The article reads like a desperate attempt at forcing the idea that nationalist and even fascist themes are not only relative new to metal but also the result o

The article reads like a desperate attempt at forcing the idea that nationalist and even fascist themes are not only relative new to metal but also the result of "infiltration". Well, I'm not a metal historian but I firmly recall the fact that the lead singer of Pantera (a band that inexplicably is not mentioned once in the article) has a long history of racist remarks and even of pulling a few Nazi salutes during shows. Bands like Iron Maiden have been following a nationalist theme since pretty much their inception. Metal has been the genre that captured teenage existencial anxiety, specially male, and gave it a means of expression and a pressure valve. This pressure valve often comes in the form of themes involving aggression and violence targeted at others. Like other genres that came behind metal, it adopted themes that contrasted with mainstream values in society. Some bands cover themes such as environment, privacy, war, economic systems, even corruption, and it's no wonder that mixing them with themes involving aggression and violence targeted at others breeds authoritarian ideals. Hell, misoginy and male bravado, accompanied by homophobia, have been rampant in the genre. On homophobia, it took Judas Priest's Rob Halford coming out in the nineties to get a foot in the door of homosexuality acceptance, and even today he still states that homophobia runs rampant. https://www.nme.com/news/music/judas-priests-rob-halford-discusses-the-homophobia-he-experienced-after-coming-out-2505942 https://www.nme.com/news/music/judas-priests-rob-halford-dis... The point is that the thesis in this article is unbelievable, not grounded on facts and reality, and reads like revisionism custom-made for a specific kind of activism. Fighting authoritarian ideologies is a laudable goal which all free and open societies should foster. However,fabricating a version of accounts that pretends it suddenly pops from nowhere and intentionally ignores the presence of it right from the onset does the exact opposite. The first step to fix a problem is to identify it, and this article disingenuously fails to do that.