Similarly, while the majority were manifestly not impressed by Anselmo’s behaviour, there were still plenty of racist simpletons expressing support for him online this week, in much the same way that Jeremy Clarkson never suffers from a lack of effusive support when he drops yet another off-colour clanger. Metal does have a few wonky-eyed fascists lurking at its fringes, particularly within the underground black metal scene, not to mention plenty of disingenuous apologists trying to further their careers, but we’re talking about the kind of minuscule minority that would probably be statistically likely in any notional community. If metal does have a racism problem, it is surely little more than an indication that society as a whole has a racism problem and metal is by no means immune. The last couple of decades in particular have seen a distinct diversification of metal’s audience (even if burly men with long hair and/or beards still form the largest single group) and countless non-white musicians have become part of the furniture with no fuss whatsoever.
While it’s hard to deny that it has traditionally been dominated by white men, metal has never been overly concerned with race or creed. In my experience, as the kind of chap that has been accused of being a “social justice warrior” by rude people on the internet, metal is no more susceptible to reactionary horseshit than any other musical genre. Does metal have a racism problem? Not really.
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