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98c1a9 No.169829
Anyone familiar with the madman behind Lightning Rod, a one-man band with Nazi lyrics?
If you can imagine David Tanny anally impregnating Gary Numan who then, after giving birth, sent his child to Segregationist parents for adoption, you'd be much closer to describing David Custer. Lightning Rod is the epitome of outsider music, but given his white nationalist politics, he's an outsider among outsiders. His record label MSR Productions, billed as being "in service of the Anglo-Saxon race since 1988," is little more than a stockpile of Skrewdriver bootlegs where his liner notes often serve as a vehicle for mudslinging at his white power contemporaries - in one instance labeling Vaginal Jesus as "Turko-Mongoloid Metal" and "genetic debris." Despite operating one of the oldest continuing White Power record labels, his own audience considers him to be a complete laughingstock. But that doesn't stop our hero; in Custer’s eyes, his music is tailor-made for conscientious intellectuals and college students while Bound for Glory is music for trailer-dwelling, tattooed skinheads and monster truck rally attendees.
With his awkward timing and off-key whine over a drum machine and guitar, Custer wastes no time letting us know who's on his shitlist. He's got the strictest definition of whiteness enforced: even the Irish, southern Italians, Spanish and Greeks aren't spared his Aryan wrath. To him, they deserve to be purged along with all Jews and non-whites.
Interspersed throughout the record are skits involving Custer and his "friends," all with suspiciously synthesized voices. Perhaps I should assume the worst and believe Custer is kept company by a Microsoft Sam. "Slavs and Spooks, Greeks and Gooks" opens with a man in a coma, later revealed to be caused by the disgust of witnessing George Burdi out and about with his Indian girlfriend, has to be revived by doctors who play the British Union of Fascists anthem really loud in his ears. Is this supposed to be funny? His attempts at sexual humor succeed unintentionally than they do intentionally. Perhaps the comedy routine merely keeps up appearances so it seems like his audience would be laughing with him, rather than at him.
98c1a9 No.169832
A couple of interviews with the man himself and some pictures.
cce384 No.169838
I haven't seen a thread on him in ages. I'm surprised he's still kicking.
98c1a9 No.169844
>>169838
Yep.
Here's a relatively recent number aimed at our Commander in Chief:
http://msrproductions.com/ObongoTheUsurper_96kps.mp3
And just to prove how inept David is, listen to his cover of Extreme Hatred's "I Am the Man":
http://msrproductions.com/I%20am%20the%20man.mp3
Here's the original. Not that much better, but still channels more aggression than Custer can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UewQKyBwDnE
98c1a9 No.169846
>>169838
Oh, and then there's this:
http://msrproductions.com/mudshark.mp3
This has to be heard to be believed.
604d8a No.169878
You know you're a hack when you can make that sound worse by accident. W
2a1482 No.170029
>>169846
Are those actual kids on that song? Are they even aware of what the term "Mudshark" even means?
That's fucking creepy. This guy is creepy.
b0bc90 No.170643
>>169832
Ok, that is too much.
He is acting all casual with music equipment while wearing a swastika. LMAO.
98c1a9 No.170906
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>>169878
>>170643
The fact Custer thinks his music is written for intellectuals is baffling, because even if I'm laughing at it, barely anything resembling form exists in the songs. Even if you don't like extreme music at all, it doesn't seem remotely surprising someone would find this catchy and fun, especially with those gang shouts.
Custer can only be appreciated ironically. He's one step above David Tanny in having intentionally hilarious music which succeeds unintentionally, it that's it. He's also suspiciously old looking, even when these photos were taken (circa 1998).
Still produces cocks, so there's that.
4bce24 No.170912
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>>169844
>96kps
kek
>I am the man sig high-el
This is some real quality shit right here.
Vid related: Some slav nazis with actual musical talent.
98c1a9 No.170920
>>170912
Meh. Korrozia Metalla is far superior to that shit. Not only do they have the street cred of being shut down by the KGB during the Soviet Union's last few years, they're also quite Nazi.
They also have delicious kurwa dancing in stage with them.
55f982 No.170925
>>169832
>this guy is throwing around homosexual pedo conspiracies about Janet Reno
Man, I'd thought I'd heard it all with Pedowood and all the Franklin stuff and shit like Marc Dutroux but this is a totally new one on me.
I wonder what kind of other out there (not that it isn't plausible or anything) conspiracies this guy is in on.
adf1f9 No.170928
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>>170920
Kiborg's great as well, Russians do decent RAC and NSBM. Also I can't get over how Kolovrat covered "Nazi Ska" and such by People Haters. Fucking hilarious, 5/5.
