Nazi punk

Nazi punk
Stylistic origins	Hardcore punk, punk rock, Oi!, white power music
Cultural origins	Late 1970s United Kingdom
Typical instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, drums
Subgenres
Rock Against Communism
Other topics
Neo-Nazism, White power skinhead, National Socialist black metal

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related music genre, which is sometimes also referred to as hatecore. Nazi punk music generally sounds like other forms of punk rock, but differs by having lyrics that express hostility towards some non-whites, Jews, homosexuals, communists, anarchists, anti-racists and other perceived enemies.

It is a subgenre of punk that contrasts sharply with the anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, left-wing ideas prevalent in most of the punk subculture. Nazi punks are different from early punks such as Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux, who are believed to have incorporated National Socialist imagery such as Swastikas for shock or comedy value.

In 1978 in Britain, the white nationalist National Front had a punk-oriented youth organization called the Punk Front. Although the Punk Front only lasted one year, it recruited several English punks, as well as forming a number of white power punk bands such as The Dentists, The Ventz, Tragic Minds and White Boss. In the early 1980s, the white power skinhead band Brutal Attack temporarily transformed into a Nazi punk band. They said they did that in the hopes of getting public concerts booked easier, but this tactic did not work, and they soon returned to being a regular racist skinhead band.

The Nazi punk subculture appeared in the United States by the early 1980s, during, although not as a direct result of, the rise of the hardcore punk scene.

See also

• List of neo-Nazi bands
• National Socialist black metal
• Nazi chic
• "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" - song by Dead Kennedys
• Nipster
• Punk ideologies
• Rock Against Communism
• Rock Against Racism
• White nationalism
• White power skinhead

Bibliography

• Blush, Steven, American Hardcore: A Tribal History
• Condemned Magazine issue #2.
• Morrison, Eddy, Memoirs of a Street Soldier: A Life in White Nationalism
• National Front, The Punk Front: 1978–79
• Reynolds, Simon, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984
• Sabin, Roger, Punk Rock: So What?

External links

• National Socialist Punk Nazi punk history, ideology and music