveland in Poland, Nokturnal Mortum in Ukraine, Temnozor in Russia) and is also visible in Czechia. The chapter reflects specifically on Czech Pagan Black Metal and religious and political progression from the late 90s. This trajectory has shown a broad conformist development, in part this is due to the incarceration of several Norwegian extremists and the simultaneous commercialisation and popularisation of black metal such as Satyricon. This trajectory follows various new religious and social movements which move from radical beginnings but soften over time. The engine of extreme metal, as Kahn-Harris describes, is transgression and extreme discourses are something natural in extreme metal. Radical behaviour tends to be specific to predominantly male metalheads in their teens or 20s. This includes antisocial and violent behaviour, often merged with nominal Satanism and anti-Christian feeling. Nevertheless, as is the case of Pagan Black Metal in Czechia, both fans and bands have shown a development from social aggression but retaining and reinforcing some core spiritual interests, as reflected in Folk Metal and various emphasis on Pagan religion and heritage. |