Incidentally, Facebook seems to have already reacted to this article by removing "national socialist black metal" from its interest targeting options.
For another thing, this stuff is interesting - there's no two ways around that. Musically, it's almost entirely straight-up bad (when Varg Vikernes is the best a movement has to offer, you know there's a quality problem), but the cultural mechanisms that made it and the social history that feeds it is, speaking with cold clinicism, really very interesting.
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.
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...
> sad kids LARPing as Nazis.
That's a very precarious judgement call, unless you mean the severely limited production value, which has become a hallmark of black metal by itself.
The production-value stuff I totally understand and wholly dig, and that's not why I lack respect for their music.
I'd venture to say that's in the eye of the beholder. A highly skilled, say, progressive rock guitarist could reasonably claim all of them don't know how to handle their instruments.
> lazy, adolescent and derivative.
I wouldn't discount any argument that would claim this is true for all metal. In a way, that's part of its appeal.
> In a way, that's part
> of its appeal.
But I think those three are a bit of a "pick any two" situation.