GAYLORD disgraphy (top albums) and reviews

Contents:

• UNMASKG GAYLORD, BLACK METAL'S LATT ANTI-FASCIST ENIGMA
• GAYLORD
• GAYLORD — THE BLACK METAL SCENE NEEDS TO BE DTROYED
• GAYLORD (BAND)

UNMASKG GAYLORD, BLACK METAL'S LATT ANTI-FASCIST ENIGMA

The tr’s liberately lo-fi war metal rerdgs about drowng Richard Spencer piss and clarg war on cels beme another flashpot the seemgly eternal argument over how polics f to extreme metal, and as turns out, served as the direct spiratn for yet another buzzy new Nazi-smashg metal project: until now, the person behd Gaylord has remaed anonymo, for secury as well as personal reasons. However, after I ntacted Gaylord and requted an terview, the Canadian multi-stmentalist cid that they’d rather go public about their name “Pope Richard” will be faiar to many people, pecially those who are enmhed metal Twter.

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I hontly uldn’t be ls surprised to fd out that Weeks is behd this project,, but his reasons for unleashg this specific album to the world, at this specific time, were far too trigug to pass up a nversatn about follows is our nversatn—held via Skype, wh a few follow up queri over Twter DM—about Gaylord, anti-fascism, keepg black metal dangero, and what prompts someone to wre a song lled “Neo-nazi Metalheads Will Be Hanged and Their Broken Corps Openly Mocked.

Sce you're already very open about your polics, and outsi of your mic, why did you ci to keep Gaylord so secretive? But after a week of seeg Gaylord beg judged by hateful, hateful people, I have cid I n't hi, I need to get out here and fight as hard as I do Olivia Ntered mak sense that you'd want to protect that aspect of your inty, pecially given the kd of mic and msage you're puttg out there. Homophobia, fascism, racism, 's all people e to the Gaylord Facebook page specifilly to attack the band?

Part of what I do wh mic is try to ph buttons, [wh] Olivia Ntered John and now Gaylord. How much did Neckbeard Deathmp and their viral succs fluence Gaylord?

GAYLORD — THE BLACK METAL SCENE NEEDS TO BE DTROYED

What you have wh ND and Gaylord is a different approach. I suppose Gaylord is a siar thg—attackg a form of mic wh the mic self.

We need to ph agast fascism, racism, and homophobia at every chance—not jt tearg down NSBM, but nontg people when they e "sual" racist and homophobic slurs. In the lexin of homophobic playground sults, "gaylord" is one of the more il-soundg.

Whereas other slurs reta a certa vicns, "gaylord" jt across as a ltle juvenile; you n image other sults beg yelled at someone the midst of a vlent asslt, but "gaylord" sounds like somethg a goofy kid sniggers at you but won't back up if you nont them about Gaylord and his pals probably chose that name for their antifascist black metal project precisely for that reason - to pict the bigoted parti they rail agast as juvenile kids relyg on absurd playground sults. This but mi-album of theirs is very much spired by the lik of Neckbeard Deathmp (they even give the Neckbeards a shout-out on All Hail the New Wave), but Gaylord don't que liver as amg an experience as Neckbeard Deathmp do.

GAYLORD (BAND)

Earlier this week, Noisey published an terview wh Richard “Pope Richard” Weeks about his new anti-fascist black metal project, Gaylord. ” Gaylord nippg at the heels of Neckbeard Deathmp, an even more ant project whose but, Whe Natnalism is for Basement Dwellg Losers, explod onto the scene earlier this summer a shower of Nazi tears, and end up ppg a al wh Prosthetic Rerds to further their propaganda major monaly between the two projects (bis beg black metal and their obv lt for fascist blood) is their sense of humor. Neckbeard Deathmp their fluency 4chan-spawned meme-speak to fight troll fire wh fire (their leral tagle is “fedora-cshg ant black metal”) while Gaylord draws on a more exasperated, dry Brish w and general trollishns to get the pot across(“Nice Sun Cross Tattoo, Asshole” is a nice example).

I’ve also seen some bellyachg about the notn that platformg bands like Gaylord and Neckbeard Deathmp—who unt the e of humor amongst their tactics— some way negat or steals attentn om other, ls extremely onle anti-fascist metal bands. I mentned que a few tertg new projects the Gaylord piece, but shoutg out Femazgul, Allfather, and Libtrigger was only scrapg the tippy-top of a vast iceberg.