Alex Kurtagić
| Alex Kurtagić | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 41–42) |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | author, editor, publisher, artist, musician |
| Known for | the record label Supernal Music, the novel Mister |
| Website | |
| http://www.alexkurtagic.info/ | |
Alex Kurtagić (born 1970[1]) is a right-wing[2] author[2][3], musician[4], artist, columnist, publisher, translator,[5] and speaker[6][7][8], based in the United Kingdom.[1] He is the founder and director of the record label Supernal Music[9][10] and currently co-edits Alternative Right along with Richard Spencer.
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[edit] Life
Alex Kurtagić's roots are Slovenian and Spanish[1]. Due to his parents' jobs he spent part of his youth in South America[1].
In 1995 Kurtagić founded the band Benighted Leams, which has since released four albums[4]. He also co-composed, alongside Aphazel, the track At The Infernal Portal (Canto III) for the Norwegian band Ancient's 1996 album The Cainian Chronicle, and co-wrote the lyrics of Deinonychus's 1997 album, Ark of Thought.
In 1996 he founded Supernal Music,[11][12] which has released music by bands such as Astrofaes and Drudkh from the Ukraine, Fleurety and Mayhem from Norway, and The Meads of Asphodel from the United Kingdom.
During the mid-to-late 1990s Kurtagic did album covers, and occasionally also additional artwork, for a number of albums by Black Metal artists, such as Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Tormentor, Deinonychus, Ancient, and others. His artwork features in the book Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers that Rocked the World.[13].
More recently, new editions of books by Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, and Francis Parker Yockey have been published with Kurtagic's cover illustrations.
[edit] Writer
Since the late 2000s Kurtagic has been a regular contributor as a social, cultural, and political[14] commentator for right-wing publications, including Taki's Magazine, the Occidental Quarterly, the Occidental Observer, Vdare, American Renaissance, and Alternative Right, which he currently co-edits. In 2011 a collection of his articles and essays was published by Unitall Verlag in German translation as the book Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen.
In the journal Sezession of the German Institut für Staatspolitik (cf. article in the German Wikipedia) the reviewer Martin Lichtmesz compared Kurtagić's dystopian novel Mister to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange[1].
[edit] Discography
[edit] Benighted Leams
- Caliginous Romantic Myth (1996)
- Astral Tenebrion (1998)
- Ferly Centesms (2004)
- Obombrid Welkins (2006)
[edit] Bibliography
- Mister. Iron Sky Publishing, 2009 ISBN 978-0956183507
- Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen. Unitall Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3905937435
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Martin Lichtmesz (10 December 2009). "Alex Kurtagic:Mister". Institut für Staatspolitik, Journal: Sezession. http://www.sezession.de/9424/alex-kurtagic-mister.html. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Supernal Music schließt die Pforten!". Ablaze Magazine (cf. article in the German Wikipedia). 31 March 2011. http://ablaze-magazin.de/___ablaze/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=140&cntnt01returnid=15. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Ferly Centesms". Spirit of Metal (cf. article in the German Wikipedia). 1 April 2011. http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Benighted_Leams-nom_album-Ferly_Centesms-l-fr.html. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Benighted Leams". Spirit of Metal. http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Benighted_Leams-l-en.html. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ http://www.wermodandwermod.com/newsitems/news090320110000.html
- ^ http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109190005
- ^ http://amren.com/conference2012/
- ^ http://www.npiconferences.com/
- ^ Keith Kahn-Harris. 2007. Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781845203993: 64
- ^ Karl Spracklen. 2009. The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure: Habermas and Leisure at the End of Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230205253: 127.
- ^ Terrorizer Magazine #38 (January 1997)
- ^ Terrorizer Magazine #126 (December 2004)
- ^ Neil Aldis and James Sherry. 2006. Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers that Rocked the World. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845331955
- ^ http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/018644.html
