my :hitler-metal-detector: just spiked, not sure why (www.metal-archives.com)

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the group got unfairly boycotted by extremist environmentalists who attacked the lead singer for honouring his cultural heritage, exposing themselves as closed-minded radicals.

Is the frontman of Týr a whaler? They're faroese, this has to be about whaling right? regardless this review set off my hitler-detector

@corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net I don't think prog/folk metal is your jam but you might be interested

It's a shame, the album's really good

I might have to make :hitler-metal-detector:, where the partical detector's got Varg's face in the background or something

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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I get more of a bad vibe off of the reviewer in that one bit. I don't know enough about those isles and whaling traditions to say much more. Maybe it is like when colonist environmentalists seem eager to jump on Inuit seal-hunting practices?

But also, not sure if whaling there is actually more of an indigenous thing or if it's people taking advantage of loopholes to sate some rich bastards elsewhere.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

the indigenous faroese are norse ("vikings"), so they're pretty much the same sort of people as in iceland, denmark, sweden, norway. they're under the danish yoke, but they have some autonomy IIRC.

i'm sure they have a whaling past, everyone who lives on the coast in that region does, but fuck that. it's long past time to stop. they're not some ultra-deprived genocided natives who have this one last thing to their name, they're just extremely rural white europeans.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Thank you for the info. heart-sickle

[-] falgscode@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

idk that the faroese islands count as colonized but maybe I'm wrong about that idk

[-] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

conquered and ruled by the danish crown for centuries i expect. it probably wasnt a nice overlordship, but settler colonialist genocide it wasnt. danish rule was light enough that the faroese language survives to this day.