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Philipp "Freki" S: "First comes the food, then morals?"

Philipp "Freki S. of VARG can not complain. Although he is actually in the center of a violent verbal dispute over opportunism, hypocrisy, and hypocrisy in dealing with "right-wing tendencies" in Black and Pagan Metal. From the Ragnarök festival he has been even unloaded. But the commercial success of "Blutaar," the new album of VARG doing any harm. In the Webcharts of the EMP-mail order the album is number 4 of the best-selling recordings, and on "Death & Black Metal bestsellers" from Amazon, he has at least managed to 11th place.

S. may well entitled to assume that the recent cyclone has worried about his band VARG attention for a significant bonus for "Blutaar. Contemporaries with a strong penchant for conspiracy theories are even speculate that S. has planned this whole virtual hype and presents. That will be indeed been the case, but he seems in the end actually to benefit. been

we call us back once more to mind, which accused him of everything, and Philip S. is widely acknowledged:

• private & business contacts at the "right side" of the Black Metal
• own activities in the form of concert performances and events, at the "right side" of Black Metal

one has to be a "Nazi" to be in this country made a pariah. Connections to the "right side" rich as a snare for my Career, be it for business, in politics, or in show business. Imagine, just once, S. would have been as a young, ambitious politician with the Youth Union and he had maintained at the same time connections to the NPD - would you let him continue to be a candidate for the Bavarian state parliament?

Or, to stay closer to the reality of the Philip S., his long-standing contacts and activities at the "right side" of black metal would be 2010 not only in 2008 but had been made public. Really believed that an idol Kühnemund and Wolf-Rüdiger Sears would have given away at this time for to save the band VARG from falling into the "brown marsh"?

What is 2010 different than 2008? The allegations against Philip S. are as relevant today as then. But the deal is now so very different. And to understand this, one is a look at the sales figures of "Blutaar" have to throw. VARG 2008 was just one of many bands from the German Black Metal underground, while not even one of the best. But in 2010, this band from a standing start selling several thousand copies of their new CD, and has tickets for the biggest metal festivals in Germany in the pocket. With VARG and money can be earned. That's the whole point!

You have to be pretty naive, in order, for example, the editors of the rock hard for immaculate metal idealists who believe it just to the music and it supposedly embodied life (the "Metal-Spirit") is. Of course, these men and women are also very pragmatic businessmen. For example, Wolf-Rüdiger Sears works for the advertising agency Sure Shot Worx in Hamburg: " What do magazines such as Terrorizer (UK), Aardschock (Holland), Close Up (Sweden), spin (Norway), Metal Hammer Greece or Metal Hammer Italy together please all stand with us in close contact. As a further 400 media, too. SURE SHOT WORX works here as an organizational Link between the label, artists and journalists. "As luck would have it so, Wolf-Rüdiger Sears writes for the rock hard. Certainly it is very neutral and objective when it comes to such bands, which he will give his company the best publicity is ...

If you consider the rock hard editorial: "What we have of it if VARG than Nazi-Band branded?", then the answer is quite simple: nothing had "Blutaar" everywhere at once! been boycotted, then this would have huge financial consequences for the label Noise Art / Rock the Nation revealed. Because the investment in this publication , Including, for example, the considerable financial expenditure on advertising is one, could not be recouped. But it may well be suspected that their advertising does not pay Noise Art in advance, but this has bought the account with a payment of at least 30 days. No sales = no revenue = no paid bills. So easy!

The interest in preserving Philip S. and his band VARG before the boycott, has absolutely nothing to do with whether one believes him or not, or how to think privately about him and judge. It is primarily to business interests, and secondarily also to avoiding a loss of face. Since it has now been fixed once the view that Philip S. and VARG despite above reproach "resozialisierbar" are, one must also follow this line fairly consistently.

The morality of the talk in the metal scene like or even preached is completed, whenever their own, as perceived vital interests are concerned. And as it should in a capitalist society, be different, these interests are defined very well in sales figures and advertising revenue. When a metal band has accumulated enough substance to bond with their gravitational many fans and the purchaser, then the question of a boycott, which they themselves from enjoying the economic cycle, which is developing the more a band around exclude, but no longer.

The best example is still BURZUM. A band or a project whose main character a convicted murderer, arsonist, and an avowed racist, anti-Semite and a Nazi is. BURZUM but is also a band that has sales of which itself can only dream of Philip S.. The new album "Belus" will be released on the prestigious British label Plastic Head, and markets, and really any metal on this planet, it will sound at least, if not now even want. Once in the rock hard again and again over BURZUM reported, it should still go with the devil, if "Belus" there not at least a review (which you, as is usual in such circles, is also can pay) is replaced.

Philip S. can breathe easier. The purpose of this sales success of "Blutaar" he has delivered the best and most convincing argument, why can the further career of VARG no demolition to be done. The metal brothers are not idealists. You will not be on a piece, so tiny it may be, without the big cake. For only is the food, then morals.