ABSTRACT
This chapter explores attempts by neo-Nazis and others influenced by far-right political ideologies to express their politics through the creation and consumption of two other forms of popular music: the extreme version of heavy metal called black metal, and English folk music. Observation of on-line forum debates about English folk music and the far right will be utilised, including debates on a folk music forum about links between neo-Nazis and a Neo-Folk label. Karl Spracklen utilises the methodological tools of discourse tracing to analyse on-line and in-print debates about identity, community and the two music genres of black metal and English folk. The black metal fans on the forum and in his research are aware of neo folk and many enjoy buying it and listening to it and the monthly extreme metal magazine 'zero tolerance' has regular reviews of neo folk bands.
