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by butterfinger 3452 days ago
Anti-religious music seems to invite anti-semitic people, so I'd guess there are more racist bands in black metal than in other genres. But the majority of black metal bands are not racist. There's a small fraction of bands where we know that some members subscribe to right-wing ideology and some of those bands have racist lyrics, but overall it's negligible.
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It's several of the most popular Black Metal bands, isn't it?
Mostly just "NSBM". Usually pretty easy to tell, and not the most popular bands.
"Popular" is pretty hard to define in a genre like black metal. Looking at "The greatest black metal bands" [0] I found 6 bands where at least one of the members has ties to right-wing ideology with 3 of the bands being outright neo-nazi music.

[0] http://www.ranker.com/list/best-black-metal-bands-and-artist...

I think this is true of "Second Wave" black metal bands but less true of more recent output.