Black Magick SS – Kaleidoscope Dreams (2017)

July 10, 2021

This is one of those things where I cannot remember for the life of me where I picked the recommendation up from. Musically, its not something that I would usually listen to, but I found myself falling in love with Black Magick SS’ occult rock swagger. Hey, maybe its just everything I ever wanted Ghost to be, except not shit, and with a black metal influence. Whichever way you cut it, this shit fucking rocks. However…

It wasn’t until I had listened to it a few times however, and decided to check out Discogs to suss if its ever been put on cassette, that I noticed that the release was banned from sale in the marketplace. It was then that I noticed the sheer amount of swastikas in the cover painting! Like, what the fuck haha (inb4 there’s SS in the name, there’s a ton of bands with SS in the name)!

Can anyone shed any light on whether this is a fascist or white supremacist band? I’m not one to knee-jerk react, nor to condemn perhaps risky flirtation with controversial imagery, but if these guys are Neo Dickheads then I’ll be refrained from listening to any more of their stuff.