Alex Kurtagić
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Supernal Music is a small record label based in England. Founded in 1996, it was mainly known throughout the late 1990s for its mail order catalogue of underground music, particularly extreme metal; releases during this period included two albums by Benighted Leams, an album by the Deep Space Ambient project M87, and a mini album and an album by Fleurety. Their online store went up in 2000, and was the first dedicated online extreme metal store in the United Kingdom. Supernal Music specialises mainly in black metal, but related genres are also represented in its releases and both past and present roster of artists, including doom metal and dark ambient. Supernal Music's mail order catalogue and online store extends this list further across thousands of often rare and obscure titles to cover death metal, gothic metal, goregrind, and experimental.
Founder
Its founder, Alex Kurtagić, has written for various right-wing and white nationalist publications, including Taki's Magazine[1] and The Occidental Quarterly.[2] In January 2011, he became co-editor, with Richard Spencer, of AlternativeRight.com. He has described the label as providing "a way of resisting the rootless, capitalist, cosmopolitan dystopia where everyone drinks Coca-Cola, eats McDonalds, watches Hollywood films and sitcoms, reads Hello!, knows what's the number one single, keeps track of airhead celebrities and other such creatures, believes Associated Press propaganda, and thinks like all the other simple-minded boobs that the modern world is just oh so wonderful."[3]
Kurtagić, born 1970 and residing in the United Kingdom, is an ex-pat radical traditionalist, pro-White activist and New Right author,[4] artist, musician,[5], publisher, translator,[6], interviewer,[7][8], blogger,[9], movie and book reviewer,[10][11] prolific writer, cultural commentator and social critic.[12][13][14]. His writing deals with topics relating to culture, politics, music, and race relations in the contemporary West.
Background
Kurtagić was born in 1970 in what is to be believed as Croatia[15]. However, he disputes this, stating that "I am not Croatian; I have never visited the country nor speak the language. I have partly Slovenian ancestry. The confusion occurs because in an interview I said that my father was born in Croatia, which is not the same as being Croatian. My father definitely has the Alpine character traits."[16]
His father was a computer scientist.[17]
His parents moved around a lot, residing in numerous countries and has lived in five countries, “both in the First and Third Worlds, located on both sides of the Atlantic.”[18] He has lived in Latin America during the 1970's and 1980's, Madrid in Spain for a few years, the Netherlands, Austin, Texas in the United States in 1975 and 1976 but since settling in the United Kingdom has spent most of his life their.[19] He is a multi linguist.
Kurtagić went through the U.S. educational system in both university and highschool and completed his post graduate work in a British university.[20]
In the 1990’s he founded the extremist metal music label Supernal Music and operates it still today (2011).
He has had trouble marrying his wife in the UK due to citizenship laws[21]
Tried for an academic degree but gave up.[22]
He is the owner of both Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group and Iron Sky Publishing.
Kurtagić is a frequent contributor to The Occidental Observer and a contributing editor for Alternative Right, where he is co-editor.[23]
In addition to these publications, his essays, articles, and reviews can be found in The Occidental Quarterly, Vdare, Counter Currents, Taki Mag, and American Renaissance.
He is friends with Troy Southgate and publishes his works.[24]
He has been interview many times by Dr. Tomislav Sunić[25][26][27][28][29]
Some have linked him to the far-right neo-nazi scene.[30][31]
Written works
In 2009 he published his Right-wing dystopian novel, Mister which has a forward by professor Tomislav Sunić[32] and is currently working on his second novel about Nazi UFO’s.[33] 'Mister' is a re-write of a previous novel that he wrote in 1983. In 2003 he decided to redo the novel completely and the 2nd edition he decided to make it political and dystopian.[34]
Kurtagic's forthcoming (2011) novel will be titled 'Antarktos'. It is described as a "companion volume to his seminal dystopian opus, Mister, but not a sequel." This novel will "contain both utopian and dystopian elements; it will also be longer and a much more ambitious work than its predecessor. It will develop some of the esoteric themes touched upon in Mister, drawning inspiration from the writings of Miguel Serrano and Savitri Devi. It will also explore concepts relating to the Conservative Revolution and the Völkisch Movement within a Science Fiction framework."[35]
Bibliography
Music
He is the only person in the Black Metal scene, as of 2011 to have released a rack about a university profesor (Kevin MacDonald).[37]
Discography
- Caliginous Romantic Myth - Full-length, 1996
- Astral Tenebrion - Full-length, 1998
- Ferly Centesms - Full-length, 2004
- Obombrid Welkins - Full-length, 2006
Artists
- Ashes
- Astrofaes
- Benighted Leams
- Blood of Kingu
- Capricornus
- Contra Ignem Fatuum
- Dark Ages
- Eldrig
- Ethereal Woods
- Hate Forest
- Infernum
- Kataxu
- Sunwheel
- Woods of Infinity
The label's past roster of artists included also:
See also
References
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- ^ Alex Kurtagic | The Occidental Quarterly. Toqonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-13.
- ^ Benighted Leams – Feb 2005. Metalreviews.com (2005-12-13). Retrieved on 2011-02-13.
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