I know it's fashionable to be an extremist in metal, but this is fucking stupid.   
Nov. 1st, 2009 | 04:50 pm 
 


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So, I heard from a bloke at a gig (not a reliable source, I know, but shut up, he turned out to be right) that Candlelight Records supports and gives money to PETA. You know, the fucknuts who call fish "sea kittens" and think I should die painfully because I like a bacon sandwich? Yeah, them.

Candlelight gives them money.

Proof. Scroll down to under the credits, and in the notes section there's a line proudly proclaiming "Candlelight supports PETA". Also this, also this. These aren't from "the bad old days" - this is all within the last four years.

I've made a list of bands I'm into who are either signed to Candlelight or use them as an international distribution service (there's a lot of those - some labels, such as Reprise, use Candlelight for all their American distribution). It's a pretty fucking long list. Eighty-seven albums I'd consider buying, or (in some cases) really want to buy or (in a couple of cases) already have, but now can't get because I'd be giving money to a terrorist organisation.

What the fuck. What the fuck.

The bands, by the way, include BAL-FUCKING-SAGOTH (not signed, thankfully, but The Chthonic Chronicles was released in the USA on Candlelight, without the band's knowledge or permission), Emperor, Opeth, Insomnium, Gorgoroth, and Ensiferum.

This makes me very sad. I can only hope the bands involved are just ignorant of Candlelight's policy, rather than actually supporting it.
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