Resistance Records
Resistance Records is an American record company, which is engaged in right rock albums and sells through their website. Since 1999, Resistance Records is part of the National Alliance. Since Erich Gliebe is manager of the record company. Resistance Records also brings out the irregularly published Resistance magazine, in which Gliebe has worked as an editor.
History
The label was founded in December 1993 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada from the former neo-Nazi George Burdi of the band RAHOWA. January 1994 also emerged in Detroit, Michigan another branch. In January 1994, the music label was extended to the United States, in the same year also appeared the first issue of Resistance magazine. "I was the critical condition of the White Power music clearly. Bands were at the end of their patience, they waited for money from studio recordings that never came. White young people throughout the country had no idea where they should buy a White Power CD or cassette, " Burdi wrote in the first issue. The Resistance 1995 reached a circulation of 13,000 copies. The magazine is published even today by the National Alliance. Among the groups that were in the beginning with Resistance Records, were Burdis own band RAHOWA, Bound for Glory and Angry Aryans.
1995 Burdi was arrested because he had entered in May 1993 during a demonstration of anti-fascist in the face. He received a twelve-month suspended prison sentence, he was benched in 1997, because he had violated his parole. Burdis Canadian business partner Jason Snow and Joe Talic took over 1996 Resistance Records. Mark Wilson was replaced by Eric Davidson ( former editor of the American Blood & Honour - magazine ).
After the first successes and in 1996 profit on sales of $ 300,000 to both the establishment of the label in Detroit, Michigan, as well Burdis domiciled in Windsor, Ontario, in each of the U.S. and the Canadian police on April 9, 1997 simultaneously searches; while the computer, financial records, magazines, and 10,000 CDs were taken away by police. The searches were carried out simultaneously in order to prevent deletion of computer records. The search in the U.S. fell to a suspicion of tax evasion, in Canada Burdi was accused of hate crimes; since the contents of the software distributed by Music in the United States are not punishable, he had moved the label to there, but still could be prosecuted for his Canadian citizenship. At the time of searches Burdi served his one-year prison sentence for assault from. After Burdis arrest of former Blood & Honour - Editor Eric Davidson took over the management.
In April 1997, the record company was forced to close for a short time because of tax problems and a house search. The proceeding was initiated by Canadian authorities because the publications against Canadian anti -hate- crime laws violated. At this time, the objects in question were in Milford, Michigan, from where Resistance Records continued his business. The federal agents under the supervision of the Internal Revenue Service, studied the documents and confiscated the entire inventory. Finally, a minor penalty was imposed for tax evasion and the seized inventory has been returned. The label did not operate more in Canada from then on. After Burdi had served his sentence, he left the White Power scene and founded the group Novacosm.
In June 1998, Willis Carto paid, founder and leader of the Liberty Lobby, Burdis bills. At the beginning he was not very popular within the movement and appeared as Resistance leader also not open in appearance; in the autumn of 1998 he sent, however issues of Liberty Lobby weekly paper The Spotlight Resistance to subscribers, to replace missing Resistance spending. In October he moved the label according to Etiwanda, California, and directed it along with his business partner, Todd Blodgett. Eric Davidson announced after the sale and went to Minnesota, where he co-founded Panzerfaust Records. After Blodgett had a falling out with Carto, he decided to sell his shares, and found in March 1999 William Luther Pierce III. by the National Alliance as a buyer. This took over the label completely and moved its activities in the vicinity of Hillsboro, West Virginia. In addition, he also took on the Swedish label Nordland Records. In 2000 he also took over the label Cymophane Productions of the then imprisoned Norwegian musician Varg Vikernes and right-wing extremists. The same also began Hendrik Mobus by the German band Absurd to help out Pierce after he had fled to the U.S. to escape a prison sentence, and was staying with Pierce; Mobius worked with in the dispatching establishment of the label, and wrote under the pseudonym " Hagen of Tronje " for the Resistance magazine, which began to report on Black Metal. 2002 was also the specialized sub-label Metal Unholy Records.
Resistance Records belong to other minor subsidiary label, best known is probably the black metal label Cymophane Records and Records Unholy be. Both labels brought out the U.S. version of the Burzum albums. To label also included an Internet radio.
Merchandise
Resistance Records now has an online store, which has about 1,000 CDs on offer and also markets merchandise from different bands. Two computer games, Ethnic Cleansing and the continuation of White Law have been created by label, both with extremely racist and anti-Semitic content.
Among the best known groups is probably the extreme right-wing songwriter saga, Mädchenduo Prussian Blue and Max Resist belong. The label also had the German band Absurd (new edition EP Asgardsrei ), the Polish band Honor as well as the now-defunct Bound for Glory.
Publications (selection)
- 2000: Thunderbolt / Kataxu - Black Clouds over Dark Majesty / Roots Thunder
- 2000: Thor's Hammer - May the Hammer Smash the Cross
- 2001: Pantheon - Vargrstrike
- 2002: Vaginal Jesus - Affirmative Apartheid
- 2002: Various Artists - Visions - A Tribute to Burzum
- 2002: Nocturnal Fear - Sterilize and Exterminate
- 2003: The Shadow Order / Grom - Sons Of Zeus
- 2005: Nokturnal Mortum - Eleven Years Among the Sheep