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Now looking for a fediverse artist to commission for a similar poster, to be released with a creative commons license for easier distributed use.
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/115369843709660897

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Sigh - this is a disheartening watch, but informative as well...

"The Terrifying Theory of Stupidity You Were Never Meant to Hear – Dietrich Bonhoeffer"

https://youtu.be/Sfekgjfh1Rk

#Never51 #ElbowsUp #Canada #CanadaStrong #resist #resistence #50501movement #50501protests #50501Canada #antifa #antifascist #antifascism #trump #nazi #history #cult #ironfront #oligarch #protest #dystopia

A widely publicized election poster of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1932, with Three Arrows symbol representing resistance against Monarchism, Nazism and Communism, and with the slogan “Against Papen (monarchist candidate), Hitler (Nazi candidate), Thälmann (Communist candidate).”

By Plakatsammlung Karl Fritz.

This may have been the Iron Front inspiration.

Full size and info:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Arrows_election_poster_of_the_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany,_1932_-_Gegen_Papen,_Hitler,_Th%C3%A4lmann.png

#Retro #Art #Poster #Germany #Monarchy #Nazi #Communism #Democracy #IronFront

In #Nazi Germany, the #Communist Party of Germany hated #Liberals so much, they made their own supposed #antifa group which they then used to attack the #IronFront who they called a Social #Fascist organization instead of uniting with them to fight the #fascists.

When the #left divides it loses. When they decide to #unite it wins.

From the article:

A self-proclaimed “tribe” of racist heathens is building a compound on a 122-acre property in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. This group overlaps with Patriot Front (PF), a fascist organization with members nationwide, and the “Church of Aryanity,” a racist cult that refers to Adolf Hitler as “the Great One.” The leader of the Tennessee “tribe” is Brian Culpepper, who spent a decade in the white supremacist National Socialist Movement (NSM) and was its PR Director for several years.

In 2022, Patriot Front used the large property—mostly woodland but with cleared areas—to train its members for street demonstrations. Last year, PF members traveled to work construction on the property, including a large building intended as a combined martial arts dojo, heathen temple, and home for PF member, Ian Michael Elliott. As construction on the land progresses, the property will host increasingly large racist gatherings. At least equally dangerous, the “tribal land” will bring together far-right martial artists, aspiring street brawlers from fascist “Active Clubs,” and some of the most violent fringes of the neo-Nazi scene. It already provides a home for committed PF members. By documenting this compound and revealing its location, we hope to warn eastern Tennessee residents about the white supremacist threat in their midst.

#Tennessee #PatriotFront #TellicoPlains #MonroeCounty #fcknzs #NationalSocialistMovement #NSM #UniteTheRight #heathen #odinism #IronFront #accelerationism #ChurchOfAryanity #NeoNazis

https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/revealed-patriot-front-linked-aryan-tribal-land-in-eastern-tennessee/

Iron Front – Hooked Review

By Doom_et_Al

If 2023 was the year of death metal, it was also the year that we witnessed a disturbance in the Death Metal Force. If you listened closely enough (or perused the staff Listurnalia lists), you would have witnessed a subtle yet epic battle between death metal that stimulated the brain and death metal that stimulated the gut; death metal that looked forward to the stars and death metal that looked backwards toward the classic days. Or to put it more simply, the groove vs. the tech. Yes, there’s overlap, but most death metal pulled one way or the other – lurching forward into complex modernity (Afterbirth, Wormhole, Horrendous, Tomb Mold, Outer Heaven) or taking a resolute step back to the simpler, olde days (Rotpit, Serpent Corpse, Autopsy). To see the split, very few writers included bands from both groups in their top 10. Of the death metal lads: Ferox, Saunders and the Sponge all hewed modern, the ape and Holdeneye went olde. It’s hard to say which group will dominate in 2024, but one thing’s for sure: if all that new-fangled nonsense was not for you, Iron Front have arrived with a no-frills call-back to brutal death metal and slam of olde. Should the olde guard take notice?

Iron Front are a young band fresh outta the savage wasteland of California. Their sound is a straightforward mix of hardcore, slam and brutal death, with an emphasis on the groove, not on noodly technicality. Their aim, from the outset, is to crush, not dazzle. Their debut, 2022’s Left Out to Rot, was as unpretentious as it was fun: a brutal little appetizer that promised more. That “more” is Hooked, and straightaway the cover will tell you everything you need to know. Hooked is purported to be what Iron Front do best: 22 minutes of brutal take downs, weird voice overs, and crushing riffs. But in its adherence to what has come before, the album fails to develop itself, and feels stuck in a bygone era.

Hooked is at its best on tracks like opener, “Dissolved in Resin,” where the chug is hefty, the drums have a satisfying “pong,” and the riff thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. But “Dissolved in Resin” highlights a problem that crops up repeatedly over the course of the album: it doesn’t know where to go. After the chunkiness, the band slows things down, waiting to deliver the coup de grace… which never comes. We just meander back to where we started. As a result, it feels longer than its 3-minute run time. This happens with most of the songs on the album: fun riff, caveman performances, but no satisfying conclusion and much meandering. It seems weird to say it, but this 22 minute collection is bloated.

The album also feels weirdly dated. There are references to Family Guy, Mortal Kombat, FNAF, and some farts (?), which are more cringey than anything else. Slam is not a cerebral exercise, and I’m not here to intellectualize it, but if you’re gonna sample and meme, surely there’s more inspiring material out there? The production also sounds like something out of the early 2000s, with nowhere near enough heft to carry the songs, and the dynamic range and subtlety of your grandpappy singing in the shower. It carries neither the grime of, say, Rotpit, nor the clarity of Tomb Mold. It may be unfair to compare these kids to those bands, but I’m just not sure what they’re trying to do with the production here. Maybe they weren’t sure, either, and that’s the problem.

Overall, Hooked is an occasionally fun, if generally uninspired, collection of brutal slam and death metal. Iron Front have the chops for riffs and brutality, but they have yet to develop the ability to flesh those out into compelling tracks. When you combine that with its dated, blunted tone and weak production, you can’t help but feel let down. This first foray into the past is sadly a let down.

Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 3 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Creator-Destructor Records
Website: ironfront.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: January 12th, 2024

#20 #2024 #Afterbirth #AmericanMetal #Autopsy #CreatorDestructorRecords #IronFront #Jan24 #OuterHeaven #Review #Reviews #Rotpit #SerpentCorpse #TombMold #Wormhole

Despite the Family Guy sample that @HailsandAles pointed out, luckily the new Iron Front album is just as sick as I had expected, and has pretty much definitely secured a spot on my 20 favorite albums for this year already.

https://ironfront.bandcamp.com/album/hooked

19 to go, my dudes 😂

#metal #DeathMetal #IronFront #Hooked