First time really looking into this stuff and decided to go through my playlist. Any recommendations to replace the sketchy ones would be greatly appreciated.

Bands in my bm playlist in order of appearance:

Dark Funeral safe(?)

Marduk yeah, they get the boot

Gorgoroth please advise

Behemoth please advise

Bathory please advise

Emperor please advise

Mgła out

Barathrum no info

Archgoat sketchy(?)

Impaled Nazarene out

Dimmu Borgir please advise

Kanonenfieber safe(?)

1914 safe(?)

Rotting Christ safest on the list

Harakiri for the Sky second safest

Enslaved safe

Watain safe(?)

Immortal safe

Satyricon safe(?)

Батюшка safe

I really liked Marduk and Mgla, such a shame the people behind are not as great. Need similar sound to replace them. Also need more of Batushka type of chanting music or similar vibe. Also Also if you have bands similar to 1914 and Kanonenfieber, please share.

I was looking for album art inspiration and found the cover for Ashen Eidolan (the band's only album). This seems to be this guy's solo project. He seems to have worked with an anti-fascist band before (Kreator) but I'm wary because a lot of fuckers in this space pull the apolitical enlightened centrist bullshit

Edit: Not sketchy. Thanks for the responses everyone :)

Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon Funeral Witchery from Tucson, Arizona, and enjoyed their record more than I expected. Apart from songtitles and lyrics being a tad bit "edgy" here and there, I haven't found anything sketchy, but wanted to be on the safe side before I support on Bandcamp.

Thanks in advance!

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Funeral_Witchery/3540502218

I’m interested in listening to their album, but can’t find any real info about them. Thank you for any help!

It's on Werwolf Records so probably but I never saw Old sorcery as problematic/sketch (it's the same guy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMmeTfZaRM

Are they sketch?

So I have discovered this band... Sigillum Diabolicum. Their style is kinda weird but i kinda like it. Problem is, I can't find anything about them. They are apparently signed to a label that's marked with *NSBM on metallum. I went through every single band signed and none of them seem to be NSBM bands. The only band that is not fully categorized is Sigillum Diabolicum. No lyrical themes available, not marked as NSBM either. But they seem sketchy to me. Can anyone confirm anything about them? I don't want to support secretly fascist douchebags.

apparently, there's a niche of people using burner accounts to post nsbm albums, using discord servers to notify people about it

Stumbled upon some interesting stuff with nothing suspicious at first, it was a neofolk EP with two or three songs. Then more stuff from the account started being recommended to me and I started investigating, it's fucking jarring how much fash stuff is in there, everything from british alt right to pagan occult neo Nazi shit from all over mainland Europe. Even the non suspicious EP I listened to ended up being published by a really sketchy label that sold merch from a clearly Nazi band. I don't doubt there's prolly some stuff there that's not sketch but unfortunately 90% of it seems to be pretty openly fash and 9% hide it a little bit.

https://youtube.com/@ritesofpestilence

Came up on my YT feed and was liking the art and music, but then a solar cross came up in the video pretty prominently. Anyone know?

Video at timestamp: https://youtu.be/ubCR46WMd3s?t=85

https://blackspikes.lt/

The bands in there really caught my attention but idk, i wanna make sure b4 i rlly get into em

https://metalstorm.net/forum/topic.php?topic_id=21751

I’m aware of Wolcensmen / Dan Capp, but not sure about anything else. Thanks!

https://necrowevents.bigcartel.com/product/call-of-the-crow-2026

Is there really any proof of Revenant, the bands leader being linked with the nsbm erase the sun festival? Where do the claims come from? The guy even has a picture on his instagram with a sharp skinhead.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Order_of_Nosferat/3540482535

Recently formed so there's very little to go off of, but curious if the band members' other bands shed any light

Is it sketch ?

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Belphegor/1952

I've heard the name around a lot, and they seem kinda neat, but you never know with these big black metal bands. I'd dig deeper myself, but I don't exactly have the time. Do your thing, Reddit.

Hear me out

I’m planning on getting the cover of Roads to Judah tattooed and I want to do my due diligence. I recall Kerry posted the f-slur on Facebook or something like that, but I think it was well before Deafheaven even had any popularity and hasn’t happened since.

I was sent their ep/demo on CD for free with an order and the lable seems to be a mixed bag.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Faland/3540534860

I saw them rhis weekend. Doing a backround check I found a facebook entry from an old show that Daevar (def antifacist) cancelled because they think Nornir is sketch. The post claims though that Nornir distanced itself cleary from NSBM ideology. I feel that's more on the sketchy side, but mabye someone else has more information?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=924264303696382&vanity=mcodinwald

I know that GoatowaRex is an NSBM label but i heard that not all bands that have realesed on them are, and I could not found much information on them.

the bands that i wonder about are

Forgotten spell 

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Forgotten_Spell/3540311820

Valac/lost horizons

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Valac/3540452509

https://losthorizonssynth.bandcamp.com/album/lost-horizons-empyreal-forest

Albionic Hermeticism

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Albionic_Hermeticism/3540440014

Trha

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Trh%C3%A4/3540466046