Alex Kurtagić (born 1970) is a British artist, musician, novelist, and publisher. He is the founder of Supernal Music and various publishing houses. For a time, he was a
far-right
Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...
speaker and writer, but has since disengaged from political extremism. His writing has dealt with topics relating to culture, society, politics, and music.
Life
Kurtagić was born in 1970. Due to his parents' jobs, he spent part of his youth in South America.
[Lichtmesz, Martin]
"Alex Kurtagić: ''Mister''"
, Sezession.de, December 2009. In 1995, he founded the
Black Metal
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music project Benighted Leams, which has since released four albums between 1996 and 2006. In 1996, he founded Supernal Music.
During the mid-to-late 1990s, his illustrations appeared on albums by black metal artists, such as
Dimmu Borgir,
Deinonychus, and
Tormentor, among others. His cover of Dimmu Borgir's ''Stormblåst'' is featured in the book ''Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers That Rocked the World''.
Writer
Kurtagić's dystopian novel, ''Mister'', was published in 2009. From then until 2013, he was active as a
far-right
Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...
intellectual figure. In 2011, a collection of articles and essays was published in book form by Unitall Verlag in German translation, with the title ''Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen''. A second collection, also in German, was published by Antaios in 2013 as Warum Konservative immer verlieren.
In 2019, a book collecting his artwork was published, containing also anecdotal, fictional, semi-fictional, and satirical texts. In the preface, he distanced himself from political extremism.
A second novel, ''Angel'', was published in 2022.
Supernal Music
Supernal Music offered a
mail order catalogue of underground music throughout the late 1990s,
[Keith Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' (Oxford: Berg, 2007) ISBN 978-1845203986, p. 64] particularly
extreme metal
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and black metal. Its later roster included bands such as Astrofaes and
Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian black metal band. It currently consists of (former member of Hate Forest and Dark Ages), Thurios (former member of Astrofaes), Krechet, and Vlad. All four also belonged to Blood of Kingu until it was disbanded. Their ly ...
from
Ukraine,
Fleurety and
Mayhem
Mayhem most commonly refers to:
* Mayhem (crime), a type of crime
Mayhem may also refer to:
People
* Monica Mayhem (born 1978), Australian pornographic actress
* Jason "Mayhem" Miller, American mixed martial arts fighter
* Mayhem Miller (dra ...
from
Norway, and
The Meads of Asphodel from the United Kingdom.
Discography
Benighted Leams
*''Caliginous Romantic Myth'' (1996)
*''Astral Tenebrion'' (1998)
*''Ferly Centesms'' (2004)
*''Obombrid Welkins'' (2006)
Bibliography
*''Mister''. Iron Sky Publishing, 2009;
*''Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen''. Unitall Verlag, 2011;
*''Warum Konservative immer verlieren'', Antaios (2013);
* ''The Art of Alex Kurtagic''. Spradabach Publishing, 2019.
*''Angel''. Spradabach Publishing, 2022.
Translations
*''The Golden Tread'' by Miguel Serrano. The Palingenesis Project, 2017.
*''The Veil Lifted for the Curious, or the Secrets of the French Revolution Revealed with the Aid of Freemasonry'' by Jacques-François Lefranc. Spradabach Publishing, 2022.
References
External links
*
2005 Interview with Benighted Leams
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1970 births
British bloggers
British heavy metal musicians
Living people
Black metal musicians