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Alex Kurtagic is a musician, writer, distro owner, and artist. He was born in 1970 and is based in England, having also lived a period of his life in South America.  He formed the label Supernal music in 1996 which releases primarily extreme metal music and art. Kurtagic espouses a commitment to physical fitness and strength.
'''Alex Kurtagić''' (born 1970, [[Spain]]) is a [[Croatia]]n [[Radical Traditionalism|radical traditionalist]], elitist, artist, author, musician, publisher and translator. He holds British Citizenship and lives in England. His writing deals with topics relating to culture, politics, music, and race relations in the contemporary West.


He has written for various publications, including ''[[Taki's Magazine]]''<ref>[http://takimag.com/contributors/Alex%20Kurtagic/167 Taki's Magazine - Contributors<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and ''[[The Occidental Quarterly]]''.<ref>[http://www.toqonline.com/tag/alex-kurtagic/ Alex Kurtagic | The Occidental Quarterly]. Toqonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-13.</ref>


==Biography==
''Musical contributions:''
Kurtagić was born to a [[Croatia]]n father of [[Slovenia]]n stock. His grandparents on his mothers side had eleven children.<ref name="reasonradionetwork.com">[http://reasonradionetwork.com/?p=5000 The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagic #2 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His parents moved around a lot (with his father being a [[computer scientist]]<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://reasonradionetwork.com/20090804/the-new-nationalist-perspective-dr-sunic-interviews-alex-kurtagic The New Nationalist Perspective: Dr. Sunic interviews Alex Kurtagic : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>), residing in numerous countries and Kurtagic himself has lived in five countries, "both in the First and Third Worlds, located on both sides of the Atlantic."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110708022449/http://alexkurtagicofficial.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html Alex Kurtagic: May 2009<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


He has lived in [[Latin America]] during the 1970's and 1980's, [[Madrid]] in [[Spain]] for a few years, the [[Netherlands]], [[Austin, Texas]] in the [[United States]] in 1975 and 1976 but has since settled in the United Kingdom.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> He is a multi linguist, speaking, English, Spanish and French, amongst others.<ref name="reasonradionetwork.com"/>


Kurtagić went through the U.S. educational system in both university and highschool and completed his post graduate work in a British university.<ref name=autogenerated2 />
Kurtagic's own musical project, Benighted Leams, founded in 1995, has produced the albums:


==Events==
* ''Caliginous Romantic Myth'' (1996)
In October 2013 Kurtagic was one of the speakers at the [[Traditional Britain Group]]'s Annual Conference in Mayfair, [[London]], the theme being "The Future of the Nation State".
* ''Astral Tenebrion'' (1998)
* ''Ferly Centesms'' (2004)
* ''Obombrid Welkins'' (2006)


==Musical works==
There is rumor of an upcoming rerelease of Astral Tenebrion since Kurtagic was not pleased with the sound on the first recording.
Kurtagić is the man behind the Black Metal project, [[Benighted Leams]], an Ambient Black Metal band created in 1995 by him. He has put out four albums on his own Supernal Music label. Kurtagić performs all instruments & vocals, apart from on the fourth album (which saw Wulfhild join the fold) of which the lyrics for tracks 2, 3, 5, and 6 were written by Wulfhild. They deal with twisted phobias, like fear of heavy objects causing floors to collapse, pathophobia, alopaecia, and so forth).<ref>[http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=139249 Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives - Benighted Leams - Obombrid Welkins<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


Kurtagić is the only person in the [[Black Metal]] scene, as of 2011 to have released a track about a university professor ([[Kevin MacDonald]]).<ref name=autogenerated1 />


The band participated in the "Anti-Geldorf-Compilation" by Supernal Music playing the exclusive song "Believe, Submit, Obey".<ref>[http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=10134 Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives - Benighted Leams<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
''Literary contributions:''


The fourth album was influenced with readings of Dr. [[William Luther Pierce]] and Prof. [[Kevin MacDonald]], aesthetised in arcane, mythologising ways.


