Vikingrock

Formation

Ultima Thule was founded in 1982 as a punk band and joined a short time later in the skinhead scene. Regardless of the scene, the band membership developed his own style of music that can be described as a mixture of traditional folk music and punk, and was often associated with patriotic texts. This style gained in Sweden and outside of that youth subcultures an unexpectedly great success. This also Swedish music producer and right-wing politicians Bert Karlsson in 1993 aware of the band and took them under contract. The band was marketed from then on as " Viking power rock and roll band" and was able to achieve high rankings in the Swedish charts with several albums. After becoming aware of their right-wing past Karlsson released the band from their contract. Ultima Thule founded his own record company that produced thematically similar bands, including Hel and also the Nazi punk band associated Midgard Söner. The extreme right-wing band Dirlewanger, named after Oskar Dirlewanger, tried to get into the booming music business after a name change to Hero Ultima Thule Records. Compounds also existed for British rock -against- Communism scene.

Music and lyrics

Because of the sometimes highly popular patriotic texts Viking rock is controversial and is often "give attempt the neo-Nazi rock a moderate coat to even out the scene followers (and buyers ) to achieve" as right-wing music direction and as traded. Many bands, however, distance from extreme right-wing ideology and supporters of the Viking Rocks refer to the freedom of expression. The scene sees himself as apolitical. Overlaps are the punk and Oi! Scene. In part, compare these accusations with a witch hunt.

Bands

Sweden

Viking rock is relatively unknown outside of Scandinavia and the number of bands manageable. As a well-known bands Ultima Thule and Hel apply. In recent years, several young bands have been added, which are supported by the best scene by promotion on various websites. Other well-known bands are Glittertind Midgard Söner and Völund Smed.

Germany

To the genre of Viking rock itself is also the German band North Wind (previously called himself Odin's heirs), which is also considered a right-wing rock band. In addition, Germany is the controversial, often referred to as right-wing label Dim Records in the marketing of Viking rock interested. In addition to the exclusive distribution of Ultima Thule Records, the label also has the German Viking rock bands force home and Donar resentment under contract. Also known are still Balmung, which are also often associated with the right skirt. On the distribution in German-speaking also wore the new far-right weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit in which discussed various albums.