DRAGONFORCE Guitarist: 'I'm Not A Nazi!'

September 13, 2008

DRAGONFORCE guitarist Sam Totman has spoken to Kerrang! magazine about his old band DEMONIAC's "white power" lyrics.

The New Zealand-based black metal outfit achieved a certain amount of notoriety in the '90s when a song entitled "Hatred Is Purity" appeared on its second album, 1996's "Stormblade". The song featured lyrics such as "Aliens invade this place, white man stand up for your race..." and "So much anger but so much pride, I want to see them all dying."

"Everyone in DEMONIAC used to write their own songs, and one guy wrote lyrics for about three songs which were kinda white power nazi lyrics," Totman told Kerrang! magazine. "It wasn't really serious. We thought singing about Satan and heavy metal was funny and he liked singing about that because that's what he was into at the time. I don't think he's into it now."

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