Kurtagić also did the cover art and co-composed, alongside Aphazel, one track on the Norwegian band, [[Ancient (band)|Ancient]]'s, "[[The Cainian Chronicle]]" 1996 album, the track being number 5, "At The Infernal Portal (Canto III)."
Kurtagic has written articles on music, culture, race, and politics, with his, "Masters of the Universe" speech as part of the New Right org, The Occidental Observer as well as contributing culture and political articles to New Right org, Arktos.  Other articles have been featured on Antaios and Unitall Verlag.


===Supernal Music===
Kurtagic's novel, Mister, was published in 2009, describing the coming realities of a hot, overcrowded world where nothing works through the eyes of a fictional character living in this situation.
'''Supernal Music''' is a small [[record label]] based in England and founded in 1996 by Kurtagić; it was mainly known throughout the late 1990s for its [[mail order]] catalogue of underground music, particularly [[extreme metal]].


Their online store went up in 2000, and was the first dedicated online extreme metal store in the [[United Kingdom]]. Supernal Music specialises mainly in [[black metal]], but related genres are also represented in its releases and both past and present roster of artists, including [[doom metal]] and [[ambient music|dark ambient]]. Supernal Music's mail order catalogue and online store extends this list further across thousands of often rare and obscure titles to cover [[death metal]], [[gothic metal]], [[goregrind]], and [[experimental music|experimental]].
"The Art of Alex Kurtagic" was published in 2019, and Kurtagic continues to work on cover art for musical projects for friends.
 
Kurtagić has described the label as providing "a way of resisting the rootless, capitalist, cosmopolitan dystopia where everyone drinks Coca-Cola, eats McDonalds, watches Hollywood films and sitcoms, reads Hello!, knows what's the number one single, keeps track of airhead celebrities and other such creatures, believes Associated Press propaganda, and thinks like all the other simple-minded boobs that the modern world is just oh so wonderful."<ref>[http://www.metalreviews.com/interviews/interviews.php?id=59 Benighted Leams – Feb 2005]. Metalreviews.com (2005-12-13). Retrieved on 2011-02-13.</ref>
 
==Written works==
Kirtagic is the owner of the independent publisher [[Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group]] which currently has two imprints: [[Iron Sky Publishing]] and [[The Palingenesis Project]].<ref>[http://www.wermodandwermod.com/aboutus.html Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He is friends with [[Troy Southgate]] and publishes his works.<ref>[http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/04/what%E2%80%99s-in-it-for-me/ What’s in It for Me? | The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
From January 2011 he became co-editor, with [[Richard Spencer]], of AlternativeRight.com.
 
He has been interview many times by [[Tomislav Sunić]]<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref>[http://reasonradionetwork.com/20091223/the-sunic-journal-interview-with-alex-kurtagic-2 The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagic #2 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://reasonradionetwork.com/20100601/the-sunic-journal-interview-with-alex-kurtagic-3 The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagić #3 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[http://reasonradionetwork.com/20101207/the-sunic-journal-interview-with-alex-kurtagic-4 The Sunic Journal: Interview with Alex Kurtagić #4 : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110201/the-sunic-journal-alex-kurtagic-richard-spencer The Sunic Journal: Alex Kurtagic & Richard Spencer : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
In 2009 he published his Right-wing dystopian novel, Mister which has a foreword by professor Tomislav Sunić<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110708022554/http://alexkurtagicofficial.blogspot.com/2009/05/mister-by-alex-kurtagic.html Alex Kurtagic: Mister by Alex Kurtagic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and is currently working on his second novel about National Socialist UFO’s.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110708022628/http://alexkurtagicofficial.blogspot.com/2011/01/reich-of-black-sun.html Alex Kurtagic: Reich of the Black Sun<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 'Mister' is a re-write of a previous novel that he wrote in 1983. In 2003 he decided to redo the novel completely and the 2nd edition he decided to make it political and dystopian.<ref name=autogenerated2 />
 
He also produced the cover art for 'Mister', 'The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man'<ref>[http://shop.wermodandwermod.com/index.php/the-revolt-against-civilization-the-menace-of-the-under-man.html The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man by Lothrop Stoddard<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and 'The French Revolution in San Domingo'<ref>[http://www.wermodandwermod.com/newsitems/news240320111355.html Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> by [[Lothrop Stoddard]], as well as coverwork for various black metal album releases.<ref>[http://www.alexkurtagic.info/Artwork/Galleries/Album%20Covers/index.html SimpleViewer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
A previously unpublished article of his also featured in 'The Radical Tradition: Philosophy, Metapolitics and the Conservative Revolution', edited by [[Troy Southgate]], 'Yockey and the Cancer-Growth Economy' in The Occidental Quarterly. Volume 10, Number 3, Autumn 2010 and 'Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Popular Culture' in The Occidental Quarterly. Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2010.
 
