Resistance in the Ruins of Empire: Reclaiming Neofolk for Antifascism
It is crucial that our humble music scene at the very least ensures that our community is a hate-free place. We also need to make sure that those who buy into far-right ideology know that they are not welcome and that they can fuck off.”
https://proteanmag.com/2019/12/01/tradition-and-resistance-reclaiming-neofolk-for-antifascism
“Fascism hates culture. Fascism just likes the fascist culture. Let us remember those who burned books in large bonfires,” says Oscar Martin of both the Spanish neofolk project Aegri Somnia and the metal band As the Light Dies. The Spanish Revolution and its birth in the resistance to Franco hangs over their music, just like it does in a contemporary Spain that was built in the shadow of a decades-long fascist regime. “If you think anything different, just take a look at the fascist theory written. There’s almost nothing. If you have read Mein Kampf you easily see that there’s no rational thinking. They are a bunch of angry and visceral arguments about [the] German race and hate [for] Jews and leftists. Fascism is against all kind of cultural expression which differs from this.”