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England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground by David Keenan

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


This book is a complete whitewash.

In looking at one of the most interesting music scenes of the ‘80s and ‘90s, it removes the more politically incorrect bands (Death In June, Fire + Ice, Allerseelen, Boyd Rice, and even The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud) from the picture, thus making World Serpent music safe for ‘consumption’ by oily hipsters in the 2000s (Tony Wakeford, after jumping through hoops to prove what a good ‘anti-fascist’ he is, gets a token pat on the head).

The same hipsters who leeched onto anodyne black metal bands like Wolves in the Throne Room, scrubbing ‘problematic’ bands like Burzum and Graveland from history in good Orwellian fashion.

When hipsters leech onto something, you know it’s past its creative prime.

In 2020, David Tibet gives art shows in galleries whose curators hold his religious views in amused contempt.

Was the ‘respectability’ really worth it?



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