Kurtagic's forthcoming novel will be titled 'Antarktos'. It is described as a ''"companion volume to his seminal dystopian opus, Mister, but not a sequel."'' This novel will ''"contain both utopian and dystopian elements; it will also be longer and a much more ambitious work than its predecessor. It will develop some of the esoteric themes touched upon in Mister, drawning inspiration from the writings of [[Miguel Serrano]] and [[Savitri Devi]]. It will also explore concepts relating to the Conservative Revolution and the [[Völkisch Movement]] within a Science Fiction framework."''<ref name=autogenerated3>[http://www.ironskypublishing.com/newsitems/news22092010.html Iron Sky Publishing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
In addition to these publications, his essays, articles, and reviews can be found in [[The Occidental Quarterly]], [[Vdare]], [[Counter Currents]], [[Taki Mag]], and [[American Renaissance]].
 
==The Left==
His detractors have linked him to the far-right.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/20110708032238/cubic-parsec.blogspot.com/2007/01/weird-al-kurtagic-turning-right.html Cubic Parsec: Weird Al Kurtagic turning hard right?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=235 Searchlight Magazine: A darker shade of black<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
==Bibliography==
* [[Mister]] (Iron Sky Publishing, 2009)
* [[Antarktos]]<ref name=autogenerated3 /> (Iron Sky Publishing, Forthcoming)
*''Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen''. Unitall Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-905937-43-5
*Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard, ''Where Black Rules White'' (foreword). The Palingenesis Project, 2012 ISBN 978-0-9561835-8-3
*''Warum Konservative immer verlieren''. Edition Antaios, 2013 ISBN 978-3-944422-35-0
*H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Conservative'' (foreword). Arktos, 2013 ISBN 978-1-907166-30-3
*[[John Robison]], ''Proofs of a Conspiracy'' (foreword). The Palingenesis Project, 2014 978-1-909606-03-6
 
==Discography==
*Caliginous Romantic Myth - Full-length, 1996
*Astral Tenebrion - Full-length, 1998
*Ferly Centesms - Full-length, 2004
*Obombrid Welkins - Full-length, 2006
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
*[http://www.alexkurtagic.info Kurtagić's official site]
*[http://www.metalreviews.com/interviews/interviews.php?id=59 2005 interview with Benighted Leams]
 
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Revision as of 19:38, 30 May 2022

Alex Kurtagic is a musician, writer, distro owner, and artist. He was born in 1970 and is based in England, having also lived a period of his life in South America. He formed the label Supernal music in 1996 which releases primarily extreme metal music and art. Kurtagic espouses a commitment to physical fitness and strength.


Musical contributions:


Kurtagic's own musical project, Benighted Leams, founded in 1995, has produced the albums:

  • Caliginous Romantic Myth (1996)
  • Astral Tenebrion (1998)
  • Ferly Centesms (2004)
  • Obombrid Welkins (2006)

There is rumor of an upcoming rerelease of Astral Tenebrion since Kurtagic was not pleased with the sound on the first recording.


Literary contributions:


Kurtagic has written articles on music, culture, race, and politics, with his, "Masters of the Universe" speech as part of the New Right org, The Occidental Observer as well as contributing culture and political articles to New Right org, Arktos. Other articles have been featured on Antaios and Unitall Verlag.

Kurtagic's novel, Mister, was published in 2009, describing the coming realities of a hot, overcrowded world where nothing works through the eyes of a fictional character living in this situation.

"The Art of Alex Kurtagic" was published in 2019, and Kurtagic continues to work on cover art for musical projects for friends.

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