[butterfinger]

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.

[tptacek]

It's several of the most popular Black Metal bands, isn't it?

[loonattic]

Mostly just "NSBM". Usually pretty easy to tell, and not the most popular bands.

[butterfinger]

"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...

[kkl]

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