DEPECHE MODE'S ESPRIT DE CORPS

The Alt-Right and the Boys from Basildon

by Richard Wolstencroft

Recently when Alt-Right potentate Richard Spencer declared the band Depeche Mode the official band of the Alt Right it caused laughter and perplexity in many circles. But I had to both laugh and agree with him as I knew exactly what he meant and what he was getting at. Having charted the band's career as a kid and teen in the 80s, through their 90s period of decadence and excess (like my own-haha) and then into their post-millennial, mature years, DM has been a major part of the soundtrack to my life. But is it the soundtrack of the Alt Right? It’s certainly a question worth asking so let’s take a look at the topic.

THE MORNING AFTER

by Andy Nowicki

Recently, White Nationalists have touted Metal—particularly Black Metal—as a uniquely Caucasoid sound, one which has the power to unearth the badass fury of proud, salt-of-the-earth, put-upon honky folk in an age of mounting multicultural tyranny and insufferably smarmy media-enforced White guilt.

These writers probably have a point, in a way. It seems to me, though, that what’s uncouth remains uncouth, whether it sports gold teeth, a Flava-Flav necklace-watch and sagging britches, or moon boots, a Def Leppard T-shirt and a mullet. That is to say, a nigger is a nigger, whether he’s Black or White