On Saturday, July 21, a trio of anonymous musicians operating under the name Neckbeard Deathcamp self-released an album of raw black metal called White Nationalism Is for Basement Dwelling Losers. The band’s artwork mockingly co-opts white supremacist symbols, including the death’s head made infamous by the SS (recast as a portrait of Rick Ross) and the Nazi eagle (with a penis for a head and a Pepe cartoon instead of a swastika in its talons). The song titles further clarify the album’s targets: “Incel Warfare,” “Please Respond (I Showed You My Penis),” “The Fetishization ov Asian Women Despite a Demand for a Pure White Race (Outro).”
Most important from Neckbeard Deathcamp’s point of view, they’ve seen evidence (on message boards and via their Bandcamp contact e-mail) that their music is already bugging the crap out of at least some of its intended targets. (The band intend to stay anonymous because the alt-right loves to doxx, harass, and threaten its critics.) The group sampled far-right kook-enabling conspiracy-theory peddlers Infowars on “Cucked (Intro),” and when Hatestorm mentioned he’d heard rumors that Infowars might “report” on Neckbeard Deathcamp, I asked him if the president had tweeted about the record yet. In total earnestness, he answered, “If that ever happens, that would be the crowning achievement of my life.”
It seems like everyone is talking about electronic warfare these days—like how the Russians interfered in the 2016 election. How have Neckbeard Deathcamp taken over the Internet to spread their message? We are in exultation at the strength of the growing warkampaign. Watching it spread from the driver’s seat, we see how the message of a childlike demagogue could literally be paid for, to be put in the ear of so many—especially with the machinelike Cambridge Analytica. The “share” button is the only tactic we have employed, but it is clear how much strength lies in a well-told punch line.
