Report: Australian Recording Studio Used By Banned German Skinhead Group

March 10, 2004

Ian McPhedran of Australia's Herald Sun is reporting that a Melbourne recording studio is producing hate songs for a skinhead band that preaches white supremacist messages via "heavy metal" music.

The modest St Andrews Studio (where groups such as MORTIFICATION, PEGAZUS and ABOMINATOR have previously recorded their albums) in Cheltenham is used by the banned German band EXXTREM.

The studio boss who recorded the band said: "Their main idol is Hitler."

German authorities banned EXXTREM and its music as racist and they insist on legal clearance for locally produced skinhead or satanic bands.

Officials closely monitor the band and liaise with Australian security agencies to counter the spread of racist hate music.

"The skinhead music scene continues to play an important role in bringing together and consolidating groups of extreme Right-wing juveniles with a propensity to violence," a German report says. [Read more]

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