55f982 No.170929
>>170920
Their wiki page doesn't mention being shut down by the KGB.
That sounds like interesting cocks, can you say more about it or where you heard that?
98c1a9 No.170931
>>170929
From their page on M-A:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Коррозия_Металла/441
>Their first show was in 1985, literally underground - in a cellar! They were cut off after 4 songs when the KGB stormed in. This show made them legendary even before they had cut a demo. The first vocalist, The Schizophrenic, left and was replaced by The Pussycat for the first demo, and they started gigging heavily - giving as many as four concerts per day. The authorities gave them the legal permission to play only so many shows, so they were frequently shut down. New vocalist Dima appeared in 1987 for a short while, but then he failed to show up for a gig, so guitarist Sergei "The Hog" Vysokosov took over on vocals.
55f982 No.170936
>>170931
Oh, ok.
That is actually mentioned on wiki but whoever wrote it doesn't say that it was the KGB that shut them down.
See, I thought you meant that they were arrested and interrogated by the KGB for their political cocks or some shit like that rather than shut down for an illegal performance.
I agree it's legit street cred either way, just a matter of scale.
adf1f9 No.170940
>>170936
"Fourth Reich" got arrested, put on trial and imprisoned by the communist authorities of Yugoslavia. Now that's some real cred.
55f982 No.170943
>>170940
Tito and his ilk weren't known for fucking around so I imagine that was pretty rough on those guys.
Did they get released eventually and go on to make more music or did that shit scare them straight and turn them into Communist normalfags?
98c1a9 No.170952
Believe it or not, Lightning Rod does have an avowed fan.
Meet Stooley Carmichael, the man who inflicted Ethnic Cleansing on the world.
98c1a9 No.170953
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>>170952
A song by Ethnic Cleansing.
If you've heard one, you've heard them all.
4bce24 No.170955
>>170920
Well shit, I have some of their albums too but never thought them to be natsoc. Then again they aren't as blatant as calling an album and song "Mein Kampf" and I know just some curses and yes/no of russian anyway
98c1a9 No.170959
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>>169829
Also of note is David Custer's rivalry with Vaginal Jesus guitarist Jim Crow, who later recorded this little ditty bluntly expressing his opinion on Lightning Rod:
98c1a9 No.170961
Jim Crow's side of the story.
Custer hasn't said too much aside from calling Vaginal Jesus "genetic debris," but assuming everything Jim said is true, that belief didn't stop MSR Productions from promoting VJ in the beginning.
de29ff No.171061
This whole spectacle is funny in its own right, but what can we julay? He seems fine just making his music for an entirely imaginary audience, so what's the harm? He doesn't chimp out or seem easily ruffled.
9a5ce8 No.171065
>>171061
He's pretty easily triggered by other bands and people talking crap about him. We could maybe get him to post on /pol/. Have him do an ask thread.
2a1482 No.171067
>>171065
Well, let's ask:
saxon@msrproductions.com
In light of all that's been posted, perhaps he could tell his side of the story.
e1a8cf No.171085
>>170943
I think there pretty much wasn't commie Yugoslavia at the point where they got out. That's all I know, sorry. Might be that the band members were preoccupied with the war. Korrozia Metalla did a support gig in "stump"-Yugoslavia for Serbs though.
c05d2d No.171087
How many /pol/ocks are in this thread? Head count.
9ed4f8 No.171145
I've never heard of this guy before and was expectng a freakshow but I actually like his songs that have been posted here. It just sounds like early 90s alt-rock with a bizarre nazi twist. He can't sing but that's actually quite endearing, at least his voice has some personality to it. In fact, if his singing was a bit more tuneful this dude would have had a decent recording contract in the post-grunge years. Go Lightning Rod!
c05d2d No.171159
>>171145
It sounds like everything else from its era, except crappier.
9ed4f8 No.171175
>>171159
I dunno, I'm listening to some of his other stuff now and the guy's actually got a good handle on pastiche of a variety of styles. If you took away the nazi stuff then I could see him having a small following. I'm not saying he's the greatest but he's worth a listen and pretty funny.
2a1482 No.171176
>>171175
>>171145
I was inspired to download "More Evil Than a Hollywood Jew" because of this thread.
His rock 'n' roll is actually quite fun, if incredibly inept. His country and folk songs are terrible.
9ed4f8 No.171180
>>171176
I'm listening to that now, there's quite a few duff tracks, no doubt about that, but plenty of good stuff too. Cowboy and Folk songs is much better, believe it or not. Then again, I've always had a soft spot for shambolic lo-fi oddball types so I'm pretty receptive to this kind of stuff.
