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Terrorizer Magazine's alleged 'explicit Nazi band' explained on music news site

Blackandred | 04.12.2008 14:09 | Anti-racism

In response to the anonymous claims made on  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414252.html from www.blabbermouth.net

According to respected music industry news site www.blabbermouth.net, vocalist Hoest of the Norwegian black metal band TAAKE recently spoke to UK-based international extreme metal magazine Terrorizer's Jonathan Horsley to FINALLY explain his reasons behind the infamous stunt where in Essen, Germany, in 2007 Hoest took to the stage with a Swastika daubed on his chest.

"Well, some people are very comfortable in the limelight, and a lot of attention no matter what it is," he said. "I don't want to be out there in the open. If people discover us somehow then fine. I only want to release albums and that's it. I don't want to make headlines.

"Well, the hate-mail has stopped coming in," he said. "Don't get me wrong, we are definitely NOT Nazis. We only used that symbol as another symbol for evil. The usual symbols, the pentagram and inverted cross, don't invoke reactions anymore. And anyway, it was taking the piss also. My first statement wasn't well thought over. I didn't really express what I meant, so obviously I provoked a bit more than I meant. I wrote two more statements. Nobody bothered to read them so they stuck with the first one and insist that we are a Nazi band."

A full interview with Hoest is in issue #178 of Terrorizer, out now and an expanded version of this news item can be found at  http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110190

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