[sickcodebruh]

It’s a tough question for sure and I don’t think there’s a clear answer. We can start by refusing to support the worst of it, calling out the friends and artists who do, and making it seem less normal and acceptable than it really is. Black metal has become such a safe space for it. Even the term “NSBM” helps whitewash it!

Edit: I'm not trying to insult or shame you for using "NSBM." Everyone says it, it's totally normal at this point, and that's the problem.

[eponeponepon]

I have never looked at the term that way, but what you say is completely fair.

I seem to recall a time when a lot of that scene rejected the label and tried to claim it was "just black metal", but now that I think about it, I suspect they've collectively owned it these days.

I don't know what else to call it that doesn't either minimise it or need a dozen paragraphs' worth of explanation, though...

[sickcodebruh]

I think it's best to just call it what it is: nazi black metal or racist black metal. Anything else dresses it up. Even fully spelled out, "National Socialist Black Metal" has always struck me as far too sophisticated a label when you consider the content and the people making it. Most of them aren't threatening soldiers writing political treatises, they're sad kids LARPing as Nazis.

[eponeponepon]

    > sad kids LARPing as Nazis.

Spot on. A description I am undoubtedly going to steal when the opportunity arises, so thanks! :)

[sickcodebruh]

Please do!