9ed4f8 No.171182
>>171180
Sorry, didn't make that clear. "Cowboys and Folk Songs" is a much better album is what I meant to say.
e1a8cf No.171188
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>>170928
People Haters is simply amazing.
98c1a9 No.172075
>>171145
>>171159
>>171175
>>171176
>>171180
>>171182
Of all Lightning Rod's songs, this is probably my favorite simply because it's so delightfully weird.
98c1a9 No.172080
There's also this, which made me chuckle more than I'd like to admit.
2a1482 No.172253
>>172080
That's more disturbing than it is funny.
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e9b330 No.179652
>>174549
Dude, I think your link is broken.
>>171188
That front cover is gold man. Who was the artist?
As an extra piece of info, theres a trouble bar down the street that I swore plays this kind of music. Maybe I should go undercover and photo the juke box if they have any of this guys music.
ff09d3 No.179683
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>>179652
Some guy with the pseudonym Catfish did the album cover.
7bf3b8 No.180061
>>179683
Add a few monomania and this could be a whole new album.
a20c62 No.197390
>>169831
The more I think about this guy, the more I like him.
He may be elitist, but he speaks with conviction about his political beliefs. He can barely sing and his attempts at comedy are lame, yet there's something impassioned and uplifting about his songs in their own unique way; certainly very catchy.
His whole cause, making a more intelligent and artsy white power music for a college rock/alt rock audience as opposed to tattooed skinheads, is admirable. The very 'punk' notion of pure self-expression on your own terms no matter how extreme, all the while not giving two shits about what others think - including people in your own scene, especially in the case of Lightning Rod - is embodied in Custer's music quite strongly. This is an ideology I hold with very high regard in music and art and it can make an artist transcend their perhaps immediately lackluster means and become something much more powerful - it's why I respect GG Allin so much, that level of dedication and commitment takes his music onto another plane when he'd otherwise just be one of the many other forgotten 80s toilet rockers.
Lightning Rod is more than a project you can dismiss as an inept attempt at Aryan Art.
599c0a No.197415
>>197390
"Aryan", as if the Germans and other white folk are "Aryan". The Aryan legend comes out of the middle east and India. In India it refers to the people who conquered the country and established the caste system and they were middle eastern in origin. Basically Iranian. Those are your Aryans.
What we have here isn't admirable. The entire message is self serving elitism based on ancestral heritage and not personal accomplishment. It's as stupid as "black pride" week. Feeling pride in others accomplishments is lazy mental masturbation. You aren't your race. You are you. It's best to judge individuals on an individual basis. Otherwise you could blame all white people for the holocaust and the genocide of the Colombian peoples. That's racist.
ca5390 No.197464
>>179683
I like it, it's like a classic green day cover.
5bca4e No.197488
>>197415
>You are you.
In other words, the product of your biology.
c9d37f No.200538
>>197390
>>197390
I could't last twenty seconds in to the song OP posted. That shit is BAD. There's no way anyone could call it catchy. I don't care how admirable his political views are. I want to punch whoever's making that shit-ESPECIALLY with the attitude he seems to have.
6fafdc No.200541
>>171188
rudolf hess betrayed germany in the eyes of hitler. why do they sing about liking him?
If anything Hess was afraid of hitler's megalomania.
4277e2 No.200544
>>197488
And environment. Taking pride in the accomplishments of others just because they looked a bit like you or you had a common ancestor is silly. We are individuals.
5bca4e No.200546
>>200544
>And environment.
But mostly genetics and other biological factors.
>Taking pride in the accomplishments of others just because they looked a bit like you or you had a common ancestor is silly.
Why wouldn't you feel good about the achievements of a successful family member? It's the same thing here.
>We are individuals.
And individuals don't emerge from a vacuum, they exist as part of a greater whole. There's a reason this mindset of atomized individualism doesn't really exist outside of WEIRD societies.
4565a9 No.200572
>>200546
i can barely, barely care about the shitty things my living family does. i don't care at all about the shit my past family did unless they fucking cured polio or some shit. and i mean like if my dead gram gram did, not my fucking cousin twice removed. that doesn't count faggot
i feel like people use race to kinda be like "its my clan its the best" when in reality anyone moderately impactful is so far away from their genetic dead end that its embarrassing. like being overly into a sports team because their in your state. you ain't on the team cause you bought the jersey.
d7e59d No.200640
Of course, this thread degenerated into a NatSoc wankfest.
Like the PixeTerry threads always end with losers wanting to fuck her.
Never change /pig/, never change.