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The nazi music scene in sweden is notorious in terms of it's popularity, ferocity and violence. Now on the decline, it still has p lenty of support, fueled by anti-immigration politics and the aryan pseudo-norse beliefs and mythology. Like the perversion of the harmless prehistoric good-luck symbol (the swastika), fascism taints everything it touches. The nor se myths are now deeply suspect and pride in your viking roots brands you a nazi. In the same way, the St. Georges cross is considered a sensitive symbol, due to it's violent nationalistic conotations. I recently saw an advert on the BNP homepage requesti ng 'nordic blood' whatever the fuck that is. One of the most amusing things about fascist groups in scandanavia is that, unlike the wannabe hitlers in the BNP, they actually try to do the maths behind repatriation. If you haven't got three 'nowegian' gran dparents, you're out of the country. Of course, they don't bother to define what they mean by norwegian...
"Since the middle of the 1980's, the Swedish nazi scene has survived mainly been a subculture; within the so called "white power" music scene. The scene began to take form in 1987 as Rock Against Comm unism, inspired and economically supported by Ian Stuart Donaldsson's British Blood & Honour. The music scene had an big boost when the band Swedish band Ultima Thule topped the Swedish music charts in 1993. Ultima Thule had removed typical nazi symbols and sang instead of vikings, former Swedish kings and other "national symbols".
Ultima Thules success pumped new energy into the Swedish nazi music scene and new bands and record companies were started. Every month, one or two nazi concerts were held in different parts of Sweden. These secret nazi gigs, in comparison to public marches and demonstrations, were much harder for the antifascist movement to stop. In 1994 the white power music magazine, or "skinzine," Blo od & Honour, was founded, and after the year afterwards it expanded and changed its name to Nordland (Northland), named after a volunteer Swedish military company which fought alongside with the nazis in the Third Reich. Nordland has also started a record company, 88 Musik (88 - "Heil Hitler Music").
The magazine and record company are run the following individuals; Torulf Magnusson and Matti Sundqvist in the town of Link?g, Per-Anders "Pajen" Johansson in Gothenburg and the mysterious Peter Andersson in Stockholm. Nordland is closely connected to the leading American nazi music magazine, Resistance, and they press all their records in the USA.
There is another nazi record compan y that operates alongside Nordland/88 Musik. Ragnarock Records, was founded in the city of Helsingborg in the very southern portion of Sweden. Ragnarock Records was formed by the older nazis Erik Bl? and the now dismissed Lars-Magnus West rup. Ragnarock Records is closely connected to the Danish NS88 and the English ISD Records or the British Blood & Honour, run by Combat 18. The two nazi record companies Nordland and Ragnarock Records have now become bitter enemies. They are both connected to the international split between Resistance and Combat 18/Blood & Honour, a split that has resulted in bitter fighting. In the beginning of 1997 militants around the Danish NS88 mailed letter bombs to English "enemies" of Combat-18, and attempted to lay the blame upon Nordland. Nordland has replied in trying to get all the bands in the white power music scene to choose sides in the conflict. In the beginning of March 1997, magazine in an attempt to try and take back the B&H name from Combat 18.
The Swedish nazi music scene reached its peak in 1995, and it has now begun to dissolve. Fewer bands are being formed, fewer concerts are being held and fewer Swedish records are released. Instead, both Nordland and Ragnarock R ecords have turned their attention to the international music scene. Ragnarock has tried to distribute nazi records to Germany and Nordland managed to sign important international nazi bands to their label. The next Nordland record release will be with the French band Bifrost".