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Supernal Music is a small record label based in England. Founded in 1996 by Alex Kurtagić, it was mainly known throughout the late 1990s for its mail order catalogue of underground music, particularly extreme metal.

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.

Kurtagić 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."[1]

Alex Kurtagić

Its founder, Alex Kurtagić (pronounced Kurt-uh-gitch), has written for various right-wing and white nationalist publications, including Taki's Magazine[2] and The Occidental Quarterly.[3] In January 2011, he became co-editor, with Richard Spencer, of AlternativeRight.com. Kurtagić is also the man behind the Black Metal project, Benighted Leams.

Kurtagić, born 1970 and residing in the United Kingdom, is an ex-pat radical traditionalist, racial-realist, elitist, pro-White activist and author on the Alternative 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 Spain to a father born in Croatia of Slovenian stock. His grandparents on his mothers side had 11 children.[15]

His parents moved around a lot (with his father being a computer scientist[16]), residing in numerous countries and has lived in five countries, “both in the First and Third Worlds, located on both sides of the Atlantic.”[17] 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 there.[16] He is a multi linguist, speaking, English, Spanish and French, amongst others.[15]

Kurtagić went through the U.S. educational system in both university and highschool and completed his post graduate work in a British university.[16]

In the 1990’s he founded the extreme metal music label Supernal Music and operates it still today (2011).

He is the owner of the independent publisher Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group which currently has two imprints: Iron Sky Publishing and The Palingenesis Project.[18]

Kurtagić is a frequent contributor to The Occidental Observer and a contributing editor for Alternative Right, where he is co-editor.[16]

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.[19]

He has been interview many times by Dr. Tomislav Sunić[16][20][21][22][23]

His distractos have linked him to the far-right neo-nazi scene.[24][25]

He produced the cover art for 'Mister', 'The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man' by Lothrop Stoddard, aswell as coverwork for various black metal album releases.[26]

Musical works

Benighted Leams is an Ambient Black Metal band created in 1995 by Kurtagić. Kurtagić has put out four albums on his own Supernal Music label. Kurtagić performs all instruments & vocals, apart from on the fourth album (which saw Wulfhild join the fold) of which the lyrics for tracks 2, 3, 5, and 6 were written by Wulfhild. They deal with twisted phobias, like fear of heavy objects causing floors to collapse, pathophobia, alopaecia, and so forth).[27][28]

Kurtagić is the only person in the Black Metal scene, as of 2011 to have released a track about a university profesor (Kevin MacDonald).[22]

The band participated in the "Anti-Geldorf-Compilation" by Supernal Music playing the exclusive song "Believe, Submit, Obey".[29]

The fourth album was influenced with readings of Dr. William Luther Pierce and Prof. Kevin MacDonald, aesthetised in arcane, mythologising ways.[27]

Kurtagić also did the cover art and co-composed, alongside Aphazel, one track on the Norwegian band, Ancient's, "The Cainian Chronicle" 1996 album, the track being number 5, "At The Infernal Portal (Canto III)."

Written works

In 2009 he published his Right-wing dystopian novel, Mister which has a foreword by professor Tomislav Sunić[30] and is currently working on his second novel about Nazi UFO’s.[31] '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.[16]

Kurtagic's forthcoming 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."[32]

Bibliography

Discography

Artists

The label's past roster of artists included also:

See also

References

  1. ^ Benighted Leams – Feb 2005. Metalreviews.com (2005-12-13). Retrieved on 2011-02-13.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Alex Kurtagic | The Occidental Quarterly. Toqonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-13.
  4. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  5. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  6. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  7. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  8. ^ Alex Kurtagic interviews one of the hardest working Truth Activists on the scene today | The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD
  9. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  10. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  11. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  12. ^ Archives for Alex Kurtagic | The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture
  13. ^ Alex Kurtagic's Official Site
  14. ^ Alex Kurtagic
  15. ^ a b [2]
  16. ^ a b c d e f The New Nationalist Perspective: Dr. Sunic interviews Alex Kurtagic : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
  17. ^ Alex Kurtagic: May 2009
  18. ^ [3]
  19. ^ What’s in It for Me? | The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture
  20. ^ The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagic #2 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
  21. ^ The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagić #3 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
  22. ^ a b The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagić #4 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
  23. ^ The Sunic Journal: Alex Kurtagic & Richard Spencer : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
  24. ^ Cubic Parsec: Weird Al Kurtagic turning hard right?
  25. ^ Searchlight Magazine: A darker shade of black
  26. ^ http://www.alexkurtagic.info/Artwork/Galleries/Album%20Covers/index.html
  27. ^ a b [4]
  28. ^ [5]
  29. ^ [6]
  30. ^ Alex Kurtagic: Mister by Alex Kurtagic
  31. ^ Alex Kurtagic: Reich of the Black Sun
  32. ^ a b Iron Sky Publishing
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