AUTHOR'S NOTE: This review paid for by George Soros.



The political climate of 2017 could be described as charged at best. Some say the United States is on the brink of civil war, with patriots on the right ready to defend true American ideals from the communist globalist degenerates on the left. Well at least you might think this if all you do is spend your days as a keyboard warrior online, fighting in the hallowed battlegrounds of reddit, /pol/, and tumblr. Leading this valiant charge against the can't-meme leftist beta cucks is none other than Fatelancer, a one-man black metal project from Lima, Ohio (a blue collar town of approximately 38,000 people according to the 2010 U.S. census, 67% of which are white. Fatelancer's Troy still claims that it's being overrun by the "brown horde".)



Black Metal Against Communism opens with an instrumental over an audio recording on Joseph McCarthy degrading the scourge that is communism. Remember that nutcase who attempted to out commies and homosexuals in the U.S. government and even the strongly conservative U.S. military? Apparently he is worth remembering as a positive figure and is a clear source of inspiration for Fatelancer's Troy.



The actual music here is surprisingly not entirely terribly produced. Troy has done a decent job in attempting to emulate the traditional black metal sound of the early 90's. Is it derivative as hell and nearly out of tune? Absolutely. However it is no longer the 1990's, and if the music here had any other lyrical connotations it would be worth similar derision. If you are going to make a black metal album, at least put some effort into making it sound somewhat unique. If left can't meme, can far right not black metal? This often seems to be the case, considering the more NS a black metal band gets, the poorer the music becomes; Nokturnal Mortum being a perfect example, as their album NeChrist is far and above the worst in their whole discography.



The guitars here sound decent despite what is being played, the drums sound like your average drum machine fare, but it's the vocals that really take the cake. My first exposure to Fatelancer was the song "Anti-Fascist Pawns", and Troy's vocal delivery instantly reminded me of the announcer from the popular Youtube series "Epic Rap Battles of History". I am not a fan of the series myself, but the similarity was too hilarious to ignore. If this album is to represent the struggles of working class Americans in the rust belt, then through his vocals Troy is doing a fantastic job of emulating that uncle who gets really drunk at family gatherings and yells about illegal immigrants, Muslims, and members of the LGBT community.



Any flow this album has is constantly ruined by audio samples from MSNBC newscasters, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama to name a few. It's almost like Troy knows that his lyrics won't be taken seriously, so he has to complement them with apparent proof that Obama is a Muslim and that Soros is running all world governments. Perhaps the most hilarious of these audio samples is those from "Battle at Gettysburg 2017", an instrumental track referring to the supposed antifa protest of Confederate monuments at this Civil War battlefield that got the alt-right all fired up, but was never going to happen in the first place. A repetitive piece with military march drums, Troy evokes his Confederate forefathers of Ohio that fought for their rights. Wait, Ohio contributed more solders per-capita to the North than any other state in the Union? Oh well, details.



The silliness of the lyrics here could take up multiple paragraphs, but if you have ever had any encounters with the alt-right, Alex Jones fans, and the like, you know what to expect here. Obama is a dirty Muslim, even though Trump won the election everything is still a leftist communist conspiracy, nonwhite people in America is white genocide, etc. This album is the musical equivalent of a recent protest defending another nonexistent antifa attack on a statue in Houston, Texas; an alt-right counter-protester was kicked out by armed "Oathkeepers" while he yelled "but these are good memes!" Actual far-right bands exist and have some degree of impact, but using Pepe on your album cover, fawning over the president of the United States, and having a fixation on "BBC" doesn't seem the appropriate way to spread your ideology.



Fatelancer is also not the first alt-right black metal band to exist as the band claims, as KEK released the higher quality and altogether edgier Misty Woods of Kekistan in March of this year.





8.8/100