‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat

‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat

Organisers claim there’s nothing far-right about next month’s Frontnacht festival. But the lineup suggests otherwise.

via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/07/28/our-songs-are-manifestos-why-music-matters-for-belgiums-far-right/

skinhead carrying a guitar takes his place in front of the microphone in a Budapest park. A few hundred metres away, a police cordon and steel fence buffers the crowd of about 600 people, mostly men dressed in black, from shouting protesters. Flanked by the flag of the Hammerskins — an international white supremacist gang — the man performs a cover of ‘The Snow Fell’, a song by a notorious British neo-Nazi band.