

Luror’s mastermind Sven “Unhold” Zimper (who was also in Absurd) runs World Terror Committee Productions (WTC) which also releases and distributes numerous Nazi metal bands such as Horna ( who Elbo Room’s Matt Shapiro booked at Oakland Metro for a March 2019 show that was eventually canceled when Horna’s extensive NSBM ties were exposed), Sargeist, Graveland, Hate Forest, Absurd and Grand Belial’s Key. Some of the Nazi metal Kremer sold at Metal and Hell included bands on the NSBM label No Colours Records (a German mail-order specializing in neo-Nazi and white power releases) such as Graveland, Nargaroth and Satanic Warmaster, as well as Luror which has ties to NSBM bands Absurd, Wolf Moon and Cryogenic.

Patrick “Traumatic” Kremer was in the thrash metal band Witchburner and the black metal band Nema who released a split with Moonblood who use the white supremacist version of the Celtic Cross symbol in their logo and have album titles like “Blut und Krieg” (Blood and War) and “Taste our German Steel”. Kremer continues to release and distribute Nazi metal on his label Iron Bonehead.

Patrick “Traumatic” Kremer, who runs the metal label Iron Bonehead Productions is said to have a neo-Nazi background and was a co-owner of a Berlin record store “Metal and Hell” which was eventually shut down due to the fact that it sold NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) records and other neo-Nazi material.

Never Surrender Fest is organized by labels known for distributing Nazi metal: Iron Bonehead Productions based in Germany and Nuclear War Now! Productions based in the Bay Area whose website serves as the biggest online community for Nazi metal Some of the bands booked for Never Surrender are known to have Nazi associations including Black Witchery, Bone Awl, Volahn, and Blue Hummingbird On The Left. Oakland venues Elbo Room and Oakland Metro Operahouse are scheduled to host a black metal festival with neo-Nazi ties called Never Surrender on Oct 18 – 20, 2019.
