Hey everybody,
I love Afsky’s music but read some confusing stuff about Afsky. I know they played in Israel when the war started. Afsky seems like a nice fellow (saw him at an Afsky show back in the day) but at least Reddit’s RABM conversation seems to be a bit conflicted. I don’t have social media so I wouldn’t know if they’ve taken a stance in this matter. Would anyone care to enlighten me?
Yeah. I get that he’s propably gotten a lot of shit and sometimes the discourse gets a bit too black and white, but then again, people boycott Israel because of it’s invasion of Palestinian land. The text he’s written seems like it’s missing a lot of context about the Israel-Palestine situation - but then again, he’s a black metal musician, not a historian (no, you don’t have to be a historian to understand the conflict, but what I’m trying to say is that not everyone is as informed even in an important issue as this is) so I try not to judge. I’m also conflicted by asking these kind of questions because I would not like to spread a false word about anyone.
Again, I lack a lot of context here. I’m not actively following the RABM scene (much less black metal scene as a whole) beyond using this community and the “sketch band” list that’s doing the rounds as sanity filters. I’m well over bands turning out to be bigoted dipshits at this point.
I guess if I’d been invested in Afsky since he put out his LGBT+ band stickers, I’d have another impression that I might want to preserve. My sense is, like you say, he’s a BM musician — the RABM part seems more peripheral to his actual music and lyrics, and might just be the subscene that picked up on his signaling?
But I don’t know, seeing that attempt at rhetorical sleight of hand doesn’t make me keen on checking